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
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
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
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 2007 17 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)
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
19:30- Conference dinner