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A Night at the Theater: An LCSNA Pop-up Event
Learn about two very new, very different Carrollian musicals, as the LCSNA spends a night at the theater!
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The Great Debate: Wonderland vs. Looking-Glass
Please join us for a delightful discourse you won't hear anywhere else! Specially-selected Carrollian academics and literary luminaries will take sides and amicably argue once and for all which is the more scholastically significant, culturally compelling, engrossingly eloquent, all-around better book: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass???
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A Collector’s Path: The Course and Content of Collecting Today
Join Collections Advisor, Spencer W. Stuart as he discusses case studies from his professional practice as well as the past to chart the life cycle of collections and the collectors who build them.
Event DetailsChildren’s Literature Salon: Alice Adventures in Wonderland – 150 Years Later
Though-provoking article in the Spectator by Richard JenkynsJoin scholars and specialists Monica Edinger, Michael Patrick Hearn, Charles Santore, and artist Robert Sabuda (of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Pop-Up Book) as they discuss the wit, wonder, and legacy of Lewis Carroll's most iconic creation as she enters her 150th year. Moderated by Dana Sheridan, Education and Outreach Coordinator of the Cotsen Children's Library... [read full post]
Event DetailsLewis Carroll in Numberland
Prof. Robin Wilson, author of Lewis Carroll in Numberland, will give a talk on mathematics as related to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This is part of the public presentation series at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York.
Event DetailsLewis Carroll in Numberland
Prof. Robin Wilson, author of Lewis Carroll in Numberland, will give a talk on mathematics as related to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This is part of the public presentation series at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York.
Event DetailsAlice’s Adventures at Columbia
Sean Quimby, Director of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia, will give welcoming remarks. Joel Birenbaum, Coordinator of Alice150: Celebrating Wonderland, will speak briefly about Alice150 in New York. A talk on the celebration of the centenary of Lewis Carroll's birth and the awarding of an honorary degree to Alice Hargreaves in 1932 at... [read full post]
Event DetailsAlice in a Digital Wonderland: A Curious Moment in Digital Arts and the Humanities
Catalog for Tate Liverpool Alice exhibition looks greatIn December 2013, Wendy Ice used Kickstarter to fund a deluxe edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland illustrated by her husband David Delamare. Together with 826 patrons they created an old-fashioned book using digital technologies including crowdfunding, social media, digital software, and Skype. In this talk, Wendy will address how by consistently placing such digital... [read full post]
Event DetailsWho’s Alice: An Evening with Kate Burton, David Del Tredici, Larry Pine, Monica Edinger, and Robert Sabuda
In 1982 the acclaimed actress Kate Burton launched her career portraying Alice in the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Alice in Wonderland. With Alice Symphony, Haddock’s Eyes, In Memory of A Summer Day, and other works, Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Del Tredici has conjured the sounds of wonderland throughout his career. In 1968 Larry... [read full post]
Event DetailsThe Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
Pee Wee Players Alice in WonderlandIn his latest book, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, illuminates the friendship between Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. Douglas-Fairhurst examines how this relationship stirred Carroll’s imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland. A book signing follows the talk. The exhibition Alice: 150... [read full post]
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