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LCSNA Spring 2018 Meeting

University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA

“Wonderland as Place: World-Building and Character-Making in the Carroll Universe”: The University of Southern California, home of the Cassady Lewis Carroll Collection, hosted us in Los Angeles, in a meeting timed to coincide with the gala presentation of the 14th annual Wonderland Award. Beginning with a presentation of a fabulous new, award-winning musical Mad World, we... [read full post]

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LCSNA Fall 2017 Meeting

Morris Library 181 S College Ave, Newark, DE

The fall meeting was held at the Morris Library at the University of Delaware in Newark on Saturday, October 28. We heard delightful talks from Dana Richardson (“Martin Gardner: Behind the Looking-Glass”), Victor Fet (“Old Russian and New Siberian Wonderlands”), Edna Ranck (“Glorious Nonsense: Not only Lewis Carroll but also Gertrude Stein”), Sarah Boxer (“Alice:... [read full post]

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LCSNA Spring 2017 Meeting

San Francisco Bay Area CA

Our meeting took place in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area on the weekend of March 31 to April 2. The full-day Saturday meeting was at the state-of-the-art Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, followed by a reception at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Speakers and presentations included Jon... [read full post]

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LCSNA Fall 2016 Meeting

New York University New York, NY

The Fall 2016 meeting tool place at the Washington Square campus of New York University (home of the Berol Collection of Lewis Carroll, and the LCSNA archives) on October 15th. Fales Library director Marvin Taylor spoke about the exhibition they mounted in the Bobst as part of the Alice150 festivities, “‘Go Ask Alice’: Alice, Wonderland, and... [read full post]

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LCSNA Spring 2016 Meeting

Washington DC/Baltimore/Virginia

The Spring LCSNA meeting was held April 14 through 17, in the Washington DC/Baltimore/Virginia area. Highlights included events at the Library of Congress; the landmark Imholtz exhibition at the U of Maryland; hearing from children’s literature authority Leonard Marcus, collector Catherine Richards (postcards), Ellie Schaefer-Salins on psychological theories named from the works of Lewis Carroll,... [read full post]

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LCSNA Fall 2015 Meeting

NYC

From October 9-11 in NYC, we presented our “Alice in the Popular Culture” conference as part of Alice150, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. There was also an important colloquium about Alice in Translation at the Grolier Club on October 7-8, and many other celebratory events during the month of October... [read full post]

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LCSNA Spring 2015 Meeting

Harry Ransom Center University of Texas, Austin, TX

The fabled Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, home to three legendary Carroll collections (Warren Weaver, Helmut Gernsheim, Byron W. and Susan R. Sewell), hosted our meeting on April 18. We began with a tour of their fabulous sesquicentennial exhibit, led by Dr. Danielle Sigler, its curator. After lunch, Dr. Francine Abeles, Professor Emerita... [read full post]

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LCSNA Fall 2014 Meeting

Toronto , Canada

Toronto and environs, October 3–5. On Friday, Dayna Nuhn spoke to us at the Art Gallery of Ontario about The Lady with the Lilacs, the Arthur Hughes painting once owned by CLD. Saturday found us Toronto Public Library, home of the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books and the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy, both of which we toured. We heard... [read full post]

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LCSNA Spring 2014 Meeting

New York Institute of Technology 16 West 61st Street, 11th floor, New York, NY, United States

Great times were in store for us at the Spring meeting on Saturday, April 26th, held at the New York Institute of Technology’s Manhattan campus. In honor of our Fortieth Anniversary, founding members Morton Cohen, Edward Guiliano, Michael Patrick Hearn, David Schaefer, and Justin Schiller presented a panel on the founding and early days of our Society, “There’s Glory for You.” Presentations included Craig... [read full post]

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LCSNA Fall 2013 Meeting

Los Angeles

The fall 2013 meeting was held in Los Angeles on the weekend of November 1-3, at USC’s Doheny Library and environs. Linda and George Cassady put together a wonderful program around the theme of “Lewis Carroll Outsiders.” Saturday presentations included a discussion with the editors of The Alice Project, an online venture wherein a large number... [read full post]

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