The Nevil Shute Symposium April 13-15 is now over. Below is the schedule.
Friday, April
13, 2018
1:00 - 5:00pm -
Registration. Check in and pick up conference materials.
5:30pm–
7 pm –
Welcome Reception
Saturday, April
14, 2018
9:00 – 10:00
Welcome. Introductions. Overview. Short presentation.
John Anderson, Laura Schneider, Heather Mayfield & Chuck Sherman
10:00- 10:30
Refreshment break
10:30 – 12:00
Shoshana Milgram Knapp "Happy Heroes and Human Values; A Theme in
the Fiction of Nevil Shute"
12:00 – 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00pm - Robert Wester - "WWII and Nevil Shute"
2:00 - 3:00
Alison Jenner “A Land Fit for Heroes:” Great War survivors as
seen by Nevil Shute and Dorothy L Sayers”
3:00–3:30
Refreshment break - Hosted by the Dartmouth Club Book Society
3:30 - 4:30PM - Charlie Montgomery - “A Love Affair With Nevil Shute's novel Pastoral”
Conference
Banquet
at Jesse's 224
Lebanon St, Hanover, NH
6:30 -
7pm Reception
7:00 -
9:00 Banquet and Speaker- Alan Lelchuk - Writer and Professor
SUNDAY, APRIL
15, 2018
9:00 –
10:00 Beall Fowler - "Churchill, Orwell, & Shute, with apologies
to Thomas E. Wicks"
10:00 -10:30
Refreshment break
10:30 -
11:00 -David Horvath - "No Highway: Metal Fatigue, Then and Now"
11:00-
11:30 Robert Russell - "Prescient writing and an unusual error"
11:45 – 12:45pm
Lunch
12:45 - 1:30
Richard Thorn - “You want to write a book about who?”
1:30 -2:15 -
John Anderson - “Nevil Shute and the Royals”
2:15 -3:15
John Douglas "Humor in the works of Nevil Shute"
3:00-3:45
Refreshment break
3:45 -
5pm Reading Nevil Shute & Symposium close
