Day 4 – Sunday 6th October 2024

Morning session

Old Hall and Careers Centre, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street)

£23

9:00 – A tour of the School Archives: including a look at the Exhibition Room, the green baize door, Old Hall and the School Chapel. (Meet outside Old Hall.)

10:00 – The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen Revisited: Junzaburo Nishiwaki’s Postwar Engagement with Graham Greene: The professor and critic Motonori Sato (Keio University) examines how a renowned Japanese poet turned to Greene’s example to establish himself as a global modernist poet.

11:00 – Break for tea and coffee

11:30 – Greene, Conrad, and the Dynamics of Hetero-biography: The professor and critic Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan (University of Haifa) will discuss blurring of boundary lines between fiction and autobiography especially with regard to Greene’s Congo diary.

Lunch

Old Hall, Berkhamsted School

£34

1:00 – Farewell Lunch: two-course cold buffet, wine and coffee; vegan/vegetarian option.