The Société d’Études Modernistes and the Société d’Études Woolfiennes will be organising a workshop at the next SAES Conference on the theme of « exceptionalism ». Proposals are to be sent by November 16th, 2018.

CFP pour le colloque international « Woolf recyclée / Recycling Woolf » – propositions à envoyer avant le 30 novembre 2018.

Though Woolf’s atheism and criticism of religion are well-known, this volume seeks an interdisciplinary approach to the spiritual quality of her work.

This SAES workshop aims to continue the ongoing rethinking of modernism’s forms, conditions, and “posture[s]” of revolution. By avoiding the essentialisation of rupture and envisioning cultural change, in the wake of Fredric Jameson, “beyond the opposition between synchrony and diachrony,” we propose to pluralise our approaches to revolutionary modernisms, and thus to understand such performances of modernity by building on the radically multiple semantics of the notion per se, such as theorised by Reinhart Koselleck. Koselleck’s insight into revolution as a globally extendable marker of modernity is particularly significant for this purpose: “The word ‘revolution’ possesses such revolutionary power that it is constantly extending itself to include every last element on our globe.”

We propose to examine Virginia Woolf’s relationship to history by reflecting on her reading and writing of history, be that the history of her own time, of the past, women’s history or literary history.

Marking 100 years since the end of the First World War and 80 years since the publication of Three Guineas, the 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf invites papers addressing the dual theme of Europe and Peace.