Ends and Odds

With a large conference still to come this summer, Beckett is already on stage in York with a production of Footfalls running until 23 April at Bar Lane Studios. You can see details of the production by Six Lips, and buy tickets here.

The Beckett International Foundation's annual Research Seminar is taking place on the 7 May 2011. The event will be held in the Conference Room of Special Collections at the University of Reading. As in previous years, our speakers represent a mixture of both local and international research students as well as established scholars, reflecting the current research into Beckett's writing. It is our hope that the quality of the papers will, as in the past, attract a wide and varied audience. The charge for the day is £20 per participant (£15 unwaged), which includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day. Please note that parking facilities are available at the venue.

Timetable

Time: 10.30 to 16.30
Venue: Conference Room, Special Collections, The University of Reading

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 11.30 Peter Fifield, St John’s College, Oxford
‘“Loss and limitless degradation”: Beckett and Bataille’

11.30 - 12.00 Discussion

12.00 - 12.30 John Pilling, University of Reading
‘“A faded kaleidoscope”: Beckett and Sainte-Beuve’s Volupté’

12.30 - 13.00 Discussion

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 15.00 Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths College
‘Bun-Ching Lam’s and Beckett’s Quatre Poèmes/Four Songs: Music, Image, Text’’

15.30 - 16.00 Sean Kennedy, St Mary’s University, Halifax
‘Edmund Spenser, famine memory and the discontents of humanism in Endgame’

16.00 - 16.30 Discussion


For further information, please contact:

Dr Mark Nixon
E: m.nixon@reading.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 118 378 7010

By Post: 

The Beckett International Foundation
Department of English, University of Reading, Whiteknights
PO Box 218, Reading RG6 6AA