Beckett at Reading 2013: An International Conference
Beckett at Reading 2013
Minghella Building
The University of Reading
4-7 April 2013
Celebrating 25 years of the Beckett International Foundation
Organised by the departments of English Literature, Art, and Film, Theatre and Television
In 1988, with the support of Samuel Beckett, James Knowlson established the Beckett International Foundation as a charitable trust. The Foundation’s objective is to promote the work of Samuel Beckett and to look after the Beckett Collection at the University of Reading, which originated in the Samuel Beckett Exhibition of 1971 and is now the most extensive collection of Beckett materials in the world.
To celebrate 25 years of the Foundation, we are excited to announce that we are hosting an academic conference with established and emerging scholars. There will also be an exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the premiere of En attendant Godot and film screenings. The highlight of our evening programme is a reading of Beckett’s poetry and prose by Barry McGovern, world renowned for his interpretations of Samuel Beckett’s work. We look forward to welcoming old and new friends and colleagues to mark this anniversary.
Registration
Registration for the event is via the University of Reading online store:
http://www.store.reading.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=2&modid=2&prodid=204&deptid=16&catid=14
On this site you will be able to register for the entire conference (four days) or for individual days, as well as for the conference dinner on Saturday evening. Attendance to the Friday evening event, ‘Barry McGovern reads Beckett’s poetry and prose’, is included in the full delegate fee as well as the Friday day fee.
Conference Programme
Thursday 4 April 2013
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Registration / Coffee | |
| 10.30 – 10.45 | Opening Addresses: Jim Knowlson (Founder, Beckett International Foundation); Mark Nixon (Director, Beckett International Foundation) | |
| 10.45 – 12.15 | Plenary Session 1: Beckett, Psychologies (Chair: Peter Fifield) Conor Carville (University of Reading): Bion’s Indifference and Geoffrey’s Smile:Murphy, Psychotherapy and British Psychiatry in the 1930s Siobhán Purcell (National University of Ireland, Galway): ‚No more than the tumultuous coenaesthesis (bravo!) of the degenerate subject‘: Reading degeneracy in Beckett’s early fiction Adam Winstanley (University of York): ‚Want of Stomach‘: Exhaustion, Linguistic Constipation and Samuel Beckett’s Watt |
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| 12.15 – 13.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Plenary Session 2: Beckett and post-war Art (Chair: John Pilling) Kevin Brazil (New College, Oxford University): War Games: Beckett versus Lacan Tim Lawrence (University of York): Beckett’s Essays in Transition: More Dialogues with Georges Duthuit Lachlan Montgomery (University of New South Wales): The Influence of Language on Visual Representation in Beckett’s Art Criticism |
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| 15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee | |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Plenary Session 3: Staging Beckett (Chair: Anna McMullan) Trish McTighe (University of Reading): In Connemara: Domesticating the work of Samuel Beckett on the Irish Stage Matthew McFrederick (University of Reading): Double-Acts in Waiting for Godot: Music Hall and Movie Stars on the London Stage David Tucker (University of Chester): The Samuel Beckett Theatre, Oxford, c.1967-71 |
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| 18.30 – 21.00 | Launch of Exhibition ‚Godot at 60‘ (Curator: Jonathan Dronsfield) / Buffet Dinner Location: Central Gallery, TOB1 |
Friday 5 April 2013
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Registration / Coffee | |
| 09.30 – 11.00 | Plenary Session 4: Contexts (Chair: TBC) Matthijs Engelberts (University of Amsterdam): Beckett et les couleurs nationales Everett Frost (Reading): ‚An isolationism that for me was not so very splendid‘: Why Arnold Geulincx rather than Thomas à Kempis became a key to Samuel Beckett’s Work Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia): Queer Relations in Beckett’s Post-war Prose |
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| 11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee | |
| 11.30 – 13.00 | Plenary Session 5: Manuscripts (Chair: Shane Weller) Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp): ‚Just howls from time to time‘: dating Beckett’sPochade radiophonique María José Carrera (University of Valladolid): A proposal towards a chronological sequence of Samuel Beckett’s notes in preparation for An Anthology of Mexican Poetry John Pilling (University of Reading): Six Notebooks in Search of a Novel |
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| 13.00 – 14.15 | Lunch | |
| 14.15 – 15.45 | Plenary Session 6: Beckett and Art (Chair: Conor Carville) Georgina Nugent-Folan (Trinity College Dublin): Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and Paul Cézanne’s La Montagne Sainte-Victoire Jim Knowlson (University of Reading): ‚As though turned to stone…‘: Beckett’s theatrical images and medieval sculpture Carla Taban (University of Toronto): Waiting for Godot in Contemporary Art |
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| 15.45 – 16.15 | Coffee | |
| 16.15 – 17.30 | Screenings (introduced by Gaby Hartel) Marin Karmitz: Comédie Abstract Machines: The Televisual Beckett; a practice-based research project byMatthew Causey and Nicholas Johnson |
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| 20.00 – | Barry McGovern reads Beckett’s poetry and prose |
Saturday 6 April 2013
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Registration / Coffee | |
| 09.30 – 11.00 | Plenary Session 7: Spaces (Chair: Steven Matthews) Rhys Tranter (Cardiff University): ‚without solution of continuity‘: That Time and Trauma Memoir Amanda Dennis (University of California, Berkeley): Fiction’s Limit: Aporia and the Geness of Space in L’Innomable Yoshiyuki Inoue (Meiji University, Tokyo): Tunnelling imagination in Beckett’s later fiction |
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| 11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee | |
| 11.30 – 13.00 | Plenary Session 8: Beckett and Digital Humanities (Chair: Mark Nixon) Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp): Digital Denarration: Unending L’Innomable TBC |
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| 13.00 – 14.15 | Lunch | |
| 14.15 – 15.45 | Plenary Session 9: (Adapting) Texts (Chair: Nicholas Johnson) Barry McGovern (Dublin): Watt now? Shane Weller (University of Kent): „Beckett the Adapter“ |
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| 16.00 – 17.00 | Official launch of Beckett Digital Manuscript Project 2 / Wine Reception | |
| 19.30 – 15.00 | Conference Dinner Location: Blandford Restaurant, Park House |
Sunday 7 April 2013
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Registration / Coffee | |
| 10.30 – 12.00 | Plenary Session 10: Beckett, Medicine and the Language of Modernism (Chair: Mary Bryden) Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick): ‚I’ve been waiting for it all my life‘: Samuel Beckett and the Phenomenology of Old Age Ulrika Maude (University of Bristol): ‚the whole machine‘: Beckett, Bergson and Medicine Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck College, University of London): Beckett’s Gloria SMH: Language, Encryption, Modernism |
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| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.00 – 14.30 | Plenary Session 11: Media (Chair: Graham Saunders) Mischa Twitchin (Goldsmiths College): Medium matters: the bare bones Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading): Performing right: legal constraints and BBC TV adaptations of Beckett’s plays Nicholas Johnson (Trinity College Dublin): Theatre of the Unword: Censorship, Hegemony, and Samuel Beckett |
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| 14.30 – 15.00 | Conference Closure |
Recommended Accomodation
On-Campus Accommodation
The Cedars Hotel
Newly refurbished rooms situated minutes from the Minghella Building where the conference will be held. Ensuite rooms at the following rates:
Weekdays (Sunday to Thursday): £69.60
Weekends (Friday and Saturday): £54
Breakfast available for £9
To book please visit the website at: www.venuereading.com/Sleep/vr-cedars-hotel.aspx
Or phone: +44 (0)118 378 8906
Off-Campus Accommodation
Premier Inn Central Reading
5 minutes by bus or a 15 minute walk from the campus.
Room only from £35 (Prepaid with no refund if cancelled)
Breakfast available for £9.
Website: www.premierinn.com/en/hotel/REAPTI/reading-central?cmp=GLBC
Ibis Reading
10 minutes by bus from the campus.
Room only from £38 (Prepaid with no refund if cancelled)
Breakfast available for £7.95
Website: www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-5431-ibis-reading-centre/index.shtml
Quelle:
http://www.apieceofmonologue.com/2013/03/samuel-beckett-reading-2013-international-conference.html