International Conference
October 7-9, 2022
Batesville, Arkansas
"Nature has forgotten us" says Hamm in Beckett's Endgame. This simple yet catastrophic statement speaks to why Beckett Studies are more and more concerned to what Beckett's oeuvre can tell us about our contemporary and urgent plights with regard to nature and the environment. Taking a cue from these contemporary developments in Beckett scholarship, as well as from recent literary and cultural studies on post-humanism, the Anthropocene, eco-criticism, object-oriented and materialist ontologies, the "Samuel Beckett and Nature" International Conference will assemble scholars interested in the different questions of nature, the environment and all its concomitant catastrophes in and around Beckett's works.
Photo used with permission from Dave Thomas.