The Johnson Society of London - Programme 2014-15

The 2014-15 programme may be seen in PDF form here: Johnson Society Programme 2014-2015.pdf

The programme for 2014-15 was

11th October

1.00 pm Committee Meeting

2.30 pm How to Create the Perfect Wife

Wendy Moore
Chair: Kate Chisholm

15th November

2.30 pm Medicine in the Age of Johnson as Seen in the Art of William Hogarth

Professor T. J. Murray (Dalhousie University)

Chair: Christopher Ogden

13th December

12 noon. The Annual Commemoration at Westminster Abbey, by courtesy of the Dean and Chapter. A wreath will be laid on Johnson’s grave by Professor Jack Lynch..

.12.45 for 1.00 pm at St Ermin’s Hotel: the Society’s annual luncheon (see separate booking form).

3.00 pm The Richard Thrale Memorial Lecture: Johnson’s Dead Poets Society
Professor Jack Lynch (Rutgers University)

Chair: Dr Nicholas Cambridge

10th January

2.30 pm Johnson and Vauxhall
Ross Davies

Chair: Michael Bundock

14th February

12.30 pm: Committee Meeting

2.30 pm: Richardson and Eighteenth-Century Novels

Grace Egan (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Chair: Christine Rees

14th March

1.30 pm Annual General Meeting

2.30 pm: Benjamin Robert Haydon

Karin Fernald
Chair: Morwenna Rae

11th April

2.30 pm: Love of Literary Objects

Professor Nicola J. Watson (Open University)
Chair: Dr Catherine Dille