Now online via Flickr: A small collection of photos from the 23rd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and the Common (Wealth) Reader in Vancouver.
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Alice Lowe
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Paula Maggio
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Paula,
The conference I refer to was in 2011, not 2009.
cheers
Lindsey
Thank you for sharing this interesting information, Lindsey. I would like to add information about the selected papers published as a result of the University of Montevideo in Uruguay’s 7th annual literature conference that was dedicated to Virginia Woolf. Do you have a link to the book? The cover graphic did not post.
I remember that Anne Fernald presented “Mrs. Dalloway and The Common Reader” at this conference, which actually took place in June of 2011. Here is the link to her post about her invitation to present at the conference: http://fernham.blogspot.com/2010/09/and-one-in-uruguay.html
And here’s a link to another piece Anne wrote after the conference: http://wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/virginia-woolf-on-the-river-plate
Dear Paula Maggio,
You may be interested to know that, following an internatiional conference on Virginia Woolf in Latin America in 2009, in Montevideo, Uruguay, a book of essays based on some of the presentations, was published, also in Montevideo, two weeks ago. The conference title was “Voyaging In, Voyaging Out. Virginia Woolf in Latin America” and featured Maria DiBattista and Anne Fernald as speakers. The conference presentations and discussions werein English and in Spanish (with simultatneous interpretation provided). The call for papers described the thrust of the conference thus:
Virginia Woolfs first novel, *The Voyage Out *(1915) is located somewhere in the north of South America, in a village named Santa Marina. It is set within landscapes and vegetation at times clearly tropical, at others more Mediterranean, and populated by Spanish and Portuguese descendants who speak Spanish. Later, in her short story Kew Gardens (1919), Woolf describes a character who walks in the gardens murmuring about the forests of Uruguay blanketed with the wax petals of tropical roses, nightingales, sea beaches, mermaids and women drowned at sea.
These South American places imagined by Woolf are an invitation to the possibility of reflecting on her work from a transatlantic perspective, as Victoria Ocampo did in 1929 when she first read *A Room of Ones Own. *The essay confirmed many of Ocampos ideas on the woman-writer, and inspired her to promote critical readings and translations of Virginia Woolfs work in the River Plate, especially through *Sur*, the* *literary journal she founded in Buenos Aires in 1931.
Seventy years after Virginia Woolfs death, Montevideana VII calls for papers presenting innovative readings, translations, and exchanges in connection with the multiple dialogues which her work continues to establish, either directly or indirectly, with this part of the world.
I am attaching the cover of the book just recently published.
I enjoy reading your blog. Many thanks
Lindsey Cordery