Founded in 1969
Kirara Akashi, Assistant in the English Language and Communication Department,
Showa Women’s University (Japan), explores the influence of Dickens and Carroll on the picture books of the 20th century humourist Edward Gorey.
The Art Workers’ Guild,
6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
The link to the talk is https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:6895134898102108160/
Scott is a former scientist, HR director, musical producer and business consultant who now shares his experiences and stories as a professional speaker; specialising in disruptive technologies and the future of work. He is besotted with story and believes that a good story can act as an empathy engine. The need for more empathy in the world was the motivation behind his live show #ARTEFACTLive (the art and science of storytelling).
Stephen Folan is a Project Manager with a focus on technology and behaviour. He is also Chairman of the Lewis Carroll Society. He sees a lot of cross-over in these roles. One of his first talks for The LCS was The Influence of Lewis Carroll on Management Thinking.
THE LEWIS CARROLL SOCIETY AGM 2021
6.30pm UK 17 December 2021
Please register for the AGM (secretary@lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk)
How Lewis Carroll’s Heroine Inspired Female Characters in Cinema, Gaming and Literature
The character of Alice was ground-breaking not only because, in both Wonderland and Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll broke with the tradition of morality tales in children’s literature, but also because his heroine was not a passive little girl but a powerful independent-minded female protagonist.
Daina Almario-Kopp is a scientist, polyglot, public speaker, and translator who speaks six languages. Daina has degrees in Gender Studies and Psychology from University of Illinois Chicago and in Theatre Costuming and Biology from Columbia College Chicago.
On Wednesday 17 November 2021, 7 PM UK-time (8 PM in the Netherlands) the Dutch Lewis Carroll Genootschap organizes a virtual English-language book launch of Lize’s Avonturen in het Wonderland.
The book is a unique re-issue of the first Dutch Alice from 1875, Lize’s Avonturen in het Wonderland, and includes a facsimile of the original and two essays (both in Dutch and English) on provenance and translation of Lize’s Avonturen in het Wonderland.
The program of the launch includes English-language presentations by the authors of the essays, Henri Ruizenaar and Casper Schuckink Kool.
The book launch is freely accessible via zoom link https://demedischspecialist-nl.zoom.us/j/91462173644?pwd=S3hZT0V6WnVzWUZhNERsamZyVEk0dz09.
The book may be ordered via the webshop on the Genootschap’s website (https://lewiscarrollgenootschap.nl/shop/?lang=en) and will be available after 29 October 2021. The price is € 40 (excl. shipping costs).
See also: https://lewiscarrollgenootschap.nl/agenda/?lang=en
Recording of the online meeting with Alberto Manguel, held on 21 July 2021.
Alberto Manguel is an acclaimed writer with an international reputation as an anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist and editor. He is the best-selling author of A History of Reading and Curiosity. Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends was published in 2019.
“Wonderland is simply the mad place in which we find ourselves daily…” A. Manguel
Alberto Manguel is an acclaimed writer with an international reputation as an anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist and editor. He is the best-selling author of A History of Reading and Curiosity. Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends was published in 2019.
“Wonderland is simply the mad place in which we find ourselves daily…” A. Manguel
Free online meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84068128476
Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
On the 5th of September (7-9 pm) at the Art Workers’ Guild, two speakers will inform those attending about the debilitating effects of stammering, and how it affected Lewis Carroll’s life.
The talks will begin with Vivien Grant-Jones, Speech and Language Therapist from the City Literary Institute in Holborn. Vivien will define what stammering is, its causation, and current methods used in treatment – with special reference to the psychological aspects of the disorder.
This will be followed by retired Speech and Language Therapist and Lewis Carroll Society Committee Member, Sarah Stanfield who will outline how stammering impacted the Dodgsons, what Victorian treatments were available and how his stammering impacted Lewis Carroll’s personal and professional life.
