Conference Programme

Registration will take place in the foyer of the Cripps Court Conference Centre from 2pm. The conference organisers will be preparing the venue until then, so it will not be possible to register before this time. We kindly ask delegates not to arrive for registration before 2pm.

There is a room to store your luggage in the foyer. The first session will start promptly at 2.15pm so we ask that you do not attempt to find your bedroom before the start – there is a 30 minute coffee break at 4.05pm which will give you time to find your bedroom as well as have refreshments.

There is access to the lecture room on the ground floor and on the Gallery level. We will have refreshments and lunch on Saturday in the Gallery on the first floor. There is a lift between the ground and the first floor. There is plenty of space in the Gallery should you wish to relax there between sessions and, depending on the weather, you can also go out into the garden to relax. Toilets are located on both the ground floor and the Gallery level.


Conference timetable

Conference timetable 
Date Start Type Session Presenter
Fri 27 Mar 2:15 pm Welcome Welcome and housekeeping Trollope Society
2:25 pm Intro Introduction by Professor Linda McClain Professor Linda McClain
2:45 pm Paper Mr Dove’s Opinion: Custom and Conscience in the World of the Pallisers Gerard Clarke
3:25 pm Paper How bad is John Caldigate? Tom Crewe
4:05 pm Tea break
4:35 pm Paper Unexpected Interventions: The Deus ex Machina in Court Gilly Wilford
5:15 pm Paper Law, Transgression, and Gender Prejudice in Anthony Trollope’s Cousin Henry Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse
7:00 pm Reception Reception in the Benson Room
7:30 pm Dinner College Dining Hall
Sat 28 Mar 7:30 am Breakfast Breakfast in Ramsey Room for residential delegates
9:00 am Intro Welcome and housekeeping Trollope Society
9:10 am Paper Justifying Septimus Harding: Ecclesiology and Law in The Warden Dr Mark Rigg
9:50 am Comfort break
10:00 am Paper ‘Some gross insufficiency in the laws of extradition’: Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Redux and International Law Frederik Van Dam
10:40 am Paper Presence and Absence: Transgressive Trustees and Anthony Trollope Dr Hazel Vosper
11:20 am Tea break
11:40 am Paper Trollope and the Equitable Judgment of Human Failings Professor Gary Watt
12:20 pm Conversation A Taxonomy of Transgression in Anthony Trollope’s Novels Professor Linda C. McClain
Claire Laporte
1:00 pm Conclusion Question and Answer Claire Laporte
1:25 pm Thank you Thank you and housekeeping Trollope Society
1:30 pm Lunch

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Trollope – The Law & Transgression