Beckett and Brain Science: Free Symposium
AHRC-funded Symposium
University of Reading
27 April 2012
The symposium will be held in the conference room of the University of Reading Special Collections. The building housing Special Collections and the Museum of English Rural Life is located in Redlands Road.
Timetable
Date & Time: Friday, 27 April 2012, 10.00 to 17.50
10:00-10:30 Coffee and registration
10:30-11:30 “…but the brain…”: Professor James Knowlson (University of Reading) and Dr Ulrika Maude (University of Reading) in Conversation
11:30-12:30 Dr Peter Fifield (St John’s Oxford): “Seeing Things: The Brain and the Archive”
12:30-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:15 Professor Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp): “Beckett’s Manuscripts and the Extended Mind: A Post-Cartesian what is the word”
2:15-3:15 Professor Mary Bryden (University of Reading): “’From Chaos to the Brain’: Beckett and Deleuze”
3:15-3:45 Coffee
3:45-4:15 Jonathan Heron (University of Warwick, and Artistic Director, Fail Better Productions): “’Theatre Machines’ and ‘Beckett’s DNA’”
4:15-5:15 Professor Ronald Schleifer (University of Oklahoma): “Modernism as Gesture: Popular Music and Performances of Literature”
5:15-5:30 Closing words
