Sure, we’re all rushing around getting ready for the holidays. But with 2017 drawing to a close, here’s a reminder that the call for papers for the 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf is open until Feb. 1, 2018.
Topic for the conference, June 21-24 at the University of Kent, is “Virginia Woolf, Europe and Peace.” Get the details. For more, contact vwoolf2018@gmail.com
The latest news is that keynote lectures will be given by Professor Rosi Braidotti of Utrecht University, Professor Claire Davison of Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, and Dr. Jane Goldman of the University of Glasgow.
From the ‘prying’, ‘insidious’ ‘fingers of the European War’ that Septimus Warren Smith would never be free of in Mrs. Dalloway to Woolf’s call to ‘think peace into existence’ during the Blitz in ‘Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid’, questions of war and peace pervade her writings. They are also central to Woolf’s Bloomsbury circle, exemplified in John Maynard Keynes’ The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Clive Bell’s Peace at Once and Leonard Woolf’s Quack, Quack!
While seeking proposals that address the European contexts and cultures of modernism between wars, we also encourage exploration of how these writings can help us think through what it might mean to create peace in Europe today amid various political, humanitarian, economic and environmental crises.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Bloomsbury and pacifism
Literature of the First and Second World Wars
The Spanish Civil War
The Armistice and Paris Peace Conference
Three Guineas and its legacies
International/transnational/cosmopolitan Woolf
Bloomsbury and the European avant-garde
Feminism, queer studies and LGBT+ politics
Empire, race and ethnicity
Woolf and continental philosophy/theory
European translations of Woolf and Bloomsbury
Ecological/environmental/economic crises
Violence, trauma and fascism
Bloomsbury and classical antiquity
Woolf across visual art, film, dance and music
Travel writing and European journeys
Abstracts of a maximum of 200 words for single papers and 500 words for panels should be sent to vwoolf2018@gmail.com by 1 February 2018.