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The reception of A Room of One’s Own in Egypt will be the topic for the fourth session of the A Room of One’s Own Around the Globe seminar on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 6 p.m. (CET) on Zoom, in English.

Who: Hala Kamal of the University of Cairo
What: Presented in English, this fourth session of the “A Room of One’s Own Around the Globe” seminar will discuss the reception of Woolf’s 1929 polemic in Egypt.
When:  6 p.m. CTE, noon. EST. Check your time zone.
Where: On Zoom.
Cost: Free and open to all.
How: Log in at this Zoom linkID meeting: 94948594890. Password: 244826

Get more details about the presenters and the project.

About the project

The A Room of One’s Own: Echos and circulation research project offers to take up Virginia Woolf’s landmark essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) and explore its full potential. One question it attempts to answer is what echo chambers has A Room of One’s Own opened up nearly a century after its publication?

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

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The third session of the “A Room of One’s Own in Europe” seminar will be held Thursday, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m. (CET), noon (EST) on Zoom, in English.

Presenters include:

  • Elisa Bolchi (Associate professor in English, University of Ferrara) and
  • Serena Ballista (writer and feminist activist)

They will track the reception of A Room of One’s Own, Woolf’s 1929 essay, in Italy.

How to join the seminar

Log into Zoom and use this link.
ID meeting: 927 8578 7802
Password: 874161

About the Room project

The project offers to take up Virginia Woolf’s landmark essay A Room of One’s Own and explore its full potential. Nearly a century after its publication, what echo chambers has A Room of One’s Own opened up?

More information on this year’s seminar and the research program can be found online.

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It’s a new year and another work by Virginia Woolf has entered the public domain in the United States. Woolf’s feminist polemic, A Room of One’s Own, which was published in 1929, is now added to the list of Woolf works that are out of copyright.

Besides A Room of One’s Own, the list includes:

In the U.S., any work published before 1924 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.

According to U.S. copyright law, these works are available for people to use, share and adapt after 95 years, when their copyrights expired.

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The first session of the “A Room of One’s Own in Europe” seminar will take place on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 6 p.m. (CET) on Zoom and will track the reception of Woolf’s 1929 essay in Spain. (CET time is six hours ahead of EST time.)

Professor Laura M. Lojo Rodriguez, professor of English studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and Celia Recarey Rendo, freelance translator & editor, will lead the session.

To receive the zoom invitation please contact them at woolfianroom@gmail.com

About the project

The Room Project, which is in its second season, is a research project that takes up Virginia Woolf’s landmark essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) and explores its full potential. Nearly a century after its publication, it asks the question: What echo chambers has A Room of One’s Own opened up?

The full schedule from now through 2025 is below.

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Elif Shafak gave the annual “Room of One’s Own” lecture at this year’s spring Cambridge Literary Festival on the topic of  “Virginia Woolf’s Politics of Peace.”

The lecture, the festival’s second, provides an opportunity for England’s foremost women writers to contemplate how far we have come since Virginia Woolf said “lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

Shafak is a writer, public speaker, political scientist and activist. is an advocate for women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of expression. Her work includes the novels Three Daughters of Eve (2016) and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019).

You can watch the full version of her lecture in the festival’s CLF Player. It was filmed in April 2024 at the festival.

You can also read her lecture, titled “Virginia Woolf’s Politics of Peace,” in The New Statesman.

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