News Archive
Conference and Unveiling of the Memorial Plaque in Honour of Professor Najder
6-7 June 2024, Collegium Maius, University of Opole
Conrad Centenary Event, University of Kent, Canterbury, 4 June 2024
Including a screening of African Apocalypse, followed by a Q&A with director Rob Lemkin.
Professor Robert Hampson will present the paper: “Joseph Conrad: From Cosmopolitanism to Transnational Activism”
The Polish University Abroad (PUNO) – Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar
Free online event: 15 May 2024, 18.30 – 19.30 (BST)
Presentation by Professor Robert Hampson, “Conrad and the Polish Problem”
On Direct Action – 14 to 15 Feb 2024
Events marking the 130th anniversary of the Greenwich Outrage
On Direct Action – 14 Feb 2024
Event marking the 130th anniversary of the Greenwich Outrage
Panel discussion and screening of Sabotage (dir. Alfred Hitchcock 1936) at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity 20 October 2023 to 28 January 2024
The New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY
The exhibition featured the first public showing of Beerbohm’s caricature of Joseph Conrad in an ‘improved’ copy of A Christmas Garland, and the original manuscript of the parody, ‘THE FEAST’ by J*S*PH C*NR*D, as published in the latter volume.
For more information see here
To Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK)
The Polish Library POSK in London presents
Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Life and Work Exhibition
Curated by Dr Dobrosława Platt, Director of the Polish Library POSK, with the assistance of Dr Hugh Epstein, Honorary Secretary, Joseph Conrad Society (UK)
Literary London Reading Group – Senate House, London, 9 January 2024
Dr George Legg (KCL) will host an in-person session entitled ‘Melodrama, Pity and the Politics of Illustration in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent’
For more information see here
The Conrad Panel at MLA Convention Philadelphia (USA) January 2024
Splendid Difficulty: Teaching Conrad
Sponsored by the Joseph Conrad Society of America, the panel is chaired by Debra Romanick Baldwin (University of Dallas).
More information here