Your day-to-day guide to what's happening at the Conference:
Day 1: Wednesday | 2: Thursday | 3: Friday | 4: Saturday | 5: Sunday
Please note: The John Minihan Photographic Exhibition opens at the Gallery and Demonstration Space at The Ron Cooke Hub on Thursday 16 June and will run until Sunday June 26.
Day One: Wednesday 22 June 2011
| 20.00 - 21.20 | Public Event, Wentworth College, Dixon Studio Theatre Gare St Lazare Players perform First Love (ticketed) |
Additional Information
(All events take place at the Humanities Research Centre unless otherwise stated)
Map and directionsDay Two: Thursday 23 June 2011
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Registration and coffee, Foyer | |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks, Bowland Auditorium | |
| 11.30 - 13.00 | Academic Keynote, Bowland Auditorium, Humanities Research Centre, Berrick Saul Building Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania), “Beckett's Three Critiques” | |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch, Foyer | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Panels (Session A: each session consists of at least four panels with three papers per panel) | |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee break | |
| 16.00 - 17.30 | Panels (Session B) | |
| 18.00 - 19.30 | Public Event, Physics Building, Lecture Theatre P/X/001 Reading by John Banville followed by an interview and book signing (Entry guaranteed for delegates) | |
| 20.00 - 21.20 | Public Event, Wentworth College, Dixon Studio Theatre Gare St Lazare Players perform First Love (ticketed) |
Sessions
Panel Session A:A1: Philosophy
Bowland Auditorium, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton, UK), “Beckett and Windelband”
- Prof. Steven Matthews (Oxford Brookes University, UK), “Beckett and Berkeley”
- Pavneet Kaur Munjal (University of Northampton, UK), “Interpreting Emptiness: An Archival Perspective on Beckett, Schopenhauer, and Buddhism”
Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre
- Prof. Seán Kennedy (Saint Mary’s University, Canada), “History and Philosophy in the Watt Manuscripts”
- Dr. Claire Lozier (University of Leicester, UK), “Watt’s Archive Fever”
- Dr. Rodney Sharkey (Weill-Cornell Medical College, Qatar), “What? Watt? Where? And the Issue of Rising Damp”
Langwith College, L/047
- Prof. Nadia Louar (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA), “Does ‘Bilingual’ Equal ‘A-National’? Recovering Beckett’s Literary Identity”
- Dr. Sinéad Mooney (National University of Ireland, Galway), “Beckett, Translation, and the ‘Grey Canon’”
BSB/008, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Catherine Laws (University of York, UK), “Creative Accounting: Beckett and the Re-Imagining of Musical Authority”
- Chris Morrison (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), “Beckett’s Aesthetic of Inaudibilities”
- Dr. Carla Taban (University of Toronto, Canada), “Beckett in Contemporary Canadian Art, 1990-2010”
BSB/007, Humanities Research Centre
- Julie Bates (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland), “Beckett’s Greatcoats: Paternal Museums”
- Dr. Garin Dowd (University of West London, UK), “‘What matter who is speaking?’: Archaeologies of Knowledge in Beckett Scholarship”
- Dr. Maebh Long (Durham University, UK), “Beckett and the Hedgehog”
Panel Session B:
B1: Legacies I - Coetzee, Shepard, Stoppard
Bowland Auditorium, Humanities Research Centre
- Prof. Peter Boxall (University of Sussex, UK), “Cylinders and Laboratories: Beckett and Coetzee Out of the Archive”
- Prof. Hersh Zeifman (York University, Canada), “Three Men in A Boat: Stoppard, Beckett, and the Ghost of Arnold Geulincx”
- Prof. Toby Zinman (University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA), “American Sam”
Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Peter Fifield (University of Oxford, UK), “‘Don't squander all your words for the day’: Beckett's Waste”
- Dr. Jeremy Parrott (University of Szeged, Hungary), “Bing and Nothingness: The Last Named Agonist in Beckett’s Fiction”
- Dr. Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK), “Bulimic Beckett: Food for Thought”
Langwith College, L/047
- Elsa Baroghel (University of Oxford, UK), “The Source and the Draft: An Insight into Beckett’s Dramatic Technique”
- Anastasia Deligianni (Université Paris VIII, France), “Beckett, The Archetypal Archivist”
- Dr. Rina Kim (University of Auckland, New Zealand), “Beyond the Archive: The Case of Beckett’s ‘Psychology Notes’”
BSB/008, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Andrew Conio (University of Wolverhampton, UK), “The Depths of Chronos and the Infinite Speed of Aion: Time Grasped Twice in Beckett’s Plays”
- Dr. Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (University of Reading, UK), “Beckett as Archive of Wandering”
- Dr. María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno (University of Córdoba, Spain), “Beckett, Badiou, and the Subtraction from the Community”
Additional Information
(All events take place at the Humanities Research Centre unless otherwise stated) Map and directionsDay Three: Friday 24 June 2011
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Panels (Session C) | |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee break | |
| 11.30 - 13.00 | Academic Keynote, Vanbrugh College, Lecture Theatre V/045 Lois Overbeck (Emory University), 'Audience of Self versus Audience of Readers' | |
| 13.00 - 16.00 | Lunch and viewing of Beckett in Photographs, an exhibition by John Minihan. Followed by the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project Launch, with co-directors Dr. Dirk Van Hulle and Dr. Mark Nixon. Wine reception sponsored by University Press Antwerp, a division of Academic & Scientific Publishers. Ron Cooke Hub, Heslington East | |
| 16.00 - 17.30 | Panels (Session D) | |
| 18.00 - 19.30 | Public Event, Central Hall Reading by J. M. Coetzee (entry guaranteed for delegates) | |
| 20.00 - 21.20 | Public Event, Wentworth College, Dixon Studio Theatre Gare St Lazare Players perform The End (ticketed) |
Sessions
Panel Session C:
C1: Sight and Sound
Bowland Auditorium, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Conor Carville (University of Reading, UK), “Beckett, Modernism, and Post-War Visual Art”
- Prof. Felicia McCarren (Tulane University, USA), “Anticipating Godot? Beckett and the Cinema Archive”
- Dr. Anthony Paraskeva (University of Dundee, UK), “Beckett, Alain Resnais, and French Modernist Cinema”
Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre
- Jonathan Heron (Artistic Director, Fail Better Productions and University of Warwick, UK) and Dr. Rosemary Pountney (Actor and University of Oxford, UK), “Performing Patterns: Archival Knowledge and Theatrical Play”
Langwith College, L/047
- Dr. Matthijs Engelberts (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), “Moving Left: Claiming Beckett in the Contemporary Political Arena”
- Prof. Adam Piette (University of Sheffield, UK), “Beckett, Sartre, and the French Cold War”
- Dr. Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia), “Waiting for Nothing: Resistance, Commitment and Godot’s Underground Ancestry”
BSB/008, Humanities Research Centre
- Michael Bates (University of Sheffield, UK), “A Greener Beckett: The Critical Diversity of Modernism”
- Prof. Nels Pearson (Fairfield University, USA), “‘the livid canal’ and ‘the mind annulled’: Location and Dislocation in Early Beckett”
- Feargal Whelan (University College Dublin, Ireland), “‘Gazing straight before him through the anti-dazzle windscreen’: The Young Anglo-Irishman’s Difficulty with Irish Landscapes”
BSB/007, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Mark Byron (University of Sydney, Australia), “The Digital Arm of the Archive and the Status of Beckett’s Texts”
- Ethan Hon (Colombia University, USA), “‘It is easier to raise a shrine than to bring the deity down to haunt it’: Beckett in the Blogosphere
- Sonja Jankov (University of Novi Sad, Serbia / Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic), “It interacts because it cannot otherwise: Passive Voice in The Unnamable and Hypertext”
Panel Session D:
D1: Across Markets and Genres
Bowland Auditorium, Humanities Research Centre
- Prof. Stephen Dilks (University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA), “Samuel Beckett in the Literary Marketplace”
- Dr. Nicholas Johnson (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland), “A Theatre of the Unword: Evental Texts and Textual Events”
- Dr. Mark Nixon (University of Reading, UK), “‘dirty little exercise-books’: Beckett's Manuscripts in the Marketplace”
Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Kumiko Kiuchi (Konan Women’s University, Japan), “Beckett, A (Mis-)Reader: The Gesture of Ignorance and a Critique of Anthropomorphism in ‘Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce’”
- Prof. James McNaughton (University of Alabama, USA), “The Limits of the Archive”
- Dr. David Wheatley (University of Hull, UK), “‘Your papers!’ Archiving Beckett and Beckett’s Archive of the Self”
Langwith College, L/047
- Dr. José Francisco Fernández (University of Almería, Spain), “A Telling Absence: Samuel Beckett and James Joyce’s Ulysses”
- Dr. Alan Graham (University College Dublin, Ireland), “Text or Nothing: Beckett’s Book Reviews and the End of Modernism”
- Matthias Korn (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany), “Quadrat I + II = Ulysses + Finnegans Wake”
BSB/008, Humanities Research Centre
- Michael Springer (University of York, UK), “Beckett, Bakhtin, and the Novel Today”
- Dr. Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia, Cyprus), “Impotence and the Negotiations of Influence: Beckett, Coetzee, and Joyce”
- Dr. Gilbert Yeoh (National University of Singapore), “Envisioning the Foe in Foe: J.M. Coetzee’s Beckettian Conception of the Novel”
BSB/007, Humanities Research Centre
- Amanda Dennis (University of California, Berkeley, USA), “Beckett: Architect of the Particular”
- Dr. Michał Lachman (University of Łódź, Poland), “First Things First: Beckett’s Universe of Objects”
- Lin Li (National University of Singapore), “‘Nothing is left to tell’: Voice, Image, and Middle Voice in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape and Ohio Impromptu”
Additional Information
(All events take place at the Humanities Research Centre unless otherwise stated) Map and directionsDay Four: Saturday 25 June 2011
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Panels (Session E) | |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee break | |
| 11.30 - 13.00 | Academic Keynote, Physics Building, Lecture Theatre PX/001 Professor Linda Ben-Zvi (Tel Aviv University), "Beckett and Disgust: The Body as 'Laughing Matter'" | |
| 13.00 - 14.15 | Public Event, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall 'Beckett in Music' lunchtime performance (entry guaranteed for delegates) | |
| 14.15 - 15.00 | Lunch | |
| 15.00 - 16.30 | Panels (Session F) | |
| 17.00 - 18.20 | Public Event, Wentworth College, Dixon Studio Theatre Gare St Lazare Players perform The End ('delegates only' performance for the first 100 registered delegates) | |
| 18.20 - 20.00 | Free Time | |
| 20.00 onwards | Conference Dinner, Merchant Taylors' Hall, Aldwark, York, YO1 7BX Guests of Honour, John Calder and John Minihan (ticketed) |
Sessions
Panel Session E:
E1: Reading the Archive in Theory
Bowland Auditorium, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. David Houston Jones (University of Exeter, UK; convenor and chair)
- Prof. Robert Reginio (Alfred University, New York, USA), “Ash Awaits Us: Entering the Archive of Beckett”
- Dr. Asja Szafraniec (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), “Exhausted Archives: Time, Movement, and Memory in Beckett”
- Dr. Katherine Weiss (East Tennessee State University, USA), “Archive Fever, Archive Failure: Exploring the ‘It’ in Beckett’s Theatre”
Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre
- Prof. Marc Caplan (Johns Hopkins University, USA), “‘Tea Biscuits, Onepence, and a Critique of Pure Love’: The Politics of Philosophical Passivity in Moyshe Kulbak’s Montik and Samuel Beckett’s Murphy”
- Dr. Katy Masuga (Université Paris IV La Sorbonne, France), “Quotidian Language in Samuel Beckett and Henry Miller”
- Prof. Yoshiki Tajiri (University of Tokyo, Japan), “Beckett and Wyndham Lewis: The ‘Pseudocouple’ in Modernism”
Langwith College, L/047
- Dr. Nikolai Duffy (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), “Samuel Beckett: Physics, Poetics, and Late Modernism”
- Katherine Ebury (University of York, UK), “‘Matrix of Surds’: The Astronomy of Chaos in Murphy”
BSB/008, Humanities Research Centre
- Prof. Claudia Clausius (King’s University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada), “The Beckett Archive and Modernist Painting and Theatre”
- Dr. Ulf Dantanus (Gothenburg University, Sweden / University of Sussex, UK), “Form, Deformation, and the Cruciform in Bacon and Beckett”
- Dr. Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), “Ethics and Aesthetics in Georg Baselitz’s and Samuel Beckett’s Bing”
BSB/007, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Thierry Robin (Université de Brest, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France), “Oscillating Between Eternal Desire, Laughter, and Absurd Cruelty: The Reception of Beckett in France in 2010”
- Mirna Sindičić Sabljo (University of Zadar, Croatia), “The Reception of Samuel Beckett in Croatia”
- Seema Golestaneh (Colombia University, USA), “In Pursuit of Lost Causes: Beckett, Anthropology, and the Impossibility of Knowledge”
Panel Session F:
F1: Modernism
Bowland Auditorium, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Ruben Borg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), “Beckettian Ethics: Modernist Time”
- Dr. Llewellyn Brown (Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Defense, France), “Samuel Beckett: Modernism and the Real”
- Prof. John Paul Riquelme (Boston University, USA), “The Modernism (or Postmodernism) of Beckett and T.S. Eliot: Negativity, To-and-Fro, and Unheard Footfalls”
Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. David Addyman (University of Bergen, Norway), “Homo Mensura: Protagoras, Windelband, Burnet, and Molloy”
- Dr. Emilie Morin (University of York, UK), “Samuel Beckett and Antiquarianism”
- Dr. Cóilín Parsons (University of Cape Town, South Africa), “Antiquarianism and the Archive in ‘Recent Irish Poetry’”
Langwith College, L/047
- Dr. Anthony Cordingley (Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France), “Inferno Lost: Intertextual Poetics and the Wrath of Translation”
- Prof. Pascale Sardin (Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, France), “‘Scarcely disfigured’: On Beckett’s Translations for This Quarter’s Sept. 1932 ‘Surrealist Number’”
- Miłosz Wojtyna (University of Gdańsk, Poland), “Company through the Translator’s Eyes”
BSB/008, Humanities Research Centre
- Brynhildur Boyce (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), “‘A terrible wireless has started next door’: The Appropriation of Context in Beckett’s Radio Plays”
- Dr. Julie Campbell (University of Southampton, UK), “Late Modernism, Beckett, and the BBC Third Programme”
- Tzu-Ching Yeh (Lancaster University, UK), “Resonating the Holocaust in Traumatic Performance: An Archival Approach to Samuel Beckett’s Radio Plays”
BSB/007, Humanities Research Centre
- Ronan Crowley (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA), “This Grotesque Comedy: Transmission of the Trinity Lectures”
- Adam Winstanley (University of York, UK), “‘Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce’: Negating the Danger in Neat Construction”
Additional Information
(All events take place at the Humanities Research Centre unless otherwise stated) Map and directionsDay Five: Sunday 26 June 2011
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Panels (Session G) | |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee break | |
| 11.30 - 13.00 | Panels (Session H) | |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Closing Session, Physics Building, Lecture Theatre P/X/001 |
Sessions
Panel Session G:
G1: Annotating and Editing
Bowland Auditorium, Humanities Research Centre
- Prof. Chris Ackerley (University of Otago, New Zealand), “‘Primeval mud impenetrable dark’: Towards an Annotation of Comment c'est / How It Is”
- Dr. Derek Alsop (University of Chester, UK), “Textual Variants in Cascando: An Argument for Scholarly Editions of Beckett”
- Prof. Shane Weller (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK), “The Art of Unwriting: On the Genetic History of The Unnamable”
Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Iain Bailey (University of Manchester, UK), “Pricks and Provocations: Beckett’s Blasphemy”
- Richard Marshall (Institute of Education, University of London, UK), “Updating Beckett’s Modernity”
- Dr. David Tucker (University of Sussex, UK), “Behind the Scenes of the Eleutheria Controversy”
Langwith College, L/047
- Dr. Erik Tonning (University of Bergen, Norway), “The Christ disbelieved by Beckett: Christian iconography in Samuel Beckett’s work and dramaturgy’
- Dr. Tomasz Wiśniewski (University of Gdańsk, Poland), “Beckett - Complicite: Aesthetics, Stage/Page, and Archives”
BSB/008, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Mike Frangos (Umeå University, Sweden), “Beckett's Media Archaeology”
- Prof. Alexander McKee (University of Delaware, USA), “Reading Godot in Ibadan: Femi Osofisan’s Revolutionary Beckett”
- Arthur Rose (University of Leeds, UK), “The Cosmopolitics of Silence in Texts for Nothing”
Panel Session H:
H1: Psychology
Bowland Auditorium, Humanities Research Centre
- Dr. Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick, UK), “Vicarious Autology: Beckett, Schizophrenia, and the Self”
- Dr. Ulrika Maude (Durham University, UK), “‘Laws of Habit’: Beckett and Behaviourism”
- Martin Thomas (Australian National University), “‘Think, pig!’ Samuel Beckett’s ‘Pseudo-couples’: Schopenhauerian Will and Intellect”
Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre
- Prof. David Pattie (University of Chester, UK), “‘The following precious and illuminating material...’: Beckett Studies and the Archive”
- Dr. Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp, Belgium), “Modern Manuscripts: Samuel Beckett’s works between completion and incompletion”
- Lilyana Yankova (Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, France), “Misspellings and Illegibility in Samuel Beckett’s Letters”
Langwith College, L/047
- Prof. Michael D’Arcy (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada), “Stratagems of Unnaming: Beckett, Adorno, and the Novel of Subtraction”
- Melanie Foehn (University of Kent, UK), “Beckett Reading the NRF: On French Seventeenth-Century Classicism”
- Dr. Franz Michael Maier (Free University of Berlin, Germany), “‘The Miteinander and the Simultaneous’: Beckett’s Pluralistic Completion of Lessing’s Aesthetics”
BSB/008, Humanities Research Centre
- Prof. Jennifer M. Jeffers (Cleveland State University, USA), “Samuel Beckett: Coming Out in the Archive”
- Dr. Yael Levin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), “The Interruption of Writing in Molloy: Sunday Visits From Porlock”
- Dr. Sarah Sheena (University of York, UK), “Alongside an Ashanti doll, Zulu beaded anklets and girdle from the collection of Nancy Cunard: Samuel Beckett’s Translations for Negro (1934)”
BSB/007, Humanities Research Centre
- Roberta Cauchi Santoro (University of Western Ontario, Canada), “The Paradoxical In-between Space for Desire: Leopardi and Beckett’s Humour”
- Robert Kiely (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK), “More Pricks Than Kicks as Menippean Satire”
- Charlie Duncan Saffrey (University of Sussex, UK), “Beckett’s Timing: The Unenviable Stand-up Comedian”
Additional Information
(All events take place at the Humanities Research Centre unless otherwise stated) Map and directions
