Category Archives: Conferences

Mid-December Roundup

Posted on December 13, 2025 by Jeffrey Manley

–Charles Moore writes in the Daily Telegraph a critique of the newly issued US National Security Strategy. The article is entitled “Civilisation erasure is real, but Donald Trump is part of the problem,” and opens with this: Amid stiff competition … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Compilations, Conferences, Croatia and Cover Art

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Jeffrey Manley

–A profile of author David Pryce-Jones has been posted on the website Onward and Upward. This is written by Jay Nordlinger and is a well-written, concise survey of Pryce-Jones’s life and works. Here’s an excerpt: …Over the years, I have … Continue reading →

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Roundup: War Trilogy, Conference and Campus Novel

Posted on August 13, 2024 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Critic magazine has published a feature length article on Waugh’s war trilogy, Sword of Honour. This is written by Max Bayliss and is entitled “Waugh at war: Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s … Continue reading →

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Waugh in Academia: Shanghai and Oxford

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

A paper relating to Waugh will be presented later this week at an academic conference in China. This is entitled “Hearing Voices: The Extended Mind in Evelyn Waugh’s The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold“. It will be offered on Saturday, 21 September … Continue reading →

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Iris Murdoch Centenary Marked This Week

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

This week is the 100th anniversary of novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch’s birth in 1919. It will be marked by a Centenary Conference at St Anne’s College, Oxford this weekend (13-15 July). A later conference is scheduled on 10-11 October at the … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Academia.edu

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

An article on Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited has recently appeared on a website called academia.edu. This is by Dr Joanna Bratten and is entitled “From Arcadia to Ascesis: the necessary loss of pleasure in Brideshead Revisited”. Dr Bratten also presented a paper … Continue reading →

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Radio Adaptation of Decline & Fall Rebroadcast

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC Radio 4 Extra will rebroadcast its two-episode adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall starting this Thursday. This adaptation by Jeremy Front was first transmitted in 2015, and this is apparently its first rebroadcast. Front has also adapted other … Continue reading →

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Conference to Consider War Correspondents Between the Wars

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Jeffrey Manley

A conference will be convened on 9-10 May at the University of Angers, France, to consider the history of war correspondents reporting during the period between the two world wars. The title of the conference is “Correspondants de guerre: aire … Continue reading →

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Waugh Event in Milan

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The British Council in Milan has announced a presentation relating to Evelyn Waugh later this week.  Here are the details: On occasion of the 2018 edition of Bookcity, the British Council Milan, in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages … Continue reading →

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Waugh and International Law

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

Dr Fernando Gomez Herrero from the University of Birmingham delivered a paper at a London conference on Languages Memory based on Evelyn Waugh’s description of his attendance at an academic conference in Scott King’s Modern Europe. The paper was entitled ‘About … Continue reading →

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