Monday, 25 March 2013

Seminars 2013

I'm pleased to announce the speakers for this year's seminar series, which continues to be open to all and free to attend. Held in the New Seminar Room in St John's College, Oxford, every Tuesday at 5.30.

I look forward to seeing you there!

23 April Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)
“Beckett's Evolutionary Vision”

30 April Dr Yoshiki Tajiri (University of Tokyo)
“The pseudocouple and sexuality – Rereading Mercier and Camier”

7 May Professor David Pattie (University of Chester)
“The Arrival of Godot: Beckett, British Theatre and the 1950s”

14 May Dr Gaby Hartel (Berlin)
Out of the Dark or From the Visual World? Non-Iconic Sounds in High Modernity`s New Aurality and Samuel Beckett’s Use of the Radio.

21 May Dr Katherine Weiss (East Tennessee State University)
“The (Dis)appearing Body in Beckett's Stage Plays”

28 May Professor Chris Ackerley (University of Otago, NZ)
“Monadic Consciousness: from The Unnamable to Endgame”

4 June Mr Jonathan Heron (Artistic Director, Fail Better Productions,
& IATL Fellow, University of Warwick)
“‘what do you take me for, a something machine?’: the 1964 National Theatre production of Play (and some new experiments in 2014)” 

11 June Dr Dan Katz (University of Warwick)
“A Few Days Are All We Have: 'Malone Dies' and Some Modern American Poems”