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And doors are open! Conference welcome in 15 mins! Join in & tell us where your zooming in from #lookingglass2021

And we're off! Katherine Wakely-Mulroney: Reflections and Transparencies: Through the Looking-Glass and Sylvie and Bruno - some gorgeous visuals already! #lookingglass2021

And cat content... @baconetti ;)

Very special welcome from @eclasproject's Prof David Wilkinson from @durham_uni - an Bowes House, where Alice Liddell had apparently herself stayed. We're very grateful for the support the conference has received from the ECLAS project #lookingglass2021

Katherine Wakely-Mulroney demonstrating the sheer breadth of Carroll's late work Sylvie & Bruno, for which Through the Looking-Glass was a stepping-stone to show how we restrict ourselves thinking about Carroll through one period of his life & career #lookingglass2021

Next up @hannah_helm_ exploring mirrors & madness in Disney's Through the Looking-Glass (eek! I am being cited!) #lookingglass2021

And in the final talk of our first panel @hayleyhflynn is exploring mirrors & dreaming in the works of Lewis Carroll - photography becoming a theme here, building up to our first keynote! #lookingglass2021

First coffee break introduced us to Wonder.me which we're using as our social space during the conference -- and on we go with @Yvonne_deGalais who will be talking about mirrors, fairy-tales and Victorian Glassworlds! #lookingglass2021

Love this image - "the Looking-Glass Department" - @Yvonne_deGalais exploring the Looking-Glass as metaphor in Victorian Culture #lookingglass2021

This panel is brilliant - speakers & chair joining in from Norway, Estonia, India, and the UK!
Afrinul Haque Khan now comparing Through the Looking-Glass to Tennyson's The Lady of Shallot, and aspects of feminism in the two works #lookingglass2021

Fantastic, I have never considered the parallels in the boat-imagery in Through the Looking-Glass & the Lady of Shallot - LoS perishes in the boat - Alice rows away in one to become a queen! #lookingglass2021

Don't forget to head over to the coffee break on wonder - the link can be found in the webinar chat! #lookingglass2021

The most cited paper so far is by @RGibsongirl (@mcleish_t is raving about it! and has questions!) whose pre-recorded paper is available to everyone who has registered to the conference and who should really be abandoning whatever she is up to and come here! #lookingglass2021

And we're back from our coffee break with our first Roundtable - Modernism in Wonderland examining extraliterary manifestations of Alice after Alice #lookingglass2021

Michelle Moore on Alice through the modernist American Looking-Glass and the transformation of the text into cultural phenomenon #lookingglass2021

And now more on Carroll in Dorothy Sayers and Jorge Luis Borges - did I know Sayers worked on the famous Guinness adverts starring the Toucan? I did not! Not sure if they're Sayers' work, but here are some Carrollian ones #lookingglass2021

Interesting conversation on Alice & advertising, and how Alice became a malleable icon in advertising now - of course Carroll himself was really interested in marketing Alice. #lookingglass2021

Also interesting connections here about the recurrence about Alice & trains and travel - in Carroll (Looking-Glass railway, the railway in Sylvie and Bruno as metaphor) - and how Alice reinterprets travel when used in travel advertising #lookingglass2021

Cultural results of that now being considered in translation - a recent example: Alicia's Adventuras en Wonderlandia: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Spanglish (&how its been used in anti-establishment Latin-American art as a result!) #lookingglass2021 evertype.com/books/alice-en…

Now it's time for the lunch break! Feel free to either hang out in our social space, or catch up with our pre recorded roundtable on illustration - or just take a deep breath! In either case - see you shortly for our first keynote lecture by Diane Waggoner!
#lookingglass2021

And we're back for our first keynote of the day! Bring your lunch if you haven't finished it yet - you don't want to miss this one (and remember there's a different zoom link for this one! we will return to the first one later) #lookingglass2021

Waggoner: Carroll was not only a photographer, but also a collector of photographs - the period in which he developed the two Alice-books were also his most intensely productive as a photographer #lookingglass2021

Some real Looking-Glass houses & looking-glasses from Carroll & his collection (he purchased Hawarden's photograph) #lookingglass2021

And we're off to yet another stellar panel - from the curators of the @V_and_A 's Curiouser and Curiouser exhibition, @filipus_gilang, and Nick Coates on The Alice Code: looking-glass thinking for innovators! #lookingglass2021

Curators Harriet Reed & Kate Bailey go first to talk about their exhibition design, and their VR design! Lots of pictures from the @V_and_A exhibition, if you haven't yet been! #lookingglass2021

Loving the focus of "Alice as a state of mind" in this presentation #lookingglass2021

Aim of the @v_and_a VR experience was to "make you an active Alice" - illustrations inspired by the paper figure theatres & scenes in which Alice had agency #lookingglass2021

The next talks ties in seamlessly with an exploration of Alice in the musical Wonder.Land - on the theme of "escapism to another world to find oneself there" #lookingglass2021

Nick Coates on "looking glass thinking" as a crucial skill in marketing - magic inspirations for the map in your Uber app! "Businesses need Wonderland" #lookingglass2021

Looking Glass Insects, Jan Švankmajer (shoes with tongues - literalness), Lego Serious Play and the importance of thinking important things before breakfast as crucial case studies for what matters to business mindset from the book Nick is currently writing #lookingglass2021

Alice as exploration of things that need to be still made possible& create acceptance for them in another space of imagination ties all these talks together says @Filipus_Gilang reflecting on avatars in video games&gender fluidity, and their importance in wider society citing D&D

Brilliant observations on the forthcoming Matrix movie from @filipus_gilang which should apparently more appropriately be called "Neo in Wonderland/ Through the Looking-Glass" - Alice heavily referenced #lookingglass2021

Who is the illustrated Alice? asks @jade_dillon in her iconic graphic analysis of modern, darker Alices - such as Benjamin Lacombe's - who are 'in a constant state of flux" #lookingglass2021

Moving on from Lacombe to the fantastic Kirsty Mitchell - focusing on the presentation of the female body. Mitchell calls herself an "artist with her camera", not a photographer - as her handmade costumes show #lookingglass2021

The Garden of Whispered Wishes references a lot of Victorian paraphernalia, as well as Carroll's text and "breaks the fourth wall" with her gaze - almost like Alice Liddell in Carroll's photo of her as a beggar maid #lookingglass2021

Kicking off her talk on illustrations of the Looking-Glass House with the concept of stereochemistry, Nilce Perreira is joining us from Brazil #lookingglass2021

Some fantastic illustrations in this talk - and some great clock faces! #lookingglass2021

Brilliant exploration how illustrations direct the ways in which we interpret & understand the text - and therefore how Alice's journey through the Looking-Glass actually happens, and what it does - in a permanent way, in different cultures #lookingglass2021

And we have somehow managed to reach the last talk of today (after what has felt like like 2 whole conferences!) with the inimitable Adam Paxman and "It Came from the Glass Curtain!" - which I am already enjoying way too much #lookingglass2021

And this amazing panel concludes a mind-bending first day of our conference (can you believe it!)!
This brings us to the music part of the evening by Tim Hunter, and to the drinks reception!
Tim's whole album can be found here:
mixcloud.com/TimMusicWorld/…

Lovely chatter and drinks with music from so many different time zones - some of you joined us at 1am, and are still here! Tuning out now, and will continue to live-tweet day 2 tomorrow! #lookingglass2021