"Corresponding with Beckett": Provisional Programme
Corresponding with Beckett
The Epistolary in Literary Research
A London Beckett Seminar Conference
1-2 June 2018
In association with
Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England
Hosted by Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Provisional Programme
Friday, 1st June
9.00-9.30: Registration.
9.30-10.00: Welcome address.
10.00-11.30: Panel sessions 1.
1A. Friends and Correspondents.
Dr Sarah Bennett (Oriel College, University of Oxford), “Reconstructing Sam and Denis: Lost Letters in Beckett and Devlin’s Correspondence”.
Robert Patrick Murtagh (Independent), “Samuel Beckett and Fernando Arrabal in Spain”.
Dr Rodney X. Sharkey (Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar), “No Academic Value Where None Intended: A Personal Recollection of Transcribing Beckett’s Letters to MacGreevy”.
1B. The Letters, the Archive and the “Grey” Canon.
Emily Fitzell (Trinity College, University of Cambridge), “Towards a Post-Poetics: The Epistolary Circulation of Beckett’s Mirlitonnades”.
Dr Scott Eric Hamilton (University College Dublin), “Literary Artefacts/Artefacts of Literature: The Archaeology of Beckett’s Canon(s)”.
Jooyeup Lee (University of Reading), “The Unique Authorial Focus in the Development of Genetic Studies of Beckett’s Works”.
11.30-12.00: Coffee break.
12.00-13.30: Panel sessions 2.
2A. The Letters and Literary Criticism.
Kevin Lucas (Emory University), “Letters Not About Beckett: Formalism and Potential Literaryness of Letters”.
Dr Aba-Carina Pârlog (West University of Timişoara), “Rhetorical Correspondence: Beckett’s Absurdism and Its Critical Perception”.
Dr Cal Revely-Calder (Independent), “Beckett’s Letters as Misgivings”.
2B. CHASE closed session: seminar
Dr Lois M. Overbeck (Emory University), “The Epistolary in Literary Research”.
13.30-14.30: Lunch break.
14.30-16.00: CHASE plenary session 1: keynote.
Dr Lois M. Overbeck (Emory University), “The Letters of Samuel Beckett: A Legacy in the Grey Archives”.
16.00-16.30: Coffee break.
16.30-18.00: CHASE plenary sessions 2: panel.
Prof Dirk Van Hulle and Dr Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp), “A Beckett Manuscript Chronology: Linking the Letters to the Manuscripts”.
Federica Signorini (Emory University), “Love, Beckett: Reading the Addresser/Addressee in the Age of Digitisation”.
18.00-18.30: Closing remarks.
20.00-22.00: Conference dinner at Carluccio’s, 1 The Brunswick, London WC1N 1AF.
Saturday, 2nd June
9.00-9.30: Registration.
9.30-10.00: Welcome address.
10.00-11.30: Panel sessions 3.
3A. Space and Time in the Letters.
Prof George Craig (University of Sussex), “Ageing with Beckett”.
Prof Garin Dowd (University of West London), “Addressing Beckett’s Holes: Epistolary Equivocacy in Volume 2 of the Letters”.
Dr Darren Gribben (Independent), “Stories from Beckett’s Garden: Beckett in Ussy-surMarne”.
3B. The Letters and Philosophy.
Dr Andy Wimbush (Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge), “A Sufferer of My Pains: Beckett’s Letters and Reading Murphy as Autobiography”.
Dr Nick Wolterman (Independent), “Beckett’s Epistolary Manifestos: Something or Nothing?”.
11.30-12.00: Coffee break.
12.00-13.30: Panel sessions 4.
4A. Intermedial Correspondences.
Dr Maria Thanassa (Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford), “Perverting Beckett: Approaches to His Work on the Greek Stage”.
Dr Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London), “‘Protected against words’: Beckett, the Epistolary, and Art Writing”.
Dr Anthony Paraskeva (University of Roehampton), “Post-War Cinema and Its Contexts in Beckett’s Letters”.
4B. Cross-Cultural Bonds and Literary Translation.
Prof Jean-Michel Gouvard (University Bordeaux-Montaigne), “Corresponding with Beckett in French”.
Alicia Byrne Keane (Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin), “‘Vaguening’ Then and Now: Beckett, Murakami, and Correspondence in the Age of Globalised Literature”.
Joanna Kostopoulou (Humboldt University of Berlin), “Translation, Self-Translation and Emerging Poetics: Samuel Beckett’s Correspondence in French (1941-56)”.
13.30-14.30: Lunch break.
14.30-16.00: CHASE plenary session 3: keynote.
Dist Prof Daniel Gunn (American University of Paris), “Beckett’s Letters: The Edition and the Corpus”.
16.00-16.30: Coffee break.
16.30-18.00: CHASE plenary session 4: roundtable.
Linda Bree (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge) and the editorial board of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, “Editing the Letters of Samuel Beckett”.
18.00-18.30: Closing remarks
Organisers:
Dr Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths, University of London
Stefano Rosignoli, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
Email: londonbeckettseminar@gmail.com
Registration: follow this link.
