Conference Schedule

DAY 1: Periodicals

Thursday 22ndNovember 2018

9.00 – 9.30 Registration and Welcome 
MERL Entrance

9.30 – 10.30 Panel 1: Publishing Modernists in ‘Middlebrow’ Periodicals
Virginia Woolf, The Common Readerand Country Life, Danielle N. Gilman (University of Georgia) Wyndham Lewis and Time and Tide,Gareth Mills (University of Reading) 
Conference Room

10.30 – 10:45 Coffee break 
Seminar Room

10:45 – 11:45 Keynote: The Magazines of Modernism: Challenges and Perspectives,

Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University) 
Conference Room

11:45– 12:45 Lunch

Seminar Room

Pop-up display of paintings, manuscripts and artists’ books

Study Room

12.45 – 1.45 Panel 2: Two Generations of Modernist Periodicals: Publishing Beckett and Kafka
Kafka, transitionand Ireland To-Day: Actuality and Phantasy in the Wake of Expressionism,

Sam Whybrow (University of Reading) 
The Evergreen Review: Beckett’s ‘Heavy News’ in the Countercultural Journal, James Baxter (University of Reading)
Conference Room

1.45– 2.00 Comfort break

2:00 – 3.30 Workshop: Periodical Cultures in Transition, Dr Adam Guy (University of Oxford) 
Conference Room

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3.30 – 4.00 Move to Whiteknights Campus 

4.00 – 5.30 Teaching Experimental Failure, Dr Jonathan Heron (University of Warwick)

Delegates are welcome to a 6.30pm event in the Bulmershe Theatre, Minghella Studios, celebrating the University of Reading Beckett Research Centre's Artistic Fellowships and also our thirty-year anniversary of the founding of the Beckett International Foundation (BIF) at Reading. Thanks to the generous support of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre, the evening will feature a Q&A with our first Beckett Artistic Fellow, award winning Irish novelist Eimear McBride, and we will be joined by Professor Andrew Renton, a Patron of BIF. The event will be followed by a wine reception

DAY 2: Performance

Friday 23rdNovember 2018

9.30 – 10.00 Registration and Welcome

MERL Entrance

10.00 – 11.00 Panel 1: Beckett and Set Design

From Eleutheria to Godot: the Origins and Development of the Domestic in Beckett’s Drama,

Ros Maprayil (University of Reading)

Jocelyn Herbert’s Designs for Beckett’s Happy Days and Wesker’s The Kitchen,Sophie Jump

(UAL and National Theatre)

Conference Room

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break

Study Room

11.45 – 12.30 Panel 2: Audiences

‘Will you look at me, Pig!’: The Interactive Relationship Between the Audience and the Stage in Samuel Beckett’s Drama, Chloe Duane (University of Reading)

Encountering the Audience Within Playable Performance: Agency, Authorship and Player Feedback John Whitney (University of Reading)

Conference Room

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

Study Room

1.30 – 2.45 Panel 3: Music and the Archive

Late Beckett: the Ghost in the Music, Calum Weir (University of Glasgow)

The Modernist Theatre Paradigm: Re-evaluation of the Female Performers’ Legacy Through Archival Research, Natalia Yakubova (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna)

Intermediality in the Process of Adaptation: The Role of (Live) Orchestra in Amadeus,Hsin Hsieh (University of Reading)

Conference Room

2.45 – 3.00 Coffee break

Study Room

3.00 – 4.30 Workshop: Billie Whitelaw Archive & the Staging Beckett Project,

Dr Matthew McFredrick (University of Reading & UAL)

4.30 – 5.00 Q&A with Judy Hegarty-Lovett (director of Gare St Lazare)

Closing remarks from the organisers

6.00 Conference dinner and drinks

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The Beckett International Foundation seminar will take place Saturday 24 November