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Dalloway Day comes to Turkey on June 20

Posted in books, events, tagged , , , , , on Wednesday 17 June 2026| Leave a Comment »

Dalloway Day is coming to Turkey. Celebrated in London last Saturday, June 13, it will be celebrated in Turkey one week later, on June 20.

It arrives just in time for the 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and Sound, which will be held June 24-28 in Istanbul.

The Woolf Arts Archive is sponsoring the Turkish Dalloway Day event, “Bir Yazarı Yaşatmak: Virginia Woolf Ankara’da” / “Keeping an Author Alive: Virginia Woolf in Ankara”, at 16.30 Turkey Time and KültKavaklıdere will host.

The day’s focus

The event will focus on works that reimagine Virginia Woolf as a writer, character and literary figure. It will consider how Woolf continues to live through rewriting, translation, fiction, and the arts, and how literature can give renewed voice to an author after her death.

Maggie Gee’s Virginia Woolf in Manhattan will also be part of this conversation. The novel’s recent Turkish publication offers an especially timely point of connection for the Ankara Dalloway Day event, bringing together questions of Woolf’s afterlives, literary return, translation, and contemporary reception in Turkey.

The day’s speakers

  • Prof. Dr. Mine Özyurt Kılıç
  • Atahan Mahir Karabiber
  • Tuğba Çanakçı

Poster image: Elisa Kay Sparks, “Encaustic Collages: Virginia Woolf”

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Bloomsbury art up for auction June 17

Posted in art, events, tagged , , on Tuesday 16 June 2026| 1 Comment »

Duncan Grant self-portrait

Collectors of the art of Bloomsbury artists Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, Henry Lamb, Quentin Bell, or Paul Roche will be interested in this — an auction of their work that begins tomorrow, June 17.

It is the first time this work has been offered at auction in 60 years. Viewing ran from June 15-16.

Watch the 14-minute YouTube video in which Kentucky resident Kate Archer, the owner of the collection and the daughter of the late collector, discusses the art, as well as her memories of visiting Charleston and meeting Grant when she was nine years old.

The David Elstob Auction Gallery in the UK is running the auction. Look for the Country House Sale to view the items and register to bid. Many items besides the Bloomsbury art are included in this lot, but you can refine your search in the search window.

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Call for papers out now for 36th Annual International Woolf Conference: Between the Arts, June 16-20 in Oslo, Norway

Posted in 36th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, events, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , on Friday 5 June 2026| 1 Comment »

The call for papers and works is out now for the 36th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Between the Arts, which will be held June 16-20, 2027, at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway. The deadline for submissions is Oct. 15.

Presentation options

Contributions from across the fields of academic and artistic research that emphasize artistic expression, and draws on the inspiration of the Bloomsbury group are welcome. The conference will investigate how the various arts and the senses interact with one another and is looking for contributions that combine artistic and academic approaches.

Twenty-minute individual presentations, panels, roundtables, workshops and creative works are welcome.

Submissions and more information

The deadline for submissions is Oct. 15. Submissions should be emailed to woolf2027@khio.no.

See more details in the JPEG below, which you download and enlarge for better readability here. As conference planning progresses, more information will be posted on the conference website at https://khio.no/events/2417


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Final A Room of One’s Own seminar May 21

Posted in A Room of One's Own, call for papers, events, tagged , , , , on Wednesday 13 May 2026| Leave a Comment »

The next and final installment in the A Room of One’s Own Seminar, on Woolf’s 1929 essay and its reception in Japan, will take place via Zoom May 21.

It will feature a talk given by independent scholar and translator Aki Katayama.

Katayama is an independent scholar and translator who sometimes teaches part-time at the International Christian University in Tokyo. Her Japanese translations of Virginia Woolf include A Room of One’s Own, Three Guineas, Between the Acts, “Monday or Tuesday,” and several shorter essays.

Her work on Three Guineas inspired her to speak out against the genocide in Palestine. She is currently co-translating the final essays of Refaat Alareer, a professor of English literature at the Islamic University of Gaza.

To get the Zoom link and password, visit the event website.

About A Room of One’s Own: Echos and circulation

The A Room of One’s Own seminars are part of the A Room of One’s Own: Echos and Circulation Project based in France, which offers to take up Virginia Woolf’s landmark essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) and explore its full potential. Nearly a century after the publication of Woolf’s iconic polemic, the project asks, what echo chambers has A Room of One’s Own opened up?

Led by Valérie Favre (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Anne-Laure Rigeade (Université Paris Est Créteil), the project will be ongoing until 2029, the centenary of the publication of A Room of One’s Own, and will include seminars, a conference, and a collective publication.

The deadline for the call for papers for the publication is coming right up — May 15, 2026.

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Much planned for June 13 Dalloway Day in London

Posted in events, Mrs. Dalloway, tagged , on Tuesday 5 May 2026| 2 Comments »

Mark your calendar for Saturday, June 13, to celebrate #DallowayDay in London. Here’s the schedule.You can book events via Eventbrite.

11.30 a.m.–12.30 p.m.: A Bloomsbury Walk

A sell-out crowd for the Dalloway Day event at Hatchard in 2025.

Guided by Clara Jones, participants will saunter in the streets and squares of Virginia Woolf’s beloved Bloomsbury.

Please note: the walk is available only for those with All-Event Tickets. Organizers will send ticket-holders details of the meeting place by email.

Dr. Jones is senior lecturer in Modern Literature at King’s College London. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist and the forthcoming British Interwar Women Writers, and editor of an essay collection, Virginia Woolf and Capitalism.

2 – 3 p.m.: A Woolf in the Archives

In conversation with Maggie Humm, Nicola Wilson and editors from the Times Literary Supplement will discuss “Virginia Woolf: Reader and Writer'” in relation to her work as publisher alongside Leonard Woolf and as a regular critic and reviewer.

“Snapshots of Bloomsbury” by Maggie Humm

Professor Wilson is professor of Book and Publishing Studies at the University of Reading and co-director of the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing. Her publications include Scholarly Adventures in the Digital Humanities: Making the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (2019) and Recommended! The Influencers Who Changed How We Read (2025).

Professor Humm is Vice-Chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. She is the author/editor of twenty books, many focusing on Woolf and the arts. Her novel Talland House, based on Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, won the Women’s Fiction International Impact Book Award 2024. The Bloomsbury Photographs won the American Writing Awards 2025 for photography, and her most recent book is Snapshots: Autobiography, Virginia Woolf, Writing and the Visual.

3 – 4 p.m.: Book signing, informal meet-the-authors, soft drinks & cupcakes

4 – 5 p.m.: Art, Friendship and Roger Fry

Fiona McKenzie Johnson, whose biography Roger Fry: Bloomsbury and the Invention of Modern Art has recently been published by Triglyph Books, will discuss Fry’s life as a pioneering curator and artist, and in particular his friendship with Virginia Woolf, whose own biography of him was published in 1940.

Jean Moorcroft Wilson on the doorstep of 46 Gordon Square, Woolf’s first Bloomsbury home, during Dalloway Day 2018. A blue plaque is to the right of the front door.

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