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Beckett at Reading 50th Anniversary<\/strong>
\nCelebrating the Beckett Exhibition of 1971<\/strong>
\nOrganised by the Beckett International Foundation and the Beckett Research Centre<\/strong>
\nMinghella Studios, University of Reading, 4-5 November 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday 4 November 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

13.30-14.00<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee and Registration<\/p>\n

14.00-14.15<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Opening Words<\/p>\n

14.15-15.00\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 The Billie Whitelaw and Katharine Worth Collections (Jonathan Heron and Matthew McFrederick)<\/p>\n

15.00-15.45\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Academic Projects I: Staging Beckett (Anna McMullan and Trish McTighe) and Beckett\u2019s Doodles (Jonathan Bignell and Bill Prosser)<\/p>\n

15.45-16.15\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee Break<\/p>\n

16.15\u201317.15<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three Dialogues: The Beckett Archive<\/p>\n

Guy Baxter: A Peek between the Boxes: Continuity and Change in the Beckett Archive<\/p>\n

Derval Tubridy: Upending Ekphrasis: Beckett and the livre d’artiste<\/em><\/p>\n

Pascale Sardin: The Beckett Archive from a French Perspective<\/p>\n

17.15-18.00\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Barry McGovern: The Archive \u2013 \u2018it\u2019s another of my resources\u2019<\/p>\n

[Break]<\/strong><\/p>\n

19.15-20.30<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beckett Fellowship Premiere:\u00a0 Hannah Khalil\u2019s \u2018The Lighthouse Keeper\u2019s Son\u2019 (followed by a Q&A with Hannah Khalil and Maureen Beattie)<\/p>\n

20.30-21.30 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Wine Reception and Launch of the \u2018In Memory of Mary Bryden: 20th<\/sup> Century French Drama Collection\u2019<\/p>\n

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Saturday 5 November 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

12.30-13.00\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee and Registration<\/p>\n

13.00-14.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 Company<\/p>\n

Trinity College Dublin (Julie Bates with Creative Fellows)<\/p>\n

The Beckett Circle of Japan (recording)<\/p>\n

The Beckett Society (Laura Salisbury)<\/p>\n

The Happy Days Beckett Festival (Sean Doran)<\/p>\n

14.15-15.00<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Academic Projects II: Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon) \/ The Samuel Beckett Letters Project (recording)<\/p>\n

15.00-15.30\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee Break<\/p>\n

15.30-16.00\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0 The Beckett Archive through the Years (Anna McMullan \/ Mark Nixon<\/p>\n

A Message from Berlin (Walter Asmus; recording)<\/p>\n

16.00-17.00<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roundtable: Beckett Studies<\/p>\n

(Chair: Trish McTighe; Participants: Daniela Caselli, William Davies, Hannah Simpson, Katherine Weiss, Shane Weller)<\/p>\n

17.00-17.30<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee Break<\/p>\n

17.30-18.30<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Knowlson-Beckett Interview Tapes (James Knowlson)<\/p>\n

[Break]<\/strong><\/p>\n

19.30-20.45<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan J\u00f6nson: \u2018Moments of Reality\u2019<\/p>\n

20.45-21.30<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Closing Remarks and Wine Reception<\/p>\n

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Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Let us do something, while we have the chance.\u2019 The Origins of Reading\u2019s Samuel Beckett Collection, University of Reading Library, University of Reading, 27 September 2022 – 13 January 2023: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/origins-of-Beckett-at-Reading<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018A glimpse of the surface\u2019: Samuel Beckett and Avigdor Arikha, The Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, 4 October 2022 – 27 January 2023: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/Beckett-and-Arikha<\/a><\/p>\n

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Registration:<\/strong> https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/Beckett-at-Reading-50<\/a><\/p>\n

Donations:<\/strong> https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/donate-to-Beckett-at-Reading<\/a>
\nPlease support the activities of the Beckett International Foundation and the Beckett Research Centre by giving as much or as little as you can! Thank you.<\/p>\n

If you have any queries, please contact Mark Nixon (m.nixon@reading.ac.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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