For more recent meetings, please see Past Events.
| Date | Location | Talks/Presentations | KL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 2010 | New York, New York New York Institute of Technology | Talk – Edward Guiliano “Greetings, and A Few Wise Words About Martin Gardner‚” Talk – Oleg Lipchenko “Butcher in the Ruff: Rendering the Snark (A Work in Progress)‚” Talk – Adam Gopnik “Looking-Glass and Broken Mirror: Honoring the Spirit of Lewis Carroll‚” Talk – Jenny Woolf “Viewing Lewis Carroll as a Real Person‚” Talk – Cathy Rubin w/Andrew Sellon “The Real Alice Liddell: A Conversation with Pictures‚” Talk – Andrew Sellon “Meeting Mr. Dodgson: One Carrollian’s Journey‚” | KL 85 |
| Apr 24, 2010 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rosenbach Museum & Library | Talk – Andy Malcolm “Alice in Foleyland: Sound Effects for Tim Burton’s Alice film” Talk – Nancy Wiley “Creating My Illustrations for Wonderland” Talk – Maria Tatar “Important-Unimportant: Making Sense of Nonsense” | KL 84 |
| Oct 16-17, 2009 | Fort Lee, New Jersey Fort Lee Historic Park Visitor Center | Talk – Screening of 1910 Edison movie, introduced by David Schaefer Talk – Prof. Richard Koszarski “Fort Lee Wonderland: Why Was the First Alice in Wonderland Talkie Made in New Jersey?” Talk – Alan Tannenbaum “Alice Strips for the Screen” (film strips, that is!) Talk – Dr. Greg Bowers “Timid and Tremulous Sounds: What Film Scores Should Like To Explain About Alice’s Adventures” Talk – David Schaefer “Alice Speaks!” Screening, followed by discussion of the 1931 Bud Pollard movie | KL 83 |
| May 9, 2009 | Santa Fe, New Mexico Theaterwork | Talk – Panel discussion with members of Theaterwork “From the Page to the Stage: Mounting a Theatrical Production of La Guida di Bragia” Talk – Gerald Fried “Composing The Chess Game,” with live chamber music performance Talk – Panel with illustrator Jonathan Dixon, editor Mark Burstein, designer Andrew Ogus: “The Printed Page: The Making of the LCSNA’s edition of La Guida di Bragia” Private performance of La Guida di Bragia by Theaterwork | KL 82 |
| Oct 25, 2008 | New York, New York Fales Library in Bobst Library, New York University | Talk – Jon Scieszka “And Alice for All: The Challenges of Adapting Lewis Carroll for a 21st-Century Storybook Audience” Talk – Nancy Willard “The Invisible Teacher” Talk – Peter Westergaard “Alice in Opera-land” Talk – Mahendra Singh “A Surrealist’s Snark Hunt” | KL 81 |
| Apr 25-27, 2008 | Washington, D.C. and Environs Rosenwald Room of the Library of Congress Fairland Library in Burtonsville, Maryland Home of August & Clare Imholtz (Beltsville, Maryland), Home of Ellie & Ken Salins (Silver Spring, Maryland), Home of David & Mary Schaefer (Silver Spring, Maryland), Home of Matt & Wendy Lane Crandall (Burke, Virginia) National Gallery of Art | Talk – Professor Mark Goodacre “Charles Dodgson and the Conventions of Victorian Piety” Talk – Oleg Lipchenko “Drawing Treacle Well: Some Thoughts about Illustrating Alice” Auction: Joel Birenbaum, auctioneer Exhibit – Mark Dimunation led a tour of the Library of Congress, showing us the Lewis Carroll Scrapbook and other Carroll holdings Exhibit – The Imholtz Collection Exhibit – The Schaefer Collection Exhibit – The Salins Collection Exhibit – The Crandall Disney Alice Collection Exhibit – Early British photography at the National Gallery of Art | KL 80 |
| Oct 13, 2007 | Seattle, Washington Seattle Public Library (Central) | Talk – Tommy Kovac “Wonderland: Disney Gets Edgy With Slave Labor Comics” Talk – Iain McCaig “We’re All Mad Here: On the Insanity of Creating Another Illustrated Alice” Talk – Jack Prelutsky “All Sorts of Nonsense: Looking Back on Lands of Wonder” Talk – Alan Tannenbaum “Alice in (and out of) Copyright-land” Exhibit – Jodee Fenton leading a private tour of the Library and select Victorian holdings | KL 79 |
| Apr 14, 2007 | New York, New York Butler Library in Columbia University | 75th Anniversary of Alice Hargreaves’ Visit to Columbia Talk – David Schaefer on Mrs. Hargreaves’ 1932 visit, with screening of newsreel Talk – Amirouche Moktefi “Logical Writings By and About Lewis Carroll” Talk – Bryan Talbot “The Real-Life Inspirations Behind Alice in Sunderland” Talk – Michael Patrick Hearn and Selwyn Goodacre “Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred?: How Annotators Find the Reality Beneath the Fiction” Exhibit – Screening of Dreamchild | KL 78 |
| Nov 4, 2006 | New York, New York Fales Library in Bobst Library, New York University | Talk – Peter Glassman on his Books of Wonder editions Talk – Adam Gopnik on Martin Gardner’s Annotated Snark Talk – Clare Imholtz on her Sylvie and Bruno bibliography, written with Byron Sewell Talk – Peggy Guest on her Snark illustrations | KL ?? |
| Mar 31-Apr 1, 2006 | Los Angeles, California Doheny Library at the University Park Campus of the University of Southern California Huntington Museum and Library | “Lewis Carroll and the Idea of Childhood” Conference Talk – Professor Jim Kincaid “Lewis Carroll and the Idea of Childhood” Talk – Professor Hilary Schor “Realism’s Alice: Making the Heroine Curiouser” Talk – Professor Gina Barecca “Alice and Dorothy: Why These Two Babes in Boyland Don’t Surrender” Talk – Professor Catherine Robson “Reciting Alice: What Is the Use of a Book Without Poems?” Talk – Jeffrey Eger on Dodgson at Auction 1893- 1999 Talk – Professor Robert Polhemus “Lewis Carroll and the Idolatry of the Child” Talk – Jim Kincaid and Gina Barecca “St. Peter Interviews C. L. Dodgson” Talk – Diane Waggoner “Little Men: Dodgson’s Photographs of Boys” Talk – Professor Robin Lakoff “Who Wrote Sylvie and Bruno, and Why Did He Write It?” Talk – Professor Carol Mavor “For-getting to Eat: Alice’s Mouthing Metonymy” Talk – Selwyn Goodacre “Towards an Analytical Commentary on Alice’s Adventures” Talk – Panel discussion with above speakers Exhibit – Selections from the Cassady Collection Exhibit – Victor Huerta’s Alice paintings at the Caracola Gallery | KL ?? |
| Oct 15, 2005 | Des Moines, Iowa Iowa State Historical Building | Talk – David Schaefer introduced and screened excerpts from nine Alice films Talk – Dr. Genevieve Brunet Smith “Portrait of an Artist” Talk – Dr. Frankie Morris on John Tenniel Talk – Dr. Frankie Morris “Attitudes, Misery, and Purring When You’re Pleased” Talk – Alan Tannenbaum (moderator), August A. Imholtz, Jr., Joel Birenbaum, and Mark Burstein in a panel discussion on collecting Exhibit – Mary Kline-Misol Alice Cycle retrospective “Discover Victorian Iowa” | KL 77 |
| Apr 30, 2005 | New York, New York Main New York Public Library 42nd Street | Talk – Morris Grossman “Lewis Carroll: Pedophile and/or Platonist” Talk – Monica Edinger “The Many Faces of Alice” Talk – Alan Tannenbaum “Lewis Carroll’s Nyctograph and Square Alphabet” Exhibit – Highlights from the Berg Collection | KL 75 |
| Oct 24, 2004 | Fresno, California California State University, Fresno | Talk – Angelica Carpenter “Accelerated Reader in Wonderland” Talk – Peter Hanff “Full Leisurely We Glide: Origins of Alice” Talk – Hilda Bohem tribute Talk – Linda Sunshine on writing All Things Alice Talk – Robert Sabuda on his pop-up Wonderland Talk – Selections from a musical, Wonderland, by the Bullard School Exhibit – Highlights from the Arne Nixon Center and Bohem collections | KL 74 |
| May 8, 2004 | Cambridge, Massachusetts Houghton Library, Harvard University | Talk – Frederick Lake “Folkloric Aspects of Alice in Wonderland” Talk – Will Brooker “The Man in White Paper: Lewis Carroll in British Journalism, 1992- 2004” Talk – Charles Lovett “Lewis Carroll, Shepherd of Books” Talk – Dr. Anashia Plackis “Oxford’s Trojan Horse: Lewis Carroll’s Covert Drama” Talk – Selwyn Goodacre “Annotated Tenniel” Exhibit – Highlights from the Amory Collection | KL 73 |
| Oct 24, 2003 | New York, New York Fales Library in Bobst Library, New York University | Talk – Edward Wakeling “Lewis Carroll’s Artistic Mind’s Eye” Talk – Morton Cohen “Facts and Fictions” Talk – Andrew Sellon, Elizabeth London, and Tim Sheahan performed an expanded version of Sellon’s play “Through the Looking-Glass Darkly” | KL 72 |
| Apr 11, 2003 | Chicago, Illinois Newberry Library Home of Joel & Debbie Birenbaum | Talk – Doug Hofstadter “The Surrealistic Curvature of Semantic Space Around a Neutron Star” Talk – Ruth Berman “Alice as Fairytale and Non-Fairytale” Talk – George Bodmer “All Eyes on Dr. Rosenbach” Exhibit – Highlights from the Newberry Library Exhibit – The Birenbaum Collection | KL 71 |
| Nov 2, 2002 | San Francisco, California San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Cartoon Art Museum | Talk – Koen Lien on his designs for the “Alice’s Wonderland: A Most Curious Adventure” exhibit Talk – Andy Malcolm and George Pastic, premier screening of their short film Sincerely Yours, Lewis Carroll Talk – Doug Nickel “Curating Dreaming in Pictures” Exhibit – Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll at SFMOMA, with tours led by curator Doug Nickel Exhibit – Original art from the Permanent Collection and a temporary Exhibit – of Alice comic books at the Cartoon Art Museum | KL 70 |
| Apr 13, 2002 | Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University | Talk – Lorraine Levender Whittlesey on her recent composition, “Memoria Technica” Talk – Professor Ulrich Knoepflmacher “Maurice [Sendak] in Wonderland, and What He Found There” Talk – Professor Donald J. Gray, “Carrollian Studies Today” Exhibit – Highlights from the Cotsen Children’s Library | KL 69 |
| Oct 27, 2001 | Pasadena, California Tam O’Shanter Inn Walt Disney Studios | Talk – Charles Solomon (moderator), Dan Singer, Kathryn Beaumont-Levine (Disney’s Alice) in a panel discussion, “The Making of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland” Talk – Showing of Disney’s 1951 Alice in Wonderland, followed by Q&A Exhibit – Holdings from the Disney Archives Exhibit – The Dan Singer Collection Original art from DeLoss McGraw’s Alice at the Skidmore Gallery | KL 68 |
| Apr 21, 2001 | New York, New York Fales Library in Bobst Library, New York University | Talk – Professor Morton Cohen “Lewis Carroll in Greenwich Village” Talk – Roberta Rogow “Mr Dodgson of Christ Church” Talk – Hugues Lebailly “Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s Infatuation with the Weaker and More Aesthetic Sex Re-examined” Talk – Professor Nina Demourova “LobaNov on Russian Translators” Exhibit – Sotheby’s pre-opening reception for the Jun 6th auction of the Liddell Family holdings | KL 67 |
| Oct 28, 2000 | Austin, Texas Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin | Talk – Dr. Sandor G. Burstein on Byron Sewell Talk – Roy Flukinger “After Words: Dodgson’s Photography” Talk – Edward Wakeling “Bringing Lewis Carroll’s Photography into Better Focus” Talk – Charles Lovett (moderator), Dr. Francine Abeles, and August A. Imholtz, Jr. in a panel discussion, “Warren Weaver: Scientist, Humanitarian, Carrollian” Talk – August A. Imholtz, Jr. “Warren and the Pirates” Talk – William Jay Smith “Lewis Carroll as Poet: Dream and Nightmare?” Talk – Selwyn Goodacre “On Memory” Exhibit – Highlights of the Ransom, Gernsheim, and Sewell collections at HRC | KL 66 |
| Apr 15, 2000 | New York, New York Fales Library in Bobst Library, New York University | Talk – Gilbert Hetherwick: selections from his musical, Dreams for Alice, performed live Talk – August A. Imholtz, Jr. on Liddell and Scott’s and other lexicons Talk – Charles Lovett “The Blackburn Collection” | KL 65 |
| Oct 22-24, 1999 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada Fisher Rare Book Library, St. George Campus, University of Toronto The Osborne Library The Royal Canadian Military Institute The Art Gallery of Ontario | Talk – Nicolas Maes on Joe Brabant Talk – Fernando Soto “‘What I Tell You Three Times Is True’: A Medial Maxim and Diagnosis for Carroll’s Snark” Talk – Leslie McGrath on children’s books that influenced Carroll Talk – George Walker, Bill Poole, and Andy Malcolm on the Cheshire Cat Press’s Alices Talk – Donny Zaldin “Alice’s Adventures in Toronto” Talk – Andy Malcolm on the making of his short film, A Golden Afternoon (later renamed Sincerely Yours, Lewis Carroll) Talk – Dayna McCausland “The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood” Exhibit – Highlights of the Brabant Collection on display at the Fisher Library | KL 64 |
| May 8, 1999 | Washington, D.C. College of Preachers, Washington National Cathedral | Talk – Dr. Genevieve Brunet Smith “The Dream as a Source of Creation in Lewis Carroll’s Fantasy Works” Talk – Dr. Georgianna Ziegler “Alice Reads Shakespeare: Charles L. Dodgson and the Girls’ Shakespeare Project” Talk – Professor Robert Phillips “A Swarm of Bees: Personal Experiences Behind Aspects of Alice” Exhibit – Schaefer Collection at the Schaefer home and Mall Collection at the Mall home | KL 63 |
| Nov 7-8, 1998 | Los Angeles, California University of California at Los Angeles Huntington Library, San Marino | Talk – Dan Singer “Disney’s Alice in Theme Parks and Beyond” Talk – Michael Dylan Welch “Trains to Moscow: A Comparison of Lewis Carroll’s Russian Journal and E. E. Cummings’ Eimi” Talk – Anashia Plackis “Lewis Carroll: A Millennial View” Talk – Charles Lovett “Lewis Carroll’s Favorite Play, or the Golden Don and The Silver King: An Examination of Henry Arthur Jones’ Groundbreaking Melodrama and An Analysis of its Attraction for Charles L. Dodgson” Talk – Mark Burstein “Comic Sensibilities: Alice in the Funny Pages” Talk – Hilda Bohem “The 1933 Paramount Production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” Talk – Maria Bodmann “Alice in the Shadows: A Presentation of a Balinese Wayang Kulit Alice” Exhibit – “Snarks, Jabberwocks, Crocodiles, & Mice Tails: Lewis Carroll, the Poet and the Parodist, Illuminated” from the Bohem and UCLA Collections Exhibit – Selections from the Huntington Collection | KL 62 |
| Mar 28-29, 1998 | New York, New York Fales Library in Bobst Library, New York University Pierpont Morgan Library | Talk – Professor Nina M. Demourova “Lewis Carroll in the Russian Wonderland” Talk – Lorrie Goulet on the Jose de Creeft Statue of Alice in Central Park Talk – Professor Donald Rackin “Tennysonian Connections in Lewis Carroll: The Sublime and the Ridiculous” Talk – Professor Morton N. Cohen “Reflections on Lewis Carroll” Exhibit – “Yours Very Sincerely. C .L. Dodgson (alias “Lewis Carroll),” a selection from the Lindseth Collection at the Grolier Club | KL 61 |
| Oct 17-18, 1997 | Collegeville, Minnesota St. Johns University and St. Benedict’s College | First Annual Conference on Creativity Talk – Professor Michael Hancher “Tenniel’s Illustrations and Race at the Great Exhibition of 1851” Talk – Interactive Alice in Wonderland play Professors Marty Andrews, Jennifer Galovich, and Michael Livingston on “How Do We Understand Creativity?” Talk – Professors Chuck Rambeck and Jim Murphy “Manipulation of Democracy: Simulations of Lewis Carroll’s Committee Problems” Talk – Fr. Magnus J. Wenninger, O.S.B. “Polyhedra: Space Filling” Talk – Professor Morton N. Cohen “Lewis Carroll’s Creativity” Talk – Fernando J. Soto “Carroll’s Sense and Nonsense” Talk – Professor James Poff “Insects in the Alice Books” Talk – Professor Francine Abeles “Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Inventions” Talk – Professor David H. Schaefer “Versions of Alice in Early Movies” Exhibit – Original Portraits from the Alice Books by Michael Osterweil Exhibit – Selections from the Birenbaum Collection | KL 60 |
| Apr 19, 1997 | New York, New York Fales Library in Bobst Library, New York University | Talk – Chatham Ewing “The Humor of Lewis Carroll” Talk – Jeff Ellis “The Victorian Photographic Process, Using Carroll’s Photographs of Agnes Weld” Talk – Professor Francine Abeles “Through a Glass Smartly: Lewis Carroll as Seen by Martin Gardner & Co.” Exhibit – Selection of materials from the Berol Collection | KL 59 |
| Nov 9, 1996 | Providence, Rhode Island Brown University | Talk – Joel Birenbaum, August A. Imholtz, Jr., and others on Maxine Schaefer Talk – Sherrie Ackerman-Ballou “The Soul of Sylvie” Talk – George P. Landow “Victorian Studies on the World Wide Web” Exhibit – Cyber-Alice on the World Wide Web | KL 58 |
| Apr 27, 1996 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Environs Rosenbach Museum and Library Germantown Theatre Guild at Mehl House, Germantown | Talk – Alexi Panshin “Falling Down a Rabbit-Hole” Mark Hallen and Laura Filosa performing the “Wasp in a Wig” episode Talk – Barbara Felicetti (moderator), Daniel Traister, John F. Warren, George M. Riter, and Kimball Higgs in the panel discussion “Your Collection’s Future: Down the Rabbit Hole…and into the Basement?” | KL 57 |
| Oct 28, 1995 | Cleveland, Ohio Jon and Ginny Lindseth’s Home The Rowfant Club | Talk – Jim Kaval “History of the Rowfant Club” Talk – Professor Morton N. Cohen “Where Do We Go From Here?” Talk – Dr. Selwyn H. Goodacre “Lewis Carroll Collecting: Jam Yesterday, Jam Today‚ÄîWhat of Tomorrow?” Exhibit – Highlights of the Lindseth Collection on display at the Rowfant Club | KL 56 |
| Apr 22, 1995 | New York, New York Columbia University | Talk – Andrew Sellon performed his one-man play “Through the Looking-Glass Darkly” Talk – Holly Haswell on Lewis Carroll material at Columbia Talk – William Appleton “Alice’s First Trip to America” Talk – Michael Hearn “Why Is Tenniel Perennial?” Exhibit – Selection of Lewis Carroll Centennial Material from the University’s Columbiana collection | KL 55 |
| Nov 12, 1994 | Princeton, New Jersey McCormack Hall, Princeton University | Talk – Professor Edward Guiliano, Charles Lovett, and August A. Imholtz, Jr. on Stan Marx Talk – Dr. Edvige Giunta “Wonderful Wonderlads: Lewis Carroll through James Joyce’s Looking Glosses” Talk – Nina Cassian “‘Jabberwocky’ in Romanian” Talk – August A. Imholtz, Jr. “‘Jabberwocky’ Revisited: More Nonsense?” Exhibit – “Lewis Carroll: Some Fragments from the Mirror” from the Parrish Collection at the Firestone Library | KL 54 |
| Jun 9-12, 1994 | Winston-Salem, North Carolina Wake Forest University | Second International Lewis Carroll Conference Talk – Charles Lovett “Alice and America” Talk – Professor Morton N. Cohen “Reeling and Writhing with Lewis Carroll” Talk – Christina Bj√∂rk “What Was Behind Alice’s Nursery Door: Behind the Making of The Other Alice” Talk – Edward Wakeling “Mrs. Hargreaves Comes to the U.S.A.” Professor Julie Grossman “Escape from the Real: Lewis Carroll, ‘Alice’ and Henry James’ Watch and Ward” Talk – Dr. Selwyn H. Goodacre “The Nineteenth-Century American Alice” Talk – Professor Donald Rackin “Mind over Matter: Sexuality and Where the ‘Body Happens to Be’ in the Alice Books” Talk – Stan Marx “Memoirs of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America: The First Twenty Years” Talk – Maxine Schaefer “My Twenty Years as Secretary of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America” Talk – Professor Francine Abeles “Algorithms and Mechanical Processes in the Work of Charles L. Dodgson” Talk – Professor Elizabeth Sewell “What Took You Through the Looking-Glass?” Talk – Professor Donna White “The Game Plan of The Hunting of the Snark” Talk – Professor Frankie Morris “Tenniel’s American Cartoons: A Civil War Extravaganza” Talk – Dr. Anashia Plackis “Lewis Carroll as a Pioneer of Whole Language Philosophy” Talk – Dr. Jan Susina “Imitations of Alice‚ÄîLewis Carroll and the Anxiety of Influence” Talk – Anne Clark Amor “C. L. Dodgson: An Englishman Abroad” Talk – Damon Butler “Lewis Carroll Around Britain: A Cycling Tour” Talk – Professor David H. Schaefer “A Tribute to Lou Bunin and the First Alice Talking Picture” Talk – Professor Francine Abeles, Professor David H. Schaefer, Joel Birenbaum, and Edward Wakeling in a panel discussion on “Lewis Carroll and Computers” Auction: Mark Burstein, auctioneer Exhibit – “Mathematical Works by Lewis Carroll,” selections from the Schaefer, Carlson, Goodacre, Lovett, Stoffel, and Wakeling collections | KL 53 |
| Nov 20, 1993 | Cambridge, Massachusetts Houghton Library, Harvard University | Talk – Glen Downey “From Structural Resynthesis to Structural Affirmation: An Examination of the ‘Chess Problem’ in Through the Looking-Glass” Talk – Professor Francine Abeles “Editing the Mathematical Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll” Talk – Rosella Howe “The Harcourt Amory Lewis Carroll Collection: Its History and Content” Exhibit – Selection from Amory Collection | KL 52 |
| May 15, 1993 | New York, New York Main New York Public Library 42nd Street | Talk – Susan Botti on her chamber opera Wonderglass Talk – Professor Jeffrey Spear “Such Lovely Forms of Children: Charles Dodgson and the Eye of the Camera” Talk – Dr. Nancy Finlay “Some Lewis Carroll Photographs and the Paintings of J. J. Tissot” | KL 51 |
| Oct 17, 1992 | San Francisco, California Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco | Talk – David Rosenbaum “Did Queen Victoria Write Alice?” Talk – Jacqueline Giuffre “Alice in Flowers” Talk – Mark Burstein “To Catch a Bandersnatch” Talk – Jonathan Dixon “Illustrating the Snark” Talk – Rebecca White on her role in George Coates’ play Right Mind Exhibit – Selections from the Burstein Collection | KL 50 |
| May 2, 1992 | New York, New York Fales Library in Bobst Library, New York University | Talk – William Jay Smith “What is the Sense of Nonsense?” Talk – Dr. William Orr “Alice in Esperanto: A Unique Language, Unique Problems” Talk – Charles Lovett on Disney’s Alice cartoons, with a screening of Alice’s Egg Plant Exhibit – Selection from the Berol Collection | KL 49 |
| Oct 5, 1991 | Wheaton, Maryland Wheaton Public Library | Talk – Professor David H. Schaefer on the Schaefer Collection Talk – August A. Imholtz, Jr. “A Dozen Years of Carroll Collecting” Talk – Alan Tannebaum on his collection Talk – Dr. Selwyn H. Goodacre “Peripheral Carroll Collecting” Talk – Cathy Newman “The Wonderland of Lewis Carroll” Exhibit – House tours of the Schaefer, Imholtz, and Tannenbaum collections | KL 48 |
| Apr 20, 1991 | New York, New York Grolier Club | Talk – Jeffrey Maiden and Gary Graham “Chasing the Mouse’s Tale” Talk – Stephanie Lovett “In Fancy They Pursue: Illustrations for Alice as Alternative Text” Talk – Jane Breskin Zalben “What is the good of a book without pictures?” | KL 47 |
| Oct 20, 1990 | Baltimore, Maryland Enoch Pratt Free Library | Talk – Professor Peter L. Heath “Who is the Father of the Duchess’s Baby” Talk – Professor Nina M. Demourova “On Translating Alice into Russian” Auction: Stan Marx, auctioneer Exhibit – Selections from the Pratt Collection | KL 46 |
| May 12, 1990 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books at the Toronto Public Library | Talk – Margaret Mahoney “Lewis Carroll Treasures in the Osborne Collection” Talk – Joseph A. Brabant “Wouldn’t It Be Murder?” Talk – Professor Douglas Chambers “Alice and the Girl with Lilacs” Exhibit – Selections from the Osborne and Brabant collections | KL 45 |
| Oct 11, 1989 | New York, New York Pierpont Morgan Library | Talk – Adolf Green “My Lifelong Passion for Lewis Carroll” Talk – Patt Griffin’s dramatic readings from Sylvie and Bruno Talk – Professor Edmund Miller “Sylvie and Bruno: Style and Structure” Exhibit – Selections from the Morgan Collection | KL 44 |
| May 4-5, 1989 | Winston-Salem, North Carolina Forsythe County Public Library | Talk – Professor David H. Schaefer introduced the screening of a 1915 Alice film Talk – Dr. Elizabeth Sewell “The Nature of Nonsense” Talk – Dr. Norma Rose “The Tradition of Theatrical Productions of Alice at Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina” Talk – Charles Lovett “The Controversy over Victorian Stage Children and Lewis Carroll’s Role in that Controversy” Exhibit – Selections from the Lovett Collection at the Library and a house tour of the collection | KL 43 |
| Oct 15, 1988 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Free Library of Philadelphia | Talk – Professor Donald Rackin “Apes, Angels and the Alices: Lewis Carroll’s Darwinian Dream Visions” Talk – Dr. Eileen Cahill “Treasures in the Rosenbach” Auction: Justin Schiller, auctioneer | KL 42 |
| May 14, 1988 | San Marino, California Huntington Library | Talk – Dr. Thomas V. Lange “Lewis Carroll at the Huntington Library” Talk – Professor Morton N. Cohen “Yes, Another Biography of Lewis Carroll” Talk – Robert Hornback “A Garden Tour of Wonderland” Exhibit – Selections from the Huntington Carroll Collection | KL 41 |
| Oct 24, 1987 | New York, New York Century Club | Talk – Dr. Bernard McTigue “Lewis Carroll in the New York Public Library: Profile of a Research Collection” Talk – Dr. Genevieve Brunet Smith “Lewis Carroll, Ionesco, and the Theatre of the Absurd” Talk – Patt Griffin “Rhyming Alice” | KL 40 |
| Apr 25, 1987 | Baltimore, Maryland Enoch Pratt Free Library | Talk – Dr. Anashia Plackis “Carroll’s Poetical Use of Hieroglyphic Symbolism: The Alice Books as Public Revelations of Dodgson’s Concealed Testament of Faith” Talk – Professor Francine Abeles “Pun, Parody and Paradox: Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Wit” Talk – Dr. Robert Katz “The Hunting of the Holmes” Exhibit Selections from the Luchinsky and Schaefer collections | KL 39 |
| Nov 15, 1986 | Boston, Massachusetts Boston Public Library | Talk – Barry Moser “Alice and Dorothy: A Comparison” Talk – Doris Frohnsdorf “A Bookseller’s Point of View” Talk – Alexandre Reverend “Contemporary Musical Settings of Lewis Carroll’s Songs” Exhibit – Alice diorama | KL 38 |
| Apr 26, 1986 | New York, New York Donnell Library of the New York Public Library | Talk – Stan Marx “Publication of Lewis Carroll’s Pamphlets by the LCSNA” Talk – Wes Schmidt-Stumpf “Alice, Carroll’s Logic, and IBM Computers” Talk – Lou Bunin on his 1948 Alice film | KL 37 |
| Nov 9, 1985 | Austin, Texas Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin | Talk – Dr. Sandor G. Burstein on Byron Sewell’s illustrations to a new Korean Alice Talk – Dr. Roy Flukinger “Through Carroll’s Camera: Looking at the Photographs of Charles L. Dodgson” Talk – Robert N. Taylor “Lewis Carroll at Texas” Talk – Dr. Selwyn H. Goodacre “A New Look at An Easter Greeting” Talk – John Wilcox-Baker on the Lewis Carroll Birthplace Trust Talk – Lisa Bassett on the Sewell Carroll Collection Exhibit – Selections from the Weaver, Gernsheim, and Sewell collections | KL 36 |
| Apr 20, 1985 | Chicago, Illinois Newberry Library | Talk – Professor Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty “The Paradox of the Dreamer Dreamt: The Red King and the Hindu God” Talk – Susan Dean on illustrators of Alice Talk – Dr. Phyllis E. Wachter “Ethel [Arnold] in Carrolland” Exhibit – Sepia illustrations purportedly by the Dalziel Brothers | KL 35 |
| Nov 17, 1984 | New York, New York Fales Library in Bobst Library, New York University | Talk – David del Tredici in conversation with Stan Marx Talk – Professor Morton N. Cohen “Lewis Carroll in the Wings” Talk – Dr. David R. Slavitt on a revisionist view of Lewis Carroll Talk – Jeff Lunden and Arthur Perlman on their musical Once on a Summer’s Day Talk – John Wilcox-Baker “Proposed Lewis Carroll Center in Daresbury, England” Exhibit – Highlights from the Berol Collection | KL 34 |
| Apr 7, 1984 | San Francisco, California Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco | Talk – Hilda Bohem “Alice and the Pirates” Talk – Professor Robert Polhemus “Lewis Carroll and the Comedy of Regression” Talk – Mark Burstein “As Pigs Have to Fly, or Who Really Wrote the Alice Books?” Talk – Kate Kline May on producing her short film Alice Underground Exhibit – Dolls in re-created Victorian costumes based on Tenniel drawings | KL 33 |
| Jan 12, 1984 | Princeton, New Jersey Firestone Library, Princeton University | Talk – Joyce Carol Oates “Wonderlands” Mark Burstein on the history and activities of the West Coast Chapter of the Society Talk – Professor David H. Schaefer on the Society over the past decade Talk – Professor Morton Cohen on Lewis Carroll’s character Talk – Professor Ulrich Knoepflmacher “Lewis Carroll and George MacDonald: Death, Light, and Grave” Talk – Dr. Joyce Hines reminisces Michael Hearn on his grandparents’ acquaintance with Alice Hargreaves Talk – Stan Marx “There’s Glory for You” Talk – Dr. Alexander Wainwright on Alice and the Parrish Collection Exhibit – Highlights from the Parrish Collection | KL 32 |
| May 28, 1983 | Washington, D.C. Folger Shakespeare Library | Talk – Dr. Constance M. Barrett on Russian translations of the Alice books Talk – David and Maxine Schaefer on the installation of the Lewis Carroll Stone in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey Talk – Professor Peter Heath on Alician parodies | KL 31 |
| Dec 11, 1982 | New York, New York Main New York Public Library, 42nd Street | Talk – Dr. Ernest Abeles and Professor Francine Abeles on the Society’s summer trip to Oxford Talk – Dr. Joyce Hines on the function of Oxford Common Rooms in Victorian times Talk – Sabra Jones on the revival of Eva LeGallienne’s Alice in Wonderland Talk – Professor Edward Guiliano on Carroll’s semiotics Exhibit – Selections from the Berg Collection | KL 30 |
| Jan 28-30, 1982 | New York, New York The Pierpont Morgan Library | Sesquicentennial of Dodgson’s birth Talk – Dr. Colin Ford “Lewis Carroll, Photographer” Talk – Professor James Kincaid “Confessions of a Carroll Critic” Talk – Professor Morton Cohen on curating the Morgan’s exhibit Talk – Dr. Sandor G. Burstein “The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome” Talk – Byron Sewell on Lewis Carroll’s influence in our everyday lives Talk – Professor Peter Heath on the paternity of the Duchess’s baby Talk – Dr. Edward Guiliano on the day’s anniversary events Exhibit – Morgan Collection with original Alice manuscript on loan from British Library Exhibit – Alice illustrations by Martin Barooshian at Gallery 70th Street | KL 29 |
| May 8, 1981 | Cambridge, Massachusetts Houghton Library, Harvard University | Talk – Professor William Bond “The 1865 Alice” Talk – Barry Moser “Illustrations to Wonderland” Talk – Professor Francine Abeles “C. L. Dodgson’s Mathematical Ideas in His Political Pamphlets” Talk – Professor Michael Hancher “Punch and Alice: Through Tenniels’s Looking-Glass” Exhibit – Selections from the Harcourt Amory Collection | KL 28 |
| Oct 18, 1980 | Roslyn, New York Bryant Library | Talk – Dr. Beverly Lyon Clark “Nabokov’s Assault on Wonderland” Talk – Stan Marx “Eight or Nine Words about Carroll Collecting” Exhibit – Stan Marx Collection | KL 27 |
| May 17, 1980 | New York, New York Joseph L. Lubin House of Syracuse University | Talk – Jack Bronston “The Political Alice” Talk – Doris Frohnsdorf and Justin Schiller “Collecting Carroll” | KL 26 |
| Oct 20, 1979 | Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Canady Library, Bryn Mawr College | Talk – Dr. James Tanis on Bryn Mawr’s acquisition of the Henry Holiday illustrations for The Hunting of the Snark Talk – Professor Charles Mitchell’s slide presentation on the sequence in composition of the designs and text of The Hunting of the Snark Talk – Dr. Edward Guiliano “Laughter and Despair: Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark” Exhibit – Holiday’s Snark illustrations | KL 25 |
| May 19, 1979 | New York, New York Fales Library in Bobst Library, New York University | Talk – Dr. Roger Henkle “Modes of Characterization in the Alices” Talk – Professor Peter Heath on Morton N. Cohen’s edition of the Letters of Lewis Carroll Talk – Herb Ahrend on his 1932 encounter with Alice Hargreaves Talk – David and Maxine Schaefer on their visits to the British and Dutch Carroll Societies Exhibit – Selections from the Berol Collection | KL 24 |
| Oct 28, 1978 | Charlottesville, Virginia Alderman Library, University of Virginia | Talk – Dr. Anita Gandolfo “The Russian Journal and Letters of Lewis Carroll” Talk – Professor Donald Rackin “The Return Voyage” Talk – Professor David H. Schaefer screening Alice films Exhibit -Alice continuations, imitations, pastiches, and parodies from the collection of Peter Heath | KL 23 |
| May 13, 1978 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rosenbach Museum and Library | Talk – Suzanne Bolan on Dr. Rosenbach’s involvement with Alice Talk – Dr. Edward Guiliano “Soaring with the Dodo” Exhibit – Selections from the Rosenbach Collection | KL 22 |
| Nov 5, 1977 | Catonsville, Maryland University of Maryland Baltimore County | Talk – August A. Imholtz, Jr. “Greek and Latin Versions of ‘Jabberwocky’” Talk – Tom Beck “Carroll’s Photographs of the Terry Family” Talk – Stan Marx “Reminiscences of a Carroll Collector” Exhibit – Selection of Carroll’s Terry photographs | KL 21 |
| May 7, 1977 | New York, New York Grolier Club | Talk – Professor Peter Heath on Symbolic Logic Talk – David del Tredici on his composition Final Alice | KL 20 |
| May 15, 1976 | Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University | Talk – Professor Peter C. Bunnell on Carroll and the history of photography Exhibit – Selections from the Parrish Collection | KL 19 |
| May 3, 1975 | Wye Plantation, Maryland Library of Congress Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. | Exhibit – Houghton Collection Exhibit – The Library of Congress mounted a display of materials relating to the gift of the Alice manuscript to the British Museum | KL 18 |
| Jan 12-13, 1974 | Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University | Inaugural Meeting Talk – Professor Morton N. Cohen on Lewis Carroll Exhibit – Highlights of the Morris L. Parrish Collection | KL 17 |
