WORLDWIDE EVENTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND LINKS OF INTEREST Compiled by the William Morris Society in the United States Exhibitions Talks, lectures, and conferences Calendars of events Miscellaneous links   EXHIBITIONS 7 October 1999 to 1 August 2000 Leading "The Simple Life": The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, 1880-1910 Exhibition at The Wolfsonian, Miami, FL. Major show of holdings from The Wolfsonian's collections, includes objects by William Morris and his associates, contemporaries, and followers. Lectures and related programs. Contact: The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami, FL 33139, Tel. (305) 531-1001.l. 9 March to 28 May 2000 Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites Exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London. Marking the centenary of Ruskin's death, with works by Millais, Holman Hunt, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, and (of course) Turner and Ruskin. Contact: Tate Gallery, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG, Tel. (171) 887-8000, www.tate.org.uk. 8 October 2000 to 28 January 2001 Art Nouveau, 1890-1914 Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Wahsington, DC. Approximately 350 works will explore one of the most exuberant and visually appealing styles in modern art, which flourished throughout Europe and in major American cities from about 1890 to the First World War. Opening with a selection of about thirty international art nouveau masterpieces that were displayed at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle, the exhibition will explore the sources of art nouveau and examine its interpretations in eight European and American cities. Art Nouveau, 1890-1914 has been organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in association with the National Gallery of Art. The exhibition will travel to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 21 April - 8 July 2001. 22 October 2000 to 25 February 2001 Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s From the Collections of Virginia and Ira Jackson and the National Gallery of Art Exhibtion at National Gallery of Art, Wahsington, DC. More than 150 prints, drawings, periodicals, illustrated books, music primers, and song sheets will explore the phenomenal outpouring of print publications in late nineteenth-century France. Primarily selected from the Virginia and Ira Jackson collection, the exhibition will feature works by some thirty artists, including Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, and Odilon Redon. Bonnard's achievement will be highlighted, and his work will be represented in depth by spirited posters, contributions to single- and multiple-artist portfolios, designs for music primers and illustrated books, and an outstanding four-panel folding screen of a fashionable street scene in fin-de-siècle Paris. TALKS, LECTURES, AND CONFERENCES 24 - 25 May 2000 Saga Literature and the Shaping of Icelandic Culture The Library of Congress and Cornell University Library are organizing a scholarly symposium on Old Norse sagas for 24 and 25 May 2000 at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. This symposium, Saga Literature and the Shaping of Icelandic Culture, will take place in the Mumford Room of the Madison Building. (For directions to the Library of Congress, please visit the Library's web site at http://lcweb.loc.gov.) Saga Literature and the Shaping of Icelandic Culture will coincide with the Washington venue of a traveling exhibition, Living and Reliving the Icelandic Sagas. The exhibition is a collaborative effort of the National and University Library of Iceland, the Library of Congress, the University of Manitoba Library and Cornell University Library. (More information on the exhibition and participating institutions is available through a link on the home page of the Fiske Icelandic Collection at http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/fiske.) 15-17 June 2000 Facing West: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America Conference in Los Angeles, CA. Sponsored by the School of Continuing Education, New York University. The fee for the conference is $375.00, and there is a $20.00 registration fee. For additional information contact: Programs in the Arts, New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, 48 Cooper Square, Room 108, New York, New York 10003; Tel: (212) 998-7130, fax: (212) 995-4293. 19 - 20 October 2000 Unifying the Useful with the Beautiful: Architecture of the Arts and Crafts Movement Second annual Arts and Crafts conference at the Hotel Pattee, Perry, IA. Includes lectures and tours. The Hotel Pattee's meeting space accommodates 150 persons, so reservations for the Conference are limited and will be accepted in the order in which they are received. The Conference Package includes all lectures ($495.00, Early bird: $450 before June 1, 2000) to Hotel Pattee Arts and Crafts Conference, P.O. Box 307, Perry, IA  50220. Credit card registrations may be sent by fax to (515) 465-3909. For more information, please contact: Elaine Hirschl Ellis, Conference Director, Tel. (212) 362-0761, toll free (877) 797-6886, fax (212) 787-2823, artconf@aol.com. 5-12 July 2001 Locating the Victorians A major international conference commemorating150 years since the Great Exhibition and the centenary of Queen Victoria's death, to be held in South Kensington, London, UK. Hosted by the Science Museum, London andpart of the South Kensington Festival. Call for expressions of interest:The year 2001 will mark the sesquicentenary of the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the centenary of the death of Queen Victoria. Coinciding with the dawn of a new millennium, these anniversaries provide the opportunity to review our interpretation of the culture of the Victorian period. The Science Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum in London s South Kensington, a cultural quarter itself funded from the profits of the Great Exhibition, will therefore host a great Victorian festival with major exhibitions and an international conference which will interpret the 19th Century for the benefit of the 21st. The dates of the conference will be 12-15 July 2001. The location will be in South Kensington, London, with events at the Museums. Accommodation will be arranged at hotels and at local university dormitories. Before and after the meeting there will be a variety of more specialised groups meeting under the rubric of The Victorian Fringe . It is likely that the registration cost will be between 100 and 150. In some cases it may be possible to defray part of thecost. The meeting is being structured so as to be interdisciplinary, broadly-based and summative. It is intended to foster communication between students of all branches of Victorian history, culture and literature. It will address questions such as the Victorian concepts of progress and time, of certainty and reality, of participation and inclusion, of gender and class, of association and organisation, of art and imagination. During 1999 we intend to consult extensively so as to construct a meeting with the widest possible appeal and the greatest possible benefits for the future. Currently the planning committee is thinking of 10 to 15 themes each of which will incorporate four to six sessions perhaps made up of three papers or, alternatively, of discussion panels. We are however eager to hear proposals for unconventional formats. Themes should each be multidisciplinary incorporating treatments of literature, art, culture, economics, science, technology etc. We see contributions to this conference as summations and interpretations rather than opportunities to present new research findings. The organising group: Robert Bud of the Science Museum (convenor), Bob Bloomfield (Natural History Museum), Paul Greenhalgh (Victoria & Albert Museum), and Michael Wolff (University of Massachusetts) is being guided by a wide-ranging planning committee. Please submit your ideas not later than 1 October 1999. Contact: j.davies@nmsi.ac.uk, using the subject name Victorian themes or Victorian conference with your suggestions. 9 -10 July 2001 The Rossettis: Cosmopolitans in Victorian London Conferenceat St. John's Collge, Cambridge, UK. Keynote speakers: J.B. Bullen, Angela Leighton, Jan Marsh, Jerome McGann. Call for papers: abstracts, not to exceed 500 words, should be sent by 1 May 2000 to Wei-Wei Yeo, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH, UK. Contact: Wei-Wei Yeo or Laurence Roussillon. CALENDARS OF EVENTS Victorian Events calendar including events sponsored by the Victorian Society in America [courtesy of J. R. Burrows & Co.] Events listings [from the 1890s Society web site] Events calendar [from the Arts and Crafts Society home page] List of events [from the Pre-Raphaelite Society home page] MISCELLANEOUS LINKS NOTE: Listed below are sites related to William Morris and his world which don't fit readily into any section on The William Morris Home Page. The Mythopoeic Society, non-profit international literary and educational organization for the study, discussion, and enjoyment of fantasy and mythic literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. 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