The Hazlitt Society annual lecture and 23rd Hazlitt day-school will take place on Saturday 13th September 2025.
This year’s Hazlitt day is themed around the bicentenary of the publication of The Spirit of the Age.
Location for all sessions: IAS Common Ground (Room G11, South Wing), University College London (Gower Street entrance).
Schedule:
10.00-10.30am Arrival and registration, tea and coffee (provided)
10.30-11.30am Opening plenary (David Woodhouse)
11.45-1pm Fiona Robertson on Hazlitt and Scott
Rosemary Ashton on Hazlitt, Brougham, and Campbell
1-2pm Lunch (provided)
2.00-3.45pm James Grande on Hazlitt and Godwin
Philip Schofield on Hazlitt and Bentham
Joshua Abbey on Hazlitt and Sir James Mackintosh
4-5.30pm Hazlitt Society Annual Lecture: Tim Milnes, ‘Hazlitt and Coleridge’
5.30pm Drinks (Marlborough Arms, Torrington Place)
You can attend either the whole day (registration fee £20 or £15 concessions, to cover catering), or just the annual lecture, which is free and open to all.
To register for the full day: https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-humanities-c01/department-of-english-language-literature-f10/f10-hazlitt-day-school-lecture-2025
To register for the annual lecture only, please email hazlittsociety@gmail.com (you do not need to do this separately if you are already signed up for the full day).