A day conference on Woolf’s Resistance to feminism
Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Rome – 13 June 2017
The first round table of the Italian Virginia Woolf Society.
Paris, La Maison de la Recherche – 4 July 2017
Clara Jones rescues the particularities of Virginia Woolf’s political and social participation
Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist demonstrates the degree to which Woolf was sensitive to the internal politics and conflicts of the bodies she was associated with and the ways in which she interrogated her ambivalent attitudes towards her activism throughout her literary career.
Université d’Aix-Marseille – 23 septembre 2017
Fifty years after the call for ‘Women’s Lib’ and nearly seventy years since Simone de Beauvoir famously omitted to mention Woolf in her iconic Le Deuxième Sexe (1949) the time seems ripe to reconsider Woolf’s feminism, in all its contradictoriness, slipperiness, and enduring – but perhaps misleading – relevance.
« Woolf Works » de Wayne McGregor
« Woolf Works » sera diffusé le lundi 6 mars 2017 au Cinéma L’Arlequin
Mansfield and Woolf: Essay Prize and Call for Papers – by August 31, 2017
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its Call for Papers for volume 10 of Katherine Mansfield Studies, as well as its annual essay prize.
University of Reading – 29 June-2 July 2017
The 27th Annual International conference on Virginia Woolf will mark the centenary of the founding of the Hogarth Press. The conference aims to celebrate Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press as a key intervention in modernist and women’s writing and to mark its importance to independent publishing and bookselling.
Des nouvelles d’Italie
Un festival littéraire et un faire-part de naissance !
Homerton College – July 2017
5 days’ intensive study of Virginia Woolf’s work.
Senate House – 12-13 December 2016 – Institute of English Studies, London
Counter to the conventional perception of modernism as ahistorical, there have been recent academic and critical efforts to historicize it. The Historical Modernism Symposium seeks to contribute to this trend.
Literature Cambridge 2017
A new series of talks for town and gown on Virginia Woolf and her contemporaries.
Perugia – 14-16 December 2016
This conference will explore those borders that modernism has either dissolved or provocatively recovered in light of an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and trans-geographical approach.
Naomi Toth – Woolf, Sarraute, une autre phénoménologie de la perception
Tandis que la pensée philosophique vise à une compréhension lumineuse du sensible, il s’agit ici d’en traquer les obscurités, qui deviennent le lieu périlleux d’une écriture vive.
Barbara Lounsberry – Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She Read
Through close readings of Woolf ‘s journaling style and an examination of the diaries she read, Lounsberry tracks Woolf ‘s development as a writer and unearths new connections between her professional writing, personal writing, and the diaries she was reading at the time (1918-1929).