Monday October 7th 2013
| 8.45 – 09.15 | Registration | |
| 09.15 – 09.30 | Welcome and Introductions | Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, President of Marlboro College Professor Janet Montefiore, Director of the Symposium Introduced by John Radcliffe, of the Kipling Society |
| 09.30 – 10.15 | “What did the neighbours think ?” | Professor Thomas Pinney, Pomona College |
| 10.15 –10.45 | Coffee | |
| 10.45 – 11.30 | “A stranger of an unknown race” The American chapters of Something of Myself |
Professor Daniel Karlin, of Bristol University |
| 11.30 – 12.15 | “Kipling’s American ‘berangements’ for the young” | Professor U. C. Knoepflmacher of Princeton University Introduced by Professor Judith Plotz of George Washington University |
| 12.15 – 12.45 | The Marlboro Kipling collection | Thomas Ragle, former President of Marlboro College Sally Andrews, former Librarian, and Emily Alling, the current Librarian |
| 12.45 – 14.15 | Lunch in the Rice-Aron Library, with a viewing of the Marlboro Kipling Collection | |
| 14.15 – 15.00 | “Engines that could” “.007” and the American Machine” |
Professor Judith Plotz, of George Washington University Introduced by Dr Kaori Nagai, of the University of Kent |
| 15.00 – 15.45 | “Huckleberry Finn and Kim” | Professor Tricia Lootens, of the University of Georgia Introduced by Professor Peter Havholm, of the College of Wooster, Ohio |
| 15.45 – 16.15 | Coffee | |
| 16.15 – 17.00 | “Politics and metaphor in The Seven Seas” | Professor Jan Montefiore of the University of Kent Introduced by Lt Col Roger Ayers, of the Kipling Society |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | “How to write a short story – a recently found MS | David Alan Richards, author of Rudyard Kipling, a Bibliography Introduced by Thomas Ragle |
| 1800 – 18.45 | Closing discussion | |
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Tuesday October 8th
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| 10.00 – 11.00 | “Vermont and Vermonters in Kipling’s day” | Charles Fish, of the Dummerston Historical Society Introduced by John Carnahan of the Brattleboro Historical Society |
| 11.00-11.30 | Kipling and Trix | Readings by Mary Hamer from her novel introduced by Professor Leonee Ormond of the Kipling Society |
| 11.30 –14.30 | Visits to Naulakha | |
There is a report of the Symposium, including the papers, in KJ 355 for July 2014
[J.M./J.R.]