Past events

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Annual Laurence Sterne Lectures

1979 Dr W.G. Day, 'Alas, Poor Yorick'
1980 Bernard Barr, 'Sterne and York Minster Library'
1981 Prof. D.W. Douglas Jefferson, 'The Humane Wit of Tristram Shandy'
1982 Prof. Jacques Berthoud, 'Sexuality and Shandism'
1983 Prof. Frédéric Ogée, 'This matter? In France?'
1984 Dr Catherine Gordon, 'Illustrations to Sterne's novels'
1985 Prof. Peter de Voogd, 'The Marbled Page'
1986 Prof. John Dixon Hunt, 'Toby's Bowling Green'
1987 Nicolas Barker, 'The Sale Catalogue of Sterne's Books'
1988 Jan Starink, 'Laurence Sterne and the Low Countries'
1989 Rob Wyke, 'Sterne and food'
1990 Prof. Michael Lesk, 'Sterne and the Computer: 18th-Century Word Processsing'
1991 Prof. Arthur Cash, 'The Bear, the Phoenix and the Merops'
1992 Richard Forrester, 'Uncle Jaques Sterne'
1993 David Alexander, 'Sterne and the Print Market'
1994 Prof. John Barrell, 'The Monarchy and the Language of Sentiment'
1995 Dr Tom Keymer, 'Dying by numbers: Tristram Shandy and Serial Publication'
1996 Dr Harriet Guest, 'Eliza Draper'
1997 Dr Mark Hallett, 'Satire at Shandy Hall: the prints of George Bickham'
1998 Prof. Malcolm Bradbury, 'Diderot at the Hermitage'
1999 Prof. Tony Edwards, 'Sterne in the twentieth century'
2000 Dr Sukhdev Sandhu, 'Sterne and the "Coal-Black Jolly African"'
2001 Dr Christopher Ridgway, 'The book collecting Earls of Carlisle'
2002 Prof. Ian Campbelll Ross, 'Sterne and the Biographer'
2003 Martin Rowson, 'A Comic Book Version of Tristram Shandy'
2004 Jonathan Coe on BS Johnson
2005 Screening of Winterbottom's motion picture
2006 Frank Cottrell Boyce on writing the script
2007 Patrick Hughes on Visual Sterne
2008 John Lawrence on Illustrating Sterne
2009 Adam Thirlwell on Birthdays