The Samuel Beckett Summer School Schedule
2012 SUMMER SCHOOL 15-20 JULY 2012
Public Programme:
Tuesday 17 July, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM: Behind All That Fall - a multimedia presentation and conversation with Pan Pan featuring Gavin Quinn, Aedin Cosgrove, and Jimmy Eadie
at the Arts Technology Research Lab (ATRL) on Pearse Street ATRL
Wednesday 18 July, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Barry McGovern reads Beckett's poetry and prose
at the Graduate Memorial Building (GMB) in Front Square, TCD
Wednesday 18 July, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Anthony Cronin in conversation with Professor Terence Brown
at the Graduate Memorial Building (GMB) in Front Square, TCD
Thursday 19 July, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM: Rockaby/Berceuse and Footfalls featuring Rosemary Pountney, with discussion to follow
at the DU Players Theatre, Samuel Beckett Centre, TCD
All public events are only 10 euro, to be paid on the door, with reservations recommended by emailing sbss@usit.ie. An all-inclusive ticket granting admission to the above four events is only 30 euro.
2012 speakers will include:
Enoch Brater, Terence Brown, Andrew Gibson, Jonathan Heron, Sean Kennedy, Declan Kiberd, Ulrika Maude, Emilie Morin, and Rosemary Pountney
Seminars:
Beckett and Irish Culture, 1929-49 (Sean Kennedy)
Beckett's Manuscripts (Mark Nixon & Dirk Van Hulle)
Performance Workshop (Jonathan Heron)
The Programme for the 2012 Samuel Beckett Summer School:
Sunday 15 July:
Registration from 5:00 PM at the Graduate Memorial Building (GMB)
6.00 - 7.00 / Rodney Sharkey: '"Local" Anaesthetic for a "Public" Birth: Beckett, Parturition and the Porter Period'
(Shared with the conference 'Beckett and the "State" of Ireland': http://beckettucd.wordpress.com/)
Monday 16 July:
9.30 - 11.00 / Declan Kiberd: 'Samuel Beckett: Mystic?'
11:30 - 1:00 / Seán Kennedy: 'Beckett, Yeats and the Big House, 1933
2.30 - 5.30 / Seminar sessions, first meeting
6.30 - 7.30 / Launch of the Beckett Summer School in the Long Room in the Old Library building, featuring remarks from Barry McGovern and Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Vice-Provost for Global Relations (by invitation only)
Tuesday 17 July:
9.30 - 11.00 / Andrew Gibson: 'Samuel Beckett, How It Is and the Irish Misanthropic Tradition'
12.30 - 2.00 / Screening of "Silence to Silence," introduced by Declan Kiberd, in the Long Room Hub; entry free of charge
2.30 - 5.30 / Seminar Sessions
PUBLIC EVENT:
7.30 - 9.00 / "Behind All That Fall" — Multimedia Presentation by Pan Pan about their award-winning production of All That Fall, Conversation and Q & A with director Gavin Quinn, designer Aedín Cosgrove, and sound designer Jimmy Eadie, moderated by Dr. Nicholas Johnson
At the Arts Technology Research Laboratory (ATRL), Pearse Street
Wednesday 18 July:
10.30 - 12.00 /
Enoch Brater: 'Beckett's Dramatic Forms, Considered and Reconsidered'
PUBLIC EVENT:
1.00 - 2.00 / "Barry McGovern Reads Beckett's Poetry and Prose"
At the Graduate Memorial Building (GMB), Front Square
PUBLIC EVENT:
6.00 - 7.00 / Anthony Cronin in conversation with Professor Terence Brown
At the Graduate Memorial Building (GMB), Front Square
Thursday 19 July:
9.30 - 11.00 /
Ulrika Maude: ''Convulsive Aesthetics: Beckett, Chaplin and Charcot'
11.30 - 1.00 / Emilie Morin: 'Beckett and Radiophonic Sound'
2.30 - 5.30 / Seminar Sessions
PUBLIC EVENT:
7.30 - 8.30 / Rosemary Pountney performs in Rockaby/Berceuse and Footfalls
followed by a discussion and Q & A, moderated by Jonny Heron
at the DU Players Theatre, Samuel Beckett Centre
Friday 20 July:
9.30 - 11.00 / Terence Brown: 'Beckett: Memories and Sounds'
11.30 - 1.00 / Jonathan Heron: 'Theatre Laboratories, Performance Genetics and "Beckett's DNA"'
2.30 - 5.00 / Seminar Sessions
5.00 - 5.30 / Workshop Presentation of Performance Seminar, DU Players Theatre
7.30 / Closing Banquet and Farewell
Application and Registration open online between January 2012 and 25th May 2012
Hosted by the School of Drama, Film and Music and the School of English at Trinity College Dublin.
Trinity College Dublin is honoured to present the annual Samuel Beckett Summer School, a weeklong celebration and exploration of the works of one of its most famous graduates. Each year we will invite the world’s foremost Beckett scholars to present new lectures and seminars on all aspects of Beckett’s works.We hope that the School will appeal to a wide range of Beckett enthusiasts by providing the opportunity to savour and study Beckett’s works in the context of the university where he began his intellectual life.
