{"id":6546,"date":"2026-07-22T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6546"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:42:28","slug":"hazlitt-society-annual-lecture-and-day-event-19th-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=6546","title":{"rendered":"Hazlitt Society Annual Lecture and Day event: 19th September 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Hazlitt Society annual lecture and Hazlitt day-school will take place this year on Saturday 19th September 2026<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual lecture will take place at 4pm<\/strong>, at the end of the full day event, which is broadly themed around the bicentenary of the publication of Hazlitt\u2019s last major essay collection, The Plain Speaker<\/em>, in 1826. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s annual lecture is given by Stefan Uhlig <\/strong>(University of California Davis), on \u2018Hazlitt\u2019s Plain Aesthetics<\/strong>‘<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The venue for the whole day and the lecture is Clarke Hall, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, <\/strong>London WC1H 0AL (between Russell and Tavistock Squares: NB slight change of UCL venue). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To register for the whole day event, please use the UCL webstore. There is a fee (\u00a320\/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<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To register for the annual lecture only, which is free, please email hazlittsociety@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Programme:
9.30am\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002Arrival and registration, tea and coffee (provided)
10-11.15\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002Opening plenary: Tim Fulford (De Montfort), ‘Hazlitt and Coleridge’
11.15\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002Break
11.45-1.15\u2002\u2002Merrilees Roberts (Cambridge), ‘Echoes of Liber Amoris in \u2018The Pleasures of Hating\u2019: Approaching ‘the object\u2019\u2019
John Whale (Leeds), ‘The Politics of Plainness’
1.15-2.15\u2002\u2002\u2002Lunch
2.15-3.45\u2002\u2002\u2002Dylan\u00a0Carver (Oxford), \u2018Hazlitt, Party Politics, and the Rules of Political Warfare\u2019
David Woodhouse, \u2018On the Jealousy and Spleen of Liberals’
3.45\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002Break
4-5.30\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002Annual Lecture: Stefan Uhlig (University of California Davis), ‘Hazlitt’s Plain Aesthetics’
5.30\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002Drinks (Marlborough Arms, Torrington Place)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—————<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Whitehead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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