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