Woolf events

International Virginia Woolf Society Events

19th Annual International Conference
on Virginia Woolf

June 4-7, 2009
Fordham University, New York, N. Y., U.S.A.

Theme: To be announced

For more information, contact:
Anne E. Fernald
Director of Writing/Composition at Lincoln Center,
Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies 
Fordham University
113 W 60th St.
New York NY 10023
212/636-7613
fernald@fordham.edu

 

Host a conference

Interested in organizing a future annual Woolf conference on your campus? Contact Professor Mark Hussey at mhussey@pace.edu for details.

Other U.S. Events

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
Feb. 21-23, 2008
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
Get more details.

The International Virginia Woolf Society sponsors a Woolf panel at the conference. Get details about the IVWS call for papers for this panel.

Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain Events

• Tenth Annual General Meeting
  Saturday 5 April 2008, 2:15 p.m., Room 405, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1. Following the Annual General Meeting, David Taylor will give a talk entitled “Mrs Dalloway goes to the Lighthouse? The Lushingtons and the Stephens from a Newly Discovered Archive.”
• Professor Julia Briggs: 2001 Birthday Lecture
  The Executive Council of the VWSGB has decided to show a recording of the 2001 Birthday Lecture as a tribute to Julia Briggs, Woolf scholar, writer and member of the VWSGB Executive Council, who died on 16 August 2007. Her sister, Anthea Ballam, has kindly agreed to give a short introduction. The event will take place on Saturday 31 May 2008 at 2.30 p.m., in Room 541 (Torrington Sq entrance), Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London. Tickets are free but limited to 48. If you wish to attend please e-mail Wendy Grierson.
• Summer Study Day
  The Waves, led by Marion Dell, 10 a.m.-4.30 p.m., Saturday 5 July 2008, Pitman Room, Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London WC1, £27. Edition to be used: Oxford World’s Classics, ed. Gillian Beer (ISBN 978 0 19 283812 4), £5.99.
• “In the Footsteps of Virginia Woolf”
  Trip to Paris, Thursday 4 September -Sunday 7 September 2008, organised by Michael Barker for a group of 10-20 Virginia Woolf Society members. Cost: £399 (single-room supplement £45) to include: three nights b & b in a *** hotel near the Gare du Nord; lunch on arrival; three dinners; local travel; certain museum entries; but excluding travel to Paris. Outward Eurostar from St Pancras departs at 08.32, arriving at Paris at 11.47 (local time) where the group will be met and escorted to the hotel a few minutes’ walk away. Closing date for booking: 16 March 2008; send cheque for deposit of £100 (made payable to ‘Michael Barker’) to: Michael Barker michaelbarker@wanadoo.fr, 12 rue Clairaut, 75017 Paris, France.
• Virginia Woolf Society Reading Group
  meets every two months or so, on a Saturday afternoon at Jacques café in the Tavistock Hotel in Bloomsbury. For the next meeting, on 16 February 2008 and on this occasion to be held in Guildford, please contact Sarah M. Hall.

Get information about joining The Virginia Woolf Society  of Great Britain.

Other UK Events

“Bloomsbury Below Stairs: Grace Higgens at Charleston”
Letters, diaries, photo albums, film footage and more, documenting the life and times of a Bloomsbury housemaid. The British Library, Euston Road, NW1. Phone: 020-7412 7332. Until 20 April 2008. Free.

“Virginia and Vita in a Summer Garden”
This performance by Orpheon Voices links passages from To the Lighthouse and The Garden. It will be held 8 June 2008, 6.30 p.m., Fitzroy Square garden, London W1T 6ER — enquiries to info@orpheonvoices.co.uk — and 14 June 2008, 7 p.m., The Barn Theatre, Smallhythe Place, nr Tenterden, Kent TN30 7NG — enquiries to: 01580 762334 or smallhytheplace@nationaltrust.org.uk.   

Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex, England

• In the Steps of Virginia Woolf from Monk’s House to Charleston
  June 8, 2008
  10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
  Tickets are £16 and include lunch and a guided walk.
  This walk will follow the eight-mile route that Virginia Woolf often took to visit her sister, Vanessa Bell, at Charleston. Starting from the National Trust car park next to Monk’s House in Rodmell, it will follow the river Ouse, climb up to the South Downs Way and then down to Firle. After lunch at Firle Place, the route will cross Firle Park to reach Charleston in the early afternoon.
• Charleston Summer School
  June 19-23, 2008
  For information, contact:
  The Charleston Trust, Charleston, Lewes BN8 6LL
  Fax: 01323 811628
  E-mail: c.baron@charleston.org.uk 
• Quentin Follies
  Saturday, July 5
• Family Day at Charleston: Paper Flower Family Workshop
  Saturday, July 14, 2008, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  £3
• Children’s Summer Workshops
  Wednesdays in August: Aug. 8, 15, 22, 29. 10 a.m. -12:30 p.m. and 1:30-4 p.m.
  £6

For details of other events at Charleston Farmhouse, click here.

Knole House, Sevenoaks, Kent, England

For details of events at Knole House, click here.

Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Cranbrook, Kent, England

For details of events at Sissinghurst Castle Garden, click here.

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Past events

• 18th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
  June 19–22, 2008
  University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
  Theme: Woolf Editing/Editing Woolf
• Modernist Studies Association Conference
  Nov. 1-4, 2007
  The Westin, Long Beach, Calif.
  Theme: Geographies of Literary & Visual Cultures 
  The conference included a panel on “Virginia Woolf as Poetry Editor of the Hogarth Press,” chaired by Bonnie Kime Scott of San Diego State University. Download the full conference schedule.
• The New Farnham Reportory Actors’ Company reading of Virginia Woolf’s only play Freshwater
  Oct 4 through Oct. 6, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
  Watts Gallery, Down Lane,  Compton in Surrey, England
  The comedy in three acts was read in the midst of an exhibit of photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron of Tennyson, Watts, Ellen Terry and others.
• 17th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
  June 7-10, 2007
  Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A.
  Theme: Art, Education, and Internationalism
• 16th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
  June 22-25, 2006
  Crowne Plaza Hotel, Birmingham, England
  Theme: Woolfian Boundaries
• 15th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
  June 9-12, 2005
  Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
  Theme: The Art of Exploration
• 14th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
  June 23-26, 2004
  University of London, London, England
  Theme: Back to Bloomsbury
• 13th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
  June 5-8, 2003
  Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Theme: Woolf in the Real World