Views of 2008: Here's Looking at You!
Conference Secretary: Graham Davidson (left) Conference Director: Nick Roe (right)
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The Coleridge Summer Conference
Photos of STC 2008 are now available in the lavish Nora Jackson photogallery
Next Conference 21-28 July 2010 - Theme to be announced
Views of 2008: Here's Looking at You!
Conference Secretary: Graham Davidson (left) Conference Director: Nick Roe (right)
The 2008 conference excursion: Coleridge's Mendip Hills
The Conference Excursion in 2008 was to Coleridge's Mendip Hills; from the peaks to the underworld and the caves of Wookey Hole, where the subterranean river Axe, flowing through ‘caverns measureless’, is a likely influence on 'Kubla Khan'. Expert guide Peter 'Pathfinder' Larkin led a thrilling walk around Cheddar Gorge, Brockley Coombe and other places with Coleridgean associations. As above so below.
1830: the deep romantic chasm 2008: sublimity revisited
Looking ahead to 2010
Location
The 2010 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.
Format
STC 2010 will start on Wednesday 21 July with a 6:30 reception, and end after breakfast on Wednesday 28 July. For those coming to the conference for the first time, our programme sets out the format.
Cost (to be announced)
The charges for STC 2008 were £550 per person including accommodation with ensuite bathroom and meals. The cost of 2010 will increase in line with inflation.
10 Bursaries at £250 were awarded for 2008; two 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 acknowledge the continuing support of the Charles Lamb Society who have offered Charles Lamb Society Bursaries for STC 2006 and 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
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STC 2002 - Conference Report