16.4.15
12.3.15
CFP: Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives
University of Limerick, Ireland · 20-22 May 2015
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University of Limerick, Ireland
20-22 May 2014
A conference engaging with the symbolic aspects of women and ageing in culture and society, and the power these constructions exert over old age.
Conveners: Dr Cathy McGlynn, Dr Maggie O’Neill, Dr Michaela Schrage-Früh (University of Limerick)
Plenary Speakers: Prof Germaine Greer; Prof Margaret Harper
Events: Poetry reading by Medbh McGuckian; Roundtable on Women and Ageing
In a time when even Bridget Jones finds herself in her early fifties, it may at first glance seem unwarranted to speak of the invisibility of ageing women in literary and cultural contexts. In fact, in a review of Mad about the Boy in The Times, Sarah Lyall writes that, “Bridget’s amorous adventures … make the prospect of middle age not so bad at all”. Constructions like this open up questions about representations of women and ageing. What types of images of the “ageing woman” are created in cultural texts? Do women in later life, in order to become visible, need to find ways to “pass” as younger so that “age shall not wither them” as Kira Cochraine puts it in an article in The Guardian? Are these legitimate strategies or should women embrace the menopause as a new phase of life and liberation as advised by Germaine Greer? What impact do dominant representations of ageing women have on the sociocultural realities of women in their later years? And in what ways do they compare to earlier representations?
The rise of the new interdisciplinary field of ageing studies / cultural gerontology testifies to the need to reassess cultural representations of ageing and to view ageing not only as part of the life course but as a social and cultural construct. It is all the more surprising that ageing is a topic still marginalised in feminist theory, despite Simone de Beauvoir’s testimony to her dismay at ‘society’s secret shame’ in The Coming of Age in 1970. There are some notable exceptions, such as Germaine Greer’s work on the postmenopausal woman, Susan Bordo’s work on the body, or Lynne Segal’s recent reflection and analysis of the process of growing older. This conference will engage with the symbolic aspects of women and ageing in culture and society, and the power these constructions exert over public and private conceptions of old age.
The aim of this conference is to provide an opportunity to discuss intersections of the cultural, social and medical dimensions of women and ageing. It will engage with discourses on ageing in their various cultural manifestations through the ages but also across different cultures, genres and media. We invite papers from diverse disciplines such as literary and cultural studies, film and media studies, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and the medical humanities.
Possible topics can include but are not limited to:
- Ageing, autobiography and lived experience
- Technologies, medicine and ageing
- Ageing and popular culture
- Ageing and neoliberalism
- Visual images of ageing
- Age and performance
- The ageing body as text
- Ageing and memory
- Stigma
- Myths about ageing, women in myth
- Age and creativity
- Queer ageing
- Love, loss and mourning
- Health, menopause, the post-maternal body
- Male representations of women and ageing
- Older and younger mothers
- The ageing spinster
- The cult of youth and perceptions of beauty
- Ageing, recession and dependency
- Ageing and women minorities
- Age, race, and colour
Queries may be directed to the conference organisers at ageing.women@gmail.com. Please submit proposals for papers or panels by 15 March 2015. Proposals should be 250 words and should include a 50-word biography.
Website: womenandageing.wordpress.com
11.3.15
Modernism's Chronic Conditions: Temporality, Medicine, and Disorders of the Self
Free Public Event · University of Exeter, 17 April 2015
Xfi Building, University of Exeter
Friday 17 April 2015
Registration is Free
Speakers
- Dr Marion Coutts, author of The Iceberg (Goldsmiths)
- Prof Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University)
- Dr Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck)
- Prof Jeremy Holmes (University of Exeter)
- Jonathan Heron (University of Warwick)
- Dr Kirsty Martin (University of Exeter)
- Prof Zoe Playdon (University of London)
Respondents
- Prof Alan Bleakley (University of Falmouth)
- Prof Chris Code (University of Exeter)
- Prof Paul Dieppe (Exeter Medical School)
- Dr Joanne Winning (Birkbeck)
About the Event
This workshop brings together scholars, creative practitioners, medical educators, and clinicians concerned with disorders of the embodied mind, to consider how artistic modernism might offer specific resources for understanding what it means to live with conditions which resist narrative shapes of closure and completion.This workshop is the first event organized by the AHRC funded network ‘Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind: Investigating Disorders of the Self’. [Read More]
CFP: Scale: Malta, 2015
European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts · Malta · 15-18 June 2015
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| A still from Terrence Malick's Tree of Life (2011) |
This year’s conference is dedicated to the theme of Scale. In one way or another, scale is an issue deeply embedded in every discipline and every aspect of scholarly and scientific research. As the Call for Papers puts it, in the grand scheme of things Scale is the scheme of things itself. We do very much hope, therefore, that you will be as excited by the prospect of an interdisciplinary conference on Scale as we are. We are very pleased that the location of the conference will be Malta, an island in the middle of the Mediterranean with a rich history and culture, where effects of scale have exerted intriguing and complex energies for centuries, and which provides a particularly fitting and appealing venue for this year’s event.
The Call for Papers sets out a number of scale-related topics that cut across disciplines, with six threads identified that should themselves help to provide further prompts for thought. You will see that there is a distinguished group of keynote speakers – Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech), Marcus du Sautoy (Oxford) Gaetana Marrone-Puglia (Princeton), Tom McCarthy, Franco Moretti (Stanford) and Cary Wolfe (Rice) – which can only help to enrich intellectual and academic exchange when we meet in Malta in June. ‘Scale’ therefore promises to be an event that provides rich and rewarding interdisciplinary debate.
We very much look forward to receiving abstracts exploring scale and its various aspects and effects within and across disciplines. The conference will be particularly attractive to academics and researchers working in SLSA’s main areas of focus – literary studies, the sciences, the arts and the spaces (and scales …) in between, but we also hope to hear from delegates from other fields, who are most welcome to attend and participate.
This SLSAeu conference is organised in collaboration with the Humanities, Medicine and Sciences Programme at the University of Malta, and with the further support of the University’s Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science and the Department of English, whose help is here warmly acknowledged.
Looking forward to scale-related conversations in June, in Malta. [Read More]
Stanley2 – A Photographic Exhibition by Helen Taylor
Stanley, County Durham · 14 March - 14 April 2015
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| Photograph: Helen Taylor |
Stanley2 – a photographic exhibition by Helen Taylor
Civic Hall Stanley, Front Street, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 0NA
14 March to 14 April 2015
Scenes of unreality and mind-bending perspectives will be on display next month at the first solo exhibition by North East photographer Helen Taylor.
Entitled Stanley2, the exhibition will feature a series of stunning ‘multiple exposures’ - achieved without using Photoshop or digital editing – and taken exclusively on Helen’s 35mm Holga 135BC analogue camera.
Multiple exposures, a technique used to superimpose two or more images into one, has been adopted by Helen to document her hometown of Stanley, County Durham, while presenting a beautifully atmospheric ‘ghost world’ where the lines between what is real and what is not are blurred.
Helen decided to study photography at Newcastle College in 2012 after a lifelong passion with the medium.
She says: “One of my favourite modules at college was working with 35mm film cameras and darkroom processes. After completing my diploma, I continued experimenting with analogue cameras and, in particular, the possibilities of double and multiple exposures. I took the series of photos for this exhibition in my home town of Stanley and in the surrounding area. I wanted to draw peoples’ attention to things that they may otherwise walk past without really noticing.”
In an era of digital photography, Helen is passionate about the unique qualities of film and the effects that it can be used to create.
“What excites me about film photography is the mechanical and chemical processes that have to take place in order to create your image,” Helen says. “We live in a world where photography is available on demand and has become, in a sense, quite a throwaway medium.
“Using a film camera means you don’t have a playback screen to review your images immediately and you have to take the time to compose your shot. Being restricted to 24 shots on a roll makes you more selective in choosing subjects and waiting for a film to develop brings anticipation and surprise back into photography.”
Helen, who owns a collection of more than 50 vintage cameras, both analogue and digital, adds: “I took these photos with a Holga 135BC camera which is a very basic plastic camera (even the lens is plastic). It’s sometimes called a ‘toy camera’. The key feature is that the film advance allows you to take multiple exposures.
“I find the results I get from this camera are dramatically different from anything digital. My technique is to take the first image the right way up and then without winding on the film advance, turn the camera upside down and take it again.
“The resulting photos have a delicate quality and the multiple exposures melt into each other with no distinct edges of where one ends and the other begins. There is no Photoshop or digital editing involved in any of these images, all of the effects are achieved in camera when the photo is taken.”
Helen Taylor’s first solo exhibition of her work – Stanley2 – takes place at Civic Hall Stanley, Front Street, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 0NA, from 14 March to 14 April 2015. Tel – 01207 299110
For more information go to: www.helentaylorphotos.com or www.civichallstanley.co.uk
27.2.15
Beckett’s Bodies: Affect, Disability, Performance
SAMLA 85: Durham, NC Nov 13-15, 2015
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| Samuel Beckett rehearsing with the San Quentin Drama Workshop |
Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
Chair/contact: Michelle Rada, Brown University
Beckett’s Bodies: Affect, Disability, Performance
This panel seeks to explore the ways in which bodies are figured and disfigured in Beckett’s work. On their own constituting an expansive “body of work,” Beckett’s prose texts, poems, plays, radio, television, and film works posit human, non-human, and inhuman bodies in different and often surprising forms. What kinds of bodies are incorporated, disembodied, or stripped bare in Beckett’s work? How can we trace the life, vulnerability, and survival of the body in single texts and across works? Are Beckettian physical and textual bodies susceptible to or immune from affect? Which bodies, metaphorical or otherwise, are excluded from consideration and care in a quite prolific archive of Beckett criticism? How does the body function and dysfunction across genre and media, prose and performance? The purpose of this panel is to provide a multidisciplinary platform for thinking about the body in Beckett’s work through emerging reading practices, which could engender new connections and ideas for such an extensively critiqued range of texts. In keeping with SAMLA’s theme for the 2015 conference, “In Concert: Literature and the Other Arts,” emphasis placed on thinking across genre, media, and theoretical approaches is encouraged, and will be a significant part of our conversation at this panel.
Possible approaches and topics may include, but are not limited to:
Queer bodies in Beckett’s work
Beckett and disability studies
Bodily capacity and its limits in performance
Affect and its embodied forms
Gendered bodies and feminist approaches to Beckett
Abject and aging bodies, dead bodies, and animal bodies
Material bodies and the life of the object
Beckett’s body of work and its sustained life in/through/as Beckett criticism
The precarious body, vulnerability, and the pains of survival
Ill-sensing: perception and the phenomenological body in Beckett
Food studies, consuming bodies, oral fixations, sucking stones
Sex and reproduction in Beckett
Adaptations of Beckett and the political, gendered, and racialized body
Dance, stage directions, choreography, and demands on the performing body
Please send a 250-300 word abstract, a brief bio, and any questions to: michelle_rada@brown.edu by 1 June 2015.
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3.12.14
The Bleed 03: Launch at BALTIC book market
Magazine launch. 5 December – 6 December 2014
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| The Bleed (03) |
The new issue of The Bleed magazine will be launched at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art this week.
The independent magazine’s latest issue will be available for the first time at the two-day BALTIC Artists’ Book Market, which takes place at BALTIC in Newcastle-Gateshead on 5-6 December . Copies of The Bleed 03 will be free to visitors to the event with original artwork and signed copies of previous issues also on display. In 2011, BALTIC became the first UK venue outside of London to host the Turner Prize. It will be The Bleed’s first appearance at the prestigious gallery.
The Bleed 03, written by Daniel Thomson and designed by Jonny Speak, features photography by Helen Taylor and artwork by Tom Boyle, Abi Buchan, Meaghan Ralph, Karen Yumi Lusted and Helen Gorill, who has exhibited internationally and was included in the New York Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A Sackler Center for Feminist Art archive. Previous issues have included work by artists such as Lauren Jane Forster, Mike Barnes and Nick Willis. The debut issue featured a cover by Eisner Award-winning comic creator Bryan Talbot.
“There is a great quote by Kurt Vonnegut, ‘we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be’ which I discovered after I had finished writing issue 03”, says writer Daniel Thomson. “At its heart, this is what the new story is about. A struggling actor is hired to impersonate his friend and starts to become someone else. As he loses himself, his entire world becomes a fiction.”
Since its launch three years ago, The Bleed has established a reputation for its ambitious, high-concept issues, which bring together diverse content, from prose and poetry to photography and illustration, into a single narrative to push the boundaries of how stories can be told.
The Bleed is an independent magazine based in Newcastle upon Tyne, with contributors from across the UK as well as from New York and Japan. It is open to any artist, working in any medium, from anywhere in the world and is dedicated to showcasing new, original talent. Follow The Bleed magazine on Twitter @thebleedmag and its editor Daniel Thomson @thebleededitor.
Read more at: www.thebleedmag.tumblr.com
To get a free copy of The Bleed 03 come to BALTIC Artists’ Book Market on 5-6 December . For more about BALTIC+ go to: http://balticplus.uk/
30.11.14
Free Event: Nicola Humble on The Literature of Food
Assuming Gender Annual Lecture · Cardiff University, 10 December 2014
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Free Public Event at Cardiff University. All welcome to attend.
Assuming Gender Annual Lecture 2014.
10 December, 5.15pm.
Professor Nicola Humble (University of Roehampton)
'The Literature of Food'
The lecture will be preceded by a wine reception from 4.00pm.
After the lecture, we will be holding a meal at Mezza Luna on City Road. If you would like to attend the meal, please email Catherine Han at hanc@cardiff.ac.uk by the 8 December.
27.10.14
Samuel Beckett: Small vs. Large Theatres
George Hunka on the size and space of Beckett productions
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A little poking around reveals that many of Beckett’s early plays had their New York premieres in theatres that, compared to the Harvey, are hopelessly tiny. Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape both premiered at the 179-seat Cherry Lane Theatre, where they enjoyed substantial if not particularly long runs, and as Kalb points out in his review, when Beckett’s later plays were premiered at Lincoln Center they ran in the 299-seat Newhouse (then the Forum) Theatre instead of the far more cavernous (but more comparable to the Harvey) 1,200-seat Beaumont.
Putting these intense but contemplative miniatures in large houses with star casts for limited runs tends to render these Beckett productions exclusive, expensive, and somewhat elitist (in a bad way) Cultural Events (caps sic) rather than theatrical revivals. This may work for Waiting for Godot (the recent Broadway Stewart/McKellen revival, for example), but because Beckett’s vision intensified in the following years, suggesting more of a premium on intimacy, this puts upon these plays a burden of celebrity, including Beckett’s own, that they may not be able to sustain. It’s also no surprise that as this dramatic and theatrical vision became more sharply focused, Beckett made his first forays into television plays. Setting aside the Beckett on Film project, these television plays such as Nacht und Traume and … but the clouds … take advantage of the television medium to create a one-on-one precise, concise intimacy between spectator and expression, permitting an attention to detail through close-ups and to perspective through mise-en-scene well-nigh impossible even in a 99-seat theatre. Even though in theory these television plays were viewed by thousands of people simultaneously, in practice the viewer was alone in a small room while experiencing these plays. The spectatorial experience was more acute, far more intimate than that of a theatre. [Read More]
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London Premiere: Gare St Lazare to perform Beckett's First Love
Arcola Theatre, London · 19 November - 13 December 2014
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| Conor Lovett in First Love. Photo: Ros Kavanagh |
In this acclaimed staging, Conor Lovett - who has performed in 18 roles by Beckett - plays the narrator who can't forget his expulsion from the family home, his happening upon a park bench, and his infatuation with the woman he met there. A perfect blend of tragedy and comedy, it is a powerful, lyrical tale from one of the twentieth century's most celebrated writers.
Gare St Lazare are internationally regarded to be among the finest exponents of Beckett’s work, and have toured to over 80 cities worldwide. First Love marks their first Beckett performance in London since Lessness at the National Theatre in 2002. [Read More]
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Staging Beckett and Contemporary Theatre and Performance Cultures
Minghella Building, University of Reading 10-11 April 2015
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| Samuel Beckett. Photograph: Reg Lancaster/Getty Images |
Minghella Building, University of Reading 10-11 April 2015
Conference Call for Papers
The Staging Beckett team is pleased to announce the project’s third and final conference, Staging Beckett and Contemporary Theatre and Performance Cultures. Building on the conversation begun at the first two events which addressed national and international performance histories and productions at the cultural ‘margins’ respectively, this conference aims to address how we can locate productions of Beckett’s theatre or the staging of any Beckett text within the wider landscape of contemporary theatre and performance in different cultural contexts. What are the legacies of productions of Beckett’s theatre or stage adaptations of other texts for contemporary theatre and performance practitioners? How can we best document and record those legacies? We are keen to hear from academics and practitioners (whether UK, Irish or international) interested in the legacies of particular performances, the documentation and analysis of Beckett in performance, and in the dialogues between Beckett’s theatre and wider theatre and performance practices and cultures. Issues to consider might be, but are not limited to, the following:
- Recent productions of Beckett’s drama
- The ‘Festivalisation’ of Beckett
- ‘West End’ Beckett
- Beckett and Contemporary Live Art / Experimental / Intermedial performance
- Beckett and Censorship
- International touring productions to the UK and Ireland (e.g. Robert Wilson and Peter Brook) or from the UK and Ireland (e.g. the Dublin Gate Theatre’s Beckett Festival)
- Beckett and contemporary stage design / dramaturgy
- Beckett, performance and the digital
- The adaptation / appropriation of Beckett’s non-theatre texts for performance
- Beckett and music in performance
- Beckett’s legacies for performance
Please send proposals of c. 300 words to p.mctighe@reading.ac.uk by December 1, 2014.
More information on Staging Beckett project events and activities can be found at http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/staging-beckett/
Staging Beckett team: Matthew McFrederick (Reading), Anna McMullan (Reading), Trish McTighe (Reading), David Pattie (Chester), Graham Saunders (Reading), David Tucker (Chester).
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Samuel Beckett Society Inaugural Conference (2015)
How to get involved
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Conference Registration
We have set up an easy online registration system for the conference. Please navigate to our Reg Online site and sign up ($175 for faculty; $100 for students) at your earliest convenience.
Samuel Beckett Society Membership
All non-ASU affiliated attendees must be current members of the Samuel Beckett Society ($35 per year faculty; $20 per year students). If you are not a member, please visit the SBS Membership Page.
Accommodations
We have secured a discounted conference rate of $139 per night at the Clarendon Hotel. February is peak season in the Phoenix area, so please reserve your room as soon as possible. Space is limited. For more information, please visit the accommodations page of the official conference website.
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Questions
If you have any questions about the conference please contact us at beckettconference2015@gmail.com.
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10.9.14
Metamorphoses: The Third International Flann O’Brien Conference
Charles University, Prague, 16-19 September 2015
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Charles University, Prague, 16-19 September 2015
Keynote Speakers
Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck, University of London)
Catherine Flynn (University of California, Berkeley)
Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame)
Guest Writer
Kevin Barry (City of Bohane; winner of the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award)
Written at a time of profound transformation in post-independence Ireland and war-torn Europe, and displaying an acute awareness of the epochal changes bearing on modern notions of literature and the self, Flann O’Brien’s oeuvre offers a sustained engagement with the representation of cultural, political, and personal metamorphosis. This is a body of writing in which the human always bears the potential to be radically remade in the forms of horses, bicycles, and trains; in which genre, language, and literary form are constantly reorganised and refashioned; in which a programme of pseudonymity presents the comic writer as a master of disguise and identity as a matter of constant flux.
At Metamorphoses: The III International Flann O’Brien Conference (Charles University, Prague, 16-19 September 2015), the organisers propose to build on the current sea change in O’Brien studies to foster a scholarly and critical debate dedicated to these themes of metamorphosis in the writer’s work. At stake will be the ways in which O’Brien’s English and Irish language novels, short stories, column-writing, non-fiction, teleplays, and theatrical work:
- Test the limits and possibilities of identity, hybridity, & concepts of post-humanity;
- Engage and transform cultural, political, & economic upheaval at home and abroad;
- Process radical paradigm shifts in the sciences, from Darwinian evolution theory to the “Mollycule Theory” of quantum physics;
- Explore (anti-)modernist reconstructions of myth, whether Irish or Ovidian;
- Attend to linguistic, generic, and formal mutations, as well as the resonances between metamorphosis, metaphor, and metafiction;
- Present shifting views of himself, his own writing, and the figure of the Author;
- Are transformed in the acts of reception, rewriting, translation, & adaptation;
- Are opened up for new readings by genetic analyses of the vast and critically under-analysed collections of his works in progress (correspondence, manuscripts, drafts) housed at Boston College, Southern Illinois University, & University of Texas at Austin;
- Are amenable to new comparative readings with Prague’s sons Franz Kafka and Karel Čapek, as well as other modernist writers and movements of transformation, from Jarry & Joyce, Borges & Beckett, to the Absurdists, Futurists, & Surrealists.
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5.9.14
Samuel Beckett Week 2014
University of Reading · 1-4 October 2014
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| A manuscript notebook of Samuel Beckett's first novel, Murphy |
We will be holding an exhibition and series of public events to celebrate the University's internationally renowned collection of manuscripts from the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989).
Wednesday 1 - Saturday 4 October
Public Exhibition: "Samuel Beckett in London - the Murphy Notebooks".
Museum of English Rural Life (free).
At this exhibition, which will focus on Beckett's time in London between 1934 and 1935, the University's recently acquired notebooks for Beckett's novel Murphy will be on display alongside a wide range of other material.
Thursday 2 October
Beckett Archive Workshop.
2-4pm, Museum of English Rural Life (free). Please book in advance.
Open to all, this free two-hour workshop will introduce the University's Beckett archive to participants. It is open to any interested members of the public, but places must be booked in advance.
Friday 3 October
Public Lecture and Drinks Reception: Professor Dan Gunn - "Samuel Beckett Through his Letters".
5.30pm, Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus (free). Please book in advance.
Dan Gunn is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris, and editor of the Letters of Samuel Beckett.
Saturday 4 October
The Beckett International Foundation Annual Research Seminar 2014.
10am, Museum of English Rural Life (£20 waged, £15 unwaged). Includes lunch and refreshments. Please book in advance.
This day-long advanced seminar will explore some of the latest research in Beckett Studies.
For further details and booking please contact:
Workshop and/or Lecture: Conor Carville - c.carville@reading.ac.uk
BIF Seminar: Mark Nixon - m.nixon@reading.ac.uk
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Margaret Atwood Joins the Future Library Project
Canadian author's new work will not be read for 100 years
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| Margaret Atwood |
Depending on perspective, it is an author's dream – or nightmare: Margaret Atwood will never know what readers think of the piece of fiction she is currently working on, because the unpublished, unread manuscript from the Man Booker prize-winning novelist will be locked away for the next 100 years.
Atwood has just been named as the first contributor to an astonishing new public artwork. The Future Library project, conceived by the award-winning young Scottish artist Katie Paterson, began, quietly, this summer, with the planting of a forest of 1,000 trees in Nordmarka, just outside Oslo. It will slowly unfold over the next century. Every year until 2114, one writer will be invited to contribute a new text to the collection, and in 2114, the trees will be cut down to provide the paper for the texts to be printed – and, finally, read.
"It is the kind of thing you either immediately say yes or no to. You don't think about it for very long," said Atwood, speaking from Copenhagen. "I think it goes right back to that phase of our childhood when we used to bury little things in the backyard, hoping that someone would dig them up, long in the future, and say, 'How interesting, this rusty old piece of tin, this little sack of marbles is. I wonder who put it there?'" [Read More]
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Lost Highway Screening: V&A, London
Introduced by author Richard Martin
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| Lost Highway (dir. David Lynch, 1997) |
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| Lost Highway (dir. David Lynch, 1997) |
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| Lost Highway (dir. David Lynch, 1997) |
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Mulholland Drive Screening: Barbican, London
Introduction by author Richard Martin
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| Mullholland Drive (dir. David Lynch, 2001) |
David Lynch’s surrealist neo-noir marries a mood of urban anxiety to a narrative that is not simply set in Los Angeles, but actually scrutinizes the collective dream that is LA. How many aspiring starlets have come to the city, only to have their dreams smashed?
This hallucinatory tale of a perky blond ingénue (Naomi Watts) caught up in a mystery involving an amnesiac brunette (Laura Elena Harring) begins with a bone-crunching car accident on the famous road above the city. [Read More]
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4.9.14
Egon Schiele: Portraits Exhibition
Neue Galerie, New York · 9 October 2014 - 19 January 2015
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| Egon Schiele, Portrait of Johann Harms (1916) |
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28.7.14
Spirit in Sound and Space: A Conversation Inspired by Arvo Pärt
An event held at the Museum of Metropolitan Art
From the Museum of Metropolitan Art:
New York's celebration of Arvo Pärt offers an opportunity to explore the spiritual content of his music, and to discover how the spaces in which music is performed can amplify its emotional power. In this program, neuroscientist Robert Zatorre explains how music can engage the reward system deep in our brains—the same system that responds to food and sex. Architect Steven Holl describes making spaces for music, and shows how music influences his work. Theologian Peter Bouteneff talks about the thread of spirituality that weaves throughout Pärt's masterpieces.
The Spark series explores vital ideas and issues through the lens of the Met's collections. Each cabaret-style program gathers artists, thought leaders, and performers from theater, film, politics, literature, science, and pop culture to engage in wide-ranging, fresh conversations and performances.
Spark is hosted by Julie Burstein, author and Peabody Award–winning creator of public radio's Studio 360.
Recorded June 11, 2014
Speakers
Robert Zatorre, neuroscientist, Montreal Neurological InstituteSteven Holl, architect
Peter Bouteneff, musician and Professor of Theology, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
Credits
This event is a collaboration between The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Arvo Pärt Project at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary. [Read More]Find on Amazon: US | UK
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Journal of Beckett Studies: ‘The Performance Issue’
Co-edited by Jonathan Heron (Warwick) and Nicholas Johnson (TCD)
First the body. No. First the place. No. First both.In April of 2014, Edinburgh University Press published a special issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies (23:1), ‘The Performance Issue’, which seeks to link the heritage of scholarship on Beckett and performance with current practices and methodologies. Noting the link between performance and associated discourses of phenomenology and embodiment, the edition attempts to treat performance as both an ‘issue’ subject to debate that has not been fully resolved, and an ‘issue’ in the sense of that which comes forth and flows out. The edition explores the tension between ‘the archive and the repertoire’, as articulated by Diana Taylor in 2003, which continues to ghost our memories of Beckett in performance, and has withstood both the theoretical and materialist ‘turns’ of the field. In doing so, the co-editors have drawn upon recent work in Beckett Studies and Performance Studies, including Catherine Laws (2007), Tracy C. Davis (2008), Ulrika Maude (2009), Anna McMullan (2010), Baz Kershaw (2011) and Mark Fleishman (2012).
Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho, 1983
Following an introduction provided by general editors Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle, the contents of the special issue include the first article on Beckett performance histories by the team of the Staging Beckett AHRC-funded research project (Anna McMullan, Trish McTighe, David Pattie, and David Tucker), complemented by studies of Beckett and Performance Art (Derval Tubridy) and Beckett and New Musical Composition (Catherine Laws). The first results from the Samuel Beckett Laboratory, a performance-based workshop held as part of the annual Samuel Beckett Summer School and facilitated by Johnson and Heron, are published in the form of a “Dossier,” including contributions from directors Gavin Quinn and Sarah Jane Scaife, as well as Summer School participants Burç Îdem Dinçel and Áine Josephine Tyrrell. Directors Ian Rickson and Robert Wilson were interviewed specially for the edition, and artists featured in a new “Practitioners’ Voices” section include Rosemary Pountney, Rieko Suzuki, and Barry McGovern. Obituaries of Frederick Neumann and Herbert Blau follow. The edition concludes out with production reviews of Peter Stein’s 2012 Krapp’s Last Tape and Pan Pan’s 2013 Edinburgh productions of All That Fall and Embers, as well as book reviews focusing on Beckett’s televisual work and laughter in Beckett. A full table of contents is available online at [Journal of Beckett Studies].
About the editors
Jonathan Heron, Artistic Director of Fail Better Productions and IATL Senior Teaching Fellow at University of Warwick, is a core member of AHRC Beckett and Brain Science and co-convenor of the IFTR Performance-as-Research Working Group. His writing has been published in Open-space Learning (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Performing Early Modern Drama Today (CUP, 2012).Nicholas Johnson is Assistant Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin and co-director of the Samuel Beckett Summer School, as well as a director and performer. His research has been published in The Plays of Samuel Beckett (Methuen, 2013), Theatre Research International, Forum Modernes Theater, the Journal of Art Historiography, and the Journal of Beckett Studies.
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