SAMUELBECKETTSUMMERSCHOOLPROGRAMMEof the 2015 Samuel Beckett Summer School 9 - 15 August 2015TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLINThe School of English & The School of Drama, Film and MusicBeckett Summer School Venue GuideTable of VenuesSUMMER SCHOOL ACADEMIC PROGRAMME:Graduate Memorial Building (GMB) Arrival Registration, Welcome EventTrinity Long Room Hub (First Floor) Morning Lectures, Manuscripts Seminar, PlenariesSamuel Beckett Centre (Players Theatre) Performance Workshop / Beckett LaboratoryThe Old Library (The Long Room) Monday Launch EventArts Building: Beckett & Poetry (3051), Beckett & Visual Arts (3106), Reading Group (4019)SUMMER SCHOOL PUBLIC PROGRAMME AND PERFORMANCES:Graduate Memorial Building (GMB) Eoin OBrien & Gerald Dawe / Barry McGovernSamuel Beckett Centre (Samuel Beckett Theatre) Pan Pan and Gare St Lazare IrelandIrish Museum of Modern Art (Royal Hospital Kilmainham) Derval Tubridy & exhibitLavazza Vaults: Daily LunchGraduate Memorial Building (GMB)Players Theatre and Samuel Beckett TheatrePearse Street DART StationFront Gate ofTrinity CollegeNassau Street Gate (campusaccess to ArtsBuilding)Arts BuildingTrinity LongRoom Hub (Lectures)Old Library(Launch Event)Dunne & CrescenziKennedysPubTable of Venues (continued)MEETING POINTS for OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS:NASSAU GATE (next to Arts Building) 11:00 Wednesday for IMMA busIMMA (main parking lot) 2:30 Wednesday for Tour of Beckett CountryNASSAU GATE 7:15 Friday for Howth Yacht Club busSUMMER SCHOOL SOCIAL PROGRAMME & MEALS:Kennedys Pub (Lincoln Place) Sunday Welcome Drinks / Wednesday Pub QuizThe Buttery (The Lavazza Vaults) Daily Lunch (on campus) except Wednesday (IMMA)Dunne & Crescenzi (South Frederick Street) Monday Dinner (optional)Howth Yacht Club (Howth Harbour) Friday BanquetSchedule/Venue Quick ReferenceSunday 9 AugustMonday 10 AugustTuesday 11 AugustWednesday 12 AugustThursday 13 AugustFriday 14 AugustFULL SCHEDULESUNDAY 9 AUGUST 2015REGISTRATION & WELCOME4.30pm - 6.00pm, Graduate Memorial Building (GMB):Summer School registration opensWELCOME EVENT and RECEPTION6.00pm - 7.00pm, Graduate Memorial Building (GMB):Publication celebration of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (ed. Dirk Van Hulle) and Deleuze and Beckett (eds. S. E. Wilmer and Audron" #ukauskait"), with remarks by Benjamin Keatinge7.30pm onward, Kennedys Pub, Lincoln Place (entrance off Westland Row):All students, staff, and friends of the Summer School welcomeMONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 8.45am - 9.30am, Graduate Memorial Building (GMB): Registration continuesLECTURE 1 C. J. ACKERLEY9.30am - 11.00am, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):Samuel Beckett and PhysicsCOFFEE BREAK 11.00am - 11.30am, Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub (Second Floor)LECTURE 2 PAUL STEWART11.30am - 1.00pm, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):as innocent as the sperm unspilt: Sex and Power in Becketts WorksLUNCH 1.00pm - 2.30pm, Lavazza Vaults, The Buttery, Dining Hall, Front SquareSEMINAR SESSIONS2.30pm - 5.30pm, Various Locations:Trinity Long Room Hub (Seminar Room, rst oor)Becketts Manuscripts / led by Mark Nixon and Dirk Van HulleArts Building (Room 3051)Beckett and Poetry / led by David WheatleyArts Building (Room 3106)Beckett and the Visual Arts / led by Derval TubridyArts Building (Room 4019)Beckett Reading Group: Three Novels / led by Sam SloteSamuel Beckett Centre (Players Theatre)Beckett Performance Workshop / Samuel Beckett Laboratory 2015Led by Jonathan Heron and Nicholas JohnsonBECKETT SUMMER SCHOOL OFFICIAL LAUNCH6.00pm, The Long Room, The Old LibraryRemarks by Nicholas Johnson, co-director of the Beckett Summer SchoolReading by Stephen Brennan from Imagination Dead ImagineLaunch of 50th Anniversary letterpress edition of Imagination Dead Imagine bythe Salvage Press, typographic design by Jamie Murphy, illustrated throughlithographs by David OKane and introduced by S. E. GontarskiOpening of the Beckett Manuscripts special displayOptional Dinner Arrangement: Dunne & Crescenzi, South Frederick StreetTUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015LECTURE 3 AMANDA DENNIS9.30am - 11.00am, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):Beckett, Sensation and AgencyCOFFEE BREAK 11.00am - 11.30am, Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub (Second Floor)LECTURE 4 DAVID WHEATLEY11.30pm - 1.00pm, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):Aspermatic Days and Nights: Samuel Beckett and an Anti-Genealogy of Contemporary Irish PoetryLUNCH 1.00pm - 2.30pm, Lavazza Vaults, The Buttery, Dining Hall, Front SquareSEMINAR SESSIONS2.30pm - 5.30pm, Various Locations:Trinity Long Room Hub (Seminar Room, rst oor)Becketts Manuscripts / led by Mark Nixon and Dirk Van HulleArts Building (Room 3051)Beckett and Poetry / led by David WheatleyArts Building (Room 3106)Beckett and the Visual Arts / led by Derval TubridyArts Building (Room 4019)Beckett Reading Group: Three Novels / led by Sam SloteSamuel Beckett Centre (Players Theatre)Beckett Performance Workshop / Samuel Beckett Laboratory 2015Led by Jonathan Heron and Nicholas JohnsonPUBLIC PROGRAMME EOIN OBRIEN and GERALD DAWE6.00pm - 7.30pm, Graduate Memorial Building:Eoin OBrien and Gerald Dawe in Conversation, on Beckett and The Weight of Compassion and Other Essays, with a reading by Barry McGovernReception to follow for registered Summer School participants.TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 (continued)PUBLIC PROGRAMME A Lecture-Demonstration of QUAD by SAMUEL BECKETT8.30pm - 10.00pm, Samuel Beckett TheatrePresented by Pan Pan Theatre Company and Irish Modern Dance TheatreDirection: Gavin Quinn / Choreography: John Scott / Design: Aedn CosgroveIncluding a lecture by Conor Houghton and moderation by Nicholas Johnson.Please see separate event programme for full description and credits. Optional Evening Arrangements: Kennedys PubTables reserved after 10.00pm; kitchen open late for food orders till 10.15pmWEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 2015MANUSCRIPT SEMINAR SPECIAL SESSION9.30am - 11.00am, Henry Jones Room, Old Library*Note: only for participants in the Manuscript SeminarMeet at the side entrance of the Old Library at 9.20am for accessEXHIBIT VISIT: IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART11.15am - 12.15pm, Irish Museum of Modern Art, guided visit to Stan Douglas exhibitionMeet at Nassau Street Gate at 11.00am for prompt bus departureLUNCH 12.15pm - 1.00pm, IMMA Museum Caf*Note shorter lunch today for all those attending lectureLECTURE 5 / PUBLIC PROGRAMME DERVAL TUBRIDY1.00pm - 2.30pm, Lecture Hall, Irish Museum of Modern Art:The unthought and the harrowing: Samuel Becketts Necessary ArtOPTIONAL EXCURSION THE BECKETT COUNTRYFeargal Whelan guides a tour of the Beckett Country, sign-up requiredMeet at IMMA main parking lot at 2.30 for prompt departureNO LACK OF VOID2.30pm - 6.00pm, Open day in Dublin for those not on excursion no seminar meetingsPUBLIC PROGRAMME BARRY McGOVERN7.00pm - 8.00pm, Graduate Memorial Building (GMB):Becketts Poems: The European Caravan and Other PrecipitatesBECKETT PUB QUIZ9.00pm - 11.00pm, Kennedys Pub, Lincoln Place:Questions, hypotheses, call them that.Honed and delivered by Quizmaster Mark Nixon; assessed by Nicholas Johnson.THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015LECTURE 6 LOIS OPPENHEIM9.30am - 11.00am, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):fMRI in Prose: Beckett and NeuroscienceCOFFEE BREAK11.00am - 11.30am, Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub (Second Floor)PLENARY SAMUEL BECKETT AND PEDAGOGY11.30am - 1.00pm, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):The loutishness of learning: A Roundtable on Beckett and PedagogyChaired and moderated by Jonathan Heron, with C. J. Ackerley, Amanda Dennis, Rodney Sharkey, Paul Stewart, Derval Tubridy, and David WheatleyLUNCH1.00pm - 2.30pm, Lavazza Vaults, The Buttery, Dining Hall, Front Square SEMINAR SESSIONS 2.30pm - 5.30pm, Various Locations:Trinity Long Room Hub (Seminar Room, rst oor)Becketts Manuscripts / led by Mark Nixon and Dirk Van HulleArts Building (Room 3051)Beckett and Poetry / led by David WheatleyArts Building (Room 3106)Beckett and the Visual Arts / led by Derval TubridyArts Building (Room 4019)Beckett Reading Group: Three Novels / led by Sam SloteSamuel Beckett Centre (Players Theatre)Beckett Performance Workshop / Samuel Beckett Laboratory 2015Led by Jonathan Heron and Nicholas JohnsonPERFORMANCE GARE ST. LAZARE IRELAND presents THE BECKETT TRILOGY7.00pm - 10.00pm, Samuel Beckett TheatreThe Beckett Trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies, and The UnnamablePresented by Gare St. Lazare Ireland / Directed by Judy Hegarty-LovettPerformed by Conor Lovett / See event programme for full description.FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2015INTERVIEW CONOR LOVETT10.00am - 11.00am, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):A post-show discussion with Conor Lovett, moderated by Nicholas JohnsonCOFFEE BREAK11.00am - 11.30am, Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub (Second Floor)FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2015 (continued)SEMINAR SESSIONS11.30pm - 1.00pm, Various Locations:Trinity Long Room Hub (Seminar Room, rst oor)Becketts Manuscripts / led by Mark Nixon and Dirk Van HulleArts Building (Room 3051)Beckett and Poetry / led by David WheatleyArts Building (Room 3106)Beckett and the Visual Arts / led by Derval TubridyArts Building (Room 4019)Beckett Reading Group: Three Novels / led by Sam SloteSamuel Beckett Centre (Players Theatre)Beckett Performance Workshop / Samuel Beckett Laboratory 2015Led by Jonathan Heron and Nicholas JohnsonLUNCH1.00pm - 2.00pm, Lavazza Vaults, The Buttery, Dining Hall, Front Square*Note shorter lunch todayPLENARY SEMINAR GROUP PRESENTATIONS2.00pm - 4.00pm, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):Informal report on weeks work from four seminar groups (excluding Performance)PERFORMANCE PREPARATION4.00pm - 5.00pm, Players Theatre, Samuel Beckett CentreBeckett Laboratory group works in theatre (*ONLY Performance Workshop attend)PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP PRESENTATION5.00pm - 6.00pm, Players Theatre, Samuel Beckett CentreResults from the Samuel Beckett Laboratory (all other seminar groups invited)SUMMER SCHOOL GROUP PHOTO6:00 - 6.15pm, outside Samuel Beckett CentreFAREWELL BANQUETFrom 7.15pm, The Howth Yacht Club (Howth Harbour):Meet at 7.00 at Nassau Street Gate for bus to dinner location, for ne dining and private bar; bus provided back to town, departing near midnight.Public transport options also available; see separate sheet provided for full details.About the SeminarsBeckettsManuscripts(MarkNixonandDirkVanHulle)Duringhislifetime,SamuelBeckettdonated severalmanuscriptstoarchivesatuniversitiessuchasTrinityCollege,Dublin,andtheUniversityof Reading.By studyingthemarginaliainthebooksofhispersonallibrary,hisreadingnotesonliterature, philosophy and psychology,his drafts and typescripts,we investigate how these manuscripts can contribute toaninterpretationofBeckettsworks. Themethodologicalframeworkisthetheoryofgeneticcriticism, whichsetsitselfadoubletask: thegenetictaskofmakingthemanuscriptsaccessible(ordering, deciphering and transcribing), resulting in a geneticdossier; the criticaltask ofreconstructing thegenesis fromachosenpointofview(psychoanalysis,sociocriticism,narratology,etc.).Differentmethodsof transcription(diplomatic,linear,topographic)andencoding(markuplanguages,theTextEncoding Initiativesguidelines)willbediscussedandappliedtoBeckettsmanuscripts.Thepotentialinterpretive consequences of this genetic research will be discussed in the second part of the seminar.BeckettandtheVisualArts(DervalTubridy)Thisseriesoffourseminarswillexploretheintersections between Beckettswriting and the visual arts. Tracing linesofenquiry through ideasofthebody, language, subjectivity, performativity and identity, the seminars critically analyse the ways in which questions that are key to Becketts prose, poetry and performance underpin signicant moments in contemporary art.Beckett andPoetry (DavidWheatley) Ashisplace on pub postersofIrishwritersattests,SamuelBecketts placeintheIrishpopularimaginationissecure.WhileBeckettthepoetremainsunderstandably overshadowed by the playwrightand novelist, the poemshave played their part both in Sen Mordhas documentariesandJack MacGowrans recordings in the popularisation ofhiswork. Lesswell established, however, isthenatureofBeckettthepoetsrelationship tothe restoftheIrishpoeticcanon.A numberof competing trendscan nevertheless beidentied. The rst brackets Beckettwith his 1930sconfrres Thomas MacGreevy, Denis Devlin and Brian Coffey as an Irish modernist. The roots of this identication are twofold: in Becketts Recent Irish Poetry (1934), his polemic against neo-Revivalist verse, and in subsequent revivals ofthese 30spoets. A secondtrendistond Beckettian tracesin contemporary poets, butnotin the form of Beckettsownpoems:inhisBeckettandContemporary IrishWriting,StephenWattdevotesachapterto BeckettandDerek Mahon andPaulMuldoon, whilemaking onlycursoryreferencetoBeckettspoetry. A third trend isthe responsesofcontemporarypoetsthemselvestoBeckettswork: here again, Muldoon and Mahon stand out, while other poets (Heaney, Boland) appear to have little or no use for him in their personal canons. IntheseseminarswewillexamineBeckettsownpoetry, andattempttotraceagenealogy ofthe Beckettian in Irishpoetry from the 30stothepresent day.Among the writers whose work we will consider are:ThomasMacGreevy,DenisDevlin,Brian Coffey,Sen Rordin,BlnaidSalkeld, ThomasKinsella, DerekMahon,CiaranCarson,PaulMuldoon,EavanBoland,CatherineWalsh,andJustinQuinn.The required text is solely Samuel Becketts Collected Poems.Beckett Reading Group: Three Novels(Sam Slote) Over the course of the week we will slowly and patiently make our way through Becketts Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies,The Unnamable), which, along with Waiting for Godot, forms the heart of Becketts frenzy of writing from 1946 to 1953.We will address issuesof narrative, style, humour,repetitionand seriality.While some previous familiarity with eitherthe novelsof the Trilogy or its predecessors (Murphy and Watt) is recommended, it is not necessary.Beckett Performance Workshop/Samuel BeckettLaboratory (Jonathan Heron and NicholasJohnson)The Samuel Beckett Laboratory, in partnership with DU Players, provides a space and occasion for fundamental research intoSamuel Beckettswork in through performance. Working in a black-box theatre space over ve days,wecreateanensembleofstudents,scholars, performers,directors,designers,andtechniciansto explore problems,processes, and philosophiesin the practice ofBecketts theatre.The2015SummerSchool meeting constitutes our fth experiment as the Beckett Lab, in which performance is viewed not only as an endinitself, butalsoused asaresearchmethod. The textual focusofthiswork isnotlimitedtoBecketts plays,butwill extend to a variety of Beckettian voices, voids,fragments,and zzles, to discover what occurs whentheseareembodiedinaspecictimeandspace.Interestinperformanceasapraxisisthesole prerequisite, and this laboratory is absolutely open to non-professionals.Our focal textsthisyear will be the novel The Unnamable, including some manuscript materials available through the BDMP, and the play Not I.About the PerformanceGARE ST. LAZARE IRELAND presentsTHE BECKETT TRILOGYMolloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamableperformed by Conor Lovett / directed by Judy Hegarty LovettJust as his 1953 play Waiting for Godotchanged the way we look attheatre, Samuel Becketts novels have also hadaprofound inuence on modern literature. Atthe centreofwhatheconsidered theimportantwork arethethreenovelsMolloy,MaloneDiesandThe Unnamable. Written inFrenchshortlyafterWorldWarII, these novels are seen by many as Becketts literary masterpiece.The Irish theatre company Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland has made an exploration of Becketts prose works. DirectorJudyHegartyLovettandactorConorLovetthaveworkedtogetheronover18Becketttitles covering drama, radio drama, short stories and novels.In 2010 they produced their tenth Beckett prose piece. They are hailed for making these works fresh andaccessible,while highlighting the humour,humanity, and integrity that is the hallmark of Becketts work. A three-hour tour de force, The Beckett Trilogy cemented Gare St Lazares reputation as they capture the essence of each of these novels.Gare St.Lazare Players precise andelegantwork hasmade Beckett accessible to a whole new audience and earned the company a reputation around the world. Conor Lovetts mesmerising performance in The Beckett Trilogy has been unanimously hailed as nothing short of outstanding. (Below: Conor Lovett, Dylan Vaughan)Venue: The performance is at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, beginning promptly at 7.00pm on Thursday, 13 August. There are two intervals.Ticketing:FullyregisteredmembersoftheSummerSchoolstaffand studentbodymayattendthisexclusiveperformancefreeofcharge. Remaining ticketswill be made available tothe public. A sign-up sheet willcirculateontheThursdaymorninglecturesforthatevening; personsnotsignedupmaynotbeabletoentertheperformance, as unclaimed tickets from the Summer School allocation may be sold.Support:Thecompanyisgratefulforfundingandongoingsupport from the ArtsCouncil,CultureIreland,andDublinCity Council.The BeckettSummerSchoolacknowledgesthesupportoftheProvost's Fundforthe Visual and Performing Artsandthesupportof Larry and Mary Lund, without whom we could not have presented this work.About Gare St. Lazare (http://garestlazareireland.com)Overthe past 20 years GareSt LazarePlayers Ireland havebuilt a repertory of work that includes over18 Beckett titles as wellasworkby MichaelHarding, Conor McPherson,Will Eno,and their adaptationof Moby Dickby HermanMelville. Thetendency has been to premiereworkinIreland andthentourextensively.Todatetheyhavetouredover70theatresinIreland,while internationallytheyhaveperformedBeckettin80citiesand25countries,acrosssixcontinents. JointartisticdirectorsJudyHegartyLovettandConorLovettareconsideredtobeamongthe leadinginterpreters of Beckett. GareSt LazareIreland has received fundingfromThe Arts Council ofIrelandandareregularlysupportedbyCultureIreland,theIrishgovernmentagencyfor promoting Irish cultural excellence abroad.About the Public ProgrammeFollowing itsexpansionto include publiceventsin 2012,the BeckettSummer Schoolwill againprogrammeanumberofeventsthatthewider publicmay attend.Accesstoall of theseeventsisfreeforregisteredstudentsandstaffmembersoftheSummerSchool. The Beckett Summer School gratefully acknowledges the support of the Provosts Fund for theVisualandPerformingArtsinthisperformanceprogramme,aswellasin-kind supportfromtheTrinityLongRoomHub,RT,theIrishMuseumofModernArt,the Samuel Beckett Theatre, DU Players, and the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing.EOIN OBRIEN in conversation with GERALD DAWEOn Beckett and The Weight of Compassion and Other Essayswith a reading by Barry McGovern6:00 PM, Tuesday 11 August 2015 / Graduate Memorial Building (GMB), TCDEoinOBrienisAdjunctProfessorofMolecularPharmacologyattheConway Institute of Bimolecular and Biomedical Research,University College Dublin. He is aPast-PresidentoftheIrishHeartFoundationandiscurrently Chairmanofthe IrishSkin Foundation.Hehaspublishedmanyscienticpapersonhypertension research,andheisauthorofBloodPressureMeasurementandthepopularABCof Hypertension. Professor OBrien has written an acclaimed study on the relevance of timeandplaceinthewritingsofSamuelBeckett:TheBeckettCountry:Samuel BeckettsIreland,andhepublishedBeckettsrstnovelDreamofFairtoMiddling Women. He hasalsowrittenbooksonliterarysubjectsthatinclude A.J.Leventhal 1896-1979: Dublin Scholar: Witand Man of Letters andthreebookson the artist and photographerNevillJohnson,includingNevillJohnson:Paintthesmellofgrass; Nevill Johnson: Artist, Writer, Photographer and Nevill Johnson: The Dublin Legacy. He has published extensively on medical historical subjects, which include Conscience and Conict: A Biography of SirDominicCorrigan, and A Portraitof Irish Medicine: An Illustrated Historyof Irish Medicine. He hasrecorded for posterity intext and photography the historiesofthree recently-closed Dublin hospitals: TheCharitable Inrmary(JervisStreet),St.LaurencesHospital(TheRichmond)andtheCityofDublinSkin&Cancer Hospital(HumeStreet). Prof.OBrienhasakeen interestininternationalhumanitarianaffairs,andhe isa member of the Board of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation at Fordham University, New York,and he is Chairman of the Committee on Blood Pressure Measurement in Low Resource Settings at the World Health Organization in Geneva.Gerald Dawe isan Irishpoet, aprofessorofEnglishandFellowofTrinityCollege Dublin.HewasfounderdirectoroftheOscarWildeCentreforIrishWriting (1997-2015).HehaspublishedninevolumesofpoetrywithTheGalleryPress, including Selected Poems (2012) and Mickey Finns Air (2014). Recent essays have been included in Oona Frawley (ed.) Memory Ireland: The Famine and the Troubles (Syracuse UniversityPress,2014);SusanSchreibman(ed.)TheLifeandTimesofThomas MacGreevy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013)andFranBreartonandAlanGillis(eds.) TheOxfordHandbookofModern IrishPoetry(2012). CorkUniversityPresswillbe publishing in October Of War and Wars Alarms: Reections on Modern Irish Writing.ProfessorOBriens recentbook The Weightof Compassion andOther Essays, publishedby LilliputPress,will bethefocusofthisevent.SomereadingsbyBarryMcGovernwillbeincluded.A privatereceptionfor membersoftheSummerSchoolcommunitywillfollow,includinglightsnacksandbeveragesfor participants and staff of the summer school attending the Tuesday night events back-to-back.A Lecture-Demonstration of QUAD by SAMUEL BECKETTPAN PAN, IRISH MODERN DANCE THEATRE, and CONOR HOUGHTON8:30 PM, Tuesday 11 August, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College DublinMysterious,geometricandsymmetrical,Quadisan intricatelychoreographedmovementsequencedevised by SamuelBeckett.Written originally asatelevision play andbroadcastinGermanyin1981, thisisarare opportunitytoseeastagedlecture-demonstrationof whatmaybeBeckettsmostformalwork. PanPan Theatre Company works with acclaimed dance company Irish Modern Dance Theatre and with Conor Houghton, areaderinmathematicalneuroscienceatBristol UniversityandformerTrinity CollegeDublin lecturer,to demonstrate,discuss, and explore thisriveting work. The SamuelBeckettSummerSchoolisproudtopresentthis highlyoriginalcollaborativepieceforonlyitssecond showinginDublin,followingitspremiereatthe Edinburgh International Festival in 2013 and a successful run at the Dublin Dance Festival in 2014.Director: Gavin Quinn / Choreographer: John Scott / Lecturer: Conor HoughtonDesigner: Aedn Cosgrove / Sound: Jimmy Eadie / Producer: Aoife White / Moderator: Nicholas JohnsonDancers: Kevin Coquelard, Ryan ONeill, Sarah Ryan, Juan Ubana, and Deirdre Grifn (for Quin)Running time: approximately 90 minutes, including Q & APan Pan receives ongoing support from the Arts Council.This presentation is supported by the Samuel Beckett Theatre and the Summer School theatre crew.PUBLIC LECTURE by DERVAL TUBRIDYThe unthought and the harrowing: Samuel Becketts Necessary ArtIn association with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)1:00 PM, Wednesday 12 August, IMMA, Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8ThislectureexplorestheintersectionsbetweenBeckettswritingandthevisual artsandposesquestionsthatare key toBecketts prose, poetry andperformance whichunderpinsignicantmomentsincontemporaryart. DervalTubridyis SeniorLecturerinLiteratureandVisualCultureGoldsmiths,Universityof London.(seefullbiounderstaffbiosinprogramme). Thistalkdrawsonthe IMMA exhibition byStan Douglasandthe presentationofSam JurysAllThings Being Equal in the Project Spaces..TheSamuelBeckettSummerSchoolisgratefultoallatIMMAfortheir collaborationon thisfree lecture, in particular SophieByrne, ChristinaKennedy, JohanneMullen, andCatherine Marshall.Wealsoacknowledgethe supportof RT in publicising the event.BARRY McGOVERN reads BECKETTS POEMSThe European Caravan and Other Precipitates7:00 PM, Wednesday 12 August, Graduate Memorial Building (GMB), TCDBarry McGovernis recognized by many as one of the leadinginterpreters of the work of Samuel Beckett.He hasplayedVladimir,Estragonand LuckyinWaitingfor Godot,ClovinEndgame,Willie inHappyDaysand KrappinKrappsLastTape. Onradiohehas playedHenryin Embers, Foxin Rough for RadioII and directed AllthatFall. Hehas alsoplayedWords in WordsandMusic. He playedVladimirintheBecketton Film Godot. In2012heplayedVladimirto Alan MandellsEstragon in LosAngelesand will play Clov to his Hamm inEndgamethere nextyear. Histwoone-man BeckettshowsIll GoOnandWatt,produced by the Gate Theatre,havetoured worldwide. He frequently lectures on, and gives readings of,Becketts work.Hisrecordingsofthe complete Three Novels(Molloy,Malone DiesandTheUnnamable)are available fromRT.In Augusthe will spend a semester teaching Joyce and Beckett at NotreDame University in Indiana..Special Book Launch: Imagination Dead ImagineTheBeckettSummerSchoolishonouredtolaunchaneweditionofSamuelBeckettsImaginationDead Imagineinthe Long Roomatthe ofciallaunchofthisyearsSummerSchool, andtofeaturenotonly the artists involved in its creation,but alsonoted actor Stephen Brennan toread from the text. Thisnewedition ofloosesheetscelebratesthe50thanniversaryoftheoriginalpublishingin1965. Theprojectisa collaborationbetweentypographicdesignerJamieMurphy&visualartistDavidO'Kane.Theworkis introduced with an essayby renownedBeckettscholar Stanley E.Gontarski. The texthasbeen hand-set& letterpressprintedatDistillersPress, NCADbyJamieMurphy in18pointCaslon OldFace, supportedby newlydrawntenlinegrotesquecharactersbyBobbyTannam,cutfrommaplebyThomasMayo.The exacting text shapes are designed to symbolise time and the morphing ofspace. DavidOKane has supplied two lithographsinspired by the prose text,editioned by Thomas Franke at Stein Werk Lithography studio in Leipzig.Thework isprintedon 250gsmFrenchmade VeninCuveBFKRivesmouldmade. Theeditionis limited to50 copies,40of which make up the standardformat, ten accounting forthe deluxe. The bindings were executed by Tom Duffy in Dublin. The standard is housed in a cloth covered portfolio, protected inside a slipcase.The deluxe is presented in a clam-shell box accompanied by atypographictriptych basedon the text. The standard copiesare numbered 11 50; the deluxe are numbered 1 10. Each copy hasbeen signed bythecollaborators.Thestandardpresentationispricedat%1100.Thedeluxepresentationispricedat %1500.The two images included in this edition were made using a lithography technique called 'Schablithograe'. This lithography technique ishighly labourintensiveandinvolvesscratchingawayatasurfaceofthe blackenedlithostonetoformthe image;literallyscraping lightforms outofdarkness,reinforcingtheconstructednatureofthetext,which Beckettgoestogreat lengthstoemphasize. Therst image isakind of schematic.Itisnot fully formed andharkensback to Greek and Roman styleimages,suggestingametaphoricalexcavation.Thelettersand imageturn itintoa kindoflogotype(literally word-imprintin Greek) oremblemandformabridgebetweenthetextandtheimage.The secondimageislarger.Theunusualformatoftheimageechoesthe formattingoftheprosetextasitappearsinthisedition. Thereare noticeablediscrepanciesbetweenwhatBeckettdescribesandwhatis depictedin theimage.Theimageisin facta failedattempttoportray whatisfabricated in the story. Whatinterested the artistin staging it is the fact thatthe positions and space Beckett describes are anatomically impossible withoutgrossdistortionofthe humanbody.Beckett would haveknown this,ashe alsosketchedthe space outinhisnotes. Sohe deliberately stressesthe crampednature ofthescenario. The factremainsthatinthe artist'smind'seye the extreme positionswerenotexactly relatedtowhatisdescribedinthestory.Thespatialdiscrepanciesare onlyrevealedcompletelywhenthespaceismappedoutpointforpoint.Thenalisedlithographsarea combination ofthe mental image conjured up during the initial reading ofthe text and the interpretation of the physical reenactment made in the studio.David OKane studied from 2007 until 2012 in Leipzig under professor Neo Rauch at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. He was awarded a Diploma Degree with distinction in 2009 and a Meisterschler Degree in 2012.OKanes studies in Germany were funded by an extended DAAD Scholarship. He also holds a 1st Class Joint-Honours Degree in Fine Art from NCAD in Dublin (2006). In 2014 he won the Golden Fleece Award in Dublin. This year will also see the publication of an extensive artists book, which will provide an overview of OKanes practice in recent years. The book is a collaboration between the artist, the Salvage Press and Gallery Baton, with support from the Golden Fleece Award.OKane is currently an artist in residence at the Fire Station Artists Studios in Dublin.Jamie Murphy is an award winning typographic designer and letterpress printer based in Dublin. His interests lie where contemporary graphic design meets traditional production techniques. Devoted to preserving, promoting and pursuing excellence in design, typography & letterpress printing, since 2012 he has produced his books and broadsides under the imprint of The Salvage Press. Following his MA at NCAD, studying under Master Printer Sen Sills,Jamie has served as designer in residence at Distillers Press since 2013 where he works with students of Visual Communication.His letterpress printed work is held in many of the world's most distinguished private, institutional and academic collections.The Beckett Summer School wishes to thank S. E. Gontarski, the staff of the Long Room and the Old Library, and all at Salvage Press for the opportunity to launch this remarkable book in 2015.Lecturer, Performer, and Staff BiographiesC. J. Ackerley was, until his recent retirement, Professorof English at the University of Otago, in Dunedin, NewZealand. Hisspeciality isannotation.Over the pastfouryearshe hasbeenpartofa team editing and annotating several previously unpublishedworksby Malcolm Lowry, including a lostnovel, In Ballastto theWhiteSea(UOttawaP, 2014).He haspublished DementedParticulars: theAnnotatedMurphy(1996)and Obscure Locks,SimpleKeys:theAnnotated Watt(2005);andhehaswritten,withStanGontarski,theGrove PressandFaberCompanion toSamuelBeckett(2005&2006). He hasrecentlypublishedSweetsofSin,an attempttorenderthecomplexitiesofUlyssesandtheJoyceindustryintoeighteenlimericks.Hismajor current work isastudy ofSamuel Beckettand Science,of which the Trinity College presentationof Samuel Beckett and Physics is part.Amanda Dennis earned her PhD from Berkeley, where she focused on Becketts relationship to 20thcentury Frenchphilosophy. Hercurrentbookproject,BodyingSpace:BeckettandtheQuestion of Agencyisa study of Merleau-Ponty and Beckett that traces theories of embodied agency in Becketts prose, theater and television work.Shehaspublishedonmodernism, Nietzscheandaesthetics,andanarticleonsensorypoeticsin BeckettsWattwill appear this winter inThe Journal of Modern Literature.She hastaughtin England, France, Spain and the US and is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York.JonathanHeron isthe ArtisticDirectorofFailBetterProductionsandIATLSenior TeachingFellowatthe UniversityofWarwick.HisrecentworkasatheatredirectorhasincludedDiaryofaMadman/Discords (WarwickArtsCentre),TheNativity(PegasusOxford),Stasis:BeckettShorts(OxfordPlayhouse)andPlay without aTitle (Belgrade Coventry).Jonathan is a co-author of Open-space Learning:A Study in Transdisciplinary Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2011) and acontributor toPerforming EarlyModern DramaToday(CUP, 2012).He has co-edited a special edition ofthe Journal of BeckettStudies (23.1,2014)with Nicholas Johnson,with whom he alsoco-facilitatestheSamuelBeckettLaboratory. He is afounding memberofthe AHRCBeckettand Brain Science working group and a co-convenor of the IFTR Performance-as-Research working group.NicholasJohnsonisAssistantProfessorinDramaatTCD, aswellasaperformer,director,andwriter. Currentpractice-basedresearch projects on Beckett include Nos Knife with Lisa Dwan (Lincoln Center2015) andIllSeen IllSaid(ATRL2015). In 2012he directedEthica: Four ShortsbySamuel Beckett,presenting Play, ComeandGo,Catastrophe, andWhatWhereinBulgaria,Dublin,theEnniskillenFestival2013,andrasan Uachtairin for World Human Rights Day. He hascontributed toThe Plays of Samuel Beckett(Methuen, 2013) as well as Theatre Research International, the Journal of Art Historiography, andForum Modernes Theater, andco-edited the Journal of Beckett Studies special issue on performance (23.1, 2014) with Jonathan Heron. In 2014 he adaptedanddirectedThe Brothers Karamazovandtranslated/directed ErnstTollersMachinewreckers,bothat the Beckett Theatre. He isco-director of the BeckettSummer School and co-convenor ofthe BeckettWorking Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research.Barry McGovern isa Dublin-born actor whohas performedtointernationalacclaim in many Beckettplays for stage and radio. He was a board member and actor in the Beckett Festival which the Dublin Gate Theatre launchedin1991 inpartnershipwithTrinity Collegeand RadioTelefsEireann,and which touredtoNew Yorkin1996andLondonin1999.Hisaward-winningonemanshowIllGoOn,fromthenovelsMolloy, Malone Dies and the Unnamable,wasoriginally presentedby the Gate Theatre at the Dublin TheatreFestival in 1985 andhastouredalloverthe world; itwaspresented along with hisperformanceofWattatthe 2013 EdinburghInternationalFestival.InAugusthewillspendasemesterteachingJoyceandBeckettatNotre Dame University in Indiana. This marks his fth appearance at the Beckett Summer School.MarkNixonisAssociateProfessorinModernLiteratureattheUniversityofReading,whereheisalso Directorofthe BeckettInternational Foundation. With Dirk Van Hulle,he iseditorinchiefofthe Journalof BeckettStudiesandCo-DirectoroftheBeckettDigitalManuscriptProject.HeisalsoaneditorofSamuel Beckett Today / Aujourdhui and the current Presidentof the Samuel Beckett Society. He has published widely on Becketts work; recent books include the monograph Samuel Becketts German Diaries 1936-37 (Continuum, 2011),theeditedcollectionPublishingSamuelBeckett(BritishLibrary, 2011)andSamuelBeckettsLibrary, writtenwithDirkVanHulle(CambridgeUP,2013). HiscriticaleditionofBeckettsshortstoryEchos Bones waspublished by Faber in April 2014. He is currently preparing critical editions ofBecketts Critical Writings (with DavidTucker; Faber)andBeckettsGerman Diaries (with Oliver Lubrich; Suhrkamp),as well as The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature (with Ulrika Maude; Bloomsbury, 2015). LoisOppenheim isUniversity DistinguishedScholar,Professor of French,andChairofthe Departmentof Modern LanguagesandLiteratures atMontclairState University. SheisalsoScholar Associate Member of theNewYorkPsychoanalyticSocietyandInstituteandHonoraryMemberoftheWilliamAlansonWhite Society.Dr. Oppenheim haspublished more than 90 papersandauthored oredited twelve books, the most recent being Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor:Conversations with Literary and Visual Artists;Imagination fromFantasytoDelusion(awardedthe2013CouragetoDreamPrizefromtheAmericanPsychoanalytic Association),andACuriousIntimacy: ArtandNeuro-Psychoanalysis. DearMr.Beckett:ABarneyRosset Scrapbook, edited by Dr. Oppenheim and curated by Astrid Mysers Rosset, is currently in production.Sam Sloteis Associate Professor in English at Trinity College Dublin and a co-director ofthe Samuel Beckett Summer School, aswell asa Fellow ofTrinity College.Hisessayson Becketthave appeared in The Journal of Beckett Studies, Publishing Samuel Beckett (ed. Mark Nixon), Samuel Beckett in Context(ed.Anthony Uhlmann), The Edinburgh Companion toSamuel Beckettandthe Arts(ed. S. E.Gontarski),andthe 2015 revisededition of TheCambridge Companion toSamuelBeckett(ed. DirkVan Hulle). Hismostrecentbook is Joyce'sNietzschean Ethics.In additiontohiswork on BeckettandJoyce, he haswrittenonModernistssuchNabokov,Pound, Borges, Woolf, and Elvis.PaulStewart is Professor of Literature atthe University ofNicosia, Cyprus. He is the author of twobook on Beckett: Sexand Aesthetics in Samuel BeckettsWorks(Palgrave 2011) andZoneof Evaporation: SamuelBecketts Disjunctions(Rodopi,2006). He isaregularcontributortoThe Journalof BeckettStudiesandSamuelBeckett Today/ Aujourdhui.He iscurrentlyworkingon questionsofnarrativeandethicsinBeckettandCoetzee,as well as the radio and stage adaptations ofLessness. He isalso a creative writer; his rstnovel NowThen was published by Armida Press in 2014 and his rst volume of poetry, And Other Elsewheres, appeared in 2009.DervalTubridy isDeanoftheGraduateSchool, AssociatePro-WardenforResearchandEnterprise,and SeniorLecturerinLiteratureandVisualCultureatGoldsmiths,UniversityofLondon.Authorof Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems(2001),and editor of a special edition ofIrish StudiesReview(16/3, 2008),she haspublished chaptersinThe OxfordHistoryof the Irish Book, VolumeV: TheIrishBook in English, 1891-2000; BeckettandNothing; ACompaniontoJamesJoyce;ContemporaryDebatesinLiteratureandPhilosophy; Ireland: Space,Text,Time; SeeingThings:LiteratureandtheVisual,TheIrishBookin theTwentiethCenturyandSamuel Beckett: ACasebook,as well as articles inPerformance Research; The Irish University Review; Irish StudiesReview; TheJournal of BeckettStudies,andSamuel BeckettToday/Aujourdhui.She co-organised the 2006conferenceon Beckettandthevisualarts, BeckettandCompany atGoldsmithsandTateModern. Herresearchhasbeen fundedbythe FulbrightCommissionandby theBritish Academy.She iscurrently working on abookon Beckett and contemporary art calledArt after Beckett.DirkVanHulleis professorof EnglishliteratureattheUniversityofAntwerp(CentreforManuscript Genetics). Heis a trustee ofthe International JamesJoyce Foundation and an editorof Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourdhui.With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP)and editor inchiefoftheJournalofBeckettStudies.Heistheauthorof TextualAwareness(2004),ManuscriptGenetics: JoycesKnow-How,BeckettsNohow(2008)andTheMakingofSamuelBeckettsStirringsStill andwhatisthe word (2011). Heisco-authorofSamuelBeckettsLibrary(CambridgeUP, 2013)withMarkNixon;editorof BeckettsCompany,IllSeenIllSaid,WorstwardHo,StirringsStill (FaberandFaber,2009);andwithShane Wellerhe has co-edited a genetic edition of Beckett'sLInnommable/The Unnamable (2013),the second module oftheBDMP(www.beckettarchive.org).HismostrecentpublicationsareamonographonModern Manuscripts:TheExtendedMindandCreativeUndoing(Bloomsbury, 2014)andthesecondeditionofthe Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (CambridgeUP).DavidWheatleyisSeniorLecturerattheUniversityofAberdeen.Heistheauthoroffourcollectionsof poetry with Gallery Press: Thirst (1997),Misery Hill (2000), Mocker (2006) and A Neston the Waves (2010), and haseditedtheworkofJamesClarenceManganforGalleryPressandSamuelBeckettsSelectedPoems 1930-1989forFaberandFaber.HisContemporaryBritishPoetryispublishedbyPalgrave(2015),andother criticalworkhasappearedinTheOxfordHandbookofModernIrishPoetry(2012),TheOxfordHandbookof VictorianPoetry(2013),TheOxfordHandbookofContemporaryBritishandIrishPoetry(2013),TheOxford HandbookofBritishandIrishWarPoetry(2007),TheCambridgeCompaniontoSeamusHeaney(2009) andThe CambridgeCompanion toContemporaryIrishPoetry (2003).Hisarticlesandreviewshaveappearedwidely, in journals including London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and Dublin Review,and his poetry hasfeatured in various anthologies, including Identity Parade (Bloodaxe, 2010) and The Penguin Bookof IrishPoetry(2010).AmonghisprizesaretheRooney Prize forIrishLiterature,the VincentBuckleyPoetry Prize and the Poetry Ireland/Friends Provident National Poetry Competition.Feargal Whelan is from Dublin and was awarded a Doctorate from University College Dublin in 2014 with a thesis entitled Samuel Beckettand the Irish Protestant Imagination. He was co-organiser of the highly successful Samuel Beckettand the StateofIrelandconferencewhichwas held annually at UCD from 2011to2013 and is currently co-editing the conference proceedings.His work has been published in The Journal of Beckett Studiesamong other journals,andhehaspresentedpapersonBeckettatconferencesinIreland, the United KingdomandCanadaandwillpresentattheSamuelBeckettSocietypanelattheMLAConventionin Vancouver in January.Social Programme and MealsKennedys Pub, one of Beckettsfavouredspots during his studentdays,isdesignated as the ofcial pub of theBeckettSummerSchool, inordertofacilitate aninformalspaceforstudentsandstafftoconverseand meetoutsidetheboundsofthelecturesandseminars.Thepub servesfooduntil9:30mosteveningsand maintains a pleasant atmosphereuntillate. Tablesarespecially reservedthisyearfor our Sunday welcome, Tuesdaypost-Quad, andWednesday forthesecondannualBeckettPub Quiz.All studentsandstaffare encouraged touseKennedysas the local hub ofconvivialevening activities, whether or notthey consume alcohol. All evening social arrangements are completely optional and are not paid for by the Summer School.Daily lunch is included in the Summer School for staff and students, as is the closing nights banquet dinner.There isavery largeselectionofrestaurantsnearcampussuitableforassortedbudgets; ifyouare seeking goodguidanceonlocalrestaurantsnearby,pleaseapproach any ofthe localvolunteers,staffmembers, or Trinity-based lecturers for advice!Bursaries and Partner UniversitiesEach year since its inception, the Beckett Summer School has offered a competitive international bursary for the full programme. Congratulations to our 2015 winner:Brea Marks Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaIn 2013, the Beckett Summer School formed partnerships with several universities and other entities to offer joint bursaries, as part of our commitment to reducing attendance costs for the most talented students from around the world. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following universities and organizations, listed with student winners:University of Reading, Beckett International Foundation Samantha MorrishEmory University, Laney School of Graduate Studies Alyssa DuckUniversity of Michigan, Department of English Language and Literature Gregory AriailU. of Antwerp, Centre for Manuscript Genetics, Dept. of Literature Lise WoutersHebrew University, Dept. of English & Irish Friends of Hebrew University Lasse JensenFlorida State U., George Harper Travel Grant, Dept. of English Stephen HowardUniversity of York, English and Related Literature Nicholas WoltermanCongratulations to student winners, and thank you to our supporters!The School Committee and VolunteersPatron: Edward BeckettDirectors: Nicholas Johnson and Sam SloteProgramme Coordinator: Seona MacRamoinnPublicity and Marketing: Lucy McKennaAdministration: Alessandra Nania, Chris Morash, Florence Gribaudo, Kalli RingelbergBeckett Laboratory Resident Designer: Molly OCathainTheatre Technical Support / Crew: Jude Barriscale, Dara Hoban, Colm McNallySchool Administrator (Drama, Film & Music): Gail WeadickSchool Administrator (English): Orla McCarthyVolunteers: Bur dem Dinel, James Little, Karl Peters, Stephen StaceyLook for 2016 dates, programme, and future announcements atwww.beckettsummerschool.com(and join our Facebook and Twitter accounts for regular updates).Good. 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What Where, 1983SPONSORSHIP & SPECIAL THANKSSPECIAL THANKS TO:Our support staff and volunteers All staff at our venues, especially the Long Room Hub, Beckett Centre, and IMMA Dean Darryl Jones Nicholas Grene, Christopher Morash, Eve Patten & colleagues in the School of English Brian Singleton & colleagues in the School of Drama, Film, and Music Bernard Meehan and Jane Maxwell at TCD Library Provost Patrick Prendergast The Estate of Samuel Beckett Jrgen Barkhoff Curtis Brown David Abrahamson Douglas Atkinson Ruben Borg Enoch Brater Stephen Brennan Michael Colgan Anne-Marie Difey Stan Gontarski Ben Keatinge Emilie Morin Simon Williams Steve WilmerIrish Friends of Hebrew University Cambridge University Press Mitchells Wines Goldsmiths, University of London Vrije Universiteit BrusselSUPPORTERS & PARTNERS of the SAMUEL BECKETT SUMMER SCHOOL 2015PUBLICITY PARTNERS of the SAMUEL BECKETT SUMMER SCHOOL 2015UNIVERSITY BURSARY PARTNERS 2015MAJOR SPONSORSThe School of English and the School of Drama, Film, and Music, TCDThe Trinity Long Room Hub Research Institute for the HumanitiesThe Provosts Fund for the Visual and Performing ArtsLarry and Mary Lund