Annual Meeting
Dear Society Members,
Patrick Query, Society President, is thrilled to announce that the dates for our next annual meeting, to be held in St. Louis, Missouri, will be September 25-27, 2026. This means we’ll get to meet on Eliot’s actual birthday! The esteemed Paul Saint Amour, of the University of Pennsylvania, has graciously agreed to be our Memorial Lecturer. A call for papers, registration and lodging information, and details about peer seminars and other aspects of the program will be posted on the website and sent out to Society members. Please mark your calendars, and we hope you’ll join us. Lots of exciting new work is going on in Eliot studies, and the 2026 conference promises to be full of discovery, good fellowship, and fun.
The 46th International T. S. Eliot Society 2025 Annual Meeting took place at Trinity College Dublin from July 2-5. Here is the Conference Program. The Memorial Speaker was Fran Brearton of Queen’s University Belfast. A writeup of the conference from Trinity College’s press office may be found here, along with a recording of the Memorial Lecture.
The 45th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society was held in St. Louis, Missouri, from 20-22 September 2024. The Conference Program is here. Further information about the Conference may be found on this page.
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 program may be found here. Linda Gregerson, Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan delivered the Memorial Lecture. A recording of that lecture, “Eliot and Ignorance,” may be found here. The Report on the annual meeting is here, with the Gloucester trip report here. A not-curated but delightful miscellany of photographs (thank you, all, for sending those in!) may be found here.
The 43rd Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society took place from September 23-25, 2022, in St. Louis, Missouri. It featured seminars, panels, a film showing, and a plenary lecture titled “The People of 1922,” given by Douglas Mao, Russ Family Professor in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University.