Programme outline (the full and final programme is available for download: Programme Writers and intellectuals on Britain and Europe, 1918–2018):
THURSDAY, 1 NOVEMBER 2018
11.00-12.00 Registration (tea & coffee available)
12.00-12.45 Welcome lunch
12.45.00-14.30 Panel session 1
14.30-16.00 Panel session 2
16.00-16.30 Tea & coffee break
16.30-17.30 Keynote lecture 1: Prof. Jason Harding (University of Durham)
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18.00-19.30 Public event: Adam Thorpe in conversation with Kristian Shaw, with readings from his latest novel, Missing Fay (2017) and his recent memoir Notes from the Cevennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France (2018) – to book tickets, please visit our Eventbrite listing page.
FRIDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2018
8.30-9.30 Registration (tea & coffee available)
9.30-10.30 Keynote lecture 2: Prof. Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London)
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10.30-12.00 Panel session 3
12.00-13.00 Lunch break
13.00-14.30 Public round table: Writers on Britain and Europe now
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- Professor Robert EAGLESTONE (Royal Holloway, University of London), editor of Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses (2018)
- Dr Fiona SHAW (Northumbria University), author of young-adult ‘BrexLit’ novel Outwalkers (2018)
- M. G. SANCHEZ (author of Past: A Memoir [2016])
- Dr Richard T. KELLY (author of Crusaders [2008])
- Dr Kristian SHAW (author of Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Fiction, University of Lincoln)
14.30-15.00 Tea & coffee break
15.00-16.30 Panel session 4
16.30-17.00 Round-up and conference close
Further information:
A selection of papers from this conference will be published as a Special Collection of the Open Library of Humanities.
