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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:00:19 +1000
From: Andrea Curr <amcurr-AT-bigpond.com>
Subject: PLC: Call for Papers - Samuel Beckett Symposium 2003


CALL FOR PAPERS

Samuel Beckett Symposium, 2003,
after Beckett d'après Beckett,
Sydney, Australia, Jan. 6-10, 2003
http://www.uws.edu.au/uws/conferences/beckett/

Hosted by The University of Western Sydney

Keynotes and Plenary panellists include:

Luce Irigaray (live via satellite)
J.M. Coetzee
Herbert Blau

Peggy Phelan
Stan Gontarski
Steven Connor,
Mary Bryden
Ruby Cohn,
H. Porter Abbott
Chris Ackerley
Colin Duckworth
Anthony Uhlmann,
James Acheson

Deadline for Submission of Proposals: July 15, 2002.

The University of Western Sydney will host a Samuel Beckett Symposium in
January, 2003, celebrating, in association with The Sydney Festival,
Company B and the Sydney Theatre Company, the fiftieth anniversary of the
first performance of En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot). The Symposium,
to be called after Beckett d'après Beckett, will form part of the 2003
Sydney Festival, and will be held at the Sydney Theatre Company's
magnificent Wharf Theatre complex on Sydney Harbour from January 6 till
January 10, 2003. The symposium, which will be opened and attended by
Beckett's literary executor and nephew Edward Beckett, has the support of
the Beckett International Foundation and the Samuel Beckett Society and
will constitute a major celebration of this important anniversary worldwide.

SERIES OF EVENTS
Fifty years to the day since the first production at the diminutive Théâtre
du Babylone in Paris, Company B will premiere a new production of Waiting
for Godot directed by Neil Armfield and starring Academy Award winning
actor Geoffrey Rush. The Sydney Theatre Company will premiere an exciting
new production of Endgame directed by Benedict Andrews with the Wharf
theatre and the entry to it unrecognisably reconfigured for this
production. The premieres will coincide with a series of cultural events
exploring the diversity of Beckett's artistic influence and interests,
which is likely to include the screening of the complete Beckett on Film
Project; a major dance work by an international dance company; radio
broadcasts of Beckett's works; visual arts exhibitions; other theatrical
productions of Beckett plays and other plays inspired and influenced by
him, including a new work drawn from Beckett's prose works directed by
Clara Mason through UWS entitled 'Beckett on Vinyl'.

CALL FOR PAPERS
We welcome proposals from all interested parties on any aspect of Beckett's
works, life, the context of their composition or reception, and approaches
to their production. In addition we welcome papers concerning any aspect of
the influence of Beckett's works on others in any field (those working
'd'après' or in the manner of Beckett) or questions concerning the
direction of contemporary artistic practice 'after' Beckett and those
elements of 20th century avant garde with which he was associated.
Beckett's prose and dramatic works continue to appeal to artists and others
both within and beyond the realms of literature and theatre, eliciting
creative responses across many fields, ranging from sound and visual arts
to philosophy, social criticism, cultural studies and ethics. The Symposium
will seek to take stock of the nature of this legacy and the range of this
influence.

PROPOSALS
Proposals should be 200 words long for papers of 20 minutes duration. We
also welcome proposals gathering a number of papers together for complete
sessions (which will be one and a half hours long).
The deadline for submission of proposals is July 15, 2002.

Send proposals or address correspondence to:
Anthony Uhlmann a.uhlmann-AT-uws.edu.au
Jay Johnston, j.johnston-AT-uws.edu.au

University of Western Sydney
Penrith South DC
NSW  1797

For further details visit our website:
http://www.uws.edu.au/uws/conferences/beckett/





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