Events
Two Modern Apocalypses: T. S. Eliot’s "The Waste Land" versus Samuel Beckett’s "Endgame"
A lecture by Prof. Erik Tonning (Universitetet i Bergen)
When:
October 20, 2026 | 6:00 PM GMT+1
Chapter:
University of Galway
Location:
TBA
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Dr Erik Tonning is Research Director of the ‘Modernism and Christianity’ project. He completed an undergraduate degree at Bergen (1999) and an MA at Oslo (2001), before going on to the University of Oxford for his DPhil (2006). He has held a Norwegian Research Council postdoctoral grant (2006-2009) for a project on ‘Samuel Beckett and Christianity’, and has also been affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent’s Park College (2005-2010). In 2010, he held a Tutorial Fellowship at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, before starting his new post in Bergen in January 2011. He has published two monographs, Samuel Beckett’s Abstract Drama: Works for Stage and Screen 1962-1985 (2007), and Modernism and Christianity (2014). He has also published four co-edited volumes including Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies (Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 22, 2010), Broadcasting in the Modernist Era (2014) and Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse (2015). He is also Series Editor (with Prof. Matthew Feldman) of the two book series Historicizing Modernism and Modernist Archives from Bloomsbury Academic, as well as section editor for Wiley-Blackwell's online journal Religion Compass: Modern Ideologies and Faith.