And we’re off! Sally Blackburn-Daniels kicks off #DecadenceAndWar with a discussion of #VernonLee’s pacifist aesthetics and the art of war Volupté British Association of Decadence Studies

Next up is Aliju Kim discussing the Decadent ruins of the Korean War #DecadenceAndWar British Association of Decadence Studies Volupté

We found our Conflicted Nations panel with Margaret Stetz on late-Victorian women writers on war #DecadenceAndWar British Association of Decadence Studies Volupté

Sondeep Kandola kicks off our second panel, ‘Chaos and Culture Wars’, discussing Wilde’s Ballad of Reading Gaol #DecadenceAndWar British Association of Decadence Studies Volupté

Joseph Dunne-Howrie now leads us in a discussion on the links between Decadence and the War on “Woke” #DecadenceAndWar British Association of Decadence Studies Volupté

Rounding off our Chaos and Culture Wars panel is Philippa Burt speaking on Edward Gordon Craig’s war against British Theatre #DecadenceAndWar British Association of Decadence Studies Volupté

A beautiful musical interlude to #WarAndDecadence: Elena Borelli on harp while David Carter dramatically recites her translation of Giovanni Pascoli’s Gog and Magog British Association of Decadence Studies Volupté

Anna Shane kicks off our final panel, Conflicted Masculinities/Conflicted Modernities, with a discussion of decadent masculinities in E.W. Hornung’s Raffles stories #DecadenceAndWar British Association of Decadence Studies Volupté

Last paper of the day! Rounding off our Conflicted Masculinities/Conflicted Modernities panel, we have Sebastian A. Kukavica on the crusade against modernity in Léon Bloy’s The Desperate Man’ #DecadenceAndWar British Association of Decadence Studies Volupté

And of course my own paper, featured on the last Conflicted Masculinities/Conflicted Modernities, on flowers and decadent incels #DecadenceAndWar British Association of Decadence Studies Volupté

Thank you to all the fantastic speakers for their rich and thought provoking papers at British Association of Decadence Studies #DecadenceAndWar symposium yesterday! 🖤👏👏👏 bads.gold.ac.uk/2025-decadence…

Long time coming, but a new article is now out with Afterimage: “Decadent Scenography: Angel Rose Denman, Hollywood Goth”. Angel’s work is fascinating – a self-proclaimed “daughter of decadence”, green, a little mottled, and FABULOUS. Check it out here: online.ucpress.edu/afterimage

We’re in our ‘Yellow Book’ summer, and looking forward to spending sunny afternoons poring over the incredible articles in our most recent issue. It’s a must-read! #Decadence #decadent #DecadentWomen #VolupteJournal 💛

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New blog post! The fabulous Julia Skelly on the work of Raqib Shaw, Tau Lewis, Nick Cave, and the unruly pleasures of decadent monstrosity! stagingdecadence.com/blog/decadent-…

A few pics from Staging Decadence: A Plenary TaPRA & Theatre Warwick, feat. Hasard Le Sin, Mal Parry, Shushma Malik, Darkwah Kyei-Darkwah & Domenico Iadicicco, a fabulous film by Sequinette, and a shower of rose petals. A real privilege to work with these artists!