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News and Events from The Samuel Beckett Research Centre and the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading, UK.
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Acclaimed theatre director Walter D. Asmus visited Minghella Studies to talk about his collaborations with #SamuelBeckett at the 35th Beckett International Foundation research seminar
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November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Acclaimed theatre director Walter D. Asmus visited Minghella Studies to talk about his collaborations with #SamuelBeckett at the 35th Beckett International Foundation research seminar
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Please book in advance at the link in previous email.
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Please book in advance at the link in previous email.
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Speakers for the BIF seminar on 1 Nov: Ros Maprayil: landscapes in Godot
Mark Taylor-Batty: Blin, Beckett and Godot
Trish McTighe and Kathryn White: ‘Godot at the Happy Days Enniskillen Beckett Festival’
Walter Asmus in conversation with Matthew McFrederick followed by audience Q&A.
Mark Taylor-Batty: Blin, Beckett and Godot
Trish McTighe and Kathryn White: ‘Godot at the Happy Days Enniskillen Beckett Festival’
Walter Asmus in conversation with Matthew McFrederick followed by audience Q&A.
October 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Speakers for the BIF seminar on 1 Nov: Ros Maprayil: landscapes in Godot
Mark Taylor-Batty: Blin, Beckett and Godot
Trish McTighe and Kathryn White: ‘Godot at the Happy Days Enniskillen Beckett Festival’
Walter Asmus in conversation with Matthew McFrederick followed by audience Q&A.
Mark Taylor-Batty: Blin, Beckett and Godot
Trish McTighe and Kathryn White: ‘Godot at the Happy Days Enniskillen Beckett Festival’
Walter Asmus in conversation with Matthew McFrederick followed by audience Q&A.
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The 2025 Beckett International Foundation seminar on 1 Nov at university of Reading is celebrating 70 years of Waiting for Godot with director Walter Asmus who worked closely with Beckett on several productions - more info to follow and you can book here: www.store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-...
Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar 2025 | Reading University Store
Event time: 10.00am to 5.00pm The event will be held in the Minghella Building on Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading. As in previous years, ou
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October 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The 2025 Beckett International Foundation seminar on 1 Nov at university of Reading is celebrating 70 years of Waiting for Godot with director Walter Asmus who worked closely with Beckett on several productions - more info to follow and you can book here: www.store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-...
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New research 📖
'Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks' by the late Ruby Cohn, edited by Hannah Simpson & Daniela Caselli, examines English-language dramatic dialogue, tracing verbal invention across four centuries.
https://bit.ly/4gKTWHC
'Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks' by the late Ruby Cohn, edited by Hannah Simpson & Daniela Caselli, examines English-language dramatic dialogue, tracing verbal invention across four centuries.
https://bit.ly/4gKTWHC
October 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New research 📖
'Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks' by the late Ruby Cohn, edited by Hannah Simpson & Daniela Caselli, examines English-language dramatic dialogue, tracing verbal invention across four centuries.
https://bit.ly/4gKTWHC
'Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks' by the late Ruby Cohn, edited by Hannah Simpson & Daniela Caselli, examines English-language dramatic dialogue, tracing verbal invention across four centuries.
https://bit.ly/4gKTWHC
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Reading in Marseille on Wednesday and talking with Mary Fitzgerald - please come!
October 6, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Reading in Marseille on Wednesday and talking with Mary Fitzgerald - please come!
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reminder: if you like cursed images, trash essays, Wiki aesthetic categories, shrimp Jesus & AI slop, book your ticket for the launch of Amateurs! How We Made Internet Culture and Why it Matters ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) at @burleyfisher.bsky.social with @nrolah.bsky.social, tues sept 23rd!
LONDON LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT!
23 September, @burleyfisher.bsky.social with Nathalie Olah - tickets here!!!
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23 September, @burleyfisher.bsky.social with Nathalie Olah - tickets here!!!
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Launch: Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters by Joanna Walsh w/ Natalie Olah
Tuesday 23rd September 2025 6.30-9pm Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to v...
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September 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
reminder: if you like cursed images, trash essays, Wiki aesthetic categories, shrimp Jesus & AI slop, book your ticket for the launch of Amateurs! How We Made Internet Culture and Why it Matters ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) at @burleyfisher.bsky.social with @nrolah.bsky.social, tues sept 23rd!
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"Can I read you some of my poetry?"
August 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"Can I read you some of my poetry?"
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Tonight! Hope to see you there.
The Future of the Novel: roundtable @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social 4th June, 6:30-7:30, RHB 137
With Simon Okotie @simonokotie.bsky.social , Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social, Tim Parnell @neddylud.bsky.social and Amy Sackville.
With Simon Okotie @simonokotie.bsky.social , Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social, Tim Parnell @neddylud.bsky.social and Amy Sackville.
June 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Tonight! Hope to see you there.
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Paul Durcan wrote this, but I feel he had the soul of a hare as well
May 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Paul Durcan wrote this, but I feel he had the soul of a hare as well
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Installment 2/2 now on @beckettreading.bsky.social blog ~ read for Beckett & healings & The Substance (2024) & bananas (research.reading.ac.uk/beckett/bein...) ❤️🔥¡
Being Poorly with Samuel Beckett (An Addendum) - The Samuel Beckett Research Centre
Amy Grandvoinet Royal Berkshire Hospital’s A&E department is directly opposite the Museum of English Rural Life, where the Samuel Beckett Special Collection at the University of Reading is held, and.....
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March 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Installment 2/2 now on @beckettreading.bsky.social blog ~ read for Beckett & healings & The Substance (2024) & bananas (research.reading.ac.uk/beckett/bein...) ❤️🔥¡
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A wonderful time in NYC at Irish Rep for the US leg of the #NotBeckett festival - 5 new plays in conversation w Beckett by women and non binary writers ❤️
February 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A wonderful time in NYC at Irish Rep for the US leg of the #NotBeckett festival - 5 new plays in conversation w Beckett by women and non binary writers ❤️
Concrete Island by JG Ballard
Repeated today - 16:00 - BBC Radio 4 Extra
Driving home one Friday rush hour, a cocky young architect crashes down a motorway embankment.
Can this modern day Crusoe survive in a strange new world?
First broadcast June 2013
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Repeated today - 16:00 - BBC Radio 4 Extra
Driving home one Friday rush hour, a cocky young architect crashes down a motorway embankment.
Can this modern day Crusoe survive in a strange new world?
First broadcast June 2013
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 Extra - Concrete Island by JG Ballard
A cocky young architect is stranded when he crashes off the motorway.
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February 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan to judge the Goldsmiths Prize 2025
Simon Okotie and Amy Sackville complete the panel for this year’s award for “fiction at its most novel”.
🖊️ Zuzanna Lachendro
Simon Okotie and Amy Sackville complete the panel for this year’s award for “fiction at its most novel”.
🖊️ Zuzanna Lachendro
Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan to judge the Goldsmiths Prize 2025
Simon Okotie and Amy Sackville complete the panel for this year’s award for “fiction at its most novel”.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan to judge the Goldsmiths Prize 2025
Simon Okotie and Amy Sackville complete the panel for this year’s award for “fiction at its most novel”.
🖊️ Zuzanna Lachendro
Simon Okotie and Amy Sackville complete the panel for this year’s award for “fiction at its most novel”.
🖊️ Zuzanna Lachendro
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Thanks to the wonderful Amy Grandvoinet for this excellent, entertaining essay on a fascinating and little-discussed subject.
Thanks to the wonderful Amy Grandvoinet for this excellent, entertaining essay on a fascinating and little-discussed subject.
What’s Sam got to do with psychogeography? - The Samuel Beckett Research Centre
What’s Sam got to do with psychogeography? Alexander Trocchi and Samuel Beckett from Paris 5, 6 & 7e to Reading Amy Grandvoinet AHRC-funded PhD student An aeon article with web-address...Read More >
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January 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Thanks to the wonderful Amy Grandvoinet for this excellent, entertaining essay on a fascinating and little-discussed subject.
Thanks to the wonderful Amy Grandvoinet for this excellent, entertaining essay on a fascinating and little-discussed subject.
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Happy Joycension Day! To mark (Gabriel Conroy's) Epiphany, our Bloomcasters reunite to compare Samuel Beckett’s disintegrative style with James Joyce’s expansive storytelling.
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(Read along with the @faberbooks.bsky.social edition www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/watt)
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(Read along with the @faberbooks.bsky.social edition www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/watt)
January 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I am very excited that #NotBeckett will have its international premiere in NYC @IrishRep in February - pls spread the word and pls come! irishrep.org/show/2024-20...
January 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I am very excited that #NotBeckett will have its international premiere in NYC @IrishRep in February - pls spread the word and pls come! irishrep.org/show/2024-20...
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Hello everyone! Please help me get this out? Registration is open for the Eliot Summer program at Oxford, 5-13 July 2025. Scholarships and partial week tuition available. See you there? Send your students. Happy to support them!
December 11, 2024 at 6:03 AM
Hello everyone! Please help me get this out? Registration is open for the Eliot Summer program at Oxford, 5-13 July 2025. Scholarships and partial week tuition available. See you there? Send your students. Happy to support them!
University of Reading Samuel Beckett Creative Fellows: Video recording of a reading and Q & A by Claire-Louise Bennett and Simon Okotie. March 2024.
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December 12, 2024 at 10:02 AM
University of Reading Samuel Beckett Creative Fellows: Video recording of a reading and Q & A by Claire-Louise Bennett and Simon Okotie. March 2024.
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December 11, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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