Symposium programme
Date: October 29, 2016
Venue: St Anne’s College, Oxford
Details on how to find St Anne's can be found here: the symposium is in the Tsuzuki lecture theatre in the Ruth Deach Building.
Registration: go.warwick.ac.uk/jenningspoet
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9.30 |
Coffee and registration |
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10.00 |
Welcome by Professor Sally Shuttleworth: ‘Jennings at St. Anne’s’ |
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10.15 |
Professor Michael Schmidt: ‘A literary partnership’, followed by questions |
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11.15 |
Coffee/tea break |
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11.45 |
Professor Emma Mason ‘Editing Jennings’, followed by questions |
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13.00 |
Lunch |
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14.00 |
Dr Dana Greene: ‘“An Inward War”: Writing a Life of Elizabeth Jennings’, followed by questions and recollections |
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15.30 |
Coffee/tea break |
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16.00 |
Roundtable: ‘Jennings: Spirituality and Poetry’: Professor Michael Schmidt, Professor Jean Ward, Dr Hester Jones; chaired by Professor Emma Mason |
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17.00 |
Dr Jane Dowson: ‘In Search of Jennings’ - Using the Jennings Archive - The Elizabeth Jennings Website - What next: an Elizabeth Jennings Society? |
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17.00 |
Drinks reception: sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick |
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18.00 |
Poetry reading: readers include Anne Harvey, Michael Schmidt, Jean Ward, Mark Albrow and Jane Dowson |
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19.00 |
Symposium close |
The conference is generously supported by the British Academy and Leverhulme; St Anne’s College, Oxford, of which Jennings is an alumni; and the University of Warwick.
copy of the symposiusm program