Category Archives: Lectures

Waugh Event in Taunton

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Brendon Books in Taunton will host an appearance of Philip Eade and Alexander Waugh in the Fall. The subject will be the life of Evelyn Waugh. Eade is the author of the new biography of Evelyn Waugh and Alexander Waugh … Continue reading →

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Waugh Biographer to Appear at Bath Event

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Theatre Royal, Bath, will host a lunchtime lecture on 3 November at which Philip Eade will talk about his new biography of Evelyn Waugh which will be published next month in the U.K.. The details are provided here. This … Continue reading →

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Waugh Seminar at Durham University

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Department of English Studies  at Durham University has issued the details of a seminar later this week on the works of Evelyn Waugh: Join the next Inventions of the Text seminar, where Dr Jason Harding will do something that one … Continue reading →

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Waugh Lecture on Friendship with Nancy Mitford

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Lancing College has posted a report on the annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture which was presented last week at the college by Selina Hastings:  Selina’s subject for her talk was the literary and epistolary relationship between Waugh and his lifetime friend, … Continue reading →

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Selina Hastings to Give Annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh biographer Selina Hastings will deliver the annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture at Lancing College on Thursday. The lecture is not open to the public, but anyone interested in attending should contact Claire Welling at Lancing re making special arrangements: (click … Continue reading →

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Recording of UT Waugh Panel Available Online

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The University of Texas Faculty Seminar on British Studies has posted a sound recording of last Friday’s panel discussion in Austin on the subject of Waugh’s travels in America. It is available online. At the bottom of the lecture description click … Continue reading →

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Paula Byrne to Lecture at Oxfordshire Museum

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Literary biographer Paula Byrne will lecture at the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock on the subject of her book Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (2009). The lecture, sponsored by the Woodstock Literature Society, is scheduled for Saturday, 24 October … Continue reading →

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Alexander Waugh to Speak on Combe Florey

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The University of Leicester has announced a lecture by Alexander Waugh on Evelyn Waugh’s views on the English country house, with particular reference to his own house, Combe Florey, in Somerset. The talk is open to the public (ÂŁ3 admission) … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s 1949 Minnesota Lecture

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A newspaper article describing Waugh’s 1949 lecture at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been reprinted in full in the latest issue of Writing in the Margins (Spring 2015), the journal of the University’s English Department. This was … Continue reading →

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Lecture by Dr. Lisa Colletta at the American University of Rome, “Travelers, Exile, and Expats: British Novelists in Hollywood”

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading →

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