October 20 to 25: Traherne 350 Events

A week of celebration in Oxford

The Oxford Traherne edition, in collaboration with colleagues at Brasenose College, has organized a week of events in Oxford to commemorate the 350th anniversary of Traherne’s death in October 2024. The events take place from Sunday 20 October to Friday 25 October, and there are a wide variety of activities ranging from traditional Choral Evensong from the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, with two recently-commissioned Traherne settings by composer Nico Muhly, to a hands-on letterpress workshop, where participants will set and print a Traherne poem.
Traherne-inspired artwork by students at Brasenose will be on display. 
A full programme of all events and details of how to register can be found here.

Traherne 350 Online Symposium

The Oxford Traherne is also organizing an international online symposium on Thursday 31 October. This will begin at 2.00 p.m. London time (GMT), and will end at 8.30 p.m. (GMT), with a wide range of papers, given by Traherne scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The symposium is free of charge, and you do not have to be an academic researcher to attend talks. Full details are available here. 

Other organizations are also arranging commemorative events in places associated with Traherne’s life.

Teddington 

The parish of Teddington, Middlesex, where Traherne was buried in St Mary’s church on 10 October 1674, has several events, including a Requiem Eucharist on 10 October, and a Celebration & Commemoration Evening of readings and music on 12 October. Full details can be found here.

Hereford

The Traherne Association’s Jeremy Maule Lecture 2024: 

The Rt Revd Dr Rowan Williams, ‘Cosmic Connections: Traherne and a New Climate in Modern Philosophy’, Thursday 10 October, College Hall, Hereford Cathedral. Full details can be found here.