BOOKING FORM

 

ARNOLD BENNETT SOCIETY – CONFERENCE

SATURDAY 12th June 2010

Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Hanley, Stoke on Trent

 

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I/We would like to attend the Conference Dinner in Burslem. at

The Bennett Room, The George Hotel (The Dragon).  Scene of the

famous clog dancing.

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Advanced Booking is essential. All bookings will be acknowledged by email or telephone.

 

Please complete and return the Booking Form (and cheque) by post to: 

Carol Gorton, 4 Field End Close, Trentham.

Stoke on Trent, ST4 8DA 01782 641337

 

  

The Day’s Programme

 

8.45 – 9.30 a.m.                      Registration

 

9.30 – 9.40 a.m.           Introduction – Morag Jones

 

9.40 – 10.45 a.m.         Peter Preston (Nottingham University):

Bennett at work on Clayhanger

                                    Phil Cawston (Careers advisor with Brighton Connexions): Clayhanger in my office

                                    Elizabeth Leslie: (Vice Chairman AB Society):

“That thoroughly sound education”

 

10.45 – 11.15 a.m.      Coffee/Tea

 

11.15 – 1.00 p.m.        Deborah Wynne (Chester University):

Arnold Bennett and Material Culture           

Alan Pedley (Editor AB Society Newsletter):

Portraits, Helen ….. and Stendhal

John Shapcott (Editor & critic):

Something Rotten in the state of Bursley: Clayhanger and the Politics of Indecision".

                                    Margaret Thomas (Open University):

Books, Print and the Clayhangers

                                    Maire Messenger-Davies (Ulster University):

The loved text: a homage to Clayhanger           

 

1.00  -    2.00  p.m.      Lunch

 

 2.00 –  3.10 pm          Kris Madden – (Author and Post-graduate student at National University, California)

                                    "Arnold Bennett in the 21st Century"

                                    Fiona Tomkinson (Yeditepe University, Istanbul):

'On Not Worrying about God: the strange religious subtext of the Clayhanger trilogy'. 

                                    Elizabeth Negus (Barking College):

The Sociological Imagination of Arnold Bennett: Structured for Survival

 

3.10  –  3.50 pm          Ray Johnson (Staffordshire University):

Bennett on Federation

 

3.50 – 4.15 p.m.           Tea/Coffee

 

4.15 – 5.00 p.m.            Question & General Discussion – Closing remarks