The Coleridge Summer Conference
Established 1988 - We will celebrate our 20th
Anniversary with
Poems, Poets and Romantic Poetics
— with a Coleridgean
emphasis, of course...
23-30 July 2008
Plenary Lecturers:
Christoph Bode, Reg Foakes,
Tom Mayberry,
Jim Mays, Lynda
Pratt and Alan Vardy
8 May 2008 update:
Programme
Abstracts
NB Conference delegates, keep checking in. This programme is provisional and
will be subject to regular updating. If you have been selected to give a
paper, please check that your name is on it, and that your abstract is
included. If not, don't panic, just contact Graham Davidson or Nick
Roe. Please also check that your timetabling meets your travel requirements.
The 20th anniversary conference
will be held in historic Clifford Hall at Cannington maintaining our long
established residence in Coleridge's Somerset at the foot of the Quantock Hills.
The beautiful garden grounds will be available for all participants, and there
are a variety of walks in the village and on the levels towards the River
Parrett. Join us for late night drinks and talk under the stars on long
balmy summer evenings.
The conference excursion: Coleridge's Mendip Hills
The Conference Excursion in 2008 will be to Coleridge's Mendip Hills; into
the underworld and the caves of Wookey Hole, where the subterranean river Axe,
flowing through ‘caverns measureless’, is a likely influence on 'Kubla Khan'.
Alternatively, join expert guide Peter Larkin on a thrilling walk around
Cheddar Gorge (see left), Brockley Coombe and other places with Coleridgean
associations.
Registration
Please follow this link for registration
information
Format
STC 2008 will start on Wednesday
23 July with a 6:30 reception, and ends
after breakfast on Wednesday 30 July. For those coming to the
conference for the first time, our
programme
sets out the format.
Costs
Despite the new, extended format of STC 2008, we have
kept the increase in fees to a minimum, just £50 more than STC 2006. The cost of
attending the conference, including accommodation with ensuite bathroom and
meals, will be £550 per person (£1,050 for shared double accommodation).
Bursaries
10 Bursaries at £250
have been awarded; 2 of these thanks to funding from the Charles Lamb Society
We are committed to enabling graduate students, who would not otherwise be able
to finance the cost of the conference, to come to this essential Coleridgean
event, and are glad to announce the continuing support of the Charles Lamb
Society who have again offered Charles Lamb Society Bursaries for STC
2008. We
also thank our other donors, especially the authors of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge and the Sciences of Life who started the conference bursary fund
by donating their royalties in 2000.
Book Stall
Alex Alec-Smith will be present with her Romantics book stall for academics,
collectors, students and general readers.
Views of the glorious conference setting:
The Quantock Hills and
Cannington
Conference Director:
Nick Roe (left)
Conference Secretary: Graham Davidson (right)
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