Join us for the last London Beckett Seminar of the season, on Friday 19 April at 6pm UTC, online:
Dr Nicholas Taylor-Collins (Cardiff Metropolitan University), “Samuel Beckett’s Theatrical Prose Bodies”
For more information and to register, go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/london-beckett-seminar/.
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Join us for the London Beckett Seminar on Friday 22 March, 6pm UTC, online:
Olwen Fouéré (Independent), “On the 2015 Staging of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Lessness’ at the Barbican”
For more information and to register, go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/london-beckett-seminar/.
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Join us on Thursday 7 March 2024, at 5:30 UTC (London time), for the Auto / Bio / Fiction series:
Maaheen Ahmed, “Representations of children in autobiographical and autofictional graphic novels”
and
Elisabetta Varalda, “Virginia Woolf’s life in images and words”
For more information and to register: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-maaheen-ahmed-and-elisabetta-varalda/
Looking forward to seeing many of you there!
The Centre for Comparative Literature
Join us for the London Beckett Seminar on Friday 23 February, 6pm UTC, online:
Prof Patrick Bixby (Arizona State University), “Beckett, Lefebvre and the Everyday”
For more information and to register, go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/london-beckett-seminar/.
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Join us on Thursday 8 February 2024, at 5:30 UTC (London time), for this month’s seminar in the Auto / Bio / Fiction series:
Alexandre Gefen, “Philosophies of biofiction”
and
Zoey Forbes, “‘Your Fucking Struggle?”: Karl Ove Knausgård and the limits of possessive individualism”
For more information and to register: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-alexandre-gefen-and-zoey-forbes/
Looking forward to seeing many of you there,
Join us for the first London Beckett Seminar of 2024, on Friday 26 January, 6pm UTC, online:
Elizabeth Barry, “‘The Salvation Army is no better’: Beckett and the Ethics of Social Need”
For more information and to register, go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/london-beckett-seminar/.
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On Thursday 11 January, at 5:30 UTC (London time), the Auto / Bio / Fiction series returns with a session focused on Annie Ernaux:
Guido Mazzoni (University of Siena), “Like everyone else. Annie Ernaux’s The Years”
and
Carole Sweeney (Goldsmiths), “Writing feminist philosophy: Annie Ernaux and Simone de Beauvoir”
For more information and to register: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-guido-mazzoni-and-carole-sweeney/.
Looking forward to seeing many of you there, and with our best wishes for the new year,
Join us for the London Beckett Seminar this Friday, 15 December, 6pm UTC, online:
Dr James Baxter, “‘fun, hats, sex, etc’: Samuel Beckett, New World Writing and the Institutional Avant-Garde”
For more information and to register, go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/london-beckett-seminar/.
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The Auto / Bio / Fiction and the Sing in Me, Muse series join up this week to host Professor Nora Goldschmidt (Durham), who will speak on “Before Biofiction”.
Thursday 7 December, 6pm UTC, in person and online.
For more information and to register to attend: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-and-sing-in-me-muse-series-nora-goldschmidt/.
We look forward to seeing you!
The Goldsmiths Centre for Comparative Literature.
The London Beckett Seminar return this week with Dr Lois More Overbeck (Emory University), on “Just a Little Correspondence… : Introducing Chercher”
Friday 17 November, 6pm UTC, online.
For more information and to register, go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/london-beckett-seminar/.
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