Seminar Schedule, 2017-2018
(Programme, abstracts and biographies, plus booking: https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/research-seminars/london-beckett-seminar)
| Friday, 10th November 2017, 6-8pm | Dr Emilie Morin (University of York), “Beckett and Political Activism”; IES, room 234. |
| Friday, 8th December 2017, 6-8pm |
Prof Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading), “Comédie (1966): Performing Film and Adapting Play”; IES, room 243.
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| Friday, 12th January 2018, 6-8pm | Dr Trish McTighe (University of Birmingham), “The Disjunctive Event: Reading Festivals with Beckett”; IES, room 243. |
| Friday, 9th March 2018, 6-8pm | Prof Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester), “Insufferable: Gender and Sexuality in the Work of Samuel Beckett”; IES, room 243. |
| Friday, 6th April 2018, 6-8pm | Dr Sam Slote (Trinity College Dublin), “Beckett – Artaud – Namelessness in More than One Language”; IES, room 243. |
| Friday, 11th May 2018, 6-8pm | Dr Sinéad Mooney (De Montfort University), “Delirium of Interpretation: Beckett and Outsider Art”; IES, room 243. |
Seminar Schedule, 2016-2017
| 9 September 2016(Friday) | ‘lovely beyond words’: Valuing Beckett Prof Rónán McDonald (University of New South Wales) IES, Room 243, 6pm-8pm. |
| 7 October 2016(Friday) | Wordly Corrasion: Philology and Narrative in Worstward Ho Dr Mark Byron (University of Sydney) IES, Room 243, 6pm-8pm. |
| 11 November 2016(Friday) | ‘void cannot go’: Trauma and Actor Process in the Theatre of Samuel Beckett Dr Nicholas Johnson (Trinity College Dublin) IES, Room G22, 6pm-8pm. |
| 9 December 2016(Friday) | From Murphy’s ‘microcosmopolitans’ to Castro’s ‘micro-mensajes’: Metropolitan, National and Ontological Dislocations, with screening of Castro, by Alejo Moguillansky Prof Garin Dowd (University of West London) IALS, Council Chamber, 4pm-8pm. |
| 20 January 2017(Friday) | ‘Beckett and WW2 : Translating Godot and Erasing the War’
Professor Jean-Michel Gouvard, Professeur de Langue et de Litterature Françaises, Université Bordeaux Montaigne The paper will be followed by a presentation by Prof. Gouvard and Dr Dominic Glynn, Lecturer in French, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, on their joint research project, ‘Performing Beckett / Jouer Beckett’ which launches 2017. IES, Room 234, 6pm-8pm. |
| 10 February 2017(Friday) | Beckett and Speculative Realism Dr Conor Carville (University of Reading) IES, Room 234, 6pm-8pm. |
| 10 March 2017(Friday) | Words + Music, Beckett & Bowie: The 12-Inch Remix Dr Rodney Sharkey (Weill-Cornell University) IES, Room 234, 6pm-8pm. |
| 21 April 2017 (Friday) | Bilingual Beckett Dr Nadia Louar (University of Wisconsin) IES, Room 243, 6pm-8pm. |
Seminar Schedule, 2015-2016
| 23 October 2015(Friday) | Beckett and Music Dr Catherine Laws (University of York)Venue: Room 243 (Senate House) Time: 18:00 – 20:00 |
| 6 November 2015(Friday) | Remediating Beckett and the Graven Image Prof. David Houston Jones (University of Exeter)Venue: Room 234 (Senate House) Time: 18:00 – 20:00 |
| 4 December 2015(Friday) | “A tangle of tatters”: Beckett, Methodology and Entanglement Dr Jonathan Heron (University of Warwick)Venue: Room 243 (Senate House) Time: 18:00 – 20:00 |
| 22 January 2016(Friday) | Staging Beckett in Ireland: Scenographic Remains Prof. Anna McMullan (University of Reading)Venue: Room 243 (Senate House) Time: 18:00 – 20:00 |
| 12 February 2016(Friday) | Waiting Time: Slow Modernism and the Embodied Mind Dr Laura Salisbury (University of Exeter)Venue to be confirmed Time: 18:00 – 20:00 |
| 11 March 2016(Friday) | Beckett and Medical Culture Dr Ulrika Maude (University of Bristol)Venue: Room 246 (Senate House) Time: 18:00 – 20:00 |
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