Book Launch: War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, Modernism, and Psychology

14 October 2015 War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, Modernism, and Psychology, edited by Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes, wa…

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Ford’s The Good Soldier Wins The Cheltenham Booker 1915 at 2015 Festival

​A Report from Alan Judd:The finalists allocated to this year’s Cheltenham Booker (1915) were P.G. Wodehouse’s PSmith, Journalist, presented by Rober…

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Literature at War: H.G. Wells, Ford Madox Ford and their Contemporaries in and around the First World War

19 September, 2015 A report from Ford Society Chair, Dr. Sara Haslam ‘Literature at War: H.G. Wells, Ford Madox Ford and their Contemporaries in and …

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AFTERMATH: the Cultural Legacies of WW1

21-23 May, 2015 The Arts & Humanities Research Institute at King’s, in conjunction with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the Universi…

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Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End and the Yorkshire Country Gentleman

24 March 2015, 7.30pm Rob Hawkes Poppleton Arts Society The Poppleton Centre, Main Street, Upper Poppleton, York, YO26 6JT Ford Madox Ford’s Par…

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Cosmopolis: Ford Madox Ford and the Cultures of Paris

11-13 September 2014 Paris, France Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3Institut du Monde Anglophone 5, rue de l’École de Médecine 75 006 …

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‘Parade’s End – and Ford – Now!’ at BAMS 2014:  ‘Modernism Now!’

26–28 June 2014 Institute of English Studies, University of London This panel considered Ford Madox Ford’s standing – within modernist studies and th…

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The Northern Modernism Seminar: Modernism and Trust

Friday 2 May 2014 Launch of the Cultures of Trust NetworkTeesside University, Darlington Campus Rob Hawkes hosted the Spring Northern …

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Review: ‘Biala: Vision and Memory’

‘Biala: Vision and Memory’, 12 September – 26 October 2013, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY, New York. Martin Stannard, Univ…

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Exploratory Conference of the North American Chapter

November 22-23, 2013 New York City, NY Janice Biala, Portrait of a Writer (Ford Madox Ford), 1938. Courtesy of the Estate of Janice Biala.In November…

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The Good Soldier Centenary Conference

12-14 September 2013 Swansea University Organised in Association with the Ford Madox Ford Society Delegates to this year’s Ford Madox Ford conference…

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Ford at Stony Stratford Library

March 2013 I was invited towards the end of 2012 to give a public lecture on Ford at Stony Stratford library. Stony is on the outskirts of Milton Key…

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BBC/HBO/VRT television adaptation of Parade’s End

A couple of days before the Society’s 2012 Parade’s End conference I managed to talk to Damien Timmer, MD of Mammoth Screen, who set up the…

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Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End: Modernism and the First World War

27–29 September 2012 Institute of English Studies, University of London 2012 proved to be an annus mirabilis for Ford and Fordians. Th…

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The Edwardian Ford Madox Ford: Culture, Politics, and Gender

6-8 September 2011 Edwin Morgan Writing Centre, University of Glasgow For the 2011 conference, a cohort of Ford scholars followed The Good Soldi…

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Ford Madox Ford and America

23-25 September, 2010 CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York The conference opened on a beautiful September afternoon, in an amazing l…

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Ford in France/Ford en Provence

10-12 September 2009 The Society’s conference ‘Ford in France/Ford en Provence’ was held in Aix-en-Provence from the 10th to 12th September 2009. Tha…

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Ford Madox Ford and Editing

University of Durham, 12-14 September 2008 The Ford Society enjoyed a productive, varied and fascinating conference in Durham. Thanks are due to Jaso…

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