And this is the end of this #InternationalDHLawrenceConference. Thank you Mexico🇲🇽 and the lovely friends we met here who made this experience so sweet and precious. Look forward to meeting many of you at the next conference!

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

Huge congratulations Andrew!!!🎉

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!👏

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!🎉

Many congratulations Jamie!!!🎉🥳👏

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!!!🎉

After Dr Harrison’s brilliant talk, we had the privilege listening to a concert delivered by UNAM’s faculty of music. Marvellous!!!

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)”.

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’”.

Following Prof Roberts’s wonderful talk, we have Prof Gaku Iwai, whose presentation is titled “D. H. Lawrence and Yiyun Li: Cross-Cultural Influence”.

For the panel ‘Intercultural Lawrence II’, Prof Neil Roberts is presenting his talk titled ‘Lawrence and Naïveté’.

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”.

After Ben’s brilliant talk, we have Aaron Botwick delivering his talk titled “Moles and Men: ‘Second Best’ and the Hazards of Creative Destruction”.

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’”.

The third speaker is Prof Adam Parkes and his talk is titled ‘Abstraction in Lawrence’s Tortoises’.

Our second speaker is Samuel Bradley, whose talk is titled ‘Translating the Nonhuman: D.H. Lawrence, Jocelyn Brooke and the Language of Plants’.

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’.