2013
Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University Lecturer in Modern Drama and Tutorial Fellow, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford)
'Beckett's Evolutionary Vision'
Dr Yoshiki Tajiri (Associate Professor of English, University of Tokyo, Japan)
'The pseudo couple and sexuality - Rereading Mercier and Camier'
Dr David Pattie (Professor of Drama and Theatre, University of Chester)
'The Arrival of Godot: Beckett, British Theatre and the 1950s'
Dr Gaby Hartel (Radio Broadcaster)
'Point on a walk“ – Writing and Walking with Beckett and Handke. A sketch'
Dr Katherine Weiss (Associate Professor of English, East Tennessee State University, USA)
'The (Dis)appearing Body in Beckett's Stage Plays'
Prof. Chris Ackerley (Professor of English, University of Otago, New Zealand)
Jonathan Heron (Artistic Director, Fail Better Productions, & IATL Fellow, University of Warwick)
'"what do you take me for, a something machine?": th 1964 National Theatre production of Play (and some new experiments in 2014)'
Dr Daniel Katz (Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick)
'A Few Days Are All We Have: Malone Dies and Some Modern American Poems'
2012
Dr David Addyman (Archival Research Fellow, University of Bergen, Norway)
'Beckett translating Duthuit: a New Philosophical landscape.'
Dr David Wheatley (Senior Lecturer, University of Hull)
'"Sweet thing theology": Beckett, E. M. Cioran and the Lives of the Saints'
Dr Ulrika Maude (Senior Lecturer, University of Reading)
'Amnesia, Somnambulism, Fugue: Beckett and Silent Film.'
Nick Thurston (Artist and Writer, Information as Material)
'Reading Beckett out loud makes your jaw ache.'
Dr Emilie Morin (Lecturer, University of York)
'Beckett’s debt to musique concrète.'
Prof. Andrew Gibson (Research Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London)
'Franco-Irish Beckett: Mercier et/and Camier in 1945-6.'
Alba Arikha (Writer and Musician)
'A different side of Sam: memories of a Parisian adolescent.'
Dr Julie Campbell (Lecturer, University of Southampton)
'Beckett and the Third Programme.'
2011
Prof. Andrew Kotting (University for the Creative Arts)
'Kotting's First Tape.'
Dr Iain Bailey (University of Manchester)
'"My name in full": Emendation, Intertextuality and Minutiae in Beckett's Drafts.'
Dr Garin Dowd (University of West London)
'Beckett's cinema legacies: strategies of citation in four films from the last decade.'
Dr Graley Herren (Xavier University, USA)
'Mourning Becomes Electric: Hamlet, Eh Joe, and the Mediation of Loss.'
Dr Mark Nixon (University of Reading)
'herrdoktoring: The Use of Manuscripts in Beckett Studies.'
Prof. Shane Weller (University of Kent)
Towards a Literature of the Unword: Beckett, Mauthner, and the Genetic History of "The Unnamable."'
Prof. John Pilling (University of Reading)
'Beckett/Sade: texts for nothing.'
Dr Sean Lawlor (University of Reading)
'"A good thing about hope": Doggerelizing Chamfort and the mirlitonnades.'
2010
Prof. Stan Gontarski (Florida State University, USA)'There is No Outside the Image: Bergson on Movement'
Prof. Enoch Brater (University of Michigan, USA)
'Beckett’s Devious Interventions, or Fun with Cube Roots'
Dr Suzanne Dow (University of Nottingham)
'Lacan with Beckett'
Dr Katherine Weiss (East Tennessee State University, USA)
'Beckett’s Theatre: Revolving and Rewinding Histories'
Dr John Bolin (Linacre College, University of Oxford)
‘Watt’s Voices’
Dr Peter Fifield (University of York)
'Spirochete! Syphilitic Fathers in Beckett and Georges Bataille'
Dr Catherine Laws (Orpheus Research Centre in Music, Ghent, Belgium)
'Beckett’s Schuberts: Vocality and Imagination'
Dr Bill Prosser (University of Reading)
'Samuel Beckett: Nothings in Particular'
Dr Nina Power (Roehampton University)
'Stony Ground but not entirely: Beckett and the Humanities'
Dr Erik Tonning (Regents Park College, University of Oxford)
'Theodicy and the Re-invention of Nature: From William Paley to Samuel Beckett'
2009
Dr Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck College, University of London)'Art of Noise: Beckett's Language in a Culture of Information'
Dr Daniel Katz (University of Warwick)
'"Where now?" Samuel Beckett, Robert Smithson and the Local'
Dr Russell Smith (Australian National University, Australia)
'Beckett's Psychology Notes and the Influence of Anxiety'
Prof. Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University, USA)
'Beckett in the Country of the Houyhnhnms: The Response to Swift'
Dr Erik Tonning (Regents Park College, University of Oxford)
'Beckett's Unholy Dying: From Malone Dies to The Unnamable'
Dr Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton)
'Beckett and Philosophy Redux: 1928 - 1938'
Dr Ronan McDonald (University of Reading)
'Beckett and Irish Studies'
Prof. Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, University of London)
'"The loutishness of learning": Beckett and the Academy'
2008
Prof. Chris Ackerley (University of Otago, New Zealand)'Delight in swine’s draff: Samuel Beckett and the Art of Annotation'
Dr Rina Kim (University of Warwick)
'Beckett’s Happy Days and Film: A Kleinian Approach via Karin Stephen'
Prof. Mary Bryden (University of Reading)
''Stuck in a Stagger’: Beckett and Cixous'
Dr Kathryn White (University of Ulster)
'‘It seemed to me that all language was an excess of language’: Minimalism, Reductionism and the Legacy of Nothingness'
Dr Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
'Sexual and Aesthetic Reproduction in Beckett’s Trilogy'
Dr Graley Herren (Xavier University, USA)
'Digitally Unmastered Beckett'
Dr Anthony Cordingley (Université Paris 8)
'Pim’s Paideia: ethics in the kosmos, Beckett's How It Is'
Dr Shane Weller (University of Kent)
'Speaking of the ‘So-Said Mind’: Beckett after Psychoanalysis / Psychoanalysis after Beckett'
2007
Prof. John Pilling (University of Reading)‘Two Deltas and an Enueg: Beckett's Montale’
Sean Lawlor (University of Reading)
‘Beckett, MacGreevy and the Stink of Joyce’
Dr Ulrika Maude (Durham University)
‘“Material of a Strictly Peculiar Order”: Beckett, Phenomenology and Perception’
Prof. Peter Murphy (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)
‘Incorporating Joyce in Beckett's Post-Trilogy Works: Some Minor, Major and Problematical Instances’
Prof. Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University, USA)
‘“The bubble on the puddle”: Samuel Beckett's Legacy to the Understanding of Creativity’
Dr Ashley Taggert (IES, Dublin)
‘Paying Lip Service to Silence: Beckett and Surrealism: Maeterlink and Beckett’
Dr Sinéad Mooney (National University of Ireland, Galway)
‘“the sear of every metamorphosis”: Beckett and Surrealism’
Prof. Steven Matthews (Oxford Brookes University)
‘Samuel Beckett, Perception, and Creatureliness’
Dr Rosemary Pountney (St Anne's College, University of Oxford)
‘Some Reflections on Pinter and Stoppard and their Relationship to Beckett’
2006
Dr Geert Lernout (University of Antwerp, Belgium)“The Erudition of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett”
Dr Mark Nixon (University of Reading)
“Solitude(s) and Creative Fidgets: Beckett Reading Rainer Maria Rilke”
Dr Shane Weller (University of Kent)
“Seeing Oneself in Another: Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, and the problem of literary affinity”
Prof. Mary Bryden (University of Cardiff)
Dr Seán Kennedy (National University of Ireland, Galway)
“Abortion and Infanticide in Beckett and W.B. Yeats”
Dr Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)
“Backroads: Beckett, John Banville and Ireland”
Dr Chris Ackerley (University of Otago, New Zealand)
“Samuel Beckett and Anthropomorphic Insolence”
Dr Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester)
“‘And if it happens that I speak of the stars it is by mistake’: Beckett, Dante, and Intertextuality”
2005
Dr Erik Tonning (Lincoln College, University of Oxford)‘Samuel Beckett versus Christianity’
Dr Julie Campbell (University of Southampton)
‘Beckett and John Bunyan’
Dr Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick)
‘Beckett, Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Catastrophe’
Dr Mark Nixon (University of Reading)
‘“textvoid”: Words as Refuse and Refuge in Beckett and Paul Celan’
Dr Dirk van Hulle (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
‘Works in Progress: the Triangle Joyce – Beckett – Mayröcker’
Dr Julian Garforth (University of Reading)
'Karl Valentin and Samuel Beckett: A Battle With Beautiful Words'
Dr Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton)
‘Beckett and Geulincx’
Prof. Steven Matthews (Oxford Brookes University)
‘Dusklands: Samuel Beckett and J. M. Coetzee’
