Trans/Pater: A Show and Tll and Pop-Up Exhibition Organized in Conjunction with The Conference of the International Walter Pater Society
Location: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Dates: September 5, 11am, in 2B48 (lecture room)

Curators of the Exhibition: Prof. Ellis Hanson (English), Teddy Leane (PhD student, English) and Dr. Laurent Ferri (curator, RMC)
Organizers of the conference: Prof. Barbara Black, Skidmore College; Prof. Michael Davis, Le Moyne College; Prof. Ellis Hanson, Cornell University. 32 participants expected

What's Going to Happen: we are going to display rare materials from the RMC collection pertaining to Walter Pater (1839-1904), a famous English essayist, art critic, and fiction writer, whose studies on the Italian Renaissance were taken by many as a manifesto (whether stimulating or subversive) of Aestheticism and Decadence. Among the items on display will be first editions of the writings of Pater, Oscar Wilde, Algernon Charles Swinburne, or Vernon Lee + art by Simeon Solomon + the famous "Kelmscott Chaucer" by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones (1896). Also on display will be correspondence between Pater and Edward B. Titchener dating back to the time when the Cornell Professor of Psychology was a student at Oxford and pater was his private tutor (1885-90).