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Aug. 31 Woolf Salon discusses Night and Day, novel & film

Posted in events, Night and Day, tagged , , on Thursday 30 July 2026| 2 Comments »

The film Night and Day based on Virginia Woolf’s 1919 novel, is out in the UK, but not in the US. In anticipation of its release, the Woolf Salon invites you to three salons running from July through September that will feature the novel. The first, Woolf Salon #34, is tomorrow, Friday, August. 31.

Despite being described by Leonard Woolf as “very melancholy” and panned by Katherine Mansfield, Night and Day is a hilarious, emotionally intense, and philosophically rich novel that rewards attention.

I never thought of Night and Day as a comedy until I saw the film at the 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and Sound, held in June in Istanbul, Turkey. Now I am re-reading it, and I find myself noting the humor to which I had been blind before.

Whether you are new to the delights of Night and Day, haven’t revisited it for many years, or are as currently obsessed with it as some conspirators, the Woolf Salon invites you to join the group for an energetic conversation about the ups and downs of Katharine Hilbery and her friends.

The Night and Day Salon series

  • Woolf Salon No. 34
    When: Friday, July 31
    What to read: Night and Day chapters 1-11
  • Woolf Salon No. 35
    When: Friday, Sept.r 11
    What to read: Night and Day chapters 12-23
  • Woolf Salon No. 36
    When: Friday, Oct. 16
    What to read: Night and Day chapters 24-34

Times for all three

All three of these Salon events will run for two hours, starting at 2 p.m. EDT (New York) / 11 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 3 p.m. (Brasilia) / 7 p.m. BST (London) / 8 p.m. CEST (Paris) / 9 p.m. (Istanbul) / 3 a.m. JST Sat (Tokyo) / 4 a.m. Sat AEST (Sydney).

How to participate

Anyone can join the group. Just contact woolfsalonproject@gmail.com to sign up for the email list and receive the Zoom link.

Background on the Salon

The Salon Conspirators — Ben Hagen, Shilo McGiff, Amy Smith, and Drew Shannon — began the Woolf Salon Project in July 2020 to provide opportunities for conversation and conviviality among Woolf-interested scholars, students, and common readers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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