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Lit Cambridge “Woolf and Politics” season continues Dec. 7

Posted in A Room of One's Own, Literature Cambridge, novels, politics, Three Guineas, Woolf Courses, Woolf online, tagged , , on Sunday 1 December 2024| Leave a Comment »

Join Literature Cambridge for its fifth Woolf Season of lectures and seminars, all live online with leading Woolf scholars. The next session in the current “Woolf and Politics” season is Saturday, Dec. 7. The season includes one session per month until June 2025.

Here’s the schedule

  • Saturday, 7 Dec. 2024, Ellie Mitchell on Woolf’s War Diary
  • Saturday, 11 Jan. 2025, Danell Jones on A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Black Britain
  • Saturday, 8 Feb. 2025, Natasha Periyan on Education in The Years (1937
  • Saturday, 8 March 2025, Trudi Tate on Mrs Dalloway (1925) and the Vote
  • Saturday, 12 April 2025, Varsha Panjwani on The Politics of Orlando (1928)
  • Saturday 10 May 2025, Angela Harris on The Politics of Jacob’s Room (1922).
  • Saturday 14 June 2025, Claire Davison on Body Politics and Clothing in Three Guineas (1938)

All sessions are at 6 p.m. British Time and last a maximum of two hours.

Prices and booking

Book online for each session you wish to attend.

Prices for individual lectures are:

£32.00 full price
£27.00 Students and CAMcard holders
£27.00 Members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain

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Woolf and Politics in time for #KamalaHarris2024

Posted in events, Literature Cambridge, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , on Saturday 3 August 2024| Leave a Comment »

At this time in history, with Kamala Harris poised to get the Democratic nomination for president of the United States to become the first woman of color at the top of the presidential ticket, no topic could be more timely and more pertinent than Woolf and Politics. And that is exactly what Literature Cambridge is offering for its Virginia Woolf Season 2024-25, which runs Sept. 14 through June 14, 2025.

The upcoming season of lectures and seminars on the major works of Virginia Woolf includes 10 sessions, each with a live online lecture and seminar via Zoom. They cover five of her novels and both of her polemics. All sessions are offered from 6-8 p.m. British time.

Each lecture will be recorded live and will be available to participants after the live event for up to 48 hours. The recordings are available only to people who have booked the session. The seminars are not recorded.

Dates and topics for Woolf and Politics

  1. Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. Karina Jakubowicz on The Politics of Conquest in The Voyage Out (1915)
  2. Saturday, Oct. 12 2024. Alison Hennegan on The Politics of Flush (1933)
  3. Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. Mark Hussey on Politics in Mrs Dalloway (1925)
  4. Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. Ellie Mitchell on Woolf’s War Diary
  5. Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. Danell Jones on A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Black Britain
  6. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. Natasha Periyan on Education in The Years (1936)
  7. Saturday, March 8, 2025. Trudi Tate on Mrs Dalloway (1925) and the Vote
  8. Saturday, April 12, 2025. Varsha Panjwani on The Politics of Orlando (1928)
  9. Saturday, May 10, 2025. Angela Harris on The Politics of Jacob’s Room (1922).
  10. Saturday, June 14, 2025. Claire Davison on Body Politics and Clothing in Three Guineas (1938)

Cost and deadlines

You can book all 10 sessions for the price of nine if you book by Saturday, Sept. 14, at 4 p.m. British Summer Time (just before the first lecture).

Get all the details and the link for booking.

 

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Woolf and Childhood @LitCamb summer course

Posted in Literature Cambridge, Virginia Woolf, Vita and Virginia, Woolf Courses, tagged , , , on Thursday 18 April 2024| 1 Comment »

Woolf and Childhood is the theme for Literature Cambridge’s 2024 summer course, which runs twice: once live online and once in person at Cambridge University.

The course will explore the theme of childhood in Woolf’s fiction, and her own experience of childhood. How do her memories of childhood inform her fiction; and how does she think about children and childhood in her novels? Participants will study one work per day:

  • A Sketch of the Past (1939)

    Godrevy Lighthouse, St. Ives, Cornwall

  • Jacob’s Room (1922)
  • To the Lighthouse (1927)
  • The Waves (1931)
  • The Years (1937)

Live online and in person

Live online: The live online course runs 8-12 July for five days of intensive lectures, tutorials, talks, and more.

In person: The in person course will take place 4-9 August, with five days’ intensive study in person in Cambridge. There will be lectures, tutorials, talks, plus visits to places of interest in Cambridge, such as the Wren Library at Trinity College. As a sidenote, Woolf’s brothers studied at Trinity and she visited the college many times as a teenager and young adult.

The in person course will include a special performance of the play Vita and Virginia, a talk and recital of the music Woolf loved as a child and young adult, and more.

Accommodation is booked separately from the course. Literature Cambridge has reserved rooms at Robinson College, next to Clare Hall, the teaching venue. Bookings for Robinson are open. See details on Terms and Conditions for the link to Robinson and the code you need to use.

Attendees can also book a hotel, Air BNB or other accommodation. Please note that accommodation fills very quickly in Cambridge; do book as early as you can.

The in person course is filling up, so those interested are urged to sign up soon.

For more information

Contact info@literaturecambridge.co.uk with any questions.

Wren Library at Trinity College

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Woolf and Freedom is focus of 4th Woolf season @LitCamb

Posted in events, Literature Cambridge, Woolf online, tagged , , , on Friday 5 January 2024| Leave a Comment »

Literature Cambridge’s fourth Woolf Season: Woolf and Freedom is in progress. It includes a live online lecture and seminar every month until June.

Times below are in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) through February and British Summer Time (BST) March through June. Course fees range from £27-£32. All prices include VAT at 20 percent.

At the 2019 Literature Cambridge course “Virginia Woolf and Gardens,” Kabe Wilson talked about his art project in which he cut out the words from Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” to create his novella’s 145 pages.

Remaining sessions

• Saturday 6 January, 6 p.m. Lecture 5. To the Lighthouse (1927), Art and the Freedom of Movement, with Kabe Wilson.

• Sunday 4 February, 6 p.m. Lecture 6. A Room of One’s Own (1929): Intelligence and Intellectual Freedom, with Natasha Periyan.

• Saturday 23 March, 6 p.m. Lecture 7. Shakespeare’s Sister and Creative Freedom in A Room of One’s Own (1929), with Varsha Panjwani.

• Saturday 6 April, 6 p.m. Lecture 8. Freedom of Thought in Woolf’s Essays, with Beth Rigel Daugherty.

• Saturday 4 May, 6 p.m. Lecture 9. Freedom of The Waves (1931), with Angela Harris.

• Saturday 8 June, 6 p.m. Lecture 10. ‘The Essence of Freedom’ in Three Guineas (1938), with Claire Davison.

Members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain may book any Woolf session at the student price.

King’s College, Cambridge

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Lit Cambridge podcast features Leonard Woolf’s legacies

Posted in Leonard Woolf, Literature Cambridge, podcast, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , on Friday 13 October 2023| 3 Comments »

From the Virginia Woolf Podcast comes a new broadcast. This one features a discussion between Marielle O’Neill and Prof. Peter Stansky regarding the many legacies of Leonard Woolf — notably his anti-imperialism, socialism, and work in international politics. Karina Jakubowicz conducts the interview.

Karina Jacubowicz

Listen to Leonard Woolf’s Legacies.

About the podcast

The 17 episodes currently available online and on the podcast app as “The Virginia Woolf Podcast” features Jakubowicz’s interviews with writer, artists, and academics whose work has been influenced by Woolf.

The podcast is made in association with Literature Cambridge, an independent educational organisation that provides university-style lectures on a wide range of literary subjects.

About the experts

Peter Stansky is emeritus professor of history at Stanford University and the author of Leonard Woolf, Bloomsbury Socialist. His most recent publication is The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War.

As a distinguished historian, he has judged the Pulitzer Prize, among other book awards. Stansky was a finalist for the National Book Awards in 1967, 1973, and 1981. He has also served as a member of the Executive Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has lectured in various parts of North America, Europe and Australia.

Marielle O’Neill is a PhD. candidate at Leeds Trinity University. Her research explores the political activism and partnership of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

She serves on the Executive Committee of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. She has been active in politics on both sides of the Atlantic, working on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC and in the Houses of Parliament, London.

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