5pm on Tuesdays in Trinity Term 2011.
New Seminar Room, St John’s College, Oxford.
3 May – Professor Andrew Kötting (Professor and Filmmaker, University for the Creative Arts) “Kötting's First Tape.”
10 May – Dr Iain Bailey (Postdoctoral Fellow in English, University of Manchester) “'My name in full': Emendation, Intertextuality and Minutiae in Beckett's Drafts.”
17 May – Dr Garin Dowd (Reader in Film and Media Studies, Thames Valley University) “Beckett’s cinema legacies: strategies of citation in four films from the last decade.”
24 May – Dr Graley Herren (Professor in English, Xavier University, Ohio) “Mourning Becomes Electric: Hamlet, Eh Joe, and the Mediation of Loss.”
31 May – Dr Mark Nixon (Lecturer in English, Director of Beckett International Foundation, co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, University of Reading), “herrdoktoring: The Use of Manuscripts in Beckett Studies.”
7 June – Professor Shane Weller (Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature, University of Kent), "Towards a Literature of the Unword: Beckett, Mauthner, and the Genetic History of 'The Unnamable.'"
14 June – Professor John Pilling (Professor Emeritus of English and European Literature, University of Reading), “Beckett/Sade: texts for nothing.”
21 June – Dr Sean Lawlor (University of Reading ) “'A good thing about hope': Doggerelizing Chamfort and the mirlitonnades.
We look forward to seeing you at these seminars, which are open to all and free to attend.
Any enquiries should be directed to beckett.debtsandlegacies@gmail.com
