{"id":309,"date":"2015-08-18T15:02:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/staging-beckett\/?p=309"},"modified":"2015-08-18T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:02:51","slug":"upcoming-conference-draff-at-trinity-college-dublin-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/staging-beckett\/upcoming-conference-draff-at-trinity-college-dublin-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Conference: Draff at Trinity College Dublin, August 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Draff <\/strong><\/p>\n

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5th<\/sup>\u20136th<\/sup> August, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trinity College Dublin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Keynote speakers:
\nMark Nixon (University of Reading)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Call For Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deadline for abstracts: 15th<\/sup> November, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2018I don\u2019t suppose many people know what \u201cDraff\u201d is, but if they look it up, they will be put off.\u2019<\/p>\n

Charles Prentice to Samuel Beckett (25th<\/sup> September, 1933)<\/p>\n

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As suggested by his original title for More Pricks Than Kicks<\/em> (1934), and proved by the pochades, <\/em>roughs, foirades<\/em>, and (un)abandoned works of his mature \u0153uvre<\/em>, works often presented by their author as being no more than the run-off from the creative process, Beckett was anything but put off by draff. The same can surely be said of the scholars who have long devoted themselves to studying Beckett\u2019s aesthetic engagement with the seemingly worthless.<\/p>\n

In recent decades, however, Beckett Studies\u2019 fascination with the residual has taken a much more literal meaning as the field, as well as its perception of Beckett and his art, has been reshaped by unprecedented access to the refuse, dregs, and lees of a voluminous archive, as well as the blackened pages of forgotten diaries and private correspondence. Despite, or perhaps because of, this flood of fresh effluvia, however, particular aspects of, and questions pertaining to, Beckett\u2019s canon have been left unexamined, understudied, or wholly ignored.<\/p>\n

Taking place next year in Trinity College Dublin, two decades after Damned to Fame<\/em> (1996) opened a new chapter in Beckett scholarship, this bilingual conference invites proposals for 20-minute papers, in English or French, from prospective delegates who, sharing Beckett\u2019s conviction in the value of what is left behind, are keen to pick through the ends and odds of Beckett Studies:<\/p>\n