Session 1
Moderator: Mireille Dottin-Orsini
(France)

Cassandra Sciortino (USA)
"Armand Point's Eternal Chimera: the Florentine Quattrocento and Symbolist Currents in Britain, France, and Italy."

Liana Cheney (USA)
"Giovanni Segantini's Nirvana Series: Symbols of Luxuria and Vanitas."

Natasha Chang (USA)
"Mother/Nature: Representations of Deferred Maternity in the Symbolist Painting of Giovanni Segantini."

Anna Mazzanti (Italy)
"Angelo Conti as the Ruskin and Pater of Italy: promoter and elucidator of Symbolism."

Session 2
Moderator: Liana Cheney (USA)

Francesca Ricci (Italy)
"The iconography of The Symbolist Movement in early 20th century Italian Literature."

Davide Lacagnina (Italy)
"European Symbolist Graphics through the pages of the Italian art critic Vittorio Pica."

Deb Cibelli (USA)
"Aby Warburg, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Botticelli."

Mireille Dottin-Orsini (France)
"Literary and critical receptions of the Pre-Raphaelite painters in the fin de siècle era."

Session 3
Moderator: Ethan Lewis (USA)

Stephanie Ebersohl (USA)
"Transgender Aspirations in European Symbolist Thought."

Mary Traester (USA)
"Space, Time, Mimesis: Idealist Origins of French Literary Symbolism."

Alina Clej (USA)
"Fabricated Visions: From the Opium-Eater to des Esseintes."

Warren Johnson (USA)
"Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Pater, and the Hard, Gemlike Flame."

Session 4
Moderataor: Rosina Neginsky (USA)

David O'Brien (USA)
"The Symbolists’ Delacroix."

Peter Cooke (England)
"Gustave Moreau’s Chimères."

Joelle Joffe (France)
"Woman, Symbolism Painting and Psychoanalysis"

Leslis Curtis (USA)
"From Appearance to Apparition and Reflection: Symbolist Constructions of Salome, John the Baptist, and the Spectator's Severed Head."

Session 5
Moderator: Peter Cooke (England)

Rosina Neginsky (USA)
"Mallarmé and Self-Portrait in Disguise."

Patrick Thériault (Belgium)
"Symbolism and Esoterism: the case of Mallarmé's 'Mardis'."

Margaret Miner (USA)
"With Interest: Mallarmé's Economical Symbolism."

Juliet Simpson (England)
"Building the Symbolist Republic: Mallarmé, Art, and the English Connection."

Session 6
Moderator: Deborah Cibelli (USA)

Brent Judd (USA)
"William Faulkner and the Symbolist Movement: Absalom, Absalom! as a reflection of Stéphane Mallarmé's 'L'Après-midi d'un faune.'"

William Perthes (USA)
"Symbolist Aesthetics and Mallarméan Themes in the work of Robert Motherwell."

Erika Schneider (USA)
"Gauguin's Watery Women: A Multivalent Symbolist Reading."

Serena Keshavje (Canada)
"Picturing the Unconscious in French Symbolist Art."

Session 7
Moderator: Larry Shiner (USA)

Clément Dessy (Belgium)
"Nabis and writers à l'Oeuvre: Artists and dramatists for a symbolist theater."

Leah Boston (USA)
"Symbolism and 'Social Art:' The Unity of Beauty In Fernand Khnopff's Après Flaubert."

Andrew Marvick (USA)
"Something Incomprehensible: Symbolism and the Real in the Landscapes of Fernand Khnopff."

Brendan Cole (England)
"Jean Delville and the Belgian avant-garde. Art in search of the Absolute."

Keynote Speaker

Genevieve Lacambre (France)
"Toward Symbolism: Gustave Moreau and the Masters of the Past, and his Contemporaries."

Session 8
Moderator: Lisa Rosenthal (USA)

Kathryn Moore Heleniak (USA)
"The Symbolist Imagery of Burne-Jones: Behind Closed Eyes."

Liesbeth Maria Grotenhuis (Holland)
"Lovely lines or: what the Dutch Symbolists learned from Egypt."

Shelley Cordulack (USA)
"Metabolism, Symbolism, and Munch."

Andrea Meyertholen (USA)
"The Sound of Silence: Arnold Böcklin and the (Non-) Presence of Reality."

Session 9
Moderator: Jonathan Perkins (USA)

Larry Shiner (USA)
"Symbolism and Crime: Architecture of the Vienna Secession."

Claire Barbillon (France)
"The Influence of Symbolism on the Formal Evolution of Sculptural relief between 1900 and 1914."

John Klein (USA)
"Sensation: The Symbolist Contribution to Matisse's Decorative Aesthetic."

Session 10
Moderator: Alina Clej (USA)

Jonathan Perkins (USA)
"Paul Klee, the Femme Fatale, and Symbolism."

Alain Faudemay (Switzerland)
"Speed and slowness between the symbolist and the futurist generations: a few texts, a few reflections."

Ethan Lewis (USA)
"The Music of Poetry as Symbolic Testament."

Session 11
Moderator: Michael Finke (USA)

Kristi Groberg (USA)
"Sympathy with the Devil: Russian Symbolism."

Olga Skonechnaia (Russia)
"The paranoiac discourse of symbolism and the delusion of persecution: F. Sologub, A. Bely."

Andrius Valevicius (Canada)
"The Symbolism of Divine Love in Pavel Florensky."

Session 12
Moderator: Alain Faudemay (Switzerland)

Jana Dratvová (Czech Republic)
"The Belgian symbolist novel and its specific features in the context of French-speaking literature."

Nikou Christos (France)
"The Radiance of French Symbolism in Greece."

Aivalioti Maria (France)
"The Greek Symbolism: Correspondences and Differences via the angel's image."

Hüseyin Altindis (Turkey)
"Symbolist Movement in Turkish Literature and its Effects and Consequences on Turkish Language and Literature."

Session 13
Moderator: Mayra Bonnet(USA)

Luba Jurgenson (France)
"The Role of Symbolism in the 20th Century Russian Political literature."

Tena Helton (USA)
"The Symbolist Aesthetic in A Series of Unfortunate Events."

Sangeeta Parameshwar (USA)
"Divine Inclination: Transfiguration of Gaze in Art and Life."