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Thursday—Registration:
To register as a delegate, please go to Room 477A, of the Humanities Wing, at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, between 4.00 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, July 4th. You can also register by attending other sessions of the conference. You may also book in advance by writing to: conf.reg@thomaslovepeacock.net.
Registration for students, unemployed, pensioners and those who cannot afford a higher fee, is $15.00; for academics and those who can afford it, the fee is $20.00. Costs to attend the symposium, breakfast seminar and official dinner are cheaper for those who register for the conference.
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Thursday Evening Symposium from 18.00:
On Thursday, the 4th of July, there will be a symposium on the theme "What Good Has Come from America" held in the Aston Common Room, Jane Franklin Hall (a College of the University of Tasmania). Numbers are restricted to twenty symposiasts, so please book as early as possible by writing to: symposium@thomaslovepeacock.net. For further details, please go to: http://www.thomaslovepeacock.net/symposium.
The cost to attend the symposium is $35.00 for delegates, and $40.00 for others.
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Friday Morning Session, 10.00—12.00
(in Room 477A, Humanities Wing, University of Tasmania, Hobart):
Introduction; a talk by Informal (from the University of Tasmania, Hobart) on "Misunderstanding Peacock"; and a general discussion on Peacock's life and works.
Lunch will be available for delegates at the University Club from noon.
Friday Afternoon Session 13.30—17.30
(in Room 477A, Humanities Wing, University of Tasmania, Hobart):
A paper by Sean McGlynn (from the University of Cardiff, Wales) on "Peacock and Medievalism" will be read by proxy. This paper is a wonderfully comprehensive, long work, wherefore it may be necessary to read only Part One ("Peacock and Early 19th-Century Medievalism") on Friday, and to read Part Two ("Medievalism in the Novels of Peacock") on Sunday.
Afterwards, an attempt will be made to have the world's first complete reading of Peacock's most famous (and shortest) novel Nightmare Abbey (1818) with different readers for the voices of the various characters. If there be insufficient time before a late afternoon tea, the reading of the novel may be finished on Sunday.
Friday Evening Session, from 18.00
(in Room 477A, Humanities Wing, University of Tasmania, Hobart):
Frank Strk (from the University of Tasmania, Hobart) will present his paper (with some delightful illustrations) on "Thomas Love Peacock and the Exploration of the Euphrates River of Antiquity."
Delegates are expected to fend for themselves in finding somewhere to dine on Friday night. There are a muliplicity of good restaurants in around Hobart, and a plethora of other adequate dining venues.
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Saturday Breakfast Seminar, 8.00—11.00:
On the morning of Saturday, the 6th, there will be a breakfast seminar held at Hadleys Hotel, Hobart, which will feature a presentation (by video) on "The Two Voices in The Four Ages of Poetry" by Prof. Nicholas A. Joukovsky (from Penn State University, USA). Please book early by writing to: breakfast@thomaslovepeacock.net. For further details, please go to: http://www.thomaslovepeacock.net/breakfast.
The cost to attend the breakfast seminar is $22.00 for delegates, and $27.00 for others.
From 11.00 to 14.30, interstate and international guests have the opportunity to investigate the famous Salamanca Market before reconvening for the afternoon session, which will feature three papers on aspects of Peacock's liberal, advanced views on women's education and place in society.
Saturday Afternoon Session, 15.00—19.00
(in Room 477A, Humanities Wing, University of Tasmania, Hobart):
Two papers will read by proxy: "Peacock's Feminist Approach: Female Voices in the Mock-Symposium" by María del Rocío Ramos Ramos (from the University of Huelva, Spain); and "Thomas Love Peacock's 'Pearl of the Empyreal Skies'"—a discussion on Peacock's apparent fixation on St. Catharine in his last novel, Gryll Grange (1860), as the embodiment of the ideal woman—by Kathy Elaine Nixon (from the University of Virginia, USA).
Dr Katherine Levin (from Minnesota, USA) will then read her paper on "'That most commercial of all bargains': Marriage, Rhetoric, and Money in Peacock's Fiction."
A general discussion will follow after afternoon tea, for a long as delegates would like, before leaving to prepare for dinner.
Saturday Dinner Seminar, from 20.00:
On the evening of Saturday the 6th, there will be a dinner, also held at Hadleys Hotel, Hobart, which will feature a discussion on Peacock's poetry, and whether it be worth preserving, lead by Dr Philip Mead (senior lecturer in the English Dept. at the University of Tasmania, and co-editor of of The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (Penguin, 1991). Local jazz singer, Zoë Buckley, will sing some of Peacock's songs (with music by Informal). Please book early by writing to: dinner@thomaslovepeacock.net. For further details, please go to: http://www.thomaslovepeacock.net/dinner.
The cost to attend the dinner is $40.00 for delegates, and $45.00 for others.
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Sunday Session, from 10.00
(in Room 477A, Humanities Wing, University of Tasmania, Hobart):
Depending on whether time allow the reading on Friday of the second half of Sean McGlynn's paper, and whether the reading of Nightmare Abbey need to be continued, and depending also, perhaps, on whether many delegates consumed a superfluity of the quintessence of concentrated sunbeams the previous night, the Sunday Session may or may not last for the rest of the day.
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The Thomas Love Peacock Society thanks the School of History and Classics,
University of Tasmania, for its generous support.
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