The registration deadline for the William Golding Centenary Conference is fast approaching. If you would like to attend, you can find all the necessary information and paperwork here. I include the latest schedule of talks and events below. Highlights include plenary lectures by Judy Golding and John Carey, and a tour of the Golding family home.
The William Golding Centenary Conference
Centre For South West Writing
University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
16-18 September, 2011
Friday 16 September, 2011
2-3pm Registration and Coffee (Refectory)
3-3.30pm Welcome Address (Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough House)
3.30-4.30pm Plenary Address (1): Judy Golding (Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough House)
4.30-6pm Presentations (1): Lord of the Flies (Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough House)
Nick Groom (University of Exeter): ‘Rings and Flies: Lords of ’54’
Yasunori Sugimura (Otaru University of Commerce): ‘Environmental Destruction and Self-Destruction in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies’
Nick Groom (University of Exeter): ‘Rings and Flies: Lords of ’54’
Yasunori Sugimura (Otaru University of Commerce): ‘Environmental Destruction and Self-Destruction in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies’
6-8pm Wine Reception (Boardroom Foyer, Tremough House)
8pm Dinner (Refectory)
Saturday 17 September, 2011
9-10.30am Presentations (2): Biography and Reputation (Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough House)
John Cox: ‘William Golding at Bishop Wordsworth School’
Nicola Presley (University of Exeter)): ‘The Enduring Influence of William Golding in Popular Culture’
Sandra Josipović (University of Belgrade): ‘The Reception of William Golding’s Work in Serbian Literary Criticism’
Saturday 17 September, 2011
9-10.30am Presentations (2): Biography and Reputation (Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough House)
John Cox: ‘William Golding at Bishop Wordsworth School’
Nicola Presley (University of Exeter)): ‘The Enduring Influence of William Golding in Popular Culture’
Sandra Josipović (University of Belgrade): ‘The Reception of William Golding’s Work in Serbian Literary Criticism’
10.30-11am Tea and Biscuits (Boardroom Foyer, Tremough House)
11-12.30pm Presentations (3): Early Fiction (Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough House)
Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent): ‘“There is another smell of a nobody”: William Golding and the man who wasn’t there’
Terrell Carver (University of Bristol): ‘Hobbes vs Locke in Lord of the Flies, or Where Did
Ralph Go Wrong?’
Miles Leeson (University of Portsmouth): ‘Fall Out: The impact of Hitler on the early fiction of William Golding and Iris Murdoch’
12.30-2pm Buffet Lunch (Boardroom Foyer, Tremough House)
2-3.30pm Presentations (4): Pincher Martin and The Spire (Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough House)
Mark Rawlinson (University of Leicester): ‘Pincher Martin and Narratives of the Second World War at Sea’
Virginia Tiger (Rutgers University): ‘Back to the Beginning, On to the End: A Rhetorical Analysis of Pincher Martin and Fire Down Below’
Kazunari Miyahara (Yamaguchi University): ‘Pride and Prejudice of Readers in and of The Spire’
Mark Rawlinson (University of Leicester): ‘Pincher Martin and Narratives of the Second World War at Sea’
Virginia Tiger (Rutgers University): ‘Back to the Beginning, On to the End: A Rhetorical Analysis of Pincher Martin and Fire Down Below’
Kazunari Miyahara (Yamaguchi University): ‘Pride and Prejudice of Readers in and of The Spire’
3.30-4pm Tea and Biscuits (Boardroom Foyer, Tremough House)
4-5.30pm Presentations (5): Darkness Visible and Visionary Experience (Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough House)
Nadia D’Amelio (University of Mons): ‘Holy Geometry in Golding’s Darkness Visible’
Roger Kojecký (The Christian Literary Studies Group): ‘Spiritual Realism: Epiphany in Golding’s novels’
Nadia D’Amelio (University of Mons): ‘Holy Geometry in Golding’s Darkness Visible’
Roger Kojecký (The Christian Literary Studies Group): ‘Spiritual Realism: Epiphany in Golding’s novels’
7pm Gala Dinner (Refectory)
Sunday 18 September, 2011
9-10.30am Presentations (6): The Paper Men and the Art of the Novel (Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough House)
Miroslawa Buchholtz (Nicolas Copernicus University): ‘Auto/Biographical Trans/Actions in The Paper Men’
Stephen Roberts: ‘The Papyrus Men — Golding’s modified and condensed “Egyptian Book of the Dead”’
Nicole Terrien (University of Rennes): ‘Golding and the art of the novel: mapping a territory of limited understanding’
Sunday 18 September, 2011
9-10.30am Presentations (6): The Paper Men and the Art of the Novel (Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough House)
Miroslawa Buchholtz (Nicolas Copernicus University): ‘Auto/Biographical Trans/Actions in The Paper Men’
Stephen Roberts: ‘The Papyrus Men — Golding’s modified and condensed “Egyptian Book of the Dead”’
Nicole Terrien (University of Rennes): ‘Golding and the art of the novel: mapping a territory of limited understanding’
10.30-11am Tea and Biscuits (Boardroom Foyer, Tremough House)
11-12.15pm Plenary Address (2): John Carey (Chapel Lecture Theatre, Tremough House)
12.30-4pm Excursion to William Golding’s home, Tullimaar (including packed lunch)
4pm End of Conference
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