Category Archives: Conferences

CFP: Dedication: Unfurling Vernon Lee’s Kinship Networks, An International Vernon Lee Society Symposium. Online, October 16 & 17, 2024

Posted on 28/03/2024 by geoffroysophie

Call For Papers Dedication: Unfurling Vernon Lee’s Kinship Networks An International Vernon Lee Society Symposium Online, 16 & 17 October 2024 In the essay ‘New Friends and Old’ in Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life (1903), Vernon Lee … Continue reading →

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CFP: Decadence and War: Crisis, Chaos, and Culture Wars

Posted on 27/02/2024 by Sally Blackburn-Daniels

Goldsmiths, University of London, 13 June 2024. Decadence prowls in the shadows of war, and exposes its contradictions. As a byword for decline, decadence is that which war is supposed to overcome. The destructive force of war empowers those who … Continue reading →

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10th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the IVLS – Villa Il Palmerino, Florence, September 9, 2023

Posted on 25/09/2023 by geoffroysophie

Sabato 9 settembre 2023, si è tenuto il nostro decimo incontro annuale presso Villa Il Palmerino, a Firenze: casa di Vernon Lee, ora sede della nostra cara associazione gemella: l’Associazione Culturale Il Palmerino. Questo evento è stato un’esperienza indimenticabile, un’occasione … Continue reading →

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The Future of Intelligence in Florence, Villa Il Palmerino 8-10 september 2023

Posted on 28/08/2023 by geoffroysophie

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The Future of Intelligence: a Multidisciplinary Vernon Lee Conference, 8-10 September 2023, Florence and Online

Posted on 25/01/2023 by geoffroysophie

“Intelligence is especially preservative and sheltering. It is the natural purifier and tidier-up where Genius and Stupidity, disrupting and corrupting by turns, have played the deuce with our poor mortal heritage. And in the face of the millionfold sacrifices of … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Posted on 26/12/2022 by geoffroysophie

« … presents give me a very lively and special pleasure; have done so always ever since my days of Christmas-trees and birthday candles, leaving all through my life a particular permeating charm connected with certain dates and seasons, like the … Continue reading →

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Colloque international, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 13-14 Octobre 2022

Posted on 23/09/2022 by geoffroysophie

Dear readers, We are delighted to invite you to attend the international conference organised by Pr. Marc Rolland (ULCO) in Boulogne-sur-mer, where Violet Paget was born on October 14, 1856. The annual General Meeting of the International Vernon Lee Society … Continue reading →

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Vernon Lee, Aesthetics & Empathy: Conference in Cambridge, 12-13 September 2022

Posted on 11/09/2022 by geoffroysophie

Dear Vernon Lee friends, Don’t miss tomorrow’s important conference on Vernon Lee’s philosophy of art and empathy, organised by Derek Matravers and Sally Blackburn-Daniels! Conference Programme 12th September 09:00     Tea and Coffee 09:30     Welcome 09:40     Jesse Prinz: ‘Is Aesthetic Experience … Continue reading →

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Dante Conference in Florence, 1-2 October 2021: Intarsi Danteschi

Posted on 26/09/2021 by geoffroysophie

Dear friends of Vernon Lee and her circle, this year marks the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death (Ravenna, September 1321). We are delighted to forward the invitation to attend the important Conference held in Florence, where the poet of poets … Continue reading →

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Annual Vernon Lee Lecture of the IVLS : Madeleine Goodall on “The Humanism of Clementina Anstruther-Thomson”

Posted on 23/09/2021 by geoffroysophie

Dear readers, this year’s annual event will be dedicated to Vernon Lee’s bosom friend and collaborator: the humanist Clementina (“Kit”) Anstruther-Thomson, who passed away a century ago, on July 7th 1921. We are delighted and honoured to announce that this … Continue reading →

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