Conference programme
Friday 5 August 2016
Please plan to arrive between 16:30 and 18:30. You can meet other conference members in the bar which opens at 18:15. Tea and coffee making facilities are available in the study bedrooms.
19:00 Dinner and welcome
20:00 A guided walk around Madingley's landscape with Head Gardener, Richard Gant
22:00 Terrace bar open for informal discussion
Saturday 6 August 2016
07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Delegates are able to choose one of the following lectures:
- Northumberland to Stowe (Steffie Shields)
- Enlightened and industrious the flowering of the English landscape with special reference to Chatsworth (Caroline Holmes)
10:15 Coffee
10:45 Turning nature in art and art into nature: Brown and his artistic legacy (Dr Twigs Way)
12:00 Group question time
12:20 Lunch
13:30 Field trip to Burghley House including a visit to Fenstanton to see Brown's grave (Steffie Shields, Caroline Holmes and Richard Gant)
18:15 Free
19:00 Dinner
20:30 This scene a beauteous prospect wears: An evening of prose and poetry led by Dr Charles Moseley
10:00 Terrace bar open for informal discussion
Sunday 7 August 2016
07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Delegates are able to choose one of the following lectures:
- 'Home-brewed rivers with a spade and a watering-pot': Horace Walpole (Steffie Shields)
- Intellectual gymnastics to formulaic intelligence: Croome Court (Caroline Holmes)
10:15 Coffee
10:45 The genius of place: a regional perspective on the work of Capability Brown (Dr Sarah Spooner)
12:00 Group question time
12:45 Lunch
The conference will disperse after lunch.
