The 100th episode of BBC Sounds features Greg Jenner 
The 61-minute episode, “The Bloomsbury Group,” explores the lives, loves and cultural impact of Bloomsbury Group members, including Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes. It was released today.
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Katherine Mansfield
The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain will hold its Annual Birthday Lecture 2024 at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27. Dr. Gerri Kimber will give the lecture, “Endgame: The Untidy Deaths of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf.”
Who: Kimber is a visiting professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, as well as former chair of the International Katherine Mansfield Society. She is currently writing a biography of Mansfield.
What: The lecture will be followed by a birthday cake and wine reception. Attendees will receive a printed copy of the lecture.
Where: The lecture will be given in Lecture Theatre MAL 532 on the fifth floor of Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 7JL.
Cost: £30 for members of the Society and £35 for non-members; priority booking for members runs from the date of this email to the end of October.
Booking: Email eventsvwsgb@gmail.com for further details and to book.
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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.
• 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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Thousands of works, including Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, published in 1928, entered the
Other Woolf works in the public domain include To the Lighthouse (1927), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Jacob’s Room (1922), Night and Day (1919), and The Voyage Out (1915).
In the U.S., any work published before 1923 is in the public domain. Works published between 1923 and 1977 generally receive copyright protection for 95 years from the date of their publication. In 2012, writers who died before 1942 entered the pubic domain.
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The website for the 33rd Annual International Conference on Virignia Woolf: Woolf, Modernity, Technology is now live.
Jean Moorcroft Wilson was also a featured speaker at the 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held in June 2023, at Florida Gulf Coast University.
On this website, you can find the call for papers, submission information, and details about the conference, which will take place at California State University, Fresno, between June 6-9, 2024.
Pre-and post-conference excursions are to Yosemite National Park on June 5 and to Sequoia/Kings Canyon on June 9. Panels are in person; plenary events will be streamed online for a registration fee.
The conference will feature plenary speakers Jane Goldman, Vara Neverow, Emilia Raczowska, Paul Saint-Amour, Sonita Sarker, Drew Shannon, and Jean Moorfcroft Wilson, and artists and poets Ane Thon Knutsen, Brynn Saito, and Mai Der Vang. Get more details.
Submissions are open for paper, panel, workshop, and exhibition proposals. The deadline to submit proposals is Jan. 15, 2024.
Dr. J. Ashley Foster is the conference organizer. Please email woolf2024@mail.fresnostate.edu with any questions.
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