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Dear Members and Friends of the Robert Graves Society,
In response to demand we are extending the deadline for the call for papers to 30 April 2026. Registration details are now available here:
https://robertgraves.org/registration-2026
Further conference details are available here:
https://robertgraves.org/home
Extended Call for Papers: Seventeenth International Robert Graves Conference, to be held in Palma and Deià, Mallorca, Spain, 7th – 11th July 2026. The theme will be: ‘Robert Graves: Times and Places’.
Organised by the Robert Graves Society with the Fundació Robert Graves and Sheffield Hallam University
The conference will explore Graves and his contemporaries in relation to Times and Places. This might include significant locations and periods in Graves’s life: for example, the Somme in 1916, Mallorca in 1929-1936, Devon in the 1940s, México in 1968, or the importance of Wimbledon, Harlech, Oxford, both as formative experience and subject matter. There may be a focus on time, place and their interrelation in his imaginative and other writing: whether Claudius’s Rome (in this, the 50th anniversary of I, Claudius, the famous BBC TV adaptation of Graves’s historical fiction), the extensive mythical vistas of The White Goddess, or in any other aspect of his life and work.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals are invited for papers (20 minutes) on relevant topics relating to Robert Graves and/or his contemporaries. These could include but are not limited to:
Graves and the significance of specific locations and/or times
The interrelation of history and geography in Graves’s work and life
Correspondences between times and places evoked poetically, fictionally, autobiographically
The intersections of time and place
Graves and the transhistorical and/or universal (or their opposite)
Graves and culture rhymes
Time passing, arrested, or reversed
Graves and memory
People-in-Place
Graves and mobility: exile, travel, displacement, belonging
Graves and landscape / ecology
Places, times, people
Critical responses to recent works on Graves, papers on research in progress, on recently discovered archival material of interest to Graves scholars, on digital collections or on exhibitions of Graves’s work, and on the comparative European engagements of Graves’s contemporaries, are also welcome.
The conference will take place at CaixaForum, Palma, Mallorca, Spain, which is the former Gran Hotel, where Graves and Laura Riding stayed on their arrival in Palma in 1929, and at Deià, where they lived until 1936. Graves returned to Mallorca in 1946 with Beryl Pritchard Graves and their family and lived in Deià until his death in 1985.
Robert Graves conferences traditionally embrace the creative in addition to the critical, and the conference will also host musical and literary events to be announced in due course, along with keynote speakers. There will also be a day trip to Deià and La Casa de Robert Graves: https://www.lacasaderobertgraves.org/en/
Please send an abstract (max. 250 words) by 30 April 2026 to the conference organiser and President of the Robert Graves Society:
Professor Charles Mundye, FEA
Sheffield Creative Industries Institute
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus
Sheffield S1 1WB
E: [email protected]
President, Robert Graves Society
http://www.robertgraves.org
Fellow, English Association
http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association
PARTICIPANTS
The conference is open to all. It will be of interest to academics, teachers, research students, and anyone else who is interested in the life and writings of Robert Graves and his circle. The series of Robert Graves conferences have built up a reputation for their scholarly excellence and their friendly dialogue among participants from a wide variety of backgrounds, both lay and academic, and the Graves family itself.
To register an interest in attending the conference as a non-speaker, please email Julian Bastida: E: [email protected]
NOTE
Please note that most participants except keynote speakers and other senior guests of the conference will need to register for the event and pay their own registration fees, travel and hotel costs. Therefore indicating 'Going' on this Facebook event page will be taken as an expression of interest and NOT as registration for the conference. (To register, see the registration link above.) However, it will be useful for the organisers to receive these expressions of interest, and we will expect to recognise some names!
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Event Venue
Gran Hotel (Palma de Mallorca), El Periquete, Carrer Can Pueyo, 07003 Palma (Illes Balears), Espanya, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
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