Calendar of Events

Trollope Society

N.B. This calendar is regularly updated, so do check it for new events and/or further details.

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The Department of English, in collaboration with the Hall Center for the Humanities, at The University of Kansas is sponsoring The Trollope Prize, an essay contest open to undergraduate and graduate students writing about the works of Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope. Submissions for the prize are accepted from around the world. Two prizes will be awarded: one for an essay written by an undergraduate student and one for an essay written by a graduate student. More details about this prize can be obtained from the University of Kansas Trollope Prize website.


The Annual Dinner of the Trollope Society US will be held on May 15th, 2012.


There will be a Celebrazione Magnifica hosted by the Trollope Society in London to mark Anthony Trollope's 197th birthday at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on April 22nd 2012.

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on : February 9th, 2012

March 21st, 2012

SEMINAR

Location: Grolier Club

The Winter Lecture of the Society will be held at the Grolier Club on March 21st, 2012.

If you are interested in details of this and future evenings, please contact Randolph L. Williams

May 15th, 2012

23rd ANNUAL DINNER

Roger Kimball of the New Criterion will be the speaker as this major event of the Trollope Calendar at the Knickerbocker Club. Roger Kimball is the Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He is an art critic for National Review and writes a regular column for PJ Media at Roger's Rules. Mr. Kimball lectures widely and has appeared on national radio and television programs as well as the BBC.
If you are interested in details of this dinner, please contact Randolph L. Williams

RECENT EVENTS

October 13th, 2010

ANNUAL LECTURE

Laureen M.E.Goddard, University Scholar, author and Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign gave a talk entitled "The Eustace Diamonds and the Great Parliamentary Bore". In addition to the title book, she included a commentary on other Trollope works including "Phineas Redux", "An Autobiography" and a few of the travel books.
If you are interested in details of future lectures, please contact Randolph L. Williams

May 11th, 2010

21st ANNUAL DINNER

Prof Sir David Cannadine of Princeton University was the principal speaker as this major event of the Trollope Calendar. We were delighted to see him address the Society once again, this time on the topic: "An Historian Looks at Trollope".
If you are interested in details of future evenings, please contact Randolph L. Williams

Spring, 2010

MONTHLY SEMINARS

Four monthly seminars with academic moderators were held durng the Spring of 2010.

Match 15th, 2010

WINTER RECEPTION

This evening featured a talk by economic historian Barbara Solow, "Trollope as Eyewitness to History: The Irish Novels", drawn in part from her book "Trollope and Ireland"

If you would lke a copy of this talk, please contact Randolph L. Williams

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