Information and Pre-Registration

 

To register for the George Herbert’s Travels conference online, please visit https://store.nexternal.com/shared/StoreFront/default.asp?CS=uncg&StoreType=BtoC&Count1=601757228&Count2=518897652

 

Once there, please click on the Conferences link, and follow the “shopping cart” style instructions through the “George Herbert’s Travels” link.

 

To register by phone, call toll-free from the U.S. 866-334-2255 9am-4pm Eastern Time.

 

Registration Fees:

 

--Regular Registration: $125

--Graduate Students: $85

--Friday Evening Banquet, $25 (optional)

 

--UNCG Faculty, Students, and Staff: Free (except for Banquet)--no online registration required—simply indicate your plan to attend by emailing herbconf@uncg.edu under the subject heading FREE UNCG REGISTRANT, and providing your name as you’d like it on your nametag, along with your contact information and whether you’ll plan to attend the Friday evening banquet--$25 to be paid by check made out to the UNCG Class of 1952 Excellence in English Fund.

 

Hotels:  Register and Reserve Soon! October 9-11 will be a busy weekend in Greensboro, and hotel will be filling up quickly, so please make your reservations as soon as possible. Rooms not reserved by the beginning of August will be released back to the hotels and will become unavailable.

 

We’ve reserved rooms in two hotels and shuttle service between these hotels and the UNCG campus is included in the conference registration fee.

 

Marriott Greensboro Downtown—50 rooms

 

Single rate $112 per night

 

Online Reservations: www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/gsodt

Enter your reservation information and the George Herbert’s Travels Conference group discount code geogeoa.

Phone Reservations: 336-379-8000 or 800-228-9290. When calling in, please make your reservations under the “George Herbert's Travels Block” to receive your special group room rate.

 

 

 

 

Proximity Hotel—Greensboro’s newest and greenest hotel—35 rooms

 

Single rate $152 per night (includes transportation to and from Piedmont

 

Triad International Airport, approx. $25 each way by regular cab)

 

OnlineReservations: http://reservations.proximityhotel.com/smsworld/wc.dll?smsworld~availbox~&WSI=PR&RMP=P Enter your reservation information and the George Herbert’s Travels Conference group discount code 106493.

Phone Reservations: (336) 854-2000 or 800-965-8259. To insure receiving the special guest room rate and fulfillment of the group room block obligation, attendees must identify the group name, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, when

making reservations.

 

Conference Room-mates: If you are interested in sharing a hotel room and room rates during the conference, please respond to herbconf@uncg.edu with the subject heading ROOM-MATE WANTED by April 15 and we will send you by April 22 a list of names and contact information about others seeking to share rooms. Please indicate your academic status (graduate student, professor, or other).

 

 

UNCG 2008 Herbert Conference

Department of English
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
3143 Beverly Cooper Moore and Irene Mitchell Moore
Hall for Humanities and Research Administration

P.O. Box 26170

Greensboro, NC

27402-6170  USA
VOICE +336.334.5311
FAX +336.334.3281