The Hazlitt Society annual lecture and Hazlitt day-school will take place this year on Saturday 19th September 2026.
The annual lecture will take place at 4pm, at the end of the full day event, which is broadly themed around the bicentenary of the publication of Hazlitt’s last major essay collection, The Plain Speaker, in 1826.
This year’s annual lecture is given by Stefan Uhlig (University of California Davis), on ‘Hazlitt’s Plain Aesthetics‘
The venue for the whole day and the lecture is Clarke Hall, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL (between Russell and Tavistock Squares: NB slight change of UCL venue).
To register for the whole day event, please use the UCL webstore. There is a fee (£20/15 concessions) to cover the cost of catering (morning and afternoon tea and coffee, lunch) which is included. https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-humanities-c01/department-of-english-language-literature-f10/f10-hazlitt-day-school-lecture-2026
To register for the annual lecture only, which is free, please email hazlittsociety@gmail.com
Programme:
9.30am Arrival and registration, tea and coffee (provided)
10-11.15 Opening plenary: Tim Fulford (De Montfort), ‘Hazlitt and Coleridge’
11.15 Break
11.45-1.15 Merrilees Roberts (Cambridge), ‘Echoes of Liber Amoris in ‘The Pleasures of Hating’: Approaching ‘the object’’
John Whale (Leeds), ‘The Politics of Plainness’
1.15-2.15 Lunch
2.15-3.45 Dylan Carver (Oxford), ‘Hazlitt, Party Politics, and the Rules of Political Warfare’
David Woodhouse, ‘On the Jealousy and Spleen of Liberals’
3.45 Break
4-5.30 Annual Lecture: Stefan Uhlig (University of California Davis), ‘Hazlitt’s Plain Aesthetics’
5.30 Drinks (Marlborough Arms, Torrington Place)
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James Whitehead