{"id":1586,"date":"2015-10-19T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T13:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2017-12-28T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T12:08:10","slug":"virginia-woolf-and-images-becoming-photographic-toulouse-30-juin-1er-jullet-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse \u2013 30 juin &#038; 1er juillet 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For its 20th birthday the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des \u00c9tudes Woolfiennes (SEW) will hold a two-day symposium at Toulouse University:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Virginia Woolf and Images: Becoming Photographic <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Toulouse, 30 juin-1er juillet 2016<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>What is the difference between a camera and the whooping-cough? One makes facsimiles and the other makes sick families. (Stephen children, <\/em>Hyde Park Gate News<em> vol. 1, n\u00b0 9, Monday, 6th April 189<\/em>1)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Virginia Stephen was nine when, with her sister Vanessa and her brother Thoby, she invented riddles and wrote regular chronicles involving photography in the family newspaper. She was still nine when, for Christmas, she drew successive ink vignettes which build up a \u201cstory not needing words\u201d1. Later, in 1906, while trying to depict \u201cgreat melancholy moors\u201d, she passionately penned in her diary: \u201cBut words! words! You will find nothing to match the picture\u201d2. For Woolf, be it through a malicious play on words, a lively succession of images or the expression of a young writer\u2019s frustration, words and images are set in fruitful tension. The quotes mark out the intermedial interaction and emulation underlying Woolfian prose, its becoming other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is now common knowledge in Woolfian studies that Woolf\u2019s oeuvre enjoys intimate relations with the visual arts; Maggie Humm\u2019s 2010 edition of <em>The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts<\/em> has proved it admirably. Yet Frances Spalding\u2019s 2014 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, \u201cVirginia Woolf. Art, Life and Vision\u201d blatantly showed that Woolf is still mainly related to Post-impressionism and to Bloomsbury pictorial influence. While Maggie Humm and Elena Gualtieri, among others, have brought to the fore the crucial part played by photography in Woolf\u2019s life and cultural environment, there is nonetheless a need to focus on photographic intermediality and its textual effects in the oeuvre. This conference therefore intends to consider how, in its relation to photography, the plasticity of the Woolfian text actually becomes photographic and makes us see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thus taking its cue from the preceding SEW seminars and conferences \u2013 \u201cOutlanding Woolf\u201d in 2013, \u201cHumble Woolf\u201d in 2014 and \u201cTrans-Woolf\u201d in 2015 \u2013 this two-days symposium will explore multiple aspects of Virginia Woolf\u2019s relation to photography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To download the programme click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Programme-Becoming-Photographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Programme-Becoming-Photographic<\/u><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Organisation: Ad\u00e8le CASSIGNEUL (Bordeaux 2 University\/CAS EA 801) with Christine REYNIER (Montpellier 3 University)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Contact: &lt;becomingphotographic@outlook.com&gt;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking its cue from the preceding SEW seminars and conferences \u2013 \u201cOutlanding Woolf\u201d in 2013, \u201cHumble Woolf\u201d in 2014 and \u201cTrans-Woolf\u201d in 2015 \u2013 this two-days symposium will explore multiple aspects of Virginia Woolf\u2019s relation to photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evenements-sew"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}