University of Maryland Libraries blank Beckett and the Visual Arts / The Visual in Beckett: A symposium at University of Maryland Libraries — October 6, 2006 — 150 Years @ The University of Maryland blank Part of the Beckett Centenary Festival in Washington, D.C.

All events are to be held in the Special Events room, McKeldin Library.

1:30 – 9:30
Beckett in Print(s): An Exhibition of Rare Books and Manuscripts
1:30 – 1:45
Introductions by Dean Lowry, Assistant Dean Schreibman
1:45 – 2:30
Child's Play and the Learned Art of Unseeing: Paul Klee and Samuel Beckett, Angela Moorjani (Emerita Professor, Modern Languages & Linguistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County)
2:30 – 3:15
Fail Again. Fail Better. The Derivation of Beckett's Aesthetics, Gerry Dukes (freelance writer)
3:15 – 3:45
Coffee break
3:45 – 4:30
Art as Rhetorical Interrogation ("less the rhetoric"!), Lois Oppenheim (Professor of French and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures, Montclair State University)
4:30 – 5:30
Beckett and the Visual. A panel discussion with:
5:45 – 7:15
Reception
7:30 – 9:30
Evening Performance: A Celebration of Beckett Plays, Monologues, and Film

In addition, the Cultural Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland has commissioned the Samuel Beckett – A Centenary Celebration international exhibition, which it is touring in collaboration with its Embassy network, to universities, public institutions, and centers of culture around the world. The exhibition is free and open to the public during the visiting hours at the University of Maryland Hornbake Library from October 6 through 15, 2006.