14th Hazlitt Day School
&
Annual Hazlitt Lecture
Saturday 10 October 2015
University College London
Hazlitt and Journalism
The 2015 Annual Hazlitt Lecture and the 14th Hazlitt Day School, organized
by Gregory Dart, Uttara Natarajan, Philipp Hunnekuhl and James
Whitehead, will this year be dedicated to Hazlitt’s journalism, and will take
place at University College London on Saturday 10 October 2015.
The Annual Lecture, entitled ‘Hazlitt’s Political Hatred’ will be given by
Kevin Gilmartin of the California Institute of Technology from 4pm at the
Gustave Tuck Theatre, UCL. Attendance is free of charge. The Day School
precedes the Annual Lecture from 9.30am and provides a rare opportunity
for readers and scholars of Hazlitt to explore a whole range of topics
relating to Hazlitt and Journalism, as well as to meet each other and
exchange ideas.
A small fee applies for the admission to the Day School (£20/£15) which
includes morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea. The organizers hope to
welcome back a large number of regular attendees, as well as new
participants.
The pace of the event is comparatively relaxed, yet a good deal is included in
the morning and early afternoon: Ian Haywood will give the opening
lecture, and shorter papers will be delivered by David Higgins, Lucasta
Miller and Ruth Livesey. After the Annual Lecture, the day will conclude at
the Marlborough Arms Torrington Place, in close proximity to University
College, from 5.30pm.
Programme
Council Room & Committee Room,
South Wing, Wilkins Building UCL
Morning Session
9.30-10am
Arrival and registration, tea and coffee
10-11.15am
Ian Haywood (Roehampton)
‘Hazlitt and the Monarchy’
11.15-11.45am
Coffee
11.45am-1.15pm
David Higgins (Leeds)
‘Hazlitt and Englishness’
Ruth Livesey (Royal Holloway)
‘William Hazlitt and the Mail-Coach Nation’
1.15-2.15pm
Lunch
Afternoon Session
2.15-3pm
Lucasta Miller (writer and journalist)
‘This matchless conjunction of vulgar sensuality and
Cockney affectation’: Liber Amoris and The Literary
Gazette
3-3.30pm
Uttara Natarajan and Gregory Dart
Hazlittean Reading
Coffee
4-5.30pm
The Annual Hazlitt Lecture:
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, South Junction
Wilkins Building
Kevin Gilmartin (Cal Tech, USA) ‘Hazlitt’s Political
Hatred’
5.30pm
Drinks at the Marlborough Arms, Torrington Place
Admission
Day School: £20 full, £15 concessions (retired and students). Sterling
cheques and postal orders should be made payable to University College
London & sent to The Hazlitt Society, c/o Dr. James Whitehead, School of
Humanities and Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University, John
Foster Building, 80–98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ. If places are
still open, it may also be possible to register and pay on the day. e-mail:
J.R.Whitehead@ljmu.ac.uk.
Direction
The South Wing and South Junction are on the south side of the Wilkins
Building which surrounds the main central quad of UCL on the Bloomsbury
campus. Coming from the north, UCL is five minutes walk from Euston
Square tube, and ten from Euston Station and King’s Cross Station. Coming
from the south, it is ten minutes from Tottenham Court Road tube, Goodge
Street and Warren Street. Gower Street and the Euston Road are also
generously served by buses. For a map of the Bloomsbury campus, see the
following page. For further information about Hazlitt, the Hazlitt Society &
past issues of the Hazlitt Review see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hazlitt-society.