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The conference is organised around the following areas:

• Lewis Carroll (life, journals, other works, etc.)
• Alice in translation
• Adaptations of Alice
• Alice in the (post-)postmodern era

The programme (pdf) for all three days is now available.
The official languages of the conference are both English and French.

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Mr. Dodgson is of course the author of Alice in Wonderland books, who used ‘Lewis Carroll’ as his pen name. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born on 27 January 1832. He died in 1898, of pneumonia.

The story arose at 4 July 1862, when Lewis Carroll (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), was on a boat trip with a friend, Alice, and her sisters Lorina and Edith. Alice grew restless and begged Dodgson for a story “with lots of nonsense in it”. So started the famous tale, which was continued on further outings, and was later expanded for publication.

The book was first printed on 4 July 1865, exactly 3 years after the famous boat trip, but this printing was rejected by Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel. The new publishing date was set on 18 November 1865.

Read more about the origins of the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ story

So let’s all put on a silly top hat and act like it! 🙂

The speakers will present many examples of his parodies, to demonstrate the influence of Isaac Watts and other writers of moral and improving texts on the young Charles Dodgson. They will show how he lampooned them, first in his juvenile writings (such as ‘Useful and Instructive Poetry’), and later in the pages of ‘Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass’. Aas a result, his parodies have outlived their once distinguished, but now largely forgotten, originals.

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