2012 Seminars!

It's my pleasure to announce the talks that we have planned for this year's Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies seminar series.

5pm on Tuesdays in Trinity Term, 2012. New Seminar Room, St John’s College, Oxford.

24 April — Dr David Addyman (Archival Research Fellow, University of Bergen, Norway) “Beckett translating Duthuit: a New Philosophical landscape.”

1 May — Dr David Wheatley (Senior Lecturer, University of Hull) "Sweet thing theology": Beckett, E. M. Cioran and the Lives of the Saints'

8 May — Dr Ulrika Maude (Senior Lecturer, University of Reading) “Amnesia, Somnambulism, Fugue: Beckett and Silent Film.”

15 May — Nick Thurston (Artist and Writer, Information as Material) “Reading Beckett out loud makes your jaw ache.”

22 May — Dr Emilie Morin (Lecturer, University of York) ”Beckett’s debt to musique concrète.”

29 May — Professor Andrew Gibson (Research Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London) “Franco-Irish Beckett: Mercier et/and Camier in 1945-6.”

Wednesday 6 June — Alba Arikha (Novelist and Musician) “A different side of Sam: memories of a Parisian adolescent.”

12 June — Dr Julie Campbell (Lecturer, University of Southampton) “Beckett and the Third Programme.”


The series is kindly supported by the Faculty of English and St John’s College, University of Oxford.