Blogging Woolf

Woolf sessions at the MLA

Dates: Jan. 9-12, 2014
Location: Chicago, Ill.
MLA Convention 2014 website: http://www.mla.org/convention
Read more about Dining with Virginia at the MLA.

Hermione Lee – 15th Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture

Date: Saturday, Jan. 25, 2 p.m.
Location: Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London

Woolf’s “Orlando” on stage in Manchester Feb. 20-March 22

Texas exhibition inspired by Woolf essay

Dates: Through March 1
Location: The Reading Room is a project space located at 3715 Parry Ave., Dallas, Texas

Tour of Woolf’s garden part of Bath festival

Date: March 3

Orlando on stage in two locations

Orlando on Stage West in Texas

Dates: April 3 – May 4, 2014
Place: Stage West, 821 W. Vickery Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas

Sarah Ruhl’s stage version of Orlando, Woolf’s fantasy about a man who wakes up to find he has changed into a woman.

Virginia Woolf and Visual Culture

Date: April 5, 2014, 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Location: University of London

Hosted by Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, for the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.  The conference (all welcome) will follow the Virgina Woolf Society AGM (VWS of Great Britain Members only).

Leonard Woolf Society Meeting

Date: May 24, 2014
Location: University of Sussex .
More details TBA.

Adaptation of Woolf story on Brighton stage May 15

Charleston Festival, May 16-26

The festival includes:

• Restorations and Transformations at 1 p.m. on May 16, which discusses recent projects at Charleston to to restore and upgrade barns and hidden courtyards while maintaining the site’s history and special atmosphere.
• Eileen Atkins’ 25th anniversary performance of A Room of One’s Own at 7:30 p.m. on May 25.
• Odes to Virginia Woolf with novelists Alison Macleod, author of Unexploded,  and Maggie Gee, author of Virginia Woolf in Manhattan, at noon on May 26. They will discuss oblique and overt ways of referencing literary forebears with Frances Spalding, curator of the forthcoming Virginia Woolf Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Get the full schedule of events.

Bloomsbury Cookbook author gives talks in England

Dates: May 24 through Oct. 16, 2014
Locations: Various

24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Writing the World

Dates: June 5-8, 2014
Location: Loyola University’s Lakeshore Campus, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Co-sponsors: Northern Illinois University and Loyola University Chicago.
Organizers: Pamela L. Caughie, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and Diana L. Swanson, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and English at Northern Illinos University

Keynote Speakers:

• Tuzyline Jita Allan, professor in the English Department at Baruch College (CUNY)
• Mark Hussey,  professor of English at Pace University in New York City where he also is editorial chair for Pace University Press
• Maud Ellmann, Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago

Call for Papers: Proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and workshops on any aspect of the conference theme: the centenary of WWI; peace, justice, war, and violence; writing as world creation; Woolf as a world writer; the globalization of Woolf studies; or other topics of your choosing.

Proposal Dealine: Jan. 25, 2014

National Portrait Gallery to feature Woolf

Dates: July 10-Oct. 26, 2014

Woolf Society, NPG host one-day conference

Date: July 17

Woolf’s Between the Acts adapted for the stage

Dates: July 24- Aug. 2

Mrs. Dalloway on stage in Edinburgh

Dates: July 31 through Aug. 25

August Woolf seminar with Vara Neverow at SCSU

Dates: Aug. 4-7 and Aug. 11-15

Orlando coming to Akron for Gay Games

Dates: Aug. 7-16

Two performances of A Room of One’s Own at Ripon Festival

Date: Sept. 12

“Virginia” photo exhibit explores Woolf’s walk to River Ouse

Dates: Sept. 12-19

“Yes, Virginia Woolf, There is a Santa Claus“

Dates: Dec. 5-13
Location: Plano, Texas