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Conference Programme

4 May (Day 1) 

8:30 – 9:30

(Venue: Keynes Atrium Foyer)

• Registration, distribution of welcome packs, morning tea/coffee.

9:30 – 10

(Venue: Keynes Lecture Theatre 2)

• Shane Weller: Welcome and Introduction

10 – 11

• Keynote Lecture 1: S. E. Gontarski, “The Remains of the Modern: Samuel Beckett’s Elsewhere”, Introduction and chair: Selvin Yaltir 

11– 11:30

• Mid morning tea/coffee (Keynes Atrium Foyer)

11:30 – 1

• Panel 1: Transnational Beckett (Chair: Patricia Novillo-Corvalán) 
  • Edward Bizub
    • Beckett’s Threshold: Salvation and Horror
  • Douglas Atkinson
    • Inversions of Modernity: Beckett and Karatani on Language and Literature
  • James Baxter
    • “… something that is not Beckett”: Beckett and the “Problem” of Inheritance in Early US Postmodern Fiction

1 – 2

• Lunch Break

2 – 3:45

• Panel 2 – Special Roundtable Panel: Renegotiating Beckett’s Ireland (Chair: Thirthankar Chakraborty)
  • Moonyoung Hong
    • Radio-listening and Memories: Beckett’s Ireland in All That Fall
  • Bernadette Fox
    • “Cuineas a Chloisteáil:” The Sound of Silence in Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall
  • Holly Anna Furey
    • Perceptions Denied: An Examination of the Gaze in All That Fall
  • Eimhin Walker
    • Waking Beckett: All That Fall and the 1916 Centenary
  • Kurt McGee:
    • Beckett, the Celtic Tiger, and the Commodification of an “Irish Writer”
  • Christopher J. Wrycraft
    • Abstracted to Death: “Exagminating” Beckett’s Relationship with Ireland through “Dante… Bruno. Vico.. Joyce”

3:45 – 4

• Afternoon tea/coffee

4 – 5:30

• Panel 3: Beckett, Translation, and World Literature (Chair: Fábio de Souza Andrade)
  • Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
    • The Reluctant Translator: Beckett’s Road to Mexico (via Paz)
  • Llewellyn Brown
    • The Bilingual Musicality of Textes pour rien / Texts for Nothing
  • Wei Zheyu and Mary O’Byrne
    • 100% Guaranteed Beckett: Hat It Been Bilingual

6 – 7:30

• Optional Dinner at the University Cafeteria

7:30 – 9:30

• Kalkimanthankatha (feature film) at the Gulbenkian Cinema + Discussion with Ashish Avikunthak, Introduction and chair: Thirthankar Chakraborty

 

5 May (Day 2) 

9:30 – 10

• Morning Tea/Coffee

10 – 11:30

(Venue: Keynes Lecture Theatre 2)

• Panel 4: Beckett and the Cosmopolitan Avant-Garde (Chair: Rosanne Bezerra de Araújo)
  • Bartosz Lutostański
    • Beckett and Post-War Experimental Fiction in Poland
  • Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez
    • What Goes Around Comes Around: Godot’s Circularity and World Literature
  • Matthieu Protin
    • How Beckett Became a French Avant-Garde Playwright: Godot’s French Premiere and its Influence on the Reception of the Play in England and Germany

(Venue: Keynes Lecture Theatre 3)

• Panel 5: Godot‘s International Reciprocation (Chair: Paul March-Russell)
  • Snežana Kalinić
    • Godot’s Arrivalal in Serbian Drama: Beckettian and Anti-Beckettian Discourses in Bulatović’s Godot has Arrived and Komanin’s Godot has Arrived to Collect his Dues
  • Robert Patrick Murtagh
    • Waiting for Godot without Simpatía: A View of Samuel Beckett through the Cultural Script of Hispanics
  • Priyanka Vaidya
    • Karmyoga and Kalchakra in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: Explorations in Hindu Mythology

11:30 – 12

• Mid-morning tea/coffee

12 – 1:30

(Venue: Keynes Lecture Theatre 2)

• Panel 6: Beckett and Transcultural Technology (Chair: Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez)
  • Julie Bénard
    • Samuel Beckett and Atom Egoyan’s Eh Joe: a televisual and theatrical vision
  • Paul March-Russell
    • Beckett’s “The Lost Ones”: The Middle Passage Between Late Modernism and Science Fiction
  • Jean-Antoine Dunne
    • Opening onto the World

(Keynes Lecture Theatre 3)

• Panel 7: Beckett, (In)Corporeality: Performance and the Global Text (Chair: Selvin Yaltir)
  • Dorottya Jászay
    • What Do We Have Left?: Possibilities and Prospects of Applying Theory in the Analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Play – A Cognitive Approach
  • Eleanor Green
    • Beckett’s Queer Hermeneutics
  • Arthur Broomfield
    • Worstward Ho: Beckett’s Case for Pure Language

1:30 – 2:30

• Lunch Break

2:30 – 3:30

(Venue: Keynes Lecture Theatre 2)

• Keynote Lecture 2: Fábio de Souza Andrade, “Echoes, Rags and Bones – A few Brazilian Becketts on the way”, Introduction and chair: Rosanne Bezerra de Araújo 

3:30 – 4

• Afternoon tea/coffee

4 – 5:30

(Venue: Keynes Lecture Theatre 2)

• Panel 8: Beckett and the Global Socio-Political Field (Chair: Ben Hutchinson)
  • Eva Kuras
    • Translating the Topographies of Beckett’s En attendant Godot
  • Richard Pettifer and Andrew Fuhrmann
    • ‘Anti-human and Reactionary’: Reading Beckett with Orwell
  • Mischa Twitchin
    • “This craze for explicitation …”

5:30 – 6

• Closing Remarks, Rosanne, Selvin and Titu 

6 onwards

• Drinks Reception + Optional Dinner in Canterbury