TENNYSON 2026:
ECOLOGY, LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENT
14th – 17th July 2026 at Lincoln Bishop University, UK
Tuesday 14th July 2026
Delegates’ arrival & registration
11:00 -12:00 noon: Publications Board
15:00 – 16:00 Tennyson Society AGM
18:00: Supper on campus
19:15: Keynote Speaker 1 (Professor Erik Gray) – chaired by Professor Linda Hughes
Lecture Theatre, Hardy Building
Wednesday 15th July 2026
09:00 Registration & Welcome
09:30 – 11:00: Parallel Panels 1 & 2 Hardy Building)
Coffee & Comfort Break (30 minutes, Hardy Building)
11:30 – 13:00: Parallel Panels 3 & 4 (Hardy Building)
Lunch (13:00)
14:00 – 15:30: Parallel Panels 5 & 6 (Hardy Building)
Coffee & Comfort Break (30 minutes, Hardy Building)
16:00 – 17:30: Parallel Panels 7 & 8 (Hardy Building)
18:00: Supper on campus (Lincolnshire-inspired menu)
19:15: Keynote Speaker 2 (Dr Lindsay Wells) – chaired by Professor Jim Cheshire Lecture Theatre, Hardy Building
‘Enoch Arden’ at the Cinema – projector needed for 30 minutes
Thursday 16th July 2026
09:00 – 11:00: Parallel Panels 9, 10, 11 (Hardy Building)
Coffee & Comfort Break (30 minutes (Hardy Building)
11:15 – 12:30 Keynote Speaker 3 (Professor Clare Pettitt) – chaired by Professor Claudia Capancioni Lecture Theatre, Hardy Building
Lunch (12:30)
13.15: Departure on a coach trip to visit Bardney Manor Gardens and Somersby Church and Rectory
18.30 Arrive back to conference venue
19:15: Conference Dinner
21:00: Lincolnshire Folk Songs with Kate Witney
Friday 17th July 2026
Delegates’ departure
Optional Voluntary activities to discover Lincoln through Tennyson (to be confirmed)