Tuesday, 21 October 2025

18:00–20:00 Conference Warming (arranged by the International Aldous Huxley Society) at the Centro Studi CISL

Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Aldous Huxley in Italy

Registration: 8:30–9:15

9:15–9:30  Opening Addresses

Dr Piero Ferrucci, Aldous and Laura Huxley Literary Trust
Profs Alice Cheylan and Alain Morello, University of Toulon
Prof Bernfried Nugel, Chairman of the International Aldous Huxley Society

9:30–10:30
Chair: Bernfried Nugel

Keynote Lecture:
James Sexton: "Aldous Huxley and Italy"

10:30–11:00  Break (coffee and snacks)

11:00–13:00
Chair: Gerd Rohmann

Alice Cheylan/André-Alain Morello: "Aldous Huxley and the Revelation of Italy"

Chiara Sciarrino: "Music, Counterpoint, and Narrative Complexity in Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point"

Grzegorz Moroz: "Aldous Huxley, Italy and the Travel-Writing Discourse"

13:00–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–16:00
Chair: Gerhard Wagner

Andrija Matić: "'A Man in an Iron Mask': Evocations of Italy in Aldous Huxley's Short Fiction"

Gerry Kimber: "'Bitterness and Hostility': Huxley and Murry at War"

Lawrence Davidson: "Aldous Huxley: From Italy to France to Brave New World"

16:00–16:30  Break (coffee and snacks)

16:30–17:30
Chair: David Dunaway

Gerd Rohmann: "Italy, Montaigne, and Huxley's Essayism"

Tobias Harris: "The Posthuman Huxley of Proper Studies: Posthumanities and Huxley's Italian Essays"

Thursday, 23 October 2025

ALDOUS HUXLEY: RE- AND PERCEPTION

Registration: 9:00–9:30

9:30–13:00

HUXLEY FORUM: THE RECEPTION OF ALDOUS HUXLEY (arranged by Uwe Rasch)

9:30–10:30

Keynote Lecture:
Robin Hull: "The Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich—Reaching Out to Younger Readers"

10:30–11:00 Break (coffee and snacks)

11:00–13:00

Irina Golovacheva: "Aldous Huxley as the 'People's Enemy': The Bomb and Post-War Soviet Propaganda"

Jesús Isaías Gómez López: "The Reception of Aldous Huxley in Spain"

Miguel Afonso Martini: "Sage, Guru and Teacher: Mysticism, Religion and Spirituality in Aldous Huxley Studies"

Uwe Rasch: "Island—A Curated Novel"

13:00–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–16:00 
Chair: Robin Hull

David Dunaway: "Atropine—Aldous Huxley's First Psychedelic?"

Filip Świerczyński: "Anesthetising Humankind: Aldous Huxley, José M. R. Delgado, and the Psychocivilised Society"

Dana Sawyer: "Support for Huxley's 'Unitive Knowledge' and Its Value as Found in Current Research with Psychedelics"

16:00–16:30 Break (coffee and snacks)

16:30–17:30
Chair: Uwe Rasch

Erika Dyck/James W. Spisak: "Texts and Contexts: A New Look at The Doors of Perception"

Friday, 24 October 2025

VARIA

Registration: 9:00–9:30

9:30–10:30 
Chair: Bernfried Nugel

Keynote Lecture:
Jerome Meckier: "Three Little Words: Fixity, Mutability, Stability—Butler, Orwell and Huxley"

10:30–11:00 Break (coffee and snacks)

11:00–13:00
Chair: Alice Cheylan

Emily Reed: "'Beautiful words don't always mean what they ought to mean': Language, Meaning and Artifice in the Works of Aldous Huxley 1921–1927"

Heike Sieger: "Contralto Singers: Huxley’s Secret Humorous Obsession"

Bernfried Nugel: "The Significance of the Concert Pitch in Island"

13:00–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–16:00
Chair: Gerhard Wagner

Sujatha Chandarlapaty: "The Literary and Psychological Imaginations of Aldous Huxley"

Zoe Leoni: "The Strategy of the Jesuits in the Political Thought of Aldous Huxley"

Raj Chandarlapaty: "Aldous Huxley and the Boundaries of Consciousness"

16:00–16:30 Break (coffee and snacks)

16:30–17:30
Chair: Dana Sawyer

Uwe Rasch: "40 Years On: Postman, Huxley and Amusing Ourselves to Death"

Robin Hull: "Of Amphibians, Jungian Swamps and Freudian Graffiti—Huxley and Psychology"

20:00–22:00 Farewell Dinner [location to be announced]

Saturday, 25 October 2025

COACH TRIP TO SANSEPOLCRO

10:00–17:00

10:00 Departure from the Centro Studi CISL

12:00 Arrival at Museo Civico Sansepolcro

15:00 Departure for Centro Studi

17:00 Return

Participants are requested to register on the first day of the con¬ference; there will be no charge, as all expenses are covered by the AHS.