Contradictory Woolf
The Twenty-First Annual Virginia Woolf Conference
June 9-12, 2011
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow, Scotland, UK

This conference will explore Virginia Woolf and her writings in terms of communities. Presentations may focus on any one or several of Woolf's texts or on the cultural/textual contexts before, coterminous, or after Woolf's writing. Presentations may take any perspective as long as they address, in some way, the issue of community.

The definition of community is deliberately left general. Presentations may address communities of which Virginia Woolf was a part--for example, Female Modernists, the Memoir Group, the Bloomsbury community, the feminist community, communities of artists, communities formed by letter writing, the lesbian community, the British community, the pacifist community--or not a part--for example, the Apostles, the working class. Presenters may analyze communities that Woolf describes in her writings--for example, the community of the "outsider," of the woman writer, of the village pageant, of the Dalloway's party, of The Voyage Out travellers, of Orlando's biographer. Focuses may be on textual communities outside
the spheres in which Woolf is generally explored--for example, the Harlem Renaissance or Socialism--making connections and/or distinctions. Community may be interpreted as national, geographical, pedagogical, sexual, gendered, ideological, economic, racial, cultural, psychoanalytical, colonial, post-colonial. Community need not be restricted to Woolf's own era; a presentation of future, current, or past communities in terms of Woolf would be appropriate--for example, evaluating current communities of critics (Woolf and autobiography studies, Woolf and lesbians).

Proposals for individual papers, films or alternative types of presentations, performances, readings, and multi-media presentations are welcomed, as are proposals for three- or four-person panels, workshops, round tables, and conversations. Independent scholars are encouraged to submit proposals.

Proposals must include: one cover page, with name(s) and address(es), institutional affiliations (if any), phone numbers, title of individual paper(s), or panel, and format; and 15 copies of a one-page, 250-word abstract for an individual paper or for each presentation in a panel--include title of paper(s) or panel on the abstract, but NOT names. Conference sessions will be 90 minutes.

Deadline: February 1, 1998 postmark

Mail proposals to: Georgia Johnston, Women's Studies Program, Saint Louis University, 221 North Grand Ave., St. Louis, MO 63103. 

Queries? Email: johnstgk@slu.edu or call 314-977-3003. 

Selected conference papers will be published. 

For registration materials and complete information Email: JeanneD@psc.plymouth.edu
or call 603-535-2682 or write:

Jeanne Dubino
Department of English
Plymouth State College
Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264 

Note: Pre-Conference Event - A Gathering and Workshop on Virginia Woolf and Lesbian Vision - to take place Wednesday, June 11, 1997, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., in Boston, Massachusetts.

Program

8:30-9:00 Refreshments
9:00 Welcome
9:30-11:30 Reading Virginia Woolf as a Lesbian
Panel presentation (20 minutes)
Breakout Discussion Session and Group Reports
11:30-1:30 Luncheon break
1:30-3:00 Surviving Trauma: Moving Toward Lesbian Strength
Panel presentation (20 minutes)
Breakout Discussion Session and Group Reports
3:00-3:30 Refreshments
3:30-5:00 Virginia Woolf and Radical Lesbian Feminism
Panel presentation (20 minutes)
Breakout Discussion Session and Group Reports
5:00 Afternoon Tea

Facilitators: Krystyna Colburn, Patricia Cramer, Vara Neverow

R.S.V.P. by April 18 to Krystyna Colburn, P.O. Box 454, Cambridge, MA 02140
or to Vara Neverow at neverow@scsu.ctstateu.edu