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Conference Programme 2026

Robert Graves Conference 2026 — Public Programme
All Are Welcome · Free Admission

Tuesday 7 July

4.45 – 5.30 pmPlenary Lecture · Lecture Theatre

Graves's Oxford

Patrick McGuinness
Language: English
5.45 – 7.15 pmFilm Screening · Lecture Theatre

Somewhere Else Entirely

An intimate portrait of the British-American poet Ruth Fainlight, exploring her life, her creative process and her enduring voice.
Ruth Fainlight and Emily Andersen — Film Screening and Q&A
Language: English · Subtitles: Catalan
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Wednesday 8 July

9.15 – 10.15 amPanel Session 1 · Lecture Theatre

Robert in Wonderland

Michael Joseph

Robert Graves at Highwood Hall

Joseph T. Thomas
Language: English
10.45 – 11.45 amPanel Session 2 · Lecture Theatre

Graves's Passports

Philip Graves

Spots of Time

Charles Mundye
Language: English
11.45 am – 12.30 pmRobert Graves Society Talk · Lecture Theatre

Robert Graves's Letters to Colonel de la Iglesia

William Graves
Language: English
1.30 – 2.30 pmPanel Session 3 · Lecture Theatre

From Minoan Roots to Eco-Utopia in Seven Days in New Crete

Adriana Marinelli

Rewriting Lives into Stories: Sergeant Lamb's America

Tanja Cvetković
Language: English
2.45 – 3.45 pmPanel Session 4a · Lecture Theatre

The Rocky Acres of Memory and Imagination

Daniel Boland
Language: English
3.15 – 3.45 pmPanel Session 4b · Lecture Theatre

La construcción mediática de Robert Graves a través de la fotografía y el cine

Iria Gámez Couso, Joan Carles Oliver Torelló and María José Mulet Gutiérrez
Language: Spanish
4.00 – 5.00 pmPlenary Lecture · Lecture Theatre

Homer's Daughter's Father: Graves's Odyssey

A. E. Stallings, Oxford Professor of Poetry
Language: English
6.00 – 7.15 pmConcert Recital · Lecture Theatre

Song-Enchanted Fellows

April Fredrick, soprano · Eric McElroy, piano
World premiere of a new song commission setting Robert Graves.
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Thursday 9 July

9.15 – 10.15 amPanel Session 5 · Lecture Theatre

A Moment of Calm? Robert Graves and the Munich Crisis

Helen Goethals

Writing from Elsewhere: Polybius, Graves and Djebar

Holly Langstaff
Language: English
10.45 – 11.45 amParallel Sessions · Room Sa Roqueta

Robert Graves: Una vida nueva en Mallorca

Paul O'Prey, introduced by William Graves
Language: Spanish
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10.45 – 11.45 amParallel Sessions · Lecture Theatre

Homer and Graves: A Battle of Giants

Anna Enrichetta Soccio

Materiality and the Ancient World in Riding and Graves

Elena Theodorakopoulos
Language: English
11.45 am – 12.45 pmPanel Session 6 · Lecture Theatre

Dead Keen: Robert Graves, the Banshee and the Irish Art of Lament

Kirsten Norrie

The Terraced Valley and the Dimensions of the Poem

Greg Leadbetter
Language: English
1.45 – 2.45 pmPanel Session 7 · Lecture Theatre

Returned Prodigals: Graves and Auden as Oxford Professors of Poetry

Edna Longley — Chair: Patrick McGuinness

Graves and the Irish Cat-Cult

Fran Brearton
Language: English
3.00 – 3.45 pmLecture · Lecture Theatre

Robert Graves and the Geopoetics of Love

Eduard Moyà — Introduced by William Graves
Language: English
6.00 – 8.00 pmPoetry Readings and Book Launch · Ca'n Vivot

Poetry Readings and Book Launch

Greg Leadbetter, MacGillivray, Patrick McGuinness, Seán O'Brien, Paul O'Prey, A. E. Stallings
Language: English
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At Deià

Friday 10 July

6.30 – 8.00 pmMusic and Poetry · Amphitheatre Joan Mas, Deià

A Night of Mallorcan Music and Poetry

Tomàs Graves, Jay Ansill, Claudia Balant, April Frederick, Toni Rigo, Marga Miró

Saturday 11 July

10.00 – 11.00 amPlenary Lecture · CaixaForum

The Sense of an Ending?

Jean Moorcroft Wilson