A CECS Day Conference
King’s Manor, York, Saturday March 10 2007
Conference Convenor: John Barrell
PROGRAMME
9.30 registration and coffee
9.50 welcome: John Barrell (York)
10.00 – 11.30 Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway) Introduction
Nick Roe (St Andrews) 'The Lives of John Thelwall'
Kenneth Johnston (Indiana, Bloomington) 'Unusual suspects: Thelwall, Godwin and Pitt’s "reign of terror"’
11.30 coffee
11.50 -12.50 Jon Mee (Oxford) 'The dungeon and the cell: the prison verse of Coleridge and Thelwall'
Corinna Wagner (Xavier, Nova Scotia) 'Domestic invasions: John Thelwall and the exploitation of privacy'
12.50 lunch
2.00-3.30 Robert Lamb (Exeter) 'Natural right versus utility in Thelwall’s theory of property'
Gavin Edwards (Glamorgan) 'Crabbe and the Jacobin Fox'
Penny Corfield (Royal Holloway) 'Fame, notoriety and obscurity: the search for Thelwall’s missing manuscripts'
3.30 tea
3.50 – 4.50 Sir Geoffrey Bindman (UCL) 'John Thelwall and the history of civil liberties'
Steve Poole (University of the West of England) 'History, memory and John Thelwall'
Brief break
5.00 - 5.30 Discussion