First conference (1991, University of Leiden) entitled "Beckett 1970-1989."
Ghosting through Beckett / Ruby Cohn -- What Beckett teaches me: his minimalist approach to ethics / Martin Esslin -- Postmodernism and Beckett's aesthetics of failure / Laura Cerrato -- Samuel Beckett: poetry as performative act / E.M. Knottenbelt -- Beckett, early neuropsychology and memory loss: Beckett's reading of Clarapède, Janet and Korsakoff / Adam Piette -- Godot, Gorba, and Glasnost: Beckett in East Germany / Werner Huber -- Beckett in Bangladesh / Shaheen M. Mahmood -- Vladimir: la présence d'Ivan Tourgueniev dans l'oeuvre de Samuel Beckett / Bruno Clément -- Accursed progenitor: Samuel Beckett, David Mamet, and the problem of influence / Steven Price -- Desire for the other: obsession as failure / failure as obsession. Beckett's Krapp's last tape and Bernard's Minetti / Catharina Wulf -- Framing the unframable: Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon / Jane Hale -- What is it like together?: genesis of the first production of Beckett's Radio 1 / Richard Rijnvos -- Le monde et le pantalon: miroir de la poétique beckettienne / Danièle de Ruyter-Tognotti -- Beckett's literary cathedrals: speculation on Beckett's achievement as a writer of prose fiction / Brian T. Fitch -- Traces of transtextual confluence and bilingual genesis: a piece of monologue and solo for openers / Charles Krance -- Traduire l'effacement: notes sur la traduction de Comment c'est / Yves Thomas -- Beckett's Rockaby in three Spanish translations / Antonio Ballesteros González -- L'universalité chez Beckett, tentative et echec: "On n'est pas issu d'un roc" / Vered Harel -- Demonter le roman: anti-récit, anti-prose, anti-mot / Magessa O'Reilly -- Fatigue and disgust: the addenda to Watt / Chris Ackerley -- First love: passage and play / Paul Lawley -- Quarrying the trilogy / Gerry Dukes Silence in Beckett / José Carnero-Gonzàlez -- Song and improvisation in Lessness / Mary Catanzaro -- Chutes sans fin dans Pour finir encore / Sjef Houppermans -- "Without a word": pauses in Beckett's drama / Pia Brinzeu -- Le pantalon bousille: spécificité des genres dans le 'théâtre narratif' de Beckett / Matthijs Engelberts Les éléments paraverbaux dans la forme théâtrale de Beckett / Dina Mantchéva -- More than "just play": the creation of 'Fabulous history' in Beckett's plays Klaus Peter Müller -- Embers: an interpretation / Rosemary Pountney -- Waiting for Godot: a Beckettian counterfoil to Kierkegaardian existentialism / Anurag Sharma -- Repetition and difference in Beckett's work / Nursel Içöz -- De La derniere bande comme bobine: une mise en scène de la compulsion de répétition / Geneviève Chevalier -- Act without words 1 as cartoon and codicil / Clas Zilliacus -- Texts for performance: Beckett's late works and the question of dramatism, performability and genre / Marek Kedzierski -- Not mercies/Not I / Patricia Howard -- Theatre as magnetic field: a study of Footfalls / Minako Okamuro -- Ends and means: Catastrophe in the context of dramatic form and theory / Alan Rosen -- Quadrat 1+2 as a television play / Hans H. Hiebel -- Unheard footfalls only sounds: "neither" in translation / Adriaan van der Weel and Ruud Hisgen