Humble Woolf

PhD Seminar organised by EMMA (Etudes Montpelliraines du Monde Anglophone) and SEW (Socit dՎtudes woolfiennes)

27-28 November 2014

University Paul-Valry Montpellier

Site Saint Charles-Salle 126

 

Convened by Nicolas Boileau (AMU-SEW) and Christine Reynier (EMMA)

 

Organised by Leila Haghshenas, Lingxiang Ke, Xavier Le Brun and Abdel Madjid

Yesref (EMMA)

 

Programme

Thursday 27 November

2 p.m.: opening of the PhD seminar by J-M. Ganteau, Head of the Doctoral School

Humility in Woolfs Fiction

Chair: David Bradshaw

2.15 : Nicolas Pierre Boileau (Aix-Marseille University-LERMA)

Knowledge and the Humility of the Subject in Mrs Dalloway

3 p.m.: Xavier Le Brun (University Paul-Valry Montpellier- EMMA/ENS Lyon)

Leaving Jacob Room: Narratorial Humility in Jacobs Room

 

3.45 : coffee-break

4.15: Victoria Levque (University Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Whats in the Shadow of a Doubt? Woolf, Joyce and Ontological Humility.

 

5 p.m.: Christine Reynier (University Paul-Valry-Montpellier-EMMA)

Woolf, Property, Illegitimacy and Poverty

 

Dinner in town

 

Friday 28 November

Humble Genres, Humble Influences

Chair: Christine Reynier

9 a.m.: Lingxiang Ke (University Paul-Valry Montpellier-University of Bergamo)

Virginia Woolfs Humble Art of Letter Writing

9.45: Wassila MOURO, University of Tlemcen, Algeria

Humble Woolf, the Victorian Heritage and Metafiction

 

10.30: Julie Chevaux (University Paris III-ENS Lyon)

The Voyage Out and A Room with a View: E. M. Forster, early Woolf and the Comedy of Manners

 

11.15: coffee-break

Crafts(wo)manship

 

Chair : Nicolas Pierre Boileau

 

11.45: Rossana Bonadei (University of Bergamo, Italy)

In Wireless Conversation. Virginia Woolf and the BBC

 

12.30: Adle Cassigneul (Universit Toulouse Jean-Jaurs)

Betwixt and Between: Virginia Woolf and the Art of Craftsmanship

 

Buffet lunch in Saint Charles

Humble Bloomsbury

Chair: Rossana Bonadei

2 p.m.: David Bradshaw (Oxford University, UK)

A Very Sympathetic Spectator: Woolf, Coarseness and the Contours of Obscurity

 

2.45: Leila Haghshenas (University Paul-Valry Montpellier- EMMA)

Leonard Woolf: Between Elitism and Humbleness

 

3.30: networking: SEW (Socit dEtudes Woolfiennes), etc.

Farewell drinks