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 Working Group will be meeting at the IFTR International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference 2022. IFTR 2022’s conference theme, Shifting Centres (In the Middle of Nowhere), is apposite for the Samuel Beckett Working Group, as well as for our times (https://iftr.org/conference/call-for-papers). Beckett’s work has spoken readily to many over the last two…
Read MoreThe conference theme of Theatre and Migration is intrinsically linked to questions of mobility and access, as it evokes various performances of borders. As a writer who moved from Ireland to France and wrote in multiple languages, Samuel Beckett’s works manifest the quest for transcending borders linguistically, culturally, artistically, philosophically and politically.
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Universidade de São Paulo • 10-14 July, 2017 The Samuel Beckett Working Group will be meeting at the FIRT/IFTR International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference Papers to be presented at the Working Group are distributed and read by all the participants ahead of the meeting. At the Working Group sessions presenters give short résumés of their…
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The Samuel Beckett Society 