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“The Salon and the Press” was the title of this fun, lively, and informative afternoon session at the 29th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, with chair Zachary Hacker of St. Ursula Academy.

The panel included:

  • Alive Staveley of Stanford, “Buying and Selling Modernism: The Hogarth Press Order Books”
  • Peter Morgan of Stanford, “Flung into Basements”
  • Julie Daoud and students of Thomas More College, “Voices in Bloom in the 21st Century: Reimagining the Salon’ as Chat-Room’ and Recasting Voices as if Embedded in the Net-Generation.”

Below are Blogging Woolf’s live tweets from the session.

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The Ten Principles

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It’s been a long day at the 29th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, too long to write about in detail, but here are a few visuals.

Be afraid, says Jenna Nomes De Gruy. Find her on Instagram @virginialovesvita

“An Interdisciplinary Approach to ‘A Room of One’s Own” with Mount St. Joseph University faculty Iris Spoor, Elizabeth Mason, Lisa Wagner Crews, and Kristina Broadbeck. This was just one of a dozen morning breakout sessions.

Ellen Mclaughlin, playwright and author of “Septimus and Clarissa,”  presents “Woolf and Empathy, Her Sly Revolutionary Art” as the last plenary of the day, paying a poetic tribute to her own mother and Virginia Woolf and how she came to read, appreciate, and love the author and learn about her mother.

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It’s day one of the 29th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, with its theme of social justice, at the University of Mount Saint Joseph in Cincinnati.

Beth Rigel Daugherty, Leslie Hankins and Diane Gillespie presented a panel on “Portraying and Projecting Age, Ageism, and Activism” on day one.

The agenda was full with registration; an opening session; three breakout sessions, each with a choice of six panels ranging from Woolf and race to Queering Woolf; and a plenary session with Dr. Elizabeth Abel of UC Berkeley on “The Smashed Mosaic: Virginia Woolf and African American Modernism.”

The day ended with “Hours in a Library,” a wine and cheese reception at the Mercantile Library in downtown Cincinnati, where conference participants met and mingled among the books.

Take a look at the place where readers, writers, and thinkers have gathered since 1835.

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