"Back to the Beckett Text", 10-16/05/10, Gdansk

[Madeleine L.]

The University of Gdañsk

Samuel Beckett Seminar


BACK TO THE BECKETT TEXT

SOPOT


10-16 May 2010


Venue: Dworek Sierakowskich, Sopot




Honorary Patron:

Rector of the University of Gdañsk,
Prof. Bernard Lammek





MONDAY 10 May 2010

INTRODUCTION (venue: Theatre Off de BICZ)
Approaching Endgame: Rhythm, Space and the Actor – a three-hour theatre workshop led by Douglas Rintoul of Complicite Theatre

Session A

Interpretative contexts A
• A Sociological and Deconstructive Study of Samuel Beckett – Mohammadreza Arghiani (Yerevan State University, Armenia)
• Beckett’s Radio Dramaturgy in All That Fall: Jung’s Effect on Beckett – Munetaka Kume (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
• ‘Barefoot in the dust’: On the Beckettian Fragment – Dr Xymena Synak-Pskit (University of Gdañsk, Poland)
• Politeness Strategies as Foregrounding Devices in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame – Atefe Asadi (Arak University, Iran)
• The Plastic Stitch: Self-contraction and Consciousness in Beckett’s Molloy – Megan K. Fernandes (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Textual analysis A
• Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: A Study of Form and Content – Dr Khaled Alodaili (Mutah University, Jordan)
• Does Language Change Come and go and the Setting of the Play? – Aleksandra Wachacz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
• Beckett’s Ping as a Musicalised Text – Joanna Barska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
• Dirt and Defilement at the Duchess: An Analysis of the Complicite Production of Beckett’s Endgame – Micah Coston (University of Birmingham, UK)
• “Happy Chatters” in Happy Days: An Analysis of Communicative Tensions – Agnieszka Pelkowska (UWM, Poland)

Workshop session (venue: Theatre Off de BICZ)
• Dancing Beckett – Occasional Dance Theatre workshop inspired by Quad (PL)
• Voices from the Dark: Beckett and Paul Auster – discussion workshop led by Dr Arkadiusz Misztal
• On Hope and Despair. Reading Endgame – discussion workshop led by Dr Tomasz Wiœniewski
• Beckett through J.M Coetzee’s Eyes – discussion workshop led by Dr Jean Ward and Dr Tomasz Wiœniewski
• Beckett Aloud – discussion workshop led by David Malcolm
TUESDAY 11 May 2010
Session A

Global Beckett
• Oriental Beckett – Priyanka Chatterjee (University of Calcutta, India)
• Beckett Choreographs – Patricio Orozco (Director of Festival Beckett Argentina)
• Beckett in Brazil – Robson Correa de Camargo (Brazil)

Textual Analysis B
• First Things First – Beckett’s Universe of Objects – Dr Micha³ Lachman (University of £ódŸ, Poland)
• “Alive the live-oh”: Phylum Mollusca in Samuel Beckett’s Texts and Names – Tatyana Hramova (Reading University, UK)
• “I shall tell myself stories”: On the Narrative Voice in Malone Dies – Bartosz Lutostañski (University of Gdañsk, Poland)
• Integrating the Outside with the Inside: The Structure of View in Beckett’s Ghost Trio – Noboru Kataoka (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)

Interpretative Contexts B
• The Happiness of How It Is: Beckett, Badiou and Bersani – Dr Paul Stewart (The University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
• Beckett’s Whoroscope as a Framework for Understanding Joyce – Dr Steven Bond (University of Limerick, Ireland)
• Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Leopardi and Beckett’s Later Drama – Roberta Cauchi (University of Western Ontario, London, Canada)

Workshop session (venue: Theatre Off de BICZ)
• Beckett Read through the Stage (1) – the first part of a three-day theatre workshop led by Ewa Ignaczak (PL)
• Visit to the props room. Happy Days vs. Timon of Athens and Titius Andronicus – a workshop on comparative analysis led by Dr Olga Kubiñska (PL)
• Beckett in Polish, English and French – a workshop on translating Beckett led by Prof. Charles Krance (University of Chicago, USA) (PL/ENG)
• Simply Film – a discussion workshop led by Aleksandra Wachacz (PL)
• Footfalls on the Screen – a discussion workshop led by Katarzyna Ojrzyñska
• Footfalls – a short film by students (University of £ódŸ, Poland)
• Voz, or Beckett Translated on the Screen – introduced by Prof. Antonia Rodriguez Gago and followed by a meeting with the director of Voz, Javier Aguirre (SP/ENG)



WEDNESDAY 12 May 2010
(venue: Theatre Off de BICZ )


Prof. Jerzy Limon (University of Gdañsk):
Waiting for the Theatre

Dr Tomasz Wiœniewski (University of Gdañsk)
Back to the Beckett Text



Keynote lectures:


Prof. Enoch Brater (University of Michigan, USA):
Beckett’s Devious Interventions

Prof. Stan Gontarski (Florida State University, USA):
Beckett’s Theatrical Texts: Page and Stage

Prof. Shimon Levy (Tel Aviv University, Israel):
Who Come and Who Go?

Dr Mark Nixon (Reading University, UK):
‘All I knew’ – Beckett’s Unpublished Short Story ‘Echo’s Bones’

Prof. Antonia Rodriguez Gago (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain);
Voice, Space and Body:
The Problems of Translating and Adapting Company for the Screen

Antoni Libera (Warsaw, Poland);
An Introduction for Company



Company – a round table discussion led by Prof. Enoch Brater


Readings from Samuel Beckett – a presentation and discussion of passages in four languages (Charles Krance – French, Antoni Libera – Polish, Hans Moltrecht – German, David Malcolm – English)








THURSDAY 13 May 2010
Session B

Textual Analysis: Voice – Sound – Silence
• Beckett’s Voice and Meaning – Dr Tomasz Wiœniewski (University of Gdañsk, Poland)
• An Attempt at a Phonosemantic Analysis of Stirrings Still and what is the word – Dr S³awomir Studniarz (University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland)
• Eloquence and Apophasis in Shakespeare and Beckett – Dr Olga Kubiñska (University of Gdañsk, Poland)
• Fictional Space and Its Limit in First Love – Keiko Kikuchi (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)

Between Languages
• Beckett in Transition: Pour faire remarquer moi? – Dr Seán Lawlor (University of Reading,UK)
• ‘Of Course He Has No Story’ – Textes pour rien / Texts for Nothing – Dr Monika Szuba (Regent College, Elbl¹g, Poland)
• ‘handicapped by my ignorance of Spanish’: Samuel Beckett’s Notes for His Translations of Mexican Poetry – María José Carrera (University of Valladolid, Spain)

Genre / Media Analyses (between the Media)
• Stillness and Movement in Embers by Samuel Beckett – Anna Suwalska-Ko³ecka (PWSZ, P³ock, Poland)
• Rough for Radio II – A Neglected Text – Dr Julie Campbell (University of Southampton, UK)
• The Medium and the Message: Is Neither Poetry, Prose or Neither? – Dr Matthijs Engelberts (University of Amsterdam, Holland)
• Mediated Breath – Sozita Goudouna (Royal Holloway University of London,UK)
• Between Written and Spoken Word: Intermedial Strategies in Samuel Beckett – Dr Lea Sinoimeri (Université du Havre, France)

Workshop session (venue: Theatre Off de BICZ)
• Catastrophe – a workshop for actors and directors led by Antoni Libera (PL)
• Beckett Read through the Stage (2) – a continuation of a three-day theatre workshop led by Ewa Ignaczak (PL)
• Szczêœliwe dni / Happy Days – a recording by Polish Television Theatre, and a meeting with the director, Antoni Libera (PL)




FRIDAY 14 May 2010
Session B

Literary Contexts
• The Irish Body and the Beckettian Dramatic Oeuvre – Katarzyna Ojrzyñska (University of £ódŸ, Poland)
• “… you never meet place names in Beckett’s books”: Getting Through in Short Fiction – Samuel Beckett and John McGahern – Prof. David Malcolm (University of Gdañsk, Poland)
• Literary Intertextual References in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days – Prof. Jadwiga Uchman (University of £ódŸ, Poland)

Boston University session on Footfalls
• Noh/No, Footfalls/Pas: The Art of Stepping Forward and Back – Carrie Preston (Boston University, USA)
• Samuel Beckett’s Dramatic Mamalogue: Staging Capable Negativity in Footfalls/Pas – Prof. John Paul Riquelme (Boston University, USA)

Aesthetic, Philosophical and Ethical Contexts
• Beckett, Proust, and the Promise of Figurality – Dr Michael D’Arcy (St Francis Xavier University, Canada)
• The ‘Grey Dust of Words’ in Samuel Beckett’s Late Performance Texts: The Evanescent Meaning of Human Language as a Medium (by Repetition) – Dr Piotr Dobrowolski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznañ, Poland)
• “What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence” – Samuel Beckett’s Watt – Ma³gorzata Janik (IBL, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
• Parataxis and Torture: Towards an Ethics of the Void in Samuel Beckett’s How It Is – Christopher Langlois (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
• Performing the Back: Dialogical Blanks and Cooperative Call in Beckett’s Company – Marco Bernini (University of Parma, Italy)

Workshop session (venue: Theatre Off de BICZ)
• Writers in the theatre – Krzysztof Kuczkowski in conversation with Antoni Libera and Pawe³ Huelle (PL)
• Beckett Read through the Stage (3) – a continuation of a three-day theatre workshop led by Ewa Ignaczak (PL)
• Occasional Dance Theatre: Kwadrat wersja 6 – a modern dance performance inspired by Beckett’s Quad
• Beckett in the Twenty-first Century – Dr Tomasz Wiœniewski in conversation with Prof. S.E. Gontarski and Prof. Enoch Brater

SATURDAY 15 May 2010

Theatre workshop

• Acting Beckett (as directed by Gontarski) – a theatre workshop by S.E. Gontarski
• Who come and who go? – a theatre workshop led by Shimon Levy
• Beckett on stage – a Brazilian approach – a theatre workshop led by Robson Correa de Camargo
• Beckett on stage – an Argentinean approach – a theatre workshop led by Patricio Orozco
• Szczêœliwe dni / Happy Days – directed by Henryk Rozen (PL)


SUNDAY 16 May 2010

Open to the public (PL)

• Beckett Aloud – a discussion led by David Malcolm (PL)
• Guests of Topos – Krzysztof Kuczkowski in conversation with Kwartalnik Artystyczny (PL)
• Beckett and Literary Traditions (invited guests: Prof. Jan Ciechowicz, Prof. Marek Wilczyñski, Prof. David Malcolm) (PL)
• Ostatnia taœma Krappa / Krapp’s Last Tape, Polish Radio Theatre and meeting with Janusz Kuku³a (the director) (PL)

This programme may be modified

The language of the majority of the sessions is English. PL denotes sessions conducted in Polish. The fee for the seminar is 100 Euros. It does not include costs of accommodation. All workshops are for a limited number of participants, so registration is required.

contact: beckett@ug.edu.pl
The University of Gdañsk