Conferences

The next Ted Hughes conference will take place at Pembroke College, Cambridge, England, from 15-18 September 2010 with plenary lectures from Seamus Heaney and Jonathan Bate. For more information, please log on to the conference website.

Past Conferences

There have been several conferences focussing on Ted Hughes's work since the 1980s.

The first Ted Hughes conference was held at Manchester, in 1980, organized by Keith Sagar. Its proceedings have been collected in The Achievement of Ted Hughes. A detailed listing for this publication is available in the Criticism section.

The second Ted Hughes conference was again organized by Keith Sagar in 1990. Its proceedings went into the volume The Challenge of Ted Hughes. For this publication, too, a detailed listing is available in the Criticism section.

A third conference, which I know nothing else about, seems to have been held in Cairo in 1994 or 1995.

In February 2000, the fourth international Ted Hughes conference was held in Lyon (France). It was organized by Joanny Moulin and Adolphe Haberer. The proceedings of this have been published in Ted Hughes: Alternative Horizons (Routledge, 2004). A listing of the contributions to the conference and further information on the event have been collected on a separate page: Ted Hughes Conference, Lyon 2000.

In 2002 ( 31 Oct to 02 Nov 2002), Indiana University, Bloomington, held a Sylvia Plath Symposium commemorating the poet's 70th birthday. Further information here.

In 2005, "Fixed Stars Govern a Life": the 5^th International Ted Hughes Conference was held at Emory University, Atlanta, between 5 and 7 October 2005.

"Ted Hughes and the Classics" is the title of a conference to be held by the School of History and Classics, Edinburgh University, November 25^th–27th