The 45th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) 5 – 7 July 2018
The 45th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), 5 – 7 July 2018, was held at Writtle University College, Chelmsford, Essex.
Kim Salmons, smiling conference secretary
Hugh Epstein, secretary, raking in the cash
Oh yes, we’re up for it: Anthony Fothergill
Plenty of jokes in Conrad: Jeremy Hawthorn and Laurence Davies
Debra Romanick Baldwin and Yael Levin
The chairman, Robert Hampson
Lecture theatre and early morning audience
Ewa Kujawska-Lis
Masts, shrouds and stays, and some striding Conradians
Is the chairman having second thoughts?
No doubts for this group of tars
John Lester offers the sun block
An Ning and Agnes Adamowicz-Pospiech
Kim Salmons, William Atkinson, Trevor Ruck
Mark Deggan, sailor
Chairman firmly in command
Trevor Ruck, Nic Panagopoulos, Anthony Fothergill: under instruction
Daniel Vogel, sitting; Paul, our skipper, standing
Sam, the mate: ropes, pulleys and cleats
Several years before the mast: Tim Middleton and Hugh Epstein
The Windlass Ayse Deniz Temiz and the windlass of the Thistle (1895), sister ship To the Hydrogen
Gala dinner: our host Tim Middleton looks doubtful; not so Pat Pye, Andrea Fenice, Yasuko Shidara
Johan Warodell and Nic Panagopoulos (rear view)
Jollity all round, especially from Simla Dogangun
Hull down and farewell!