Confirmed Speakers & Schedule
A keynote address will be given by Professor David Lloyd.
David Lloyd, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, works primarily on Irish culture and on postcolonial and cultural theory. He is the author of Nationalism and Minor Literature (1987); Anomalous States (1993); Ireland After History (1999) and Irish Times: Temporalities of Irish Modernity (2008). His most recent book is Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity: The Transformation of Oral Space (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He has recently completed a study of Samuel Beckett’s visual aesthetics, forthcoming in 2014, and is beginning a series of essays on poetry and violence. His Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009 was published by Shearsman Books in the UK and New Writers’ Press, Dublin, 2012. He has co-published several other books, including The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (1991), with Abdul JanMohamed; Culture and the State, co-authored with Paul Thomas (1997); The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997), with Lisa Lowe; and The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas (2008), edited with Peter D. O’Neill.
Schedule:
Thursday, 19 February 2015
8:00-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45 Welcome: Conference Organizers
8:45-10:15 Beckettian Poetics
Anne Stillman (U of Cambridge) – Beckett and lyric
James Little (Trinity C Dublin) – Dream of Fair to middling Women and Beckett’s poetics of confinement
Jonathan Feinberg (U of Pittsburgh-Greensburg) – The idea of Europe: Beckett and Eliot reading Dante
Robert Reginio (Alfred U) – Inscrutable activities: thinking about Beckett and conceptual art
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:45 Beckettian Subjectivities
Julie Gaillard (Emory U) – Esse ? Percipi ? Referentiality and subjectivity in Footfalls
Will Broadway (U of Wisconsin-Madison) – Holes, orifices, and porous subjectivity in Molloy
Erin C. Mitchell (SUNY Plattsburgh) – Intersubjectivity hurts: torture and company in How It Is
11:45-12:45 Lunch
12:45-2:00 Beckett in/and Modernism
Michael D’Arcy (Saint Francis Xavier U) – Beckett’s fiction and the progress of modernism
James McNaughton (U of Alabama) – Beckett, Adorno, and the aesthetics of guilt
J. P. Riquelme (Boston U) – Beckett’s companionably negative late modernism
2:00-3:15 Keynote
David Lloyd (UC Riverside) – Beckett and Painting
3:15-3:30 Refreshment Break
3:30-4:45 Beckett’s Late Drama
Katherine Weiss (East Tennessee State U) – Traces from a forgotten past: Beckett’s last plays
Graham Saunders (U of Reading) – ‘Breath, Oh! Calcutta! and the sexual revolution
Josh Powell (U of Exeter) – Romanticism and behaviourism in Beckett’s Ghost Trio
4:45-6:00 Degeneration, Ethics and Aesthetics
Seán Kennedy (Saint Mary’s U) – Happy Days: Beckett and the degeneration of form
Rodney Sharkey (Weill Cornell Qatar) – Beckett, Ernie O’Malley and the ethics of aesthetics
Ben Keatinge – (SE European U) ‘In your ruins I find shelter’: Samuel Beckett and Emil Cioran
6:00-7:00 Cash Bar, The Clarendon Sky Deck
Friday, 20 February 2015
8:00-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00 Voice, Speech, Sound
Emily Fitzwell (U of Cambridge) – Reading sounds-synaesthetic play & the acousmatic in Mirlitonnades
Khaleem Ali (Harvard U) – Beckett and sound studies: a phenomenology of inner speech
Michelle Rada (Brown U) – Deleuze’s images and the crystalline voice of The Lost Ones
Jorge Yangali (UN del Centro del Peru) – Krapp’s Last Tape, or bring to trial theatrical representation
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Beckett Composing/Composing Beckett
Ma’ayan Sela (UC Berkeley) – Composition and bodily de-composition in Molloy
Andrew Key (UC Berkeley) – Doubt, dialectics and bad infinity in Beckett’s manuscripts
José Francisco Fernández (U de Almería) – Notes on a Spanish translation of Texts for Nothing
Ira Nadel (U of British Columbia) – Beckett and the camera
11:45-12:45 Lunch
12:45-2:00 Beckett’s Bodies
Cal Revely-Calder (U of Cambridge) – Bodies in choreographed motion
Nadia Louar (U of Wisconsin, Oshkosh) – The Beckettian body, or life as a pensum
Amanda Dennis (Columbia U) – Compulsive bodies, creative bodies: Beckett and agency
2:00-3:15 Roundtable: Beckett and the Digital Humanities
Michael Simeone (Arizona State U), Mark Nixon (U of Reading), Dirk Van Hulle (U of Antwerp)
3:15-3:30 Refreshment Break
3:30-4:45 Beckett in/and Philosophy
Dominic Walker (U of Sussex) – Beckett, property and materialism
Hannah Simpson (Boston U) – Beckett’s Schopenhauer: suicide and vedantic Hinduism
Scott Hamilton (UC Dublin) – ‘In the dim light’: archaeoastronomy in Beckett’s Ill Seen Ill Said
4:45-6:00 History, Politics, Authority
Steven Dilks (U of Missouri-Kansas City) – ‘Quelle catastrophe!’
Katherine Da Cunha Lewin (U of Sussex) – ‘Two elements of a tandem reality’
Natalie Leeder (Royal Holloway, U of London) – Endgame and universal history
6:30-10:00 Reception, Banquet, and Concert at the Arizona Irish Cultural Center
Featuring Morton Feldman’s Samuel Becket, Words & Music
Performed by Simone Mancuso and ensemble
Quelle:
https://sites.google.com/a/asu.edu/beckettstudiesconference/home