The International T. S. Eliot Society
CFP for the Society’s Annual Conference
Our 2026 Annual Conference will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, from 25-27 September. The Memorial Lecture will be given by Paul Saint-Amour.
Conference information and updates will be posted here (Peer Seminars have just been announced). Registration info to follow soon.
T. S. Eliot Studies Annual: CFP for Volume 9
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Bricks from the Hydraulic Press Brick Company—Henry Ware Eliot—President and Chairman of the Board (photo courtesy of Frances Dickey)
T. S. Eliot International Summer School
The T. S. Eliot International Summer school brings together students and renowned scholars from around the world for a nine-day, immersive exploration of the life and work of Nobel Prize winning poet, critic, and dramatist T. S. Eliot. The dates for the 2026 Summer School, to be held again at Merton College, Oxford, are 4-12 July.
T. S. Eliot Studies Annual
The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his oeuvre, including poems, prose, letters, and plays.
Annual Meeting
We will hold our 47th Annual Meeting on 25-27 September (Eliot’s birthday falls, of course, on September 26th). The meeting will be in St. Louis, MO; check back here for conference updates.
The 46th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society was held in Ireland at Trinity College Dublin from 2-5 July. Our Memorial Lecturer was Fran Brearton, Queens University Belfast. The recording of the lecture is here. Erin Symons’s Conference Report is now posted in Time Present.
The 45th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society was held in St. Louis, Missouri, from 20-22 September 2024. Our Memorial Lecturer was Langdon Hammer, Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University.
The 44th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society was held in Boston from 22-24 September, 2023. The Memorial Lecturer for the conference was Linda Gregerson, Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. A recording of that lecture, “Eliot and Ignorance,” may be found here. In addition to our scholarly activities, we took a Sunday trip to visit the Eliot family’s summer home and environs in Gloucester. The program is here. Photos from the meeting are here.