Virginia Woolf and Heritage: The 26th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf
Location: Leeds Trinity University, UK
Dates: June 16-19, 2016
Virginia Woolf was deeply interested in the past – whether literary, intellectual, cultural, political or social – and her
Papers are invited on topics including (but not limited to):
- Woolf’s representations and constructions of the past and her responses to her own heritage, such as:
- intellectual traditions and the history of ideas
- feminist readings of history
- queer and lesbian histories
- the literary past
- family histories
- her responses to the Victorian and/or Edwardian eras
- Englishness and national identity
- Woolf’s experiences of the heritage industry, for example: her use of libraries, museums, art galleries, authors’ houses, artists’ houses, stately homes, gardens, London’s heritage sites, and tourist sites in Britain and abroad.
- Ways in which Woolf has been represented and/or appropriated by the heritage industry and the creative and cultural industries, for example in:
- virtual and physical exhibitions and digital archives
- libraries, archives and collections
- plaques, memorials, and statues
- National Trust properties and other sites, including Monk’s House, Knole, and Talland House
- film, television, radio, poetry and fiction, theatre, dance, multimedia and performance
- Woolf’s legacy to future generations in a wide range of cultural settings. This may include approaches from translation studies, reception history, comparative literature, editorial scholarship, pedagogy and literary theory.
For individual papers, send a 250-word proposal. For panels of three or four people, please send a proposed panel title and a 250-word proposal for each paper.
Please e-mail the proposal in a Word document to woolf2016@leedstrinity.ac.uk by 25thJanuary 2016. Proposals should be anonymous, but please provide names, affiliations and contact details for speaker(s) in the e-mail message.
View the call for papers on the conference website: Virginia Woolf and Heritage, which is now updated to include accommodations information and more.
