The William Morris Society in the United States (WMS-US) invites session proposals for the CAA 2023 conference, which is scheduled for February 15–18, 2023 in New York City. We welcome proposals for sessions that are open to a range of time periods, geographic...
On Saturday, April 23rd, please join us to hear Emily Snow present "William Morris: Subverting Victorian Gender Roles Through Iceland-Inspired Design", exploring how Morris's time in Iceland influenced his work and social activism. This presentation will be held at...
On February 27, the William Morris Society in the US invites our members and the public to attend our digital annual meeting. Join us in fellowship to meet the Society's Board, learn about programs under development in 2022, and recognize this year’s Society Service...
The William Morris Society in the United States is pleased to announce that the 2022 Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship has been awarded to Thomas Cooper, Ph.D. student in history of art at the University of Cambridge. Cooper will use the funds to conduct research...
In January 2023, the William Morris Society in the United States will host two panels at the Modern Language Association annual conference. The conference will take place from 5-8 January 2023 in San Francisco. Queering the Pre-Raphaelites Examining poetry,...
The major conference "Radical Victorians: Race, Labor, Identity" will take place online from January 20-22, 2022. Organized by The Frick Pittsburgh, the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, and Yale University, the conference will offer new responses to...
Dr Serena Trowbridge, Reader in Victorian Literature at Birmingham City University, UK, is organizing an online reading group for The Earthly Paradise. Beginning in February 2022, the group will read through Morris's epic over the course of a year. The Earthly...
The William Morris Society in the United States is saying farewell to President Michael Robertson, who is moving to London, where he will be an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, while he completes his biography of William Morris. Former President Jane Carlin is serving as Interim President until Jude Nixon becomes President in early 2022.
Aspects of Britain is an online symposium celebrating the historian Peter Stansky's work on George Orwell, William Morris, and the Bloomsbury group, on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Stansky is Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, emeritus, at Stanford...