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,
Thanking all our friends and colleagues for a full and productive year of encounters, exchanges, discussions, reflections, and collaborations, we look forward to another equally full and productive year, and wish you all a peaceful festive season and a happy and successful 2024!
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/.
Best wishes from the Centre for Comparative Literature
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.
