Celebration of Ireland’s patron saint might frequently be characterised merely as a mass assault on communal sobriety, yet it also serves as moment to celebrate Irish culture in general throughout the world. Indeed it is frequently a day of renewal, as witnessed in Watt for example, where the narrator tells us that the sheets in…
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Barely has the chat died down from MLA 2024 but already the plans for next year are hurtling down the road. The Samuel Beckett Society has issued a call for papers for three proposed panels at next year’s conference which will be held in January 2025 in New Orleans. The proposed panels are as follows:…
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An announcement of the acquisition of hitherto unseen archival material has just been made by The Beckett International Foundation. The collection includes five typescripts with works by Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil, Beckett’s wife and long-time partner. The collection was in the possession of the couple’s friend Edith Fournier, who passed away last year. The documents reveal that…
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The latest publication in the Cambridge Elements series is Bad Godots: Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel and Other Interventions by veteran Beckett scholar S.E. Gontarski. According to its abstract, this volume ‘focuses on the machinery of commercial theatre, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them.…
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Society president Patrick Bixby has announced the opening of the latest round of Ruby Cohn Bursaries. The Samuel Beckett Society is committed to strengthening the field of Beckett Studies by supporting new scholarship from early career researchers. In this spirit of inclusion and to honour an outstanding past member and scholar, we would like to…
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All members of the Samuel Beckett Society are reminded that the deadline for responses to the President’s initiative on the Society’s mission statement and code of conduct is next Monday 15 January. The president of the Samuel Beckett Society, Patrick Bixby, has written to all members iniviting their comments and observations in relation to two…
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Edinburgh University Press have announced that as part of their literary studies free access campaign the Journal of Beckett Studies will be open to all for the month of January. Access is granted, free of charge, to all articles in the current issue and all numbers stretching back to issue 1 from 1992. This hugely…
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The 2024 Modern Language Association convention will be held in Philadelphia later this week. The Samuel Beckett Society’s panel is scheduled for 8:30 am on Saturday 6 January, 2024 at the Marriot Grand Hotel. What promises to be a hugely rich session session will be chaired by president Patrick Bixby and is titled Beckett, Aesthetics,…
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The president of the Samuel Beckett Society, Patrick Bixby, has written to all members iniviting their comments and observations in relation to two new initiatives. The text reads as follows: ‘To guide our organization into the future, the executive committee have undertaken to draft – for the first time – a mission statement and a code of conduct.…
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The Call for Papers has been announced for the Samuel Beckett Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research annual conference which will take place in Manila, The Philippines, 15th-19th July 2024. Under the rubric Samuel Beckett, Tragedy and Catastrophe: From the Modern Stage to Contemporary Performance the full details of the call are…
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The Samuel Beckett Society 