Curious Ways In: Collecting, Performing, and Contacts with the Carrollian Universe

In Conjunction with the USC Libraries Wonderland Award

April 22–23, 2022

Online

The meeting is free and open to the public.

All programs will take place virtually, through Zoom and other online platforms. Upon registration, participants will receive a confirmation and more details. Registrants will receive the full program, including links for sessions, digital exhibitions, the Wonderland Award ceremony, and social activities via an additional email from USC Libraries.

The Lewis Carroll Society of North America’s spring 2022 meeting—Curious Ways In: Collecting, Performing, and First Contacts with the Carrollian Universe—will explore the many and various means through which students, scholars, and enthusiasts find their ways into the worlds of Lewis Carroll.

All times are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Friday, April 22, 2022

Welcome

9:30–9:45 a.m.

Catherine Quinlan, Dean of the USC Libraries

Linda Cassady, President, Lewis Carroll Society of North America

La caccia allo Squarlo: What Happened to the Broker?

9:45–10:30 a.m.

Daniela Amansi

More Than Just “An Obscure Writer on Logic”: George Englebretsen’s Critical Insights into Charles Dodgson’s Contributions to the Field of Logic

10:30–11:15 a.m.

George Englebretsen & Mark Richards

Selwyndipity

11:15 a.m.–12:00 noon

Selwyn Goodacre

Lunch Break and Social Hour

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.

Heather Simmons

On Beginning at the Beginning and Stopping at the End: Alice in a World of Wonderlands—the English-Language Editions, and Moving Beyond Tenniel

1:15–2:00 p.m.

Arnold Hirshon

Break

2:45–3:00

Wonderland Award: Where Are They Now?

3:00–4:30 p.m.

Styles Akira, PhD, Brand Strategist and Market Researcher

Aroussiak Gabrielian, PhD, APF, ASLA, FAAR, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, USC

Genevieve Kaplan, PhD, Editor, Toad Press International

2022 Wonderland Award Submissions: Digital Gallery Tour and Open Exploration

4:30–5:00 p.m.

Anne-Marie Maxwell and Tyson Gaskill, USC Libraries

Wonderland Award Ceremony

5:00–6:00 p.m.

Dean Catherine Quinlan, USC Libraries

Linda Cassady, LCSNA President

Award Presenters

Social Hour

6:00–7:00 p.m.

Heather Simmons, LCSNA

Saturday, April 23, 2022

Paddy Whacked: Tenniel, Nast, and 19th Century Irish Caricature

8:30 -9:00 a.m.

Michael Dooley

General Session with the LCSNA President

9:00–9:15 a.m.

Alice in Guinnessland

9:15–10:15 a.m.

Brian Sibley, Andy Malcolm, George Walker

Ballet Shoes and Hair Ribbons

10:15–11:15 a.m.

Kiera Vaclavik

Artificial Intelligence, Generative Art, and Alice

11:15 a.m.–12:00 noon

Elea Zhong & Curtis Fletcher, USC

Lunch and Social Hour

12: 00 noon–1:00 p.m.

Heather Simmons

Alice’s Adventures under Ground: A Wonderment

1:00–1:45 p.m.

Stephanie Lovett

Communities of Engagement: Jewelry, Fashion, and Identity

1:45–2:30 p.m.

Rebecca Corbett, USC; Michelle Liu Carriger, Patty Gaugan, UCLA

New Vorpal Adventures: Galumphing through the USC Libraries Cassady Collection

2:30–3:30 p.m.

Rebecca Corbett, Bo Doub, Josh Hutchinson, USC Libraries

Social Hour

3:30–4:30 p.m.

Heather Simmons