LLC38: Aestheticism & Decadence

Collaborative Goals

In each of the past six semesters, we have organized a Zoom seminar featuring a different guest author who has shared and introduced recent work in a seminar setting with anywhere from 12 to 35 participants, some local and some from around the world. These seminars have fostered vibrant discussion and stimulating conversation, which has led to new ideas and generated new scholarship. In the last year we began planning a major international conference on Walter Pater, one of the major figures in the field, to be held at Cornell, September 5-7, 2025. Following an international call for papers, we have invited 30 scholars from as many as ten different countries to present papers at the conference. As part of our planning toward the collaborative goal of this signature event, we have built a website to serve as a central location for promoting the conference and for informing participants.