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The organizers of the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held in London and Sussex last July on the theme of “Woolf and Dissidence,” invite submissions for the upcoming volume in the Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers series.

The volume will add to the digital, open-access series published by Clemson University Press, and will add to the edited collections open to scholars and readers of Woolf from around the world.

The collection will focus on the theme of the 34th annual conference — “Woolf and Dissidence” — and will explore the many forms that dissent takes in Woolf’s work, continuing a conversation about the nature and context of Woolf’s dissidence, while also exploring dissident approaches and responses to Woolf’s writing.

As with previous volumes, between 25 and 30 of the hundreds of papers presented at the conference will be selected for inclusion in the volume.

Submission guidelines and deadline

Submissions should be approximately 2,000-3,500 words, including notes. All submissions must be in Word and follow the Chicago Manual Style Guide. (See further style and formatting guidance here). Authors must secure permissions for quotations or images.

Please send complete, edited papers by March 31 to H.Tyson@sussex.ac.uk.

Please note that submission does not guarantee acceptance; there will be a selection process. Any questions can be sent to Helen Tyson  at H.Tyson@sussex.ac.uk.

At the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and Dissidence, Anne Fernald gives a keynote address, “Dangerous Days: A Century with Clarissa Dalloway.”

The next Woolf Seminar by the Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey is set for March 6 at 7 p.m. Turkey time, with a lecture from Pamela L. Caughie on “Virginia Woolf in the Age of a New Aurality: Reprising Scholarship on Woolf and Sound 25 Years On.”

The talk will revisit a quarter century of scholarship on sound in Woolf’s works, situating Woolf within the soundscape of modernism and examining the interplay of new technologies, mass culture, and the arts.

Registration and time

Register online at this link to receive the Zoom link. If you do not receive the Zoom link after registering, email virginiawoolfturkiye@gmail.com.

Seven p.m. Turkey time is 11 a.m. EST. Check the lecture time in your zone here.

About the lecturer

Professor Caughie is professor emerita of English and Gender Studies at Loyola University Chicago, and a former president of the Modernist Studies Association. She has authored two monographs and edited or co-edited several volumes, including including Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2000) and the first comparative scholarly edition of Man into Woman, Lili Elbe’s 1931 life narrative. She serves as Project Director of the Lili Elbe Digital Archive.

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World will be the focus of this year’s Literature Cambridge summer course, which will be held twice — once online and once in person in Cambridge, England.

The live online course will run from Thursday, July 9, to Monday, July 13 (including the weekend). The in-person in Cambridge course is set for Sunday, Aug. 2 to Friday, Aug. 7, with an optional trip to Monk’s House and Charleston on Saturday, Aug. 8.

All of Woolf’s books are deeply interested in the natural world. This year’s course will explore her writing about the sea, woods, clouds, trees, gardens, birds, and much else in five of her great novels.

As always, there will be a rich program of lectures, supervisions, talks, and discussions, plus extra sessions for open discussion. In Cambridge, students will visit places of interest with talks by specialists.

Lecture list

Alison Hennegan, Women and Nature in Jacob’s Room (1922)
Karina Jakubowicz, Gardens in To the Lighthouse (1927)
Kate Eliot, Land and Sea in The Waves (1931)
Trudi Tate, The Weather in History: The Years (1937)
Ellie Mitchell, Earth and Sky in Between the Acts (1941)

Provisional list of talks

• Ann Kennedy Smith on “Woolf, Rupert Brooke and the ‘Neo-Pagans’”

• Harriet Baker on “Nature writing in Woolf’s Diary”

• Bonnie Lander Johnson on “Vanishing Landscapes: Saffron”

• Claudia Tobin on “Monk’s House garden”

• Launch of Karina Jakubowicz’s book on Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf (2026)

…and more

Links for additional information

Live online course

Course in Cambridge

Day trip to Monk’s House and Charleston

The cover of Virginia Woolf’s 1933 novel “Flush: A Biography,” which included original drawings by Vanessa Bell.

For Woolf Salon No. 33: Falling in Love with Flush, the focus will be on Woolf’s 1933 biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s dog Flush.

Though the Woolf Salon Project tends to focus on shorter texts (essays, stories, excerpts), Flush seems fitting for this time of year and is only about 33,000 words long. Even if you can’t finish reading or rereading the novel by Feb. 13, the Salon Conspirators would love to see you on the Zoom call.

Hosts: Salon Conspirators
Date: Friday, Feb. 13
Time: 2 p.m. EST (New York), 1 p.m. CST (Chicago), noon MST (Albuquerque), 11 a.m. PST (Los Angeles), 4 p.m. (Rio de Janeiro), 7 p.m. GMT (London), 8 p.m. CET (Paris), 9 p.m. EET (Tallinn), 10 p.m. (Istanbul; Moscow), 4 p.m. JST Sat. 2/14 (Tokyo), 6 a.m. EDT Sat. 2/14 (Sydney)
Homework: Flush: A Biography (1933)
How to participate: Anyone can join the group. Just contact woolfsalonproject@gmail.com to sign up for the email list and receive the Zoom link.

Background on the Salon

The Salon Conspirators — Ben Hagen, Shilo McGiff, Amy Smith, and Drew Shannon — began the Woolf Salon Project in July 2020 to provide opportunities for conversation and conviviality among Woolf-interested scholars, students, and common readers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

The decorated plate in the center of this poster features one of 50 plates in the Famous Women Dinner Service, 1932-1934, painted by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and now housed at Charleston.

 

The reception of A Room of One’s Own in Egypt will be the topic for the fourth session of the A Room of One’s Own Around the Globe seminar on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 6 p.m. (CET) on Zoom, in English.

Who: Hala Kamal of the University of Cairo
What: Presented in English, this fourth session of the “A Room of One’s Own Around the Globe” seminar will discuss the reception of Woolf’s 1929 polemic in Egypt.
When:  6 p.m. CTE, noon. EST. Check your time zone.
Where: On Zoom.
Cost: Free and open to all.
How: Log in at this Zoom linkID meeting: 94948594890. Password: 244826

Get more details about the presenters and the project.

About the project

The A Room of One’s Own: Echos and circulation research project offers to take up Virginia Woolf’s landmark essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) and explore its full potential. One question it attempts to answer is what echo chambers has A Room of One’s Own opened up nearly a century after its publication?

Led by Valérie Favre (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Anne-Laure Rigeade (Université Paris Est Créteil), this project will continue until 2029, the centenary of the publication of A Room of One’s Own, and will include seminars, a conference, and a collective publication.