Thursday, 13 September. 10:00 11:15 Keynote lecture (Chair: Shane Weller)

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1 Programme Thursday, 13 September 9:00 9:30 Registration and coffee 9:30 10:00 Conference opening Opening address by Edward Beckett 10:00 11:15 Keynote lecture (Chair: Shane Weller) Laura Salisbury (University of Exeter, UK) Beckett s Technologies of Waiting 11:15 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 12:45 Panel 1: Human/Machine (Chair: Ondřej Pilný) Jonathan McAllister (University of Nottingham, UK) The Psychotechnographic Genesis of Krapp s Last Tape Celine Thobois (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Beckett and La Mettrie: From Man a Machine to a Techno-Human Being Ken Alba (Boston University, USA) Cybernetic Krapp: Mediated and Extended Cognition in Krapp s Last Tape 12:45 14:15 Lunch break 14:15 15:30 Panel 2: Radio Echoes (Chair: Balazs Rapcsak) Galina Kiryushina (Charles University, Czech Republic) A Well-Received Disaster: Michel Mitrani s Tous ceux qui tombent Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Beckett s Technography: Traces of Radio in the Late Prose

2 Lucy Jeffery (University of Reading, UK) Words and Music or some other trouble 15:30 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 17:15 Panel 3: En/Decoding Beckett (Chair: Pim Verhulst) Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Digital Poetics and Digital Hermeneutics in Beckett Studies Hunter Dukes (University of Cambridge, UK) Coetzee s Beckett & the Technology of Rhythm Annette Balaam (University of Bristol, UK) Living in the Moment: The Process of Continuous Incompletion in a Virtual Post Beckett/Beckett 19:00 Welcome reception hosted by H.E. Charles Sheehan, Ambassador of Ireland to the Czech Republic Concert: IMAGINATION DEAD IMAGINE (European premiere) music composed by Michael Roth, performed by Quartet Nouveau (USA) Friday, 14 September 9:00 9:30 Registration and coffee 9:30 10:45 Panel 4: Theories of Technology (Chair: Robert Reginio) Louis Armand (Charles University, Czech Republic) The Unnamable Object Of Semiocapitalist Desire Michael D Arcy (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) Slack Modernism Douglas Atkinson (Vrije Universiteit, Belgium) Dead at Last: Beckett, Derrida, and the Technology of Thanatographia

3 10:45-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:15 Panel 5: Sociopolitical Technologies (Chair: Mark Nixon) Feargal Whelan (UCD Humanities Institute, Ireland) The Permanent Way: Movement and Stasis in Beckett s Railways Yoshiki Tajiri (University of Tokyo, Japan) Endgame and the Everyday Life of the Nuclear Age Einat Adar (Charles University, Czech Republic) Surveillance and Resistance: Beckett in the Cyber Age 12:15-13:45 Lunch break 13:45-15:00 Panel 6: Correspondences (Chair: Lucy Jeffery) Minako Okamuro (Waseda University, Japan) Subjective Camera Eyes in Hitchcock s Rear Window and Beckett s Film Robert Reginio (Alfred University, USA) Obsolete Technology: Beckett and Hollis Frampton Elena Nekrasova (Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, Russia) Samuel Beckett s Oeuvre and Early Cinematography of Aleksei Balabanov 15:00-15:15 Coffee break 15:15-16:30 Panel 7: Cinematic Influences (Chair: Galina Kiryushina) Antony Paraskeva (University of Roehampton, UK) Ping and Overtonal Montage Olga Beloborodova (University of Antwerp, Belgium) The Effect of (Cinematic) Technology on the Geneses of Play and Film

4 Jean Antoine-Dunne (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago) Ciné-metaphorism and Beckett s Use of Distortion 16:30-16:45 Coffee break 16:45-18:00 Keynote lecture (Chair: Anna McMullan) Sarah Kenderdine (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Making Unmakeablelove 20:00- Special screening and discussion (Chair: Feargal Whelan) Ponrepo Cinema Nicholas Johnson (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) From the Digital to the Virtual: Beckett Experiments Saturday, 15 September 9:00 9:30 Registration and coffee 9:30 10:45 Panel 8: Posthumanism, Autopoiesis, Techno-Aesthetics (Chair: Dúnlaith Bird) Thomas Gurke (The University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany) Beckett s Ping in-between Precognition and the Posthuman Christina Diamant (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania) Machinic Autopoiesis and Contamination in The Unnamable and Not I Balazs Rapcsak (University of Basel, Switzerland) On Beckett s Techno-Aesthetics 10:45-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:15 Panel 9: Performing Technology (Chair: Clare Wallace)

5 Naoya Mori (Kobe Women s University, Japan) Beyond the Technology: Decomposing the Dramatized Taboo of Beckett s Quad Anna McMullan (University of Reading, UK) Archeologies of the Voice: Radio, Technology and the More-Than-Human in Beckett s All That Fall and Embers Dúnlaith Bird (University of Paris 13, France) the mechanics of which I am unfamiliar : The Strangeness of Technology in Beckett 12:15-13:45 Lunch break 13:45-14:15 Interlude Szymon Uliasz, Tomasz Wisniewski (University of Gdańsk, Poland) but the clouds : On S.E. Gontarski s Laboratory Work in Sopot/Gdańsk 14:15-14:25 Coffee break 14:25-15:15 Panel 1: Technē (Chair: Einat Adar) Thomas Thoelen (Vrije Universiteit, Belgium) Like a kindling fire, a dying fire : The Techno-Logic of Invention in The Unnamable Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK) The Unmaking of Homo Faber: Beckett and the Exhaustion of Technē 15:15-15:45 Coffee break 15:45-17:00 Keynote lecture (Chair: Dirk Van Hulle) Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading, UK) Beckett and TV: Innovation and Anachronism 17:00-17:30 Concluding remarks

6 19:30- Conference dinner

Corresponding with Beckett The Epistolary in Literary Research A London Beckett Seminar Conference 1-2 June 2018

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