Criticism
Chair: David Hatch (Brigham Young University)

• Shoshana Benjamin (Ben-Gurion University) - - Back to the Future: A direction for Beckett criticism mediated by meaning, lost and found, in 'Watt'
• David Hatch (Brigham Young University) - Exhibitions.Dialogues. Du Bouchet..Beckett
• Pierre Taminiaux (Georgetown University) - La critique de la critique comme écriture de la chose

Perspectives on "Play"
Chair: Graley Herren (Xavier University)

• Graley Herren (Xavier University) - Repeat Beckett: Adapting "Play" from Stage to Screen
• Michael Bogucki (University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill) - See Spot Shut: Philosophical Investigations in "Play"
• Jennifer Stebick (John Carroll University) - Beckett's State Fright : the Inadequacy of Performance in "Play"

Endgames
Chair: : Paul Shields (Assumption College)

• David Phillips (University of North Carolina) - From Page to Stage: Translating Samuel Beckett's (Post-)Modern Wasteland for the Twenty-First Century Stage- Fin de partie / Endgame
• Agnieszka Tworek (Yale University) - Behind Endgame's Cell Gate: Beckett and Prison
• Natka Bianchini (Tufts University) - Bare Interior, Chicken Wire Cages and Subway Stations - Re-thinking Beckett's Response to the ART endgame in Light of Earlier Productions

Beckett on Retrospection, in Retrospect: Memory, Silence, Multiplicity
Chair: : Andrew McFeaters (Florida State University)

• Amber Coady (Florida State University) - F'His Breath Audible, Slow and Regular': Speechlessness and Forgetting in That Time
• Andrew McFeaters (Florida State University) - Memory and Repetition in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape
• Matthew Hobson (Florida State University) - Intersecting Multiplicities: Identity and Assemblage in Beckett and Deleuze

Genetic Beckett Studies
Chair: Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp)

• Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp) -'My life last state last version': genetic variants in Beckett's late works
• Mark Nixon (University of Reading) - The remains of trace': intra- and intertextual transferences in Beckett's Mirlitonnades manuscripts

Music
Chair: Zachary Hanson (Florida State University)

• Franz Michael Maier (Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Freien Universitaet Berlin) - "Perhaps I'll be able to find Clov's song": The Question of Melodic Continuity in Fin de partie and Krapp's Last Tape
• Carol O'Sullivan (University of Portsmouth, UK) - 'Jazzing' Literature: Beckett, Moerman and Armstrong

Beckett on Film
Chair: Graham Saunders (University of Reading, UK)

• John King (Florida Atlantic University) - "A Multitude in Transports of Joy": The Cons (and Pros) of Beckett on Film
• Graham Saunders (University of Reading, UK) - 'Reclaiming Sam for Ireland': The Beckett on Film Project and National Identity
• Matthijs Engelberts (Universiteit van Amsterdam) - Beckett and Cinema

De l'absurde à Comment C'est
Chair: William J. Cloonan (Florida State University)

• Sophie Bastien (Collège Militaire Royal du Canada) - De Camus à Beckett : de l'absurde à l'absolu
• Candice Nicolas (Ohio State University) - « Du Malentendu aux non-entendus » Absurde et Enfermement chez Camus et Beckett
• Flore Chevaillier (Florida State University) - Jouer sur les mots dans « Comment C'est »
• Yann Mevel (University of Tohoku, Japan) - Lire Beckett avec Starobinski

Elegy, Memory, and Melancholy
Chair: Lori J. Walters (Florida State University)

• Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK) - 'All the Dead Voices': Beckett and the Ethics of Elegy
• Rina Kim (University of Warwick, UK) - Memories and Melancholia in Beckett's Four Novellas and "Molloy"
• Susan Mooney (University of South Florida) - Emotional, Ethical Beckett: Narrating Masculine Crises in "Molloy"

Beckett's Legacy
Chair: Jenny Douglas (University of Rochester)

• Jenny Douglas (University of Rochester) - Samuel Beckett and Marina Carr: Theatricality, Performativity, and Gender

Beckett Elsewhere
Chair: Robson Corrêa de Camargo (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brasil)

• Robson Corrêa de Camargo (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brasil) - Brasil : 50 X Beckett
• Flora Süssekind (UNIRIO + Centro de Pesquisa da Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa-Brazil) - 'Choral forms in Beckett's work

Beckett's philosophies and Beckett's philosophers

Speaker: Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania)

Esthétique
Chair: William J. Cloonan (Florida State University)

• Anne-Cécile Guilbard (Universités Paris VIII) - « Je ferme les yeux pas les bleus »: pour une esthétique du regard chez Samuel Beckett
• Karine Germoni (Université de Provence) - Assez ou l'« art et la manière » de générer et combler le(s) manque(s)Etude génétique, linguistique et stylistique

Literature and Drama
Chair: Virginia Osborne (Florida State University)

• Tomasz Wisniewski (University of Warmia & Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland) - Literary Aspect of Samuel Beckett's Stage Drama
• Elaine Hewitt (University of Granada) - "Fundamental Sounds (no joke intended)": The New Perspective of Poetical Scansion of Part of Waiting for Godot
• Antonia Rodríguez-Gago (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) - Space and the Body: Re-membering and Dis-membering the Stage Figure in Beckett's Later Plays

Beckett, Joyce, and Ireland
Chair: Suzette Henke (University of Louisville)

• Katherine Weiss (University of Texas Pan American) - Samuel Beckett's Film: A Tribute to James Joyce
• Peter Murphy (Thompson Rivers University) - Re-Joyce-ing "Murphy": A Revisionist Reading
• Emilie Morin (Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland) - Beckett's Drama, Scarcity, and the Irish Literary Revival

Images et figures dans l'oeuvre de Beckett

Speaker: Bruno Clément (Université de Paris-VIII, Collège international de philosophie)

Beckett, Language, and Cognition
Chair: Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck College, University of London)

• Andre Fulani (Concordia University) - Two's Company: Wittgenstein and Beckett
• Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick) -Agency, Witness and the Middle Voice in Beckett's Theatre
• Carla Taban (University of Toronto) -Samuel Beckett's "Molloy": Semantic Change and Cognitive Metaphor

Technology
Chair: Dustin Anderson (Florida State university)

• Ulrika Maude (University of Durham, UK) - "Whole body like gone": Beckett and technology
• David Pattie (University College Chester, UK) -Coming out of the Dark: Beckett's TV Plays
• Brian Wall (University of Western Ontario) -Modernist Television: Beckett's " Ghost Trio"

Worstward
Chair: Curt Willits (Florida State University)

• Steven Barfield (University of Westminster) - Being 'Nothing' : Beckett and 'Self Erasure' in "Worstward Ho"
• Curt Willits (Florida State University) -"Worstward Ho"'s "Fidelity to Failure": A Blanchovian/Derridean Reading

Beckett Directed
Chair:

• Mark Batty (University of Leeds, UK) - Roger Blin and Samuel Beckett: A Solidarity of the Meek
• Johanne Bénard (Queen's University, Canada) -Beckett revisité par Atom Egoyan
• Brian Leahy Doyle (Lehman College, CUNY) -The Explicit Moment in Samuel Beckett's Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu and Catastrophe

Beckett and Philosophy
Chair: Richard Begam (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Richard Begam (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - Beckett and the Aesthetics of Interestedness
• Porter Abbott (University of California-Santa Barbara) -I Am Not a Philosopher

Trans-Atlantic Cross-Currents: Beckett, Lieberson and Stravinsky

Speaker: Mary Bryden (Cardiff University, UK)

La Voix
Chair: William J. Cloonan (Florida State University)

• Stéphane Inkel (Université du Québec à Montréal) - « Retournes aux maux de ton espèce » La voix, la Langue et l'animal politique de Compagnie
• Nadia Kamel (University of Minia, Egypt) - Voix et Silence dans l'ouvre de Beckett

Beckett's Others
Chair:Cheira Belguellaoui (Florida State University)

• Beryl Schlossman (Carnegie Mellon University) - Crossing Francophone Boundaries: Beckett's Identities of the Other
• Natalie Sheehan (University of Cambridge, UK) -Thresholds and Intermediaries: Beckett and the Scapegoat
• Dan Mellamphy (York University, Toronto, Canada) - A Look Anew at Beckett's Other Peg

Novels
Chair: Lidan Lin (Indiana University-Purdue University)

• Brian Richardson (University of Maryland) - Extreme Narration in The Unnamable
• Timothy Sutton (Managing Editor, JJLS) -'None So Clear': Watt's Postmodern Heterotopia
• Juliette Taylor (Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds) -Imperfect Mastery? Language learning and error in L'Innommable

Beckett, Neurolinguistics and Language Pathology
Chair: Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick)

• Hugh Culik (Ferris State University) - Beckett, Aphasiology and the Crisis of Representation
• Benjamin Keatinge (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) -Beckett and Language Pathology
• Laura Salisbury (Birkbeck College) -"What Is the Word": Beckett's Aphasic Modernism.

Performing Space
Chair: Catherine Minder (Florida State University)

• Ellen Mease (Grinnell College) - "Courting the Void": Opening the Play's Inner World
• Andrew Manley (Colorado College) -Performing Beckett: Site Specific Explorations and Adventures
• Ayech Mahfoudi (University of South Carolina) - Beckett's "Vagrant" Voices: Reclaiming the Dehors in Beckett's Not I, Footfalls, and Rockaby
• Clark Lunberry (University of North Florida) -Setting an Empty Stage: Proust's Presence in Beckett's Absence

Molloy, Mercier and Camier
Chair: Jennifer Jeffers (Cleveland State University)

• Jennifer Jeffers (Cleveland State University) - "Though I was the gentleman": "Molloy"'s Masculinity
• Kristin Czarnecki (University of Louisville) -"Being as Ill-being": Kristevan Abjection in Beckett's "Molloy"
• Corinne Scheiner (The Colorado College) - - Far from "No-Man's-Land": Cultural References and Their Translation(s) in Beckett's Mercier et/and Camier

Theater
Chair: Dario Del Degan (University of Toronto)

• Julien Carriere (Louisiana State University - "Happy Days" and the Inferno, Canto X
• Ioana Sion (University of Toronto, Canada) - Descent to Zero: Godot's Waiting Self in Dante's Waiting Room
• Dario Del Degan (University of Toronto) - The Portrait of « That Time »

Textualities
Chair: Lois More Overbeck (Emory University)

• Lois More Overbeck (Emory University) - The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Perspectives on his Work

Poetry/Poetics
Chair: Curt Willits (Florida State University)

• Julien Piat (Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, France) - Syntactical Experimentation and Poetics of "Mal Dire" in Beckett's Trilogy
• José Francisco Fernandez (University of Almeria, Spain) - Problems With Beckett's Poetics
• Ilan Safit (Pace University) - A Literature of Movement

Theater II
Chair: Hersh Zeifman, (York University, Toronto, Canada)

• Enoch Brater (University of Michigan) - Beckett's Romanticism: That's A Lot of 'Krapp'
• Hersh Zeifman, (York University, Toronto, Canada) -Staging Sam: Beckett as Dramatic Character.
• Amanda Tucker (University of Miami) - Beckett's Art of Adaptation : From Strindberg's "The Dance of Death" to Waiting for Godot"
• Robert Reginio (University of Massachusetts- Amherst) - Testifying Against the Archive: Reading Beckett with Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah"

Short Prose
Chair: Brian Finney (California State University-Long Beach)

• Paul Stewart (Intercollege, Nicosia, Cyprus) - All known: Congruity and Disjunction in reading "Ping"
• Brian Adler (University of California-Irvine) -Eisenstein Unover: Representations of Montage of Attractions in the Short Fiction Works of Samuel Beckett, paper co-authored by Leah Hoyer (University of California- Los Angeles)
• Brian Finney (California State University-Long Beach) -The Linguistic Self: Beckett's Last Exploration of the Subject

Beckett and Philosophy, Yet Again
Chair: Garin Dowd (Thames Valley University)

• Garin Dowd (Thames Valley University) - Velocity, visagéité and form: reading Murphy through Spinoza (and after Deleuze)
• James Lyons (Stanford University) -Exploring the Problematics of Representation in Beckett : the Interaction of Post-Modern Aesthetics and the Energy of Consciousness
• Michael D'Arcy (University of Western Ontario) -Maimed at the Start: Beckett, Adorno, and the Corruption of Culture
• Joshua Landy (Stanford University) -Futile Teasers: Beckett, Rorty, and the End of Philosophy

Alternate Perspectives
Chair: Eric Prieto (University of California- Santa Barbara)

• Eric Prieto (University of California- Santa Barbara) - Replacing Beckett
• Patrick Johnston (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) -Arriving Early or Coming in Late? On Becoming a Beckettian in Beckett's Centenary Year
• Claire Norris (Bryant and Stratton College) -"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places": Using Beckett to Endorse Writing as Therapy for Translating the Traumatic

Engendrements, images, et morts
Chair: Lori J. Walters (Florida State University)

• Dominique Rabaté (Université de Bordeaux 3) - Engendrements : du père et du fils chez Samuel Beckett
• Isabelle Ost (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgique) -Le langage de l'image : réponse de Beckett au traitement médiatique du visuel, à la lumière d'une rencontre avec Gilles Deleuze
• Jérôme Letourneur (Independent Scholar) -- Comme ouvert un espace

Samuel Beckett: The Intricate Web of Life and Work

Speaker: James Knowlson (University of Reading, UK)