Virginia Woolf Society Turkey is hosting another Woolf seminar. This one, set for Dec. 21 at 7 p.m. Turkey time, will feature Christos Hadjiyiannis on “Modernism and Liberalism.”
What: A free online talk on “Modernism and Liberalism.” This talk will explore the intricate relationship between modernist literature and liberal democracy by focusing on how some early twentieth-century English writers in London—E. M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, T. E. Hulme, and T. S. Eliot—engaged with Edwardian liberalism, a dominant political ideology that championed both reformist policies and more radical New Liberal ideas.
Who: Christos Hadjiyiannis, who teaches English Literature at the University of Regensburg. He is the author of Conservative Modernists: Literature and Tory Politics in Britain, 1900-1920 (Cambridge, 2018). With Rachel Potter, he is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics (2023).
When: Dec. 21, 7 p.m. Turkey time; 11 a.m. EST.
Cost: Free
Registration: Register at Eventbrite.
