The Sixteenth International

THOMAS HARDY CONFERENCE

Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom

Saturday 31 July - Saturday 7 August 2004

LECTURES:
Professor Michael Millgate: 'Afterwards: Thomas Hardy as a Biographical Subject'
Professor Michael Irwin: 'Moving Pictures of the Mind: How to ExperienceThe Dynasts'
Professor Barbara Hardy: 'Thomas Hardy and Seamus Heaney'
Professor Francesco Marroni: 'Thomas Hardy and the Landscape of Historical Consciousness'

Joanna Cullen Brown: ‘Why Hardy’s Poetry?’
Phillip Mallett: 'Hardy, Emma, and the Poems of 1912-13'
Doctor Stephen Regan: 'Vision and Design in Far From the Madding Crowd'
Professor Pamela Dalziel: 'The Gospel according to Hardy: from Theology to Apology'
Ann Thwaite: '"My Dear Gosse": The Friendship between Thomas Hardy and Edmund Gosse'

Timothy Mowl: ‘The historic gardens of Dorset, and the Hardy factor’

Lecturers will chair follow-up seminars in the afternoons

SEMINARS AND TALKS:

Doctor James Gibson: ‘Thomas Hardy: A Last Word.’

Professor John Doheny: 'The Return of the Native: an Enigma, a Dilemma'
Professor Eugene Davis: 'Musical-Aesthetic Alternatives in The Return of the Native'
Doctor Angelique Richardson: 'Hardy and the Life of the Mind'

Alan Chedzoy: ‘Hardy and Kipling.’

Andrew Leah: ‘Hardy's friendship with T.E. Lawrence.’

FILM SYMPOSIUM:  ‘Thomas Hardy on Film’

Chaired by Professor Rosemarie Morgan & Professor Robert Schweik

Professor Keith Wilson: 'Far from the Madding Crowd in the Cinema'

Professor Terry Wright: 'Hardy as Cinematic Novelist'

Professor Shannon Rogers: 'The Whole Left Behind: Omitted scenes in Polanski's Tess'

Professor Richard Nemesvari: 'Romancing the Text: Genre, Indeterminacy, & Televising Tess

There will be the usual 'singsong' courtesy of Professor Eugene Davis to end the session.