Now in its fourth year, the Samuel Beckett Summer School provides a unique experience for students, scholars and lovers of Beckett’s works. Each year we invite the world’s foremost Beckett scholars to present new lectures and seminars on all aspects of Beckett’s works. The School appeals to a wide range of Beckett enthusiasts by providing the opportunity to experience, savour and study Beckett’s works in the university where he began his intellectual life.
The Summer School is different from an academic conference in that it is not purely a gathering by specialists for other specialists. Instead, we aim to engage and explore Beckett’s works from a variety of different perspectives in order to examine and re-examine Beckett’s evolving legacy and relevance. The aim of the Summer School is to look at Beckett in an open and pluralist fashion and to consider all of the numerous contexts of his work that are of interest both to the scholar and to the general reader.
The Samuel Beckett Summer School offers a full week of learning and is complemented by social and cultural events each evening.
Each morning will feature one or two lectures by leading Beckett scholars. In the afternoons we run our week-long seminars. Each student chooses one of four seminars and stays with that seminar for the full week. Seminars include: Samuel Beckett’s Letters, Beckett and Brain Science, Beckett’s Manuscripts , Performance Workshop /
Samuel Beckett Laboratory, Reading Group: Three Novels. The range of seminar topics is meant to reflect the diverse ways in which Beckett’s works can be approached, and are run by experts in those particular areas.
In addition to the academic programme, we offer a range of activities, including social events, performances, field trips, an opening reception and a closing banquet. We encourage all of our speakers to attend our social events and discuss Beckett in more informal settings. Some of our additional events are open to the public and some are exclusive to participants of the Summer School.
Preliminary list of speakers for the 2014 Samuel Beckett Summer School (10-16 August 2014):
Elizabeth Barry, Gerald Dawe, Lois More Overbeck, Laura Salisbury, Anthony Uhlmann, Dirk Van Hulle.
A Roundtable discussion, ‘Beckett beyond the Humanities’, chaired by Jonathan Heron
Seminars: Samuel Beckett’s Letters (Lois More Overbeck), Beckett and Brain Science (Elizabeth Barry & Laura
Salisbury), Beckett’s Manuscripts (Mark Nixon & Dirk Van Hulle), Performance Workshop/Samuel Beckett
Laboratory (Jonathan Heron & Nick Johnson), Reading Group: Three Novels (Sam Slote).
Registration includes: All Lectures, Seminars, and Workshops; Cultural Events; Film Screenings; Theatre
Performance; Special exhibit of Beckett manuscripts; Field trip; Walking tour of Trinity College; Entrance to Old
Library and the Book of Kells; Opening Welcome event; Summer School receptions; Lunches and Farewell Banquet.

The Samuel Beckett Summer School 2014 will run from 10th – 16th August 2014. To request an application form, email info@beckettsummerschool.com. Application and registration for the 2014 Samuel Beckett Summer School is due 1 May 2014.
Fees
(A). With campus housing.
Fee: €990.00 or Special Student Rate* €790.00
Stay on campus at Trinity College and choose from either:
Single room ensuite or Share a two bedroomed apartment with shared bathroom, kitchen and living area
(B). No housing
Fee: €700.00 or Special Student Rate* €500.00
This option includes programme only and you agree to arrange your own accommodation.
*Student Fees apply to those engaged in full time undergraduate or postgraduate studies.
Applicants are required to included proof of student status
Airfare is not included.
Students planning to attend the Samuel Beckett Summer School may wish to seek funding for the program by applying for training funds through the Laney Graduate School’s Professional Development Support (PDS) Training program. Instructions on how to apply for PDS funds are on the Laney Graduate School’s PDS website: http://gs.emory.edu/professional_development/pds_funds/index.html Note that it is the student’s responsibility to coordinate external deadlines with the PDS deadlines. Please pay close attention to the deadline dates,
notification dates, and Payment Schedule when preparing your application. The Program does not require that students be accepted into conferences, training, or research archives before submitting a request for funding.
Competitive International Bursary
One competitive fellowship for tuition and housing will be awarded. This bursary covers all costs for summer school attendance including on-campus housing at Trinity College except airfare. To be eligible to apply for the
bursary, entrants must be engaged in full or part-time postgraduate studies. Interested applicants are asked to email info@beckettsummerschool.com to acquire a general summer school application form, and then send back to that address the completed application form, accompanied by a letter of recommendation and a short essay
(max 500 words) outlining their interest or current studies in the work of Samuel Beckett. To qualify for consideration , you must apply to the Summer School, indicating your interest, and complete other requirements before 28 March 2014.
Emory Partnership Bursary
One partnership bursary is available to Emory Graduate Students. It waives the cost of registration, €500. To be
eligible to apply for this bursary, entrants must be engaged in full or part-time postgraduate studies. Interested applicants are asked to email info@beckettsummerschool.com to acquire a general summer school application form, and then send back to that address the completed application form, accompanied by a letter of recommendation and a short essay (max 500 words) outlining their interest or current studies in the work of
Samuel Beckett, with a copy to Sam Slote, Associate Professor, School of English, Trinity College Dublin: email
SLOTES@tcd. ie. To qualify for consideration , you must apply to the Summer School and complete other requirements before 7 April 2014.
Applicants may apply for training funds through the Laney Graduate School’s Professional Development Support
(PDS) Training program. Instructions on how to apply for PDS funds are on the Laney Graduate School’s PDS website: http://gs.emory.edu/professional_development/pds_funds/index.html Please pay close attention to
the deadline dates, notification dates, and Payment Schedule when preparing your application.