Conference
2010 may rightly be called the Robert Lowth Year: on 27 November it will have been three hundred years since he was born “in his Father’s Prebendal house in the Close Winchester”, as he himself wrote in his brief Memoirs.
To celebrate this event as well as the fact that his grammar may be called the most important grammar published during the eighteenth century, the University of Leiden is organising a two-day symposium in Leiden, on 17 and 18 December.
The symposium may be attended free of charge. Speakers will include Carol Percy, from the University of Toronto (plenary lecture), Joan Beal, Tony Fairman, Trinidad Guzmán-González, Anthony Lowth, David Reibel, Gijsbert Rutten, Arnold Shipp, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Jim Walker, and Göran Wolf.
Registration is now open. If you wish to attend the symposum, please send an email before 1 December 2010 to email@robertlowth.com.
