'Rhetoric and Tradition: A Celebration of Peter Mack'

Symposium on Saturday 1st November 2025

Taking place in the Woods-Scawen Lecture Theatre, University of Warwick Arts Centre, the Helen Martin Studio (lunch and coffee breaks) and the Agora space, Faculty of Arts Building (wine reception).

Speakers include: Brian Cummings, Jennifer Richards, Rita Copeland, Manfred Kraus, Paul Botley, Henry Woudhuysen, Andrew Hadfield, Graeme Macdonald, Rebecca Earle, David Morley, Jeremy Treglown, Paul Hills and members of Peter's family.

This celebration is co-sponsored and jointly funded by the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies (Warwick), the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS) and the Warburg Institute.

Registration information

Costs are £25 each, £10 for student concessions. However, payment will not be requested until later in the year (September). This fee includes lunch, coffee and wine reception. Link to booking form is HERE.

Dinner will be hosted at Radcliffe House at 19:30 (central Warwick campus) and this is on a 'book and pay for yourself basis'. To be added to the booking, please tick the relevant box on the booking form.

To make a B&B booking, either email the team at hello-conferences@warwick.ac.uk

or check details and book via their website https://warwick.ac.uk/services/conferences/bed-and-breakfast/

Schedule:

10.30-11 Coffee

11-11.30 Welcome

11.30-1.30 Roundtable, responses to Peter Mack’s work (Chair Ingrid de Smet)

1.30-2.30pm lunch

2.30-4pm Plenary Lecture. Brian Cummings: “Why do we read the classics?”

4-4.30 Coffee

4.30-5.30 Reading and discussion of Peter Mack’s essays

5.30-6.30 Wine Reception

Attendees should familiarise themselves with the applicable T&Cs, including cancellation policy, link HERE.