22 – 23 November 2018, University of Reading As part of Beckett Week 2018, this two-day event invites academics, practitioners and postgraduates to engage in discussions surrounding Samuel Beckett’s involvement in…Read More >
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** Announcing… Beckett Week 2018
Explore the influence of Beckett’s work and enjoy unparalleled access to his manuscripts! Beckett Week 2018 will take place at the University of Reading in the penultimate week of November…Read More >
Eimear McBride talks about Samuel Beckett on RTE Radio 1
https://soundcloud.com/thebookshow/tbs-s5-2-eimear-mcbride-on-samuel-beckett Award-winning novelist and inaugural Beckett Fellow, Eimear McBride, has made a radio programme with RTE Dublin about the Samuel Beckett archive at the University of Reading. The programme…Read More >
Where to begin? — Eimear McBride’s Evolving Relationship with Beckett’s Work
Eimear McBride is an award-winning novelist whose debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (2013) won her the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, the Desmond…Read More >
Launch of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre
The University of Reading launched the Samuel Beckett Research Centre on Wednesday 3 May, 2017. This new interdisciplinary Centre will act as a hub for international research on Beckett’s work,…Read More >
Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar 2017
The Beckett International Foundation held the 2017 Beckett Research Seminar on Saturday 20 May, 10am-4pm. The event was held in the Conference Room of Special Collections, University of Reading, the…Read More >
Beckett Week 2016
Beckett Week 2016 was held between the 2nd and 5th November 2016 at the University of Reading. The following events took place: The Billie Whitelaw Lecture LISA DWAN: ‘A BECKETT…Read More >
Professor Mary Bryden, 1953-2015
It is with profound sadness that colleagues and students past and present have learned of Professor Mary Bryden’s death at St. Wilfrid’s Hospice in Eastbourne on 5 November 2015 after…Read More >
Beckett and Europe Conference 2015
As part of our inaugural annual Beckett Week (2015) the first Beckett at Reading Postgraduate and Early Careers (BARP) conference took place on the 28th and 29th of October. Held…Read More >
Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar 2015
The 2015 Beckett International Foundation Annual Research Seminar brought the University’s inaugural Beckett Week (2015) to a close with thought-provoking papers from Stefano Rosignoli (Trinity College Dublin), Dr Jonathan Heron…Read More >