Borderless Beckett: International Samuel Beckett Symposium in Tokyo 2006 September 29 – October 1

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Public Lecture
The Nobel laureate J. M. Coeztee Will Be Here Soon!

Waseda University and the organizing committee of Borderless Beckett are inviting Dr. J. M. Coetzee to be their special guest. He is the South African novelist (now residing in Australia) who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His novels question the severe political reality of South Africa while adopting flamboyant textual strategies. The works explore crucial problems in a modern world at a crossroads of (post)modernism and (post)colonialism.

The topic of Dr.Coetzee’s dissertation (University of Texas, 1969) was  the early novels of Samuel Beckett, and he has published a number of essays on Beckett. He is also a patron of the Beckett International Foundation. The works include Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Life and Times of Michael K (1983), Foe (1986), Age of Iron (1990),  The Master of Petersburg (1994), Disgrace (1999), Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Slow Man (2005).

To hear Dr. Coetzee’s Public Lecture (free of charge, with Japanese translation), it will be necessary to register in advance. Please apply by e-mail or fax to the address below and include: (1) your name, (2) your affiliation, (3) your telephone number, and (4) your address.

Date: [admission 16:40 ] 17:00 - 18:50, September 30 (Sat)
Venue: Ibuka Masaru Hall at Waseda University International Convention Centre

The e-mail address for registration is: beckett-in-tokyo@list.waseda.jp 
The Fax number is: +81 3 5286 0808.
If there are too many applications, we may not be able to meet everyone’s desire to attend.

Special Lecture

Professor Terence Brown Is Coming to Japan!

With the assistance of the sponsorship of the Embassy of Ireland, we are happy to announce that Professor Terence Brown (Trinity College Dublin), an authority on Irish literature and culture studies, will deliver a special lecture during the symposium.

A Closing Event

Tribute to Beckett: An Etude by Noh actors Inspired by Quad

Quad, a piece for TV that Beckett produced in his later years, is an extraordinary play with 4 actors who merely shuffle rhythmically in a square space with a very strict rule regarding the route they take. Their route shows all possible combinations of the actors on the stage. What will happen when the Noh actors encounter this play? This is a most interesting and challenging event and will be the closing event for the symposium.  Details are below.

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