30th July 2021
11am Welcome and Introductions
Ruth Abbott and Ephraim Levinson
11.15am New Manuscript Material from Thomas Gray’s Grand Tour
Stephen Clarke
11.30am Thomas Gray as a Music Collector
Nathalie Dupuis-Désormeaux
11.45am Lucretius, Locke, and Logic in Thomas Gray’s De Principiis Cogitandi
Estelle Haan
12pm Break
12.30pm Thomas Gray, Lucianic Satire, and the Antiquarian Method
Charlotte Roberts
12.45pm Thomas Gray and Oriental Scholarship
Kelsey Jackson Williams
1pm Thomas Gray’s Geographic Imagination
Joshua Swidzinski
1.15pm Thomas Gray among the Literati and the Philosophes
R. J. W. Mills
1.30pm Break
2pm Thomas Gray among the Medievalists
Lotte Reinbold
2.15pm Queering Thomas Gray’s Celticism
Rhys Kaminski-Jones
2.30pm Thomas Gray, Heraldry, and Gothic Architecture
Peter N. Lindfield
2.45pm Thomas Gray, Authorship, and A Catalogue of the Antiquities, Houses, Parks,
Plantations, Scenes, and Situations in England and Wales
Ephraim Levinson
3pm Break
3.30pm Thomas Gray and the Art of Transcribing Early Modern Manuscripts
Ruth Abbott
3.45pm Thomas Gray and Meteorology
Tess Somervell
4pm Thomas Gray as Reader and Writer of the Natural World
Scott Mandelbrote and Edwin Rose
4.15pm Recital from Thomas Gray’s Music Collection
Nathalie Dupuis-Désormeaux
4.30pm Break
5pm Collections Roundtable
Genny Grim & Lizzy Ennion-Smith (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)
Scott Mandelbrote (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge)
John Wells & William Hale (Cambridge University Library)
Peter X. Accardo (Houghton Library, Harvard University)
Stephanie Coane and Laura Carnelos (Eton College Library, Eton College)
5.45pm Conclusions and Thanks
Ruth Abbott and Ephraim Levinson