All keynote lectures will be in the Bowland Auditorium of the
Berrick Saul Building at the University of York (Heslington West)
and will be free and open to the public.​

Professor Thomas Dilworth
(University of Windsor)

David Jones, The Great War and In Parenthesis
Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building,
​University of York (Heslington West)
21 July, 16:00

Tom Dilworth is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and specializes in Modern Literature and Romantic Poetry. Interdisciplinary in his interest in relationships between literature and visual art, he is the author of The Shape of Meaning in the Poetry of David Jones, which won the British Council Prize in the Humanities, Reading David Jones, and David Jones in the Great War. He is the editor of Jones’s illustrated Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Jones’s Wedding Poems, and Inner Necessities, the Letters of David Jones to Desmond Chute. He has edited the Ad Solem bilingual (English/French) editions of Jones’s works, co-edited The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson and has finished the biography of David Jones, which will be published in April 2017. He has published over a hundred chapters and articles, on William Cowper, William Blake, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, John Keats, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Auguste Rodin, Edward Lear, G.M. Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, W.C. Williams, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, David Jones, Virgil Thomson, William Faulkner, Kenneth Clark, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Patrick Kavanagh, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, William Golding, Marshall McLuhan, A.R. Ammons, Peter Porter, Sylvia Plath, Audre Lord, and Robert Morgan. His recent poetry has appeared in Notre Dame Review, Salmagundi, Rampike, Ontario Review, and Poetry (Chicago).

Professor Paul Hills 
(Courtauld Institute)

'The Good Bodily Image' and David Jones's Historical Imagination
Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building,
​University of York (Heslington West)
22 July, 15:30

Paul Hills has published widely on Italian Renaissance art, as well as on the poet and painter David Jones, whom he visited regularly between 1968 and Jones’s death in 1974. After studying at Cambridge, he took a PhD at The Courtauld Institute, and then lectured at Warwick University from 1976 to 1998. In 1981 he curated the retrospective exhibition of David Jones at the Tate Gallery and he has continued to write catalogue essays on Jones and on contemporary artists including Ana Maria Pacheco, Simon Lewty and Shirazeh Houshiary. In 1995 he convened the centenary conference on Jones at Warwick.  He has been a visiting professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York; The Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti; and the Royal College of Art in London. In 2004 he took up a professorship of Renaissance Art at the Courtauld and taught there until his recent retirement.  His books include The Light of Early Italian Painting (Yale, 1987), Venetian Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass, 1250-1550 (Yale, 1999), The Renaissance Image Unveiled (National Galleries of Scotland, 2010); and, co-authored with Ariane Bankes, The Art of David Jones: Vision and Memory (Lund Humphries, 2015).  He was co-curator of the exhibition David Jones: Vision and Memory, at Pallant House, Chichester (on show until 21 February 2015 then touring to Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham).

Professor Adam Schwartz
(Christendom College)

'Getting into History': The Great War and David Jones's Memory
Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building,
​University of York (Heslington West)
​23 July, 15:30

Adam Schwartz is author of the acclaimed monograph The Third Spring: G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones (The Catholic University of America Press, 2005; reprinted 2012), a parallel consideration of the religious conversions of four prominent British writers of the early 20th century. He holds a PhD in History from Northwestern University (1996), and is currently Professor of History at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia.  His scholarship specializes in the phenomenon of late 19th- and early 20th-century Catholic literary converts in Britain ("The Catholic literary revival"), and the Inklings circle at Oxford. He is among the few pioneering historians to have published on the relevance of David Jones in relation to other literary converts of his era, particularly the unusual mingling of sincere religious belief and obsession with historical fact in Jones's thinking that creates his unique "theology of history."  Adam is currently researching a sequel to The Third Spring on the intersection of the religious beliefs and cultural and social criticism of Jones, Chesterton, Greene, and Dawson.