Lewis Carroll Society of North America » Meetings http://www.lewiscarroll.org The official web site of the LCSNA Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:06:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Full Schedule Posted of LCSNA Fall 2011 Meeting! http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2011/10/19/full-schedule-posted-of-lcsna-fall-2011-meeting/ http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2011/10/19/full-schedule-posted-of-lcsna-fall-2011-meeting/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:39:28 +0000 James http://www.lewiscarroll.org/?p=4008 Barry Moser's Hatter

Our Fall 2011 meeting will again be at the marvelous Manhattan campus of the New York Institute of Technology, on Saturday, November 12.

Speakers include Morton Cohen on Carroll’s epiphanies; Adriana Peliano, founder of the Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil, on the metamorphosis of Alice in illustrations and art; Alison Gopnik on her discovery [...]]]>

Barry Moser's Hatter

Our Fall 2011 meeting will again be at the marvelous Manhattan campus of the New York Institute of Technology, on Saturday, November 12.

Speakers include Morton Cohen on Carroll’s epiphanies; Adriana Peliano, founder of the Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil, on the metamorphosis of Alice in illustrations and art; Alison Gopnik on her discovery of the Iffley Yew and how Dodgson’s real life affected his works; Emily R. Aguilo-Perez on film adaptations; Jeff Menges, editor of Alice Illustrated (coming from Dover in October), on illustrators; and James Fotopoulos, an artist and film-maker who made an avant-garde film called Alice in Wonderland and will also display related art.

The full program is available here.

]]> http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2011/10/19/full-schedule-posted-of-lcsna-fall-2011-meeting/feed/ 0 Celebration of Mind II – Sign up! http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2011/10/02/celebration-of-mind-ii-sign-up/ http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2011/10/02/celebration-of-mind-ii-sign-up/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:35:05 +0000 Rachel Eley http://www.lewiscarroll.org/?p=3920 Can you change “100″ to “CAT” by moving just two of these toothpicks?

The above puzzle is probably familiar to many lovers of logic games, but new to the multitude who have not yet made the connection between mathematical problems, visual conundrums, and, of all things, fun.

One man who spent a lifetime reaching [...]]]> Can you change “100″ to “CAT” by moving just two of these toothpicks?
Cat Puzzle

The above puzzle is probably familiar to many lovers of logic games, but new to the multitude who have not yet made the connection between mathematical problems, visual conundrums, and, of all things, fun.

One man who spent a lifetime reaching out to both the initiates and the multitude was Martin Gardner, philosopher, mathematician, magician, and for 25 years the author of the “Mathematical Games” column in the Scientific American. He was also a founding member of the LCSNA and the creator of the irreplaceable Annotated Alice books.

Martin Gardner

When Martin died last year the foundation Gathering for Gardner vowed to “celebrate Martin’s life and work, and continue his pursuit of a playful and fun approach to Mathematics, Science, Art, Magic, Puzzles and all of his other interests and writings.” One of these celebrations is fast upon us – the second annual Celebration of Mind events to be held worldwide on or around what would have been Martin’s 97th birthday – October 21, 2011.

Last year, people gathered to share magic tricks, puzzles, recreational mathematics problems and stories about Martin at 66 locations from Tokyo to Tehran to Buenos Aires to Boulder, Colorado. This year, 30 hosts have signed up already and the organizers expect many more – if you can’t make the gathering at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, how about attending one of the 15 already listed in North America? Events held by LCSNA members will undoubtedly have an Alice flavor – if you are hosting one, be sure to get in touch and we will advertise it on the blog.

I wonder how many events this year will feature readings from A Bouquet for the Gardener, the beautiful collection of tributes and reminiscences published by the LCSNA in July? (Available at Amazon.com.)

For a map of planned events, and for guidelines for hosting your own event, go to the Gathering for Gardner website. There you can also find photos and descriptions of previous events along with downloadable visual treats and puzzles to whet your appetite. You can also follow event updates on Twitter account @G4G_CoM.

And finally, if you haven’t figured out the toothpick teaser above, I’m not going to tell you. What are Sunday afternoons for?

 

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Thanks to our host Brewster Kahle and the magnificent Internet Archive, last month’s San Francisco/Petaluma meeting is now available online. If you missed the event, or would like to relive the highlights, you can download any or all of the [...]]]> All the thrills of the LCSNA Spring 2011 Meeting in the privacy of your own home!

Thanks to our host Brewster Kahle and the magnificent Internet Archive, last month’s San Francisco/Petaluma meeting is now available online. If you missed the event, or would like to relive the highlights, you can download any or all of the meeting segments here.

The mission of the Internet Archive is to offer permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. We encourage you to watch founder Brewster Kahle’s address to the meeting to learn how the Lewis Carroll Society of North America could, like the Grateful Dead, be at the forefront of media preservation – ensuring the immortality of Alice for future generations.

The Internet Archive, San Francisco

]]> http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2011/05/05/watch-the-lcsna-spring-2011-meeting-online/feed/ 0 Feliz aniversário para a Sociedade Lewis Carroll do Brasil http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2010/04/11/feliz-aniversario-para-a-sociedade-lewis-carroll-do-brasil/ http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2010/04/11/feliz-aniversario-para-a-sociedade-lewis-carroll-do-brasil/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:22:06 +0000 James http://www.lewiscarroll.org/?p=1900 The Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil is having their First Anniversary meeting today at No Centro Cultural Brasile iro Britânico (Rua Ferreira de Araújo, 741 – Pinheiros, São Paulo). Here’s the description from their blog (fed thru Google Translate):

Is coming the day of our big event desaniversário! The Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil, with [...]]]> The Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil is having their First Anniversary meeting today at No Centro Cultural Brasile iro Britânico (Rua Ferreira de Araújo, 741 – Pinheiros, São Paulo). Here’s the description from their blog (fed thru Google Translate):

Is coming the day of our big event desaniversário! The Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil, with support from the Cultural Inglesa promote an evening attractions alicinógenas. Lectures, readings, videos, music, poetry, illustration. Come for tea snack nuts and mushrooms colorful drink sip months of fun.

The writer Wilson Bueno come from Curitiba to create connections between the hilarious nonsense of Lewis Carroll and the riddles of the deep interior. A designer and artist Adriana Peliano will comment on the story of the illustrations of Alice, from Victorian England to contemporary art. The group Frame Circus will live a soundtrack for the 1903 silent film of Alice in Wonderland, the first ever conducted on the subject. The literature teacher Theresa Vasquez will read translations of Jabberwocky accompanied by music and images. These and other attractions invite the lovers of Alice for an unforgettable evening!

Follow the white rabbit, but do not be late and immerse us in this adventure!

Adriana Peliano upkeeps several colorful Carroll blogs for the Sociedade: alicenations.blogspot.com for the general public, brasillewiscarroll.blogspot.org for deeper research, and umdialice.blogspot.com to make an even three. On the latter, Senhora Peliano just added this video “traveling in the imagination of Alice” (not for epileptics or vertiginous cunicuphobiacs.)

]]> http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2010/04/11/feliz-aniversario-para-a-sociedade-lewis-carroll-do-brasil/feed/ 3 A few Carroll letters at the Rosenbach: “a very small portion of brain” http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2010/03/09/a-few-carroll-letters-at-the-rosenbach-a-very-small-portion-of-brain/ http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2010/03/09/a-few-carroll-letters-at-the-rosenbach-a-very-small-portion-of-brain/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:50:23 +0000 James http://www.lewiscarroll.org/?p=1647 The website Letters of Note has two Lewis Carroll correspondences up today, both to Isabel Seymour in 1869. They are part of the Rosenbach Museum & Library’s collection in Philadelphia, where the Lewis Carroll Society of North America will be holding its spring meeting on April 24th, 2010. (There’s also an installation by Sue [...]]]> The website Letters of Note has two Lewis Carroll correspondences up today, both to Isabel Seymour in 1869. They are part of the Rosenbach Museum & Library’s collection in Philadelphia, where the Lewis Carroll Society of North America will be holding its spring meeting on April 24th, 2010. (There’s also an installation by Sue Johnson inspired by Carroll and poet Marianne Moore at the Rosenbach up thru June.) The first letter is an apology for stealing Isabel’s train ticket:

The Chestnuts,
Guildford
May 15, 1869

My dear Isabel,

Words cannot tell how horrified, terrified, petrified (everything ending with “fied,” including all my sisters here saying “fie!” when they heard of it) I was when I found that I had carried off your ticket to Guildford. I enquired directly I got there whether anything could be done, but found you must have arrived in London some time before I got here. So there was nothing to be done but tear my hair (there is almost none left now), weep, and surrender myself to the police.

I do hope you didn’t suffer any inconvenience on account of my forgetfulness, but you see you would talk so all the way (though I begged you not) that you drove everything out of my head, including the very small portion of brain that is usually to be found there.

Miss Lloyd will never forgive me for it—of that I feel certain. But I have some hope that after many years, when you see me, an aged man on crutches, hobbling to your door, the sternness of your features may relax for a moment, and, holding out the forefinger of your left hand, you may bring yourself to say, “All is forgotten and forgiven.”

I hardly dare ask what really happened at Paddington, whether the gentleman and lady, who were in the carriage, helped you out of the difficulty, or whether your maid had money enough, or whether you had to go to prison. If so, never mind: I’ll do my best to get you out, and at any rate you shant be executed.

Seriously, I am so sorry for it, and with all sorts of apologies, I am sincerely yours,

C. L. Dodgson

And there’s a second one at Letters of Note. Thank you Melissa Brice of Canary Promotion + Design for the tip.

]]> http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2010/03/09/a-few-carroll-letters-at-the-rosenbach-a-very-small-portion-of-brain/feed/ 0 Chronological List of the Meetings of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2010/01/25/chronological-list-of-the-meetings-of-the-lewis-carroll-society-of-north-america/ http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2010/01/25/chronological-list-of-the-meetings-of-the-lewis-carroll-society-of-north-america/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:46:00 +0000 James http://www.lcsna.org/wordpress/2010/01/25/chronological-list-of-the-meetings-of-the-lewis-carroll-society-of-north-america/ Messrs. August A. Imholtz, Jr., and Mark Burstein, bigwigs of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, have prepared a useful digital book of the Chronological List of the Meetings of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, with details about Who Spoke About What and What Else Happened, from the inaugural meeting [...]]]>

Messrs. August A. Imholtz, Jr., and Mark Burstein, bigwigs of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, have prepared a useful digital book of the Chronological List of the Meetings of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, with details about Who Spoke About What and What Else Happened, from the inaugural meeting in Princeton, New Jersey, January 1974, thru the forthcoming April 2010 meeting at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia (that’s right! where the Marianne Moore / Lewis Carroll installation by Sue Johnson is, blogged about here.)

]]> http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2010/01/25/chronological-list-of-the-meetings-of-the-lewis-carroll-society-of-north-america/feed/ 0 Online Auction for 2015 http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2009/10/19/online-auction-for-2015/ http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2009/10/19/online-auction-for-2015/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:10:00 +0000 sarah http://www.lcsna.org/wordpress/2009/10/19/online-auction-for-2015/ Another fundraiser for the 2015 event is a weekly auction of very fun items donated by the family of the great Carrollian collector Carolyn Buck. Check it out, and keep checking back as new items will be added every week this fall.

Which reminds me, if you are interested in helping organize a fabulous [...]]]> Another fundraiser for the 2015 event is a weekly auction of very fun items donated by the family of the great Carrollian collector Carolyn Buck. Check it out, and keep checking back as new items will be added every week this fall.

Which reminds me, if you are interested in helping organize a fabulous event, send Joel Birenbaum an email. Every little bit helps!

]]> http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2009/10/19/online-auction-for-2015/feed/ 0 Nancy Wiley’s Alice Doll Book http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2009/10/19/nancy-wileys-alice-doll-book/ http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2009/10/19/nancy-wileys-alice-doll-book/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:25:00 +0000 sarah http://www.lcsna.org/wordpress/2009/10/19/nancy-wileys-alice-doll-book/ If the LCSNA meetings in 2010 are coming up too fast for you, how about 2015? The LCSNA hopes to hold a special event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland, but doing so requires planning and fundraising. Fortunately for you, our fundraisers are always interesting things that you [...]]]> If the LCSNA meetings in 2010 are coming up too fast for you, how about 2015? The LCSNA hopes to hold a special event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland, but doing so requires planning and fundraising. Fortunately for you, our fundraisers are always interesting things that you were going to buy anyway!

The first of these is dollmaker Nancy Wiley’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated with photographs of scenes featuring Wiley’s dolls. Purchase the book via LCSNA member Joel Birenbaum and a portion of the proceeds will go to the 2015 event.

]]> http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2009/10/19/nancy-wileys-alice-doll-book/feed/ 1 LCSNA meetings http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2009/10/19/lcsna-meetings/ http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2009/10/19/lcsna-meetings/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:07:00 +0000 sarah http://www.lcsna.org/wordpress/2009/10/19/lcsna-meetings/ If you weren’t able to attend the LCSNA fall meeting in Fort Lee, NJ, this past weekend, take a look at some of the articles written about it…

“Down the rabbit hole, onto the silver screen”

“Fort Lee as ‘Wonderland’”

… then start planning for the spring meeting! It will take place at the [...]]]> If you weren’t able to attend the LCSNA fall meeting in Fort Lee, NJ, this past weekend, take a look at some of the articles written about it…

“Down the rabbit hole, onto the silver screen”

“Fort Lee as ‘Wonderland’”

… then start planning for the spring meeting! It will take place at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia on April 24, 2010.

]]> http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2009/10/19/lcsna-meetings/feed/ 0 Fall Meeting in Fort Lee http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2009/09/08/fall-meeting-in-fort-lee/ http://www.lewiscarroll.org/2009/09/08/fall-meeting-in-fort-lee/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:38:00 +0000 sarah http://www.lcsna.org/wordpress/2009/09/08/fall-meeting-in-fort-lee/ The program (pdf) for the Fall 2009 LCSNA meeting is now available!

The meeting will be held in Fort Lee Historical Park Museum in Fort Lee, New Jersey (just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan), on October 17, 2009. The first Alice movie with sound was shot in Fort Lee, which is a [...]]]> The program (pdf) for the Fall 2009 LCSNA meeting is now available!

The meeting will be held in Fort Lee Historical Park Museum in Fort Lee, New Jersey (just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan), on October 17, 2009. The first Alice movie with sound was shot in Fort Lee, which is a famous site in film history. Two Alice films will be shown, and we will hear talks by Alice film experts and collectors.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a wonderful program, followed by an excellent dinner at a nearby restaurant. Details for registering are on page 2 of the program announcement.

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