OTHER EVENTS
Thursday 24- Saturday 26 June: Hopkins and his Environments
This is a free Virtual International Conference which will appeal to all lovers of Hopkins. The keynote speaker will be Julia Saville, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois. To register for this conference (the deadline is 20 May), please contact
www.gerardmanleyhopkins.online
HOPKINS SOCIETY EVENTS
1 Hosting the Association of Literary Societies meetng 2021 - on the weekend of Oct 1 - 3. Entitled "The Highgate Highflyers", The Betjeman Society and the Hopkins Society are joint hosts. To be held at St Michael's Church, Highgate, London .....
- The venue is Highgate in North London because both poets went to school there. (However the content is almost entirely different from the day the Hopkins Society event held there in 2019.)
- Saturday morning will have 2 lectures: 'Hopkins and Betjeman: Poetry's Odd Couple' by Lance Pierson, on the differences between the poets and their surprising similarities and .....
'Explaining two of Hopkins Poems' by DR Jane Wright, Senior Lecturer at Bristol University, ... Jane gave amost illuminating discourse with Melyn Bragg on Radio $'s "In our Time" in 2020 .....
- The afternoon will have a choice of 4 options:
- Highgate School's archive on Hopkins, Betjeman and other literary figures (this is the only 'repeat' from 2019)
- Hopkins and Betjeman's views on church architecture, with special reference to St Michael's where we are meeting
- Guided walk through Betjeman's childhood in Highgate, with the poems he wrote about it
- Guided walk round the other literary figures who lived in Highgate
- For people who want to stay, there will be a dinner on Saturday evening, and also on Friday.
- there will be a list of possible events and visits on the Sunday for those who can stay over - some related to Hopkins and Betjeman, others of more general literary interest.
Booking will open, with fuller information, at a date yet to be announced.
2. Stonyhurst weekend at the Christian Heritage Centre - now to take place 17 - 19 June 2022
The Christian Heritage Centre will be booked and the weekend will include contributions from Jill Robson on "Hopkins and Nature"; there will be additional speakers along with visits to the museum and observatory at Stonyhurst School with a possible outing to two local abbeys that Hopkins visited. The Sunday morning will include mass at the school.
3 Postponed until 2022 - Hopkins Society Day at St Bartholomew's Church, Haslemere, Surrey.
We are intending to meet in St Bartholomew's Church in Haslemere, which has a memorial window to GMH donated by his grieving parents less than a year after his death. It was in memory of a dear son – he was not a famous poet then. Rather surprisingly, the stained-glass window next to it is a memorial to the Poet Laureate Tennyson, who had also lived there.
Gerard's parents and family moved to Haslemere from Hampstead three years before Gerard died. He visited Haslemere only once. But his parents, sisters and brothers lived on in a house built for them, until the last one died in 1952. So there is a long Hopkins family association with Haslemere.
On the visit, we will hear about the history and iconography of the GMH memorial window. We will also hear from a local historian about the involvement of the Hopkins family. We will visit the family house (at least seeing it from the outside), and see various family graves. (Photos of the newly restored grave of Gerard's parents are shown below ...)
Further details of travel (Haslemere has a station), and local accommodation, plus the full programme details will be available as soon as we know the new date ......
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3 Hopkins Society Day on Saturday 26 September 2020 at The Birmingham Oratory .......also postponed now until 2022 - full details will be posted when available ....
OTHER FORTHCOMING EVENTS
1 see also The USA based "Official" Hopkins US based website: http://www.hopkinspoetry.com .....
2 Thursday 24- Saturday 26 June: Hopkins and his Environments
This is a free Virtual International Conference which will appeal to all lovers of Hopkins. The keynote speaker will be Julia Saville, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois. To register for this conference (the deadline is 20 May), please contact
www.gerardmanleyhopkins.online
There is a Virtual International Conference - "Hopkins and his Environments" June 24 - 26 2021, being put on by "The Hopkins Conference Group". The organising committee is currently has a "Call for Papers" with a deadline of January 25 2021 ... see ....www.gerardmanleyhopkins.online. 300 word proposals can be sent to 19higgins55@gmail.com.