Woolf sessions at the MLA
Dates: Jan. 9-12, 2014
Location: Chicago, Ill.
MLA Convention 2014
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Hermione Lee – 15th Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture
Date: Saturday, Jan. 25, 2 p.m.
Location: Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London
Virginia Woolf and Visual Culture
Date: April 5, 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Location: University of London
Hosted by Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, for the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. The conference (all welcome) will follow the Virgina Woolf Society AGM (VWS of Great Britain Members only).
24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Writing the World
Dates: June 5-8, 2014
Location: Loyola University’s Lakeshore Campus, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Call for Papers: Proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and workshops on any aspect of the conference theme: the centenary of WWI; peace, justice, war, and violence; writing as world creation; Woolf as a world writer; the globalization of Woolf studies; or other topics of your choosing.
Proposal Dealine: Jan. 25, 2014
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Dear Paula:
Seeing your list of events made me hope that you would add this one to your blog, if you could. Many thanks, Mary Jean
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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies Spring 2014 Programme
The first event of the spring term for the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies will feature Mary Jean Corbett (Miami University, Ohio) presenting on ‘”Behind the Times?”: Sarah Grand, Social Purity and Virginia Woolf’ on Wednesday 15 January 2014 from 6.00pm to 8.00pm in the Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD.
In rejecting ‘fiction with a purpose,’ Virginia Woolf took her distance not only from her older male contemporaries, but also from New Women writers, who put sex into discourse in new ways in the 1880s and 90s. Yet Woolf returned repeatedly in her career as a professional writer to problems that had similarly preoccupied late-Victorian women writers and feminist activists. This talk locates Woolf’s writing about prostitution in The Voyage Out (1915) and Three Guineas (1938) in dialogue with the work of earlier feminists, such as Josephine Butler and Sarah Grand, identifying both continuities and differences across three feminist generations.
Unless otherwise noted, all sessions take place in the Keynes Library (Room 114, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD). The sessions are free and all are welcome, but since the venue has limited space it will be first come, first seated.
For more information, see: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_cncs/our-events/birkbeck-forum-for-nineteenth-century-studies-spring-term-2014