The Charles Williams Society

Events

Read about upcoming and past events of the Society. Further information may be obtained from the Secretary: Dr Richard Sturch, 35 Broomfield, Stacy Bushes, Milton Keynes. MK12 6HA or at by e-mail: charles_wms_soc@yahoo.co.uk

Dr. Horne reports on October’s meeting

We had a good day conference yesterday here in London. Josh Bradbury gave a paper on the Grail – part of his recently completed PhD thesis on Williams’s Arthurian poetry: Voyages Through Strange Seas of Thought: A Study of Mythic and Sacramental Vision in Charles Williams’s Taliessin Through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars. The afternoon session was given over to a discussion of and readings from All Hallows Eve.

The first meeting of 2010 – April 17th

The first meeting of 2010 will be at the: Centre for Mediaeval Studies, Shoe Lane, Oxford,
on April 17th, with Dr Richard Sturch denouncing (?) ‘Charles Williams as Heretic’

Further information may be obtained from the Secretary: Dr Richard Sturch, 35 Broomfield, Stacy Bushes, Milton Keynes. MK12 6HA or at the e-mail address:  charles_wms_soc@yahoo.co.uk

Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge, October 17th

This was a joint one with the Dorothy Sayers Society. The speakers will be Brian Horne on Williams’s Dante; Suzanne Bray on the Canterbury Festival plays of Williams and Sayers; Kenneth Pickering on “The Found Space”, including accounts of the opportunities and constraints afforded by the location of the Festival PLays; and Glen Cavaliero on the “comedic spirit” in Williams.

The Charles Williams Society Summer Conference 2008

The papers from our brilliantly successful Conference at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, from July 4th-6th 2008. have now been published in book form by Cambridge Scholars Publishing under the title “Charles Williams and his Contemporaries”, edited by Suzanne Bray and Richard Sturch. Further details from the publishers’ website, www.c-s-p.org