Ridgway Great Hall Lecture Series

The Great Hall Series of public lectures and performances brings interesting, unusual and engaging topics to the local community, as well as to our resident students and faculty.  The Series is designed as educational enrichment, supporting our academic program, and as an expression of our “Harlaxton Hospitality” toward our neighbours.

Sping 2007

The schedule for Presentation (Spring) Term, 2007, is as follows:

6:30 pm
Monday,
31st January

Lords of All They Survey: High Farming and the Owners of English Country House Estates (Dr E Bujak)

Lecture sponsored by The Centre for the Study of the Country House, University of Leicester. 

[An admission charge of £10 will apply for lecture and glass of wine.  Arrangements may be made through the Centre for the Study of the Country House, University of Leicester. Tickets can be purchased by emailing Mrs Carol Charles (cec7@le.ac.uk). After a drinks reception at 6.30pm, all lectures begin at 7pm sharp in the Great Hall
6:30 pm
Wednesday,
14th February

'A Few Very Fine Things and a Vast Deal of Tiresome Stuff': Women and the Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century (Professor Rosemarie Sweet)

Lecture sponsored by The Centre for the Study of the Country House, University of Leicester. [See note above for contact information.]

6:30 pm
Wednesday,
21st February

In Praise of Eliza: The Decorative Scheme of Hardwick Hall (Dr Gill White)

Lecture sponsored by The Centre for the Study of the Country House, University of Leicester  [See note above for contact information.]

7:30 pm
Monday,
5th March		 Poetry Reading Presented by American Poet Bruce Guernsey,Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Eastern Illinois University.Books include The Lost Brigade, Peripheral Vision, January Thaw.

[This event is free admission.]
6:30 pm
Wednesday,
7th March

Craftsmen and Labourers: The Unsung Heroes in the History of the Country House (Professor Richard Wilson)

Lecture sponsored by The Centre for the Study of the Country House, University of Leicester [See note above for contact information.]

7:30 pm
Wednesday,
4th April		 Concert by The Harlaxton Collegiate Choir,Directed by Professor Sally Brown, Harlaxton College(noted director of the award-winning Out of Silence Choir and The Choir Invisible).

[This event is free admission.  Students and host families will be attending this Meet-a-Family Fest, an appreciation event for families in the community who host Harlaxton College students.]
 

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