St Bride Foundation, London
21 August 2022
Organised by the Decadence Research Centre at Goldsmiths
In association with the Aubrey Beardsley Society and Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
Programme
10.00 Registration Farringdon Room
10.30 Welcome Bridewell Hall
10.35 Panel 1: Re-viewing Beardsley
Samuel Love (University of York), ‘The Carnival is Over? Beardsley’s Pierrots, The Savoy, and the Moral Battle for Modern Art’
Samuel Shaw (Open University), ‘Towards an Ecocritical Reading of Aubrey Beardsley’
Joseph Thorne (Independent Scholar), ‘Naked Dandies in the Lysistrata Illustrations’
Anne Anderson (Exeter University), ‘Beardsley’s Punch Line: the collected works of “Weirdsley Daubery”’
12.10 Refreshments
12.30 Panel 2: Queering Beardsley | Line Block Printing Workshop 1
Dickon Edwards (Birkbeck), ‘“Donald! Susan! Ronald! Brigid!”: The Camp Afterlives of Aubrey Beardsley’
Nataniel Maslianinov (University of Warsaw), ‘“Something corrupt”: The Queer and Trans Sensibility of Aubrey Beardsley and Konstantin Somov’
Eleanor Keane (Goldsmiths), ‘Aesthetic Fantasies of Decadent Desire: Aubrey Beardsley’s Queering of the Fairy Tale’
2.00 Lunch
3.00 Panel 3: Beardsleyan Legacies | Line Block Printing Workshop 2
Margaret Stetz (University of Delaware), ‘Philip Core (1951–1989): The Boy Who Would Be Beardsley’
Paul Bevan (University of Oxford), ‘Aubrey Beardsley and Decadence in the Chinese Publishing World, 1921-1936’
Darcy Sullivan (Independent Scholar), ‘The Suspiria Smile: Beardsley, Argento, and the Evil Woman’
4.30 Close of conference and drinks at Bridewell Centre bar
Line Block Workshops
St Bride Foundation will be running two line block printing workshops during the afternoon, with live demos and prints from the archive.
Workshop 1: 12:30-14:00
Workshop 2: 15:00-16:30
Registration
Registration has now closed.
Location
St Bride Foundation
14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street
EC4Y 8EQ
TUBE
Blackfriars District & Circle line, 3 min walk
St Paul’s Central line, 7 min walk
BUS
Fleet Street 4, 11, I5, 23, 26, 76; New Bridge Street 45, 63, 172
RAIL
Thameslink, 2 min walk
Contact Us
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Conference Organisers
Alice Condé (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Jessica Gossling (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Sasha Dovzhyk (Birkbeck)
The conference is generously supported by the Alessandra Wilson Fund. Alessandra Wilson (1943–2007) was an outstanding teacher and a dedicated comprehensive head, who served 21 years, first at Walsingham School on Clapham Common and then Hampton Community College. Alessandra’s entire professional career was devoted to pursuing the ideal of equal opportunity. In keeping with this vision, we are delighted to offer free attendance to all.