"Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies 2011" will be held on 16 Feb 2011 at the University of Oxford.
The programme is:
26 Apr 2011
Dr Sean Lawlor (University of Reading ) “'A good thing about hope': Doggerelizing Chamfort and the mirlitonnades.â€
3 May 2011
Dr Iain Bailey (Postdoctoral Fellow in English, University of Manchester) “Emendation, Intertextuality and Minutiae in Beckett's Drafts.â€
10 May 2011
Professor Andrew Kötting (Professor and Filmmaker, University for the Creative Arts) Title tbc.
17 May 2011
Dr Garin Dowd (Reader in Art, Design and Media, Thames Valley University) “Beckett’s cinema legacies: strategies of citation in four films from the last decade.â€
24 May 2011
Dr Graley Herren (Professor in English, Xavier University, Ohio) “Mourning Becomes Electric: Hamlet, Eh Joe, and the Mediation of Loss.â€
31 May 2011
Dr Mark Nixon (Lecturer in English, Director of Beckett International Foundation, co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, University of Reading), “herrdoktoring: The Use of Manuscripts in Beckett Studies.â€
7 June 2011
Professor Shane Weller (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Kent), “Towards a Literature of the Unword: Beckett, Kafka, Sebald.â€
14 Jun 2011
Professor John Pilling (Professor Emeritus in English, University of Reading), “Beckett/Sade: texts for nothing.â€
Details are here:
www.apieceofmonologue.com/2011/02/beckett-debts-legacies-speakers-2011.html