THE DICKENS SOCIETY THIRTEENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, LONDON, 17-20 JULY 2008
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, LONDON, 17-20 JULY 2008
The Symposium will take place at the Kingston Hill Campus of Kingston University, a ten-minute bus ride from the centre of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Accommodation for those wanting it, meeting rooms, and refreshment facilities, will all be provided on campus. You can sign in on campus either during the afternoon of Thursday 17 July, or during the morning of Friday 18 July. If you book a room on campus, you will be able to occupy it during the Thursday afternoon. The first gathering of the symposium will be a Thursday evening dinner (at the diner's expense) in a restaurant in Kingston town centre.
The on-campus accommodation (Thursday night to Sunday morning) will be in student housing. Large, modern, high-standard rooms will be provided, with en suite bathrooms (shower but no tub). Only single rooms are available, but partners can be accommodated in adjacent rooms. Fees paid by those staying on campus, and attending the symposium, cover breakfast, lunch, refreshments mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but not dinner (beginning with breakfast Friday and finishing with lunch Sunday). Fees for partners staying on campus, but not taking part in the symposium, cover just bed and breakfast.
Two conveniently situated hotels offer accommodation for those preferring to stay off campus. Plain, decent en suite rooms at the Travelodge in Old London Road (www.travelodge.co.uk) can be had for as little as £15 per night by those booking early. A breakfast bag costs £4.50. Close also to many restaurants and cafés in Kingston town centre, the Travelodge is three minutes' walk from a bus stop, where buses depart for the Kingston Hill Campus, eight minutes away. The Kingston Lodge Hotel on Kingston Hill (kingstonlodge@brook-hotels.co.uk) offers comfortable en suite rooms and a substantial breakfast from £95 per night. It is less than five minutes by bus to Kingston Hill Campus.
Fees for those choosing to stay off campus cover lunch, refreshments mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but neither breakfast nor dinner.
The Saturday night banquet will be on campus, and is priced separately. Payments for events and excursions, yet to be finalised and announced, will be collected during the Symposium. All fees are inclusive of Value Added Tax.
Fees should be paid, not later than 31 May, by cheque or international money order, made out to the Dickens Society, in either pounds sterling or US dollars. To print out a copy of this form go to: http://dickensquarterly.org/BookingForm.pdf
Send the completed form with payment in pounds sterling to David Paroissien, 100 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 7NE, UK. Payments in US dollars should be posted to Bob Heaman, 35 Port Jenkins Lane, White Haven, PA 18661, USA.
Note Bed and breakfast accommodation, before and after the Symposium, can be booked, subject to availability, at Kingston University's Seeting Wells Campus. Contact dorich.house@kingston.ac.uk.
For detailed information about getting to and from Kingston, please click on the following link:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ahdg72pw37zb_19fdxds5gn&invite=hd9w5vj
Two conveniently situated hotels offer accommodation for those preferring to stay off campus. Plain, decent en suite rooms at the Travelodge in Old London Road (www.travelodge.co.uk) can be had for as little as £15 per night by those booking early. A breakfast bag costs £4.50. Close also to many restaurants and cafés in Kingston town centre, the Travelodge is three minutes' walk from a bus stop, where buses depart for the Kingston Hill Campus, eight minutes away. The Kingston Lodge Hotel on Kingston Hill (kingstonlodge@brook-hotels.co.uk) offers comfortable en suite rooms and a substantial breakfast from £95 per night. It is less than five minutes by bus to Kingston Hill Campus.
Fees for those choosing to stay off campus cover lunch, refreshments mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but neither breakfast nor dinner.
The Saturday night banquet will be on campus, and is priced separately. Payments for events and excursions, yet to be finalised and announced, will be collected during the Symposium. All fees are inclusive of Value Added Tax.
Fees should be paid, not later than 31 May, by cheque or international money order, made out to the Dickens Society, in either pounds sterling or US dollars. To print out a copy of this form go to: http://dickensquarterly.org
Send the completed form with payment in pounds sterling to David Paroissien, 100 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 7NE, UK. Payments in US dollars should be posted to Bob Heaman, 35 Port Jenkins Lane, White Haven, PA 18661, USA.
Note Bed and breakfast accommodation, before and after the Symposium, can be booked, subject to availability, at Kingston University's Seeting Wells Campus. Contact dorich.house@kingston.ac.uk.
For detailed information about getting to and from Kingston, please click on the following link:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id