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  • Alice150

    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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  • LCSNA Spring 2013 Meeting

    Stephanie Lovett and Charlie and Janice Lovett were our hosts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for a very full, multiple-venue three days (April 19-21). The events included a fully-staged performance of Dan Singer‘s new play, A Perfect Likeness, about an imagined meeting between Dodgson and Dickens; a talk by Charlie on the influence of Rev. Charles Dodgson on his son’s religious thinking; a... [read full post]

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  • Autumn in New York (Fall 2012 Meeting)

    Fales Library New York University, New York, NY

    On Saturday, September 29 at the Fales Library in New York University (home of the fabled Berol collection), Washington Square campus, in New York City we were treated to talks by Adam Gopnik on Sylvie and Bruno Concluded; Robin Wilson, who wrote Lewis Carroll in Numberland; Ella Parry-Davies on Russian illustrators; Andrew Sawyer on his typgraphic Alice; David Schaefer on his discovery of a 1928 Looking-Glass film reel; and Morton Cohen was interviewed by Edward Guiliano thirty years... [read full post]

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  • A Boston Tea Party (Spring 2012 Meeting)

    Houghton Library Harvard University, MA

    The meeting took place on Saturday, April 28th, at Harvard University in the Houghton Library, home of the famed Amory Collection of Lewis Carroll, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Speakers included Selwyn Goodacre on the 150th anniversary of the boat ride during which Lewis Carroll told the Adventures to Alice Liddell and her sisters, with an update on the editions of Alice’s Adventures... [read full post]

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  • Alice at NYIT (Fall 2011 Meeting)

    Our Fall 2011 meeting was again at the marvelous Manhattan campus of the New York Institute of Technology, on Saturday, November 12. Speakers included 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... [read full post]

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  • LCSNA Spring 2011 Meeting

    The first day of our Spring 2011 meeting was on Saturday, April 16, at the headquarters of The Internet Archive in San Francisco. It included the playing of Alice Liddell’s accordion (fully restored), and talks by Sandor Burstein, Dr. Selwyn Goodacre from the LCS(UK), Brewster Kahle of The Internet Archive, Mark Burstein, and others. The next day,... [read full post]

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