Samuel Beckett in Japan

Description

I am the organiser of this event that began last October and will run until next May with another 3 seminars. Description as follows:

The history of Beckett in this region includes performance practices that have introduced (and adapted) Beckett’s work for Japanese theatre, translations of Beckett’s work into Japanese since the 1950s, and important scholarly interventions into the field. There is a rich record of scholarship emerging from Japan that has expanded the global reach of our understanding of Beckett. The foundational scholarly and translation work of Professors Shin’ya Ando and Yasunari Takahashi exemplifies this, as does the work of the Beckett Research Circle of Japan, which was founded in 1992 and continues Japanese critical engagements with Beckett. This seminar series seeks to mark these histories of Beckett’s presence in Japanese culture, as well as explore the significance of Japanese thinking and performance practices on our understanding of Beckett.

This series is presented by the Samuel Beckett Working Group at IFTR and the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast.

Period	Oct 2022 → Jun 2023
Event type	Seminar
Degree of Recognition	International