Coleridge Conference 2024, 29 July-2 Aug, Grasmere
We’re happy to let you know that the Coleridge Conference will take place, next year, at Dove Cottage/The Jerwood Centre, Grasmere, 29 July-2 August 2024. This will be the first time we have run the Conference in the Lakes, where Coleridge wrote ‘Dejection’ and The Friend. The conference will follow the BARS Conference in Glasgow and precede the Wordsworth Conference in Rydal. The keynote speaker is Nigel Leask, Regius Professor at the University of Glasgow and author of The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge’s Critical Thought and Stepping Westward.
We invite you to submit, by 30 October, proposals for papers of 20 minutes’ length, on any topic to do with Coleridge. Some will be published in The Coleridge Bulletin.
There will be some bursaries for grad students and the unwaged.
Send your paper proposal to BOTH fulfat62@gmail.com AND joanna.taylor@manchester.ac.uk by 30 October 2023.
Make sure you WRITE YOUR NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS IMMEDIATELY UNDER THE PROPOSAL. ALSO ENSURE YOU PUT ‘COLERIDGE CONFERENCE PROPOSAL’ IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF THE EMAIL. State if you wish to be considered for a bursary and why.
Numbers will be limited by the capacity of the Jerwood Centre, so we urge you to submit your paper proposal promptly — latecomers may find there’s no room left.
This will be the first Coleridge Conference at which delegates find their own residence — though we will lunch and dine together each day. In Grasmere there are many hotels, BnBs, AirBnBs and a youth hostel with both shareable and single-occupancy rooms (no dorms). There is also a campsite. We won’t be rating accommodation or liaising between delegates and accommodation, except to say, now, that the nearest hotel to the venue is the Daffodil (though pricier) and that tripadvisor reviews are very helpful.
BECAUSE PLACES IN GRASMERE FILL UP RAPIDLY, WE STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT YOU RESERVE A ROOM MANY MONTHS IN ADVANCE — CANCELLABLE IF YOU TURN OUT TO BE UNABLE TO COME.
Tim Fulford
Jo Taylor
Greg Leadbetter
