Day 1 – Thursday 28th September 2023
Afternoon session Court House, beside St Peter’s Church £6 2:15 - Graham Greene’s Common: A Battlefield Guide: (two-mile woodland walk; includes uphill and uneven stretches and WWI trenches) led by Richard Shepherd and Judy Mead, with readings from A Sort of Life and The Human Factor. Assemble outside the Court House for introduction. Cars/lifts and stout walking shoes […]
Day 2 – Friday 29th September 2023
Morning session The Town Hall £21 9:45 - Graham Greene, Adapting for the Cinema: Shirley Day (Florida State University) will discuss how Greene’s works were adapted for the screen, and how he adapted the works of others. 10:45 - Break for tea and coffee 11:15 - Who was the Real Kim Philby?: Scott Newton (University of […]
Day 3 – Saturday 30th September 2023
Morning session Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street) £22.50 9:45 - ‘Shooting Alden Pyle: Graham Greene’s The Quiet American on the Big Screen’: Kevin Ruane (Canterbury Christ Church University) will consider the two cinematic treatments of Graham Greene's 1955 novel. 10:45 - Break for tea and coffee 11:15 - The Real Macario: Through the Mexican […]
Day 4 – Sunday 1st October 2023
Morning session Old Hall and Careers Centre, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street) £21 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 - Guarding the Fourth Power: Fictional Representations of Journalistic (Mal)Practice in Graham Greene’s Fiction: […]
Day 1 – Thursday 3rd October 2024
Afternoon session Court House, beside St Peter’s Church £7 2:15pm - Graham Greene’s Common: A Battlefield Guide: (two-mile woodland walk; includes uphill and uneven stretches and WWI trenches) led by Richard Shepherd, with readings from A Sort of Life and The Human Factor. Assemble outside the Court House for introduction. Cars/lifts and stout walking shoes required for the […]
Day 2 – Friday 4th October 2024
Morning session The Town Hall £23 9:45 - Traveling the Lawless Roads: Anglophone Writers in Mexico, 1926-1946: Julia G. Young (Catholic University of America) will discuss how writers flocked to Mexico, and, describing the church-state conflict, provided a beautiful but distorted view of the country. 10:45 - Break for tea and coffee 11:15 - The […]
Day 3 – Saturday 5th October 2024
Morning session Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street) £25 9:45 - Me and My Girl: Graham Greene's Relationship with Dorothy Glover, 1938 to 1971: The historian Kevin Ruane (Canterbury Christ Church University) pursues the facts about the elusive Dorothy Glover, a children’s writer and set designer with whom Graham Greene conducted an affair in the […]
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: […]