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The winner of the Harry T. Moore Award
For Lifetime Achievement in Lawrence Studies is, Dr Andrew Harrison!!!

Huge congratulations Andrew!!!🎉
August 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Mark Spilka Lectureship, an honorary lectureship established in 2005 and awarded only at the International D.H. Lawrence conferences, goes to Dr Catherine Brown!

Congratulations Catherine!👏
August 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Biennial Award to a Newly Published Scholar in Lawrence Studies goes to Aaron Botwick for his article “The Gospel of the Death Drive,” in The D.H. Lawrence Review 44.2 (2019): 67-87.

Congratulations Aaron!🎉
August 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The Virginia Hyde Memorial Award for the Best Paper at the 2024 Virtual Graduate Student Conference was awarded to Jamie Lewis for her paper ‘THE MECHANICAL MAN: POSTHUMANISM IN D.H. LAWRENCE'S LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER AND WOMEN IN LOVE.’

Congratulations Jamie!!!🎉
August 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
At the end of the five-day fab #InternationalDHLawrenceConference, as always, we have four awards to announce in recognition of awardees’ achievements and contributions to Lawrence scholarship.

These awards will be announced by our president, Dr Ben Hagen.
August 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
After Dr Harrison’s brilliant talk, we had the privilege listening to a concert delivered by UNAM’s faculty of music. Marvellous!!!
August 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
We’re now enjoying the plenary lecture, The Harry T. Moore Lecture, delivered by Dr Andrew Harrison. And the title of this lecture is “‘A hot and piping trinity of rough-stuff primitivism, and freudian hot-sex-stuff’: D. H. Lawrence in Wyndham Lewis’s Paleface (1929)”.
August 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The final speaker of this panel is Pamela Wright, whose paper is titled “Exploring Cultural Dichotomies and Misrepresentation in D.H. Lawrence’s ‘The Mozo’”.
August 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Following Prof Roberts’s wonderful talk, we have Prof Gaku Iwai, whose presentation is titled “D. H. Lawrence and Yiyun Li: Cross-Cultural Influence”.
August 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
For the panel ‘Intercultural Lawrence II’, Prof Neil Roberts is presenting his talk titled ‘Lawrence and Naïveté’.
August 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The third and final speaker of the second panel is Isobel Dixon, whose presentation is titled “Motion, Memory, Anticipation and Innovation: Questioning D.H. Lawrence’s Multifaceted Engagements with Place”.
August 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
After Ben’s brilliant talk, we have Aaron Botwick delivering his talk titled “Moles and Men: ‘Second Best’ and the Hazards of Creative Destruction”.
August 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The second panel of today is titled ‘Life, Death and Creation’ and the first speaker is the president of @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social, Ben Hagen, whose presentation is titled “Translating Oblivion, Or Learning to Die in D.H. Lawrence’s ‘The Last Poems Notebook’”.
August 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The third speaker is Prof Adam Parkes and his talk is titled ‘Abstraction in Lawrence’s Tortoises’.
August 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Our second speaker is Samuel Bradley, whose talk is titled ‘Translating the Nonhuman: D.H. Lawrence, Jocelyn Brooke and the Language of Plants’.
August 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The first panel of today is on ‘The Natural World’.

While our first speaker Seungho Lee cannot make it in person, the panel’s chair, Prof Holly Laird, kindly gives a read of the abstract Seungho’s talk titled ‘Mountains and Modernity in D.H. Lawrence’s Work’.
August 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The 5th and final day of the #InternationalDHLawrenceConference starts with a round table (not that round though😆) discussion about the reception of Lawrence’s The Plumed Serpent!
August 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We’re now enjoying Lawrence’s play, The Daughter-in-Law, in Spanish adapted by the brilliant students at UNAM. They’ve been amazingly preparing, translating, and rehearsing this show while also helping the conference. Thank you and bravo!👏
August 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This third and final speaker of this panel is Jessica DeMarco-Jacobson, whose presentation is titled ‘Aaron’s Rod, Liberal Era Italy, and Blood-Consciousness’.
August 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The next speaker is Andrew Koenig, whose talk is titled ‘“A Queer Place”: Lawrence’s Month in California and the Mythologizing of the American West’.
August 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Today’s second panel is titled ‘Lawrence and Indigeneity II’. Our first speaker is Jeffrey Belnap, whose presentation is titled ‘Greater American Indigenism: Covarrubias, Collier, Lawrence’.
August 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The second speaker is Prof Feroza Jussawalla joining us online. Her talk is titled ‘Lawrence’s Quetzalcoatl and The Plumed Serpent: A Decolonial Myth’.
August 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Apologies for the slow start of our live coverage of the 4th day of the #InternationalDHLawrenceConference - your social media editor presented at and enjoyed the brilliant papers of the first panel. More pictures to follow. Now we have our first speaker of the second panel.

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August 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Mark Spilka Lecture of this #InternationalDHLawrenceConference is being delivered Dr Catherine Brown, titled ‘¡Que viva México!’
August 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The third and final panelist is John Pateman, whose presentation is titled ‘Quetzalcoatl, Decolonisation and Primitive Communism’.
August 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM