The Hopkins Society Weekend Conference

Theodore House on the Stonyhurst Estate, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 9PZ

Friday 25 October

2:00pm:     Arrival/check in at Theodore House, adjacent to Stonyhurst College

6:30pm:     Evening Meal

8:00pm:     ‘The Peacock’s Eye’: Vision and Perception in Gerard Manley Hopkins – Katarzyna Stefanowicz (Hopkins Society UK; Birmingham University)

Saturday 26 October

8 – 9:00am: Breakfast

9:30am:      ‘A Ploughed Field Glazed with Crimson Ice’: Hopkins’ Letters to Nature and the Krakatoa Sunsets of 1883/84 – Dr Jill Robson (Hopkins Society UK)

10:45am:   Tea/coffee

11:30am:   Visit to All Hallows Church, Great Mitton

1:00pm:     Lunch

2:00pm:     Guided tour of Stonyhurst Museum

4:30pm:     Tea/coffee

5:00pm:     Hopkins Studies Now – Dr Martin Dubois (Durham University)

6:30pm:     Evening Meal

8:00pm:     ‘The carol, the creation’: Hopkins – Poetry and Music – Michael Burgess and Irene Kyffin (Hopkins Society UK)

Sunday 27 October

8 – 9:00am:  Breakfast

9:30 am:     Eucharist

10:30 am:  Tea/coffee

11:00 am:  Hopkins incurvatus: the poetics of strain – Michael Rizq (Cambridge University)

12:30pm:   Lunch and departure

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