Lewis Carroll Collection, Conference, and Exhibition
In spring 2006, the USC Libraries sponsored a number of projects related to Lewis Carroll: 1) an exhibition "The Curious World of Lewis Carroll," composed of materials from our Special Collections; 2) an international conference entitled "Lewis Carroll and the Idea of Childhood," and 3) a revised, searchable database of our world-class collection of rare books and ephemera on Carroll.
The Collection
Please go here to search the database of USC's Lewis Carroll collection.
The Exhibition
For information about our spring 2006 exhibition, please see our archive.
The Conference (held March 31-April 1, 2006)
More than 100 years after his death, the Oxford academic Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) continues to garner attention for his work as an author, mathematician, and photographer. At "Lewis Carroll and the Idea of Childhood" an international group of scholars from diverse fields explored some of the puzzling questions that remain about this enigmatic Victorian, whose beloved “Alice” books still enchant readers today. The conference was cosponsored by the USC Libraries and the Huntington Library.
Schedule:
Friday, March 31st: Doheny Memorial Library, USC
10:30 a.m.: Introduction by James R. Kincaid, USC
10:45-11:45: Hilary Schor, USC: "Realism's Alice: Making the Heroine Curiouser "
11:45-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:00: Gina Barreca, Univ. of Connecticut: "Alice and Dorothy: Why These Two Babes in Boyland Don’t Surrender"
2:00-3:00: Catherine Robson, UC Davis: "Reciting Alice: What is the Use of a Book without Poems?"
3:00-3:45: Break for viewing of "The Curious World of Lewis Carroll" exhibition and discussion by Jeffrey Eger on “Dodgson at Auction”
3:45-5:00: Robert Polhemus, Stanford University: "Lewis Carroll and the Idolatry of the Child"
5:00-6:30: Reception
Saturday, April 1st: Huntington Library
10:30 a.m.: Introduction by James R. Kincaid, USC
10:45-11:45: Diane Waggoner, National Gallery of Art: "Little Men: Lewis Carroll’s Photographs of Boys"
11:45-12:45: Robin Lakoff, UC Berkeley: "Who Wrote Sylvie and Bruno? (And Why Did He Write It?)"
12:45-2:00: Lunch
2:00-2:30: Viewing of Huntington Library’s Carroll collections
2:30-3:30: Carol Mavor, University of North Carolina: "For-getting to Eat: Alice's Mouthing Metonymy"
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00: Selwyn Goodacre, indepenent scholar: "Towards an Analytical Commentary on Alice's Adventures"
5:00-6:00: Panel discussion