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Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin et la barbarie: communication au colloque 'Beckett et le non-hum

Beckett et le non-humain

Becket and the Non-human

Congrès international organisé par la Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB

(Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings)

en collaboration avec l’Universiteit Antwerpen (Centre for Manuscript Genetics)

7 & 8 février 2019

Location : Vrije Universiteit Brussel (U-residence, Campus Etterbeek)

Day 1

(09:45-11:15) Keynote 1 (green room)

Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA) ‘Beckett and the Posthuman’

(11:30-13:00) Parallel session 1

Panel 1A – Humanism, History and Inhumanity (green room)

Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK)‘ “Humanity in Ruins”: Beckett and Humanism’

William Davies (University of Reading, UK) ‘Beckett and the Inhumanity of History’ Hannah Simpson (University of Oxford, UK) ‘”le maigre dos tourné à l’humanité”: Eleutheria et le refus d’humanité’

Panel 1B – Landscape, Environment and the Architectural (red room)

Scott Eric Hamilton (University College Dublin, Ireland) ‘“to hell with all this fucking scenery”: Theatre, Landscape, and the Nonhuman’

Alicia Byrne Keane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) ‘Rethinking “The Cult of the Home”: Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett and Architectural “Vaguening”’

Aleksandra Kaminska (Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland) ‘“Perhaps Some Day the Earth Will Yield and Let Me Go”: Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill and Female Eco-Apocalypse’

Panel 1C – Anthropomorphism, Impersonality and Posthuman Narration (black room)

Michael D’Arcy (St Francis Xavier University, USA) ‘“The old style”: Samuel Beckett, Literature, and the Media Ecology of Modernism’

Llewellyn Brown (Lycée international de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) ‘The Humanity of Beckett’s Nonhuman: The Example of “For to End Yet Again”’

Einat Adar (University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic) ‘Miraculously Rediscovered: Posthuman Narration in the Late Prose’

(14:00-15:30) Parallel session 2

Panel 2A – History, Humanity and Barbarism (green room)

Mark Nixon (University of Reading, UK) ‘Beckett, Nazi Germany, and Barbaric Humanity’

Jean-Michel Gouvard (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France) ‘Samuel Beckett et Walter Benjamin: (In)Humanité et barbarie’

Francesco Clerici (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) ‘“There are / still songs to sing beyond / humankind”: Samuel Beckett and Paul Celan’

Panel 2B – Technological Modulations of the Human (red room)

Dúnlaith Bird (Université Paris 13, France) ‘From Solas to Supplice: Following the Light in Beckett’s Play’

Céline Thobois (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) ‘A Conceptual Study of the Hybridisation of Beckettian Creatures’

John Conlan (University of Notre Dame, USA) ‘From Low-Pass Filters to “Zero, Zero, and Zero”: The Logic of Sound Modulation in the Beckettian Subject’

Panel 2C – Ecology, Biopolitics and the Anthropocene (black room)

Marc Farrant (University of Bonn, Germany) ‘Earth, World, and Forms of Life: Samuel Beckett and the Ethics of Ecological Disaster’

Douglas Atkinson (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) ‘Language After the World: Post-Lapsarian Ecology in The Unnamable’

Farhad Mahrabi (University of Reading, UK) ‘Beckett, Agamben and the Art of Passive Resistance’

(16:00-17:30) Parallel session 3

Panel 3A – Animals, Nature and Natural Science (green room)

Joseph Anderton (Birmingham City University, UK) ‘Living Flesh’: The Human-Nonhuman Proximity in Beckett’s Four Nouvelles

Yoshiyuki Inoue (Meiji University Tokyo, Japan) ‘Buzzing in the Brain’: Aural Figurations in Beckett’

Patrick Armstrong (University of Cambridge, UK) ‘Going Through the Motions: The Limits of Natural Science in Samuel Beckett’s Prose Fiction’

Panel 3B – Prosthesis, Ailment and the Posthuman Body (red room)

Thomas Gurke (Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany) ‘Not A.I.? Negotiations of the Human and Posthuman in Ping (1967) and Not I (1972)’

Thomas Thoelen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) ‘“I have crutches now, I will go faster, all will go faster”: Prosthesis as Metaphor and Metaphor as Prosthesis in Molloy’

Megane Mazé (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France) ‘Dans l’atelier épistolaire de Samuel Beckett: défiguration et élaboration d’un corps perpétuellement souffrant’

Panel 3C – Objects, Scenography and Posthuman Performance (black room)

– Abdellatif Ben Halima (University of Sousse, Tunisia) ‘Performance and the Post-Human in Samuel Beckett’s Stage Plays’

Mehmet Zeki Giritli (Koç University Istanbul, Turkey) ‘Objects as Main Actors in the Earlier Theatrical Works of Beckett’

Rosaleen Maprayil (University of Reading, UK) ‘The Agency of Objects Within the Scenographical Field of Godot’

(18:00-22:00) Evening activity

Fred Eerdekens

Ross Lipman

Day 2

(09:30-11:00) Keynote 2 (green room)

Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) ‘Writing the Nonhuman, or Two Ways of Reading Beckett’

(11:15-12:45) Parallel session 4

Panel 4A – Writing (Dis)embodiment and Nonhuman Space (green room)

Amanda Dennis (The American University of Paris, France) Writing the Body: Style and the Non-Human’

James Little (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic) ‘Beckett’s Inhuman Habitations: All Strange Away and Imagination Dead Imagine’

Julie Bénard (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III, France) ‘La représentation du corps à travers la notion de “figure” dans L’Image (1959) et Comment c’est (1961)’

Panel 4B – (Non)human Waste: Humus, Crap, Excrement (red room)

Sjef Houppermans (Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands) ‘KRAPP: Que du “crap”?’

Ronan Crowley (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Evacuating the Necessary House: Objects in the Loo in Murphy and Premier amour / First Love’

Bruno Geneste (Collège de Clinique Psychanalytique du Sud-ouest, France) ‘Beckett avec Lacan: l’humus de l’humain’

Panel 4C – Spectrality, Sculpture and (Tele)Visual Media (black room)

– Evelyne Clavier (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France) ‘Quadrat I + II (1981): déhumanisation et “spectrovision”’

Achim Zolke (University of Düsseldorf, Germany) ‘Horror Stories: The Living Dead in Samuel Beckett’s Media Plays’

Olga Beloborodova & Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp, Belgium) ‘Human Machines Petrified: Play’s Mineral Mechanics and Les statues meurent aussi’

(13:45-15:15) Parallel session 5

Panel 5A – Virtual and Digital (Re)Embodiments of the Human (green room)

– Nicholas Johnson (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) ‘The Evolution of Embodiment: Beckett, Technology, and the Human’

David Houston Jones (University of Exeter, UK) ‘Du témoignage à la simulation: de Samuel Beckett à John Gerrard’

Annette Balaam (University of Bristol, UK) ‘Post Beckett/Beckett: Towards a Post-Digital Beckett within the Endlessness of Quantum Reality’

Panel 5B – Beckettian Evasions from the Human (red room)

– James Martell (Lyon College, USA) ‘“…never really been born”: The Horror of Absolute Phenomenological Suspension in Beckett’

Cosmin Toma (University of Oxford, UK) ‘Becoming Space: Ill Seen Ill Said’s Topological Humanoids’

Christopher Langlois (Concordia University Montréal, Canada) ‘A Posthuman Ethics of Suffering: Reading Beckett, Reading Slahi’

Panel 5C – Identity, Impersonality and the Ungendered (black room)

– James Brophy (Boston University, USA) Endmusik: Beckett’s Lyric and the Ends of Personality’

Bryttany Gerlisky (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) ‘Beckett and the Unnamable Atom: The Pursuit of the Absolute Individual’

Stiene Thillmann (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) ‘”Why should I have a sex?” Past a Feminist Theory of Narrative: The Fading of Gender and Humanity in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable’

(15:45-17:15) Keynote 3 (green room)

– Ulrika Maude (University of Bristol, UK) ”all that inner space one never sees”: Beckett’s Inhuman Domain’

(17:15-17:30) Closing remarks

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