Katherine Philips 350: Writing, Reputation, Legacy

Dublin, 27-28 June, 2014

2014 marks the 350th anniversary of a key year in English-language women's literary history. 1664 witnessed not only the publication of Katherine Philips's supposedly unauthorised Poems but also her untimely death at the age of 32. 'Katherine Philips 350: Writing, Reputation, Legacy' - an international conference to be held at Marsh's Library, Dublin - will celebrate this important anniversary in a city where Philips spent the most productive and high-profile year of her literary career. It will offer the opportunity not only to re-evaluate Philips's literary achievements, but also to reassess her influence on later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century women's writing.

The conference programme will include plenary lectures by Professor Elizabeth Hageman (University of New Hampshire) and Professor Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth University). It will also include a visit to the site of Smock Alley Theatre, where Philips's play Pompey was performed in 1663.

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Texts, canon and circulation
• Philips's life and afterlife
• Language and form
• Letter-writing
• Drama
• Translation
• Philips as reader and critic
• Archipelagic contexts
• Politics and religion
• Friendship and sexualities
• Literary networks

Titles and abstracts (of up to 250 words) for papers should be sent to
katherinephilips350@gmail.com by 31 August 2013. Please also include your name, institutional affiliation (where applicable), and email address.

A selection of essays based on papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of Women's Writing in 2015.

Further information about the conference will be posted at katherinephilips350.wordpress.com.

We look forward to seeing you in Dublin in 2014!

Marie-Louise Coolahan and Gillian Wright, conference organisers

Centenary Lectures: Hugh Trevor-Roper 1914-2014

A series of papers and discussions to mark the centenary of his birth (on 15 January) and to appraise aspects of his thought and writing. The occasion is arranged by the Dacre Trust and will be held on

Saturday 11th January 2014 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Provisional Programme

10.00 - 11.35 SESSION 1: MID-SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTIONS

• Sir John Elliott, ‘Trevor-Roper and “The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century”’
• Blair Worden, ‘The Unpublished Book: The Puritan Revolution’
• Mark Greengrass, ‘“Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution”’

COFFEE

11.55 - 1.00 SESSION 2: ERASMIANISM AND ECUMENICALISM

• Peter N. Miller, ‘Trevor-Roper and the Erasmian Tradition’
• Noel Malcolm, ‘Another Unpublished Book: “The Ecumenical Movement and the Church of England, 1598-1618”’

BUFFET LUNCH IN CORPUS

2.00 - 3.55 SESSION 3: THE SECOND WORLD WAR

• Richard Overy, ‘The Last Days of Hitler’
• Sir Michael Howard, ‘Trevor-Roper and Wartime Intelligence’
• Eberhard Jäckel, ‘Trevor-Roper and Hitler’
• Gina Thomas, ‘Trevor-Roper and Himmler’s Masseur’

TEA

4.15 - 4.50 SESSION 4: THE PROSE

John Banville, ‘Trevor-Roper as Prose Stylist’

4.50 - 5.25 SESSION 5: CONCLUDING DISCUSSION

5.30 - 7.15 RECEPTION IN ORIEL COLLEGE OXFORD

To celebrate the centenary, and to mark the publication of ONE HUNDRED LETTERS FROM HUGH TREVOR-ROPER, a selection of his letters to a variety of correspondents written between 1943 and 2001. The book is edited by Richard Davenport-Hines and Adam Sisman and will be published by Oxford University Press. All who have attended part or all of the conference will be welcome at the reception.

ARRANGEMENTS

The papers and discussions are open to all, and those who come to them are welcome to do so for either all or part of the proceedings.  There is no charge for attendance or for lunch or refreshments, but those wishing to attend will need to give notice.. Space is limited and places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.(A final closing date in December for any remaining spaces will be announced nearer the time.)  Those wishing to attend should email Blair Worden, who will be happy to answer questions.

Please whether you will:

1. join the group for lunch

2. attend the reception

3. state which sessions you plan to attend

In the autumn of 2014 a series of Dacre Centenary Lectures will be held, in association with the Oxford History Faculty, in the Examination Schools, Oxford, on Fridays at 5 p.m., provisionally under the title ‘IDEAS AND SOCIETY c. 1600-1800’. 

The speakers will be Anthony Grafton, Michael Hunter, Jonathan Israel, Colin Kidd, Noel Malcolm, David Wormersley and Brian Young