Continuing the highly successful series from last year, Katherine Weiss has scheduled two new dates for the The Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative for the coming semester. The initiative, which was established to share information and create a newtwork of support to all Beckett scholars in the early stages of their research and career,…
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Tolka, the bi-annual journal of non-fiction based in Dublin, has just published its seventh volume. Following its stated aim in publishing ‘work that is formally promiscuous and which does not always fall into neat categories [to] encourage writers to test the creative boundaries of non-fiction’ the latest issue features four creative responses to Beckett from…
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Among the many high points of the recent Samuel Beckett Society conference Beckett & Justice at Cal State LA was the engagement with Thai artist Saun Santipreecha whose current exhibition …These Things That Divide The World In Two…. at REISIG AND TAYLOR CONTEMPORARY. The show is a response by the artist to his reading of…
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As we catch our breath following the outstandingly rich and varied few days in Los Angeles at Beckett & Justice, our 9th Annual Conference, the Samuel Beckett Society is delighted to announce the call for papers for our next gathering. Our tenth anniversary get-together will take place at the University of Edinburgh on 5-7 June…
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The latest issue of The Beckett Circle is now available to all members. A particularly full and diverse issue features a full-length interview with Thai artist Saun Santipreecha, as well as another with documentary-maker Jacob Adams. James Knowlson provides a beautifully detailed reading of Beckett’s close friend Ethna MacCarthy’s poetry and personality. There are reports…
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This Summer sees a festival and celebration of Beckett crossing transnational boundaries, as Beckett: Unbound 2024 takes place in Liverpool and Paris. The brainchild of actor Adrian Dunbar and composer Nick Roth, the festival builds on the success of Beckett: Confined 2022, once again partnering with The University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and The…
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The Executive Committee of the Samuel Beckett Society has announced the following: The leadership of the Samuel Beckett Society is very pleased to announce the ratification of our Mission Statement and Code of Conduct. We have drafted a Mission Statement for the first time to focus our efforts as an organization, to better serve and…
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As part of the 30th Anniversary celebrations of the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, the venue is playing host to a photographic exhibition detailing the remarkable Irish language productions of Happy Days (Laethanta Sona) presented by Company SJ on Inis OĂrr, Aran Islands and in the Samuel Beckett Theatre at Trinity College in 2021.…
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A rare chance to see a dance work inspired by Beckett and created by French choreographer Maguy Marin awaits at Sadler’s Wells in London at the end of the month. First performed in 1981, May B is described as an ‘arresting and powerfully theatrical work’ based on the writings of Samuel Beckett, who, we are told…
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Beckettiana, abre la convocatoria para la presentaciĂłn de artĂculos reseñas o documentos acerca de la obra de Samuel Beckett en cualquiera de sus aspectos (teatro, poesĂa, narrativa, ensayĂstica; intertextualidad, interdisciplinariedad, bilingĂĽismo, puesta en escena, Irlanda, traductologĂa etc.) con miras de su inclusiĂłn en el nĂşmero 21, del año 2024. La fecha lĂmite para la presentaciĂłn…
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