Following the highly succesful Beckett’s Relations conference at the University of Edinburgh, and to coincide with the launch of the Society’s publication The Beckett Review, recently-elected president, Liz Barry, marked the occasion with her first public address. Detailing the work of the Society over the past year and outlining the programme of events which it…
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The annual Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar will take place on Saturday 4 November at the Minghella Building on Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading. As always, the line-up consists of papers from four specially invited speakers, with ample time allowed for discussion and chat. This years speakers are Elizabeth Barry, Xander Ryan, Hannah Simpson and…
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Following a keenly contested process, incoming Samuel Beckett Society President Patrick Bixby has announced the results of the election of new members to the executive committee. In a message to members, Professor Bixby decalared: ‘the next Vice President of the Society (to succeed to the Presidency in two years) will be Elizabeth Barry of the…
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Lectures, panels, tributes and exhibitions hosted by the University of Reading • 2-5 November 2016
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The Samuel Beckett Society 