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 by Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London Final Programme
Friday, 1 st June 9.00-9.30: Registration. Jessel Room 9.30-10.00: Welcome address. Senate Room 10.00-11.30: Panel session 1. 1A. Personal Friends and Literary Correspondents. Senate Room Chair: Dr Tony Murray (London Metropolitan University). Dr Sarah Bennett (Oriel College, University of Oxford), Reconstructing Sam and Denis: Lost Letters in Beckett and Devlin s Correspondence. Robert Patrick Murtagh (Independent), Samuel Beckett and Fernando Arrabal in Spain. Dr Rodney X. Sharkey (Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar), No Academic Value Where None Intended: A Personal Recollection of Transcribing Beckett s Letters to MacGreevy. 1B. Textual Archeology, Genetic Criticism and Digitisation. Court Room Chair: Dr Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp). Dr Scott Eric Hamilton (University College Dublin), Literary Atrefacts/Artefacts of Literature: The Archaeology of Beckett s Canon(s). Dr Jooyeup Lee (University of Reading), The Unique Authorial Focus in the Development of Genetic Studies of Beckett s Works. Federica Signorini (Emory University), Love, Beckett: Reading the Addresser/Addressee in the Age of Digitisation. 11.30-12.00: Coffee break. Jessel Room 12.00-13.30: Panel session 2. 2A. Cross-Cultural Bonds and Literary Translation. Senate Room Chair: Dr Sarah Bennett (Oriel College, University of Oxford). Prof Jean-Michel Gouvard (University Bordeaux-Montaigne), Corresponding with Beckett in French. Alicia Byrne Keane (Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin), Vaguening Then and Now: Beckett, Murakami, and Correspondence in the Age of Globalised Literature. Ioanna Kostopoulou (Humboldt University of Berlin), Translation, Self-Translation and Emerging Poetics: Samuel Beckett s Correspondence in French (1941-56). 2B. CHASE closed session: seminar. Court Room Chair: Dr Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London). Dr Lois M. Overbeck (Emory University), The Epistolary in Literary Research. 13.30-14.30: Lunch break. Jessel Room 14.30-16.00: CHASE plenary session 1: keynote. Senate Room Chair: Prof Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp). Dr Lois M. Overbeck (Emory University), The Letters of Samuel Beckett: A Legacy in the Grey Archives. 16.00-16.30: Coffee break. Jessel Room 2
16.30-18.00: CHASE plenary session 2: panel. Senate Room Chair: Dist Prof Daniel Gunn (American University of Paris). Prof Dirk Van Hulle and Dr Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp), A Beckett Manuscript Chronology: Linking the Letters to the Manuscripts. 18.00-18.30: Closing remarks. Senate Room 20.00-22.00: Conference dinner at Carluccio s, 1 The Brunswick, London WC1N 1AF. 3
Saturday, 2 nd June 9.00-9.30: Registration. Jessel Room 9.30-10.00: Welcome address. Senate Room 10.00-11.30: Panel session 3. 3A. Geographical Spaces and Time Perception. Senate Room Chair: Dr Scott Eric Hamilton (University College Dublin). Prof George Craig (University of Sussex), Ageing with Beckett. Prof Garin Dowd (University of West London), Addressing Beckett s Holes: Epistolary Equivocacy in Volume 2 of the Letters. 3B. From Autobiography to Philosophical Self-Reflection. Court Room Chair: Prof Shane Weller (University of Kent). Stefano Rosignoli (Trinity College Dublin), Traces of Absolute Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett s Letters and Reading Notes from the Thirties. Dr Andy Wimbush (Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge), A Sufferer of My Pains: Beckett s Letters and Reading Murphy as Autobiography. Dr Nick Wolterman (Independent), Beckett s Epistolary Manifestos: Something or Nothing?. 11.30-12.00: Coffee break. Jessel Room 12.00-13.30: Panel session 4. 4A. Intermedial Correspondences. Senate Room Chair: Prof Garin Dowd (University of West London). Dr Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London), [P]rotected against words : Beckett, the Epistolary, and Art Writing. Dr Anthony Paraskeva (University of Roehampton), Post-War Cinema and Its Contexts in Beckett s Letters. 4B. Formalist and Rhetorical Conceptions. Court Room Chair: Dr Rodney X. Sharkey (Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar). Kevin Lucas (Emory University), Letters Not About Beckett: Formalism and Potential Literaryness of Letters. Dr Aba-Carina Pârlog (West University of Timişoara), Rhetorical Correspondence: Beckett s Absurdism and Its Critical Perception. 13.30-14.30: Lunch break. Jessel Room 14.30-16.00: CHASE plenary session 3: keynote. Senate Room Chair: Prof Jean-Michel Gouvard (University Bordeaux-Montaigne). Dist Prof Daniel Gunn (American University of Paris), Beckett s Letters: The Edition and the Corpus. 16.00-16.30: Coffee break. Jessel Room 16.30-18.00: CHASE plenary session 4: roundtable. Senate Room Chair: Dr Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London). Roundtable with Prof George Craig, Dist Prof Daniel Gunn, and Dr Lois M. Overbeck, Editing the Letters of Samuel Beckett. 4
The roundtable will include the screening of an interview with Martha D. Fehsenfeld (Emory University) by Dr Rosemary M. Magee (Emory University), recorded on 22 November 2011. 18.00-18.30: Closing remarks Senate Room 5
Registration Corresponding with Beckett The Epistolary in Literary Research Conference All fees include lunch and refreshments Concessions appy to students, unwaged and retired persons Conference registration: 80, concessions 60 Day rate: 45, concessions 35 Organisers: Email: Dr Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths, University of London Stefano Rosignoli, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin londonbeckettseminar@gmail.com 6