Virginia Woolf and Ethics, the 31st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, begins tomorrow, June 9, and runs through Sunday, June 12. And while it is hosted by Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, it is taking place completely online, giving the conference the ability to draw in a wide variety of participants from around the globe.
You can still register and Zoom in to four days of multidisciplinary conversation about Woolf and ethics.
Important conference links
- The program for the four-day virtual event
- Registration for attendees who are not presenting. Four-day ($40) and single-day ($20) registrations are available.
- Plenary details, including
- Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, “Rethinking Bloomsbury and Race in the Wake of BLM”
- Peter Stansky, “How the World Turns: Two Examples: Virginia Woolf and the Dreadnought Hoax; The Life of Julian Bell”
- Beth Rigel Daugherty, “On the Ethics of Teaching: Virginia Woolf’s Essays”
- Elsa Högberg, “Virginia Woolf’s Reparative Ethics”
- Theater performance by Ellen McLaughlin and Kathleen Chalfant who have collaborated on “Life Stand Still Here,” which is based on Woolf’s diaries and Lily Briscoe’s painting in To the Lighthouse.
Virtual conferences include more global perspectives on Woolf
The idea that organizers of the annual Woolf conferences should work to include more global perspectives on Woolf studies was strongly articulated at the 29th annual Woolf conference in 2019. As the most recent in-person Woolf conference, it was held at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the theme of Woolf and Social Justice.
The Covid-19 pandemic, which made virtual conferences a necessity, helped move that idea forward, making attendance easier and more economical for both presenters and participants.
Profession and Performance, the 30th annual Woolf conference, scheduled for 2020 at the University of South Dakota, was postponed until 2021 and was the first Woolf conference to be held virtually, on June 10-13, 2021. This year’s is the second.
Global perspectives on the last live Woolf conference
After the 2019 conference, the 29th, young scholars from Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and Canada shared their views on that conference. Below are links to their stories.
- A Brazilian scholar thinks against the current at the 29th Woolf conference
- Get a Czech perspective on the 29th annual Woolf conference
- A view of this year’s Woolf conference from a “new guy” Italian scholar
- The Canadian Gone Abroad: An International Review of the 29th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference
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