President: The Most Revd & Rt Hon Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
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It is with great pleasure that we announce that, following the death of our President, the distinguished poet John Heath-Stubbs, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has agreed to become our new President. Dr Williams is doubly suited to the post as both a poet and a theologian - and a longstanding admirer of Charles Williams who has contributed to the Society's Quarterly before now.
The Charles Williams Society Summer Conference 2008
Charles Williams and His Contemporaries
4 July – 6 July
The society will be holding a residential conference at St Hilda’s College Oxford from 4.00 p.m. on Friday 4 July 2008 to 2.00 p.m. on Sunday 6 July.
It will be opened on the Friday evening by Professor Grevel Lindop who is currently engaged on the writing of a biography of Charles Williams and will consist of two days of talks and papers given by a number of scholars from around the world.
There will be free time in the first part of the afternoon of Saturday 5 July and the evening will be given over to the playing of a recording of a BBC programme on Charles Williams produced by Ruth Spalding in 1961.
There will be a small display of items from the archives and members will be able to visit the reference collection in the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Shoe Lane.
The cost of the conference – which includes all meals – is £175 per person (£75 for non-residents).
Further information may be obtained from the Secretary: Dr Richard Sturch, 35 Broomfield, Stacey Bushes, Milton Keynes. MK12 6HA or at the e-mail address: charles_wms_soc@yahoo.co.uk
Brian Horne
Chairman of the Council
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