Conference Agenda and Streaming Links
Thursday, June 9
Links to sessions are embedded in their headings.
10:30am-12:00pm: Session A
A-S1. Knowing and Not Knowing
Chair: Amy Smith
Chat Moderator: James Bowen
Madelyn Detloff (Miami University, U.S.), “On Not Knowing Everything: Epistemic Humility as Ethical Action in Woolf’s Critical Writing”
Michael Hart (Lane College, U.S), “‘That Detestable Place’: Virginia Woolf, Cambridge, and the Ethics of Education”
Heather Milligan (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK), “‘Nothing is proved, nothing is known’: The Ethics of Virginia Woolf’s Scepticism”
A-S2. Literary Afterlife: Memorials and Relics
Chair: Vicki Tromanhauser
Chat Moderator: Reilly Smith
Jane de Gay (Leeds Trinity University, England, UK), “Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of the Afterlife”
Emily Kopley (McGill University, Canada), “Leslie Stephen’s ‘Wordsworth’s Ethics,’ Virginia Stephen’s 1902 Edition of Wordsworth, and Vanessa Bell’s Cover for To the Lighthouse”
Stella Deen (State University of New York at New Paltz, U.S.), “Reading to Rescue Forgotten Lives”
A-S3. Woolf and Her Philosophical Contemporaries
Chair: Jeanette McVicker
Chat Moderator: Victoria Juarez
Veronika Krajíčková (University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic), “Virginia Woolf’s Beauty-Oriented Ethics and Ecology”
Mary C. Brunelli (The City University of New York, U.S.), “Penumbral Passages and the Pattern Behind the Cotton Wool: A comparative analysis of ‘The Sun and the Fish’ by Virginia Woolf and ‘The Stream of Thought’ by William James”
Marieke Krynauw (University of Pretoria, South Africa), “Compositions of Aesthetics and Intimacy in To the Lighthouse”
A-S4. Things, Objects, Forms
Chair: Peter Adkins
Chat Moderator: Sharon Joffe
Alyson Cook (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), “ReDefining the Object: Vital Matter and Woolf’s Critique of War in ‘The Mark on the Wall’”
Leanna Lostoski-Ho (University of New Hampshire, U.S.), “Pointz Hall as Hyperobject: Woolf’s Deep Geological History in Between the Acts”
Mary Wang (National Normal Taiwan University, Taiwan), “‘He Was of the Rare Order of Objects’: Woolf’s Ethical Form and Ethical Affinity in Flush”12:00pm-1:00pm: Long break (IVWS Business Meeting)
1:00pm-2:30pm: Plenary I: “Virginia Woolf's Reparative Ethics”
Elsa Högberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
2:30pm-3:00pm: Short break
Madelyn Detloff, Chair
Woolf's Legacies: Women's Rights & Activism
A Conversation with Anna Rupani & Nneka Iheanacho
3:00pm-4:30pm: Session B
B-S1. Ethical Quests & Contexts: Leslie Stephen, Woolf’s “A Society” & The Search Society
Chair: Jeanne Dubino
Chat Moderator: Vara Neverow
Leslie Kathleen Hankins (Cornell College, U.S.), “Contempt & Appropriation? or Ethical Comedy & Activist Aesthetics? A Centenary Edition of Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Society’”
Diane Gillespie (Washington State University, U.S.), “Virginia Woolf's 'A Society,' the Search Society's The Search, and the pursuit of 'Good' and 'True'”
Eleanor McNees (University of Denver, U.S.), “Ethics and the Essayist: Leslie Stephen and Virginia Woolf”
B-S2. Women and Power
Chair: Eret Talviste
Chat Moderator: Amy Smith
Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), “Woolf’s Society Women: The Ethics of Use(fulness)”
Kai Hinson (Lamar University, U.S.), “The Goddess of Empire: Lady Bruton as an Athena Figure in Mrs. Dalloway”
Marlene Briggs (University of British Columbia, Canada), “The Way Forward? (Trans)historical Fascism, Global Heating, and the Feminist Ethics of Indifference in Three Guineas (1938) and Our House is on Fire (2020)”
B-S3. Publishing a Scholarly Book: A Roundtable
Chair: Benjamin Hagen
Chat Moderator: Reilly Smith
James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Stephanye Hunter, University Press of Florida
Ana Maria Jimenez-Moreno, The Ohio State University Press
John Morgenstern, Clemson University Press
B-S4. Leonard Woolf: The Man, the Feminist, the Socialist
Chair: Jane de Gay
Chat Moderator: Mark Hussey
Peter Stansky (Stanford University, U.S.), “Is Leonard Woolf Under-valued?”
Marielle O’Neill (Leeds Trinity University, England, UK), “From the Parlour to Parliament: Margaret Llewelyn Davies, Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Women’s Co-operative Guild”
Anne Byrne (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland), “The pleasure of letters: the correspondence of Leonard Woolf and Nancy Nolan”
4:30pm-5:00pm: Short break
5:00pm-6:30pm: Session C
C-S1. Coming Together, Coming Apart
Chair: Laci Mattison
Chat Moderator: Paola Brinkley
Thomas Jurkiewicz (University of Sydney, Australia), “The Hermeneutic Ethics of Narrative Voice in To the Lighthouse”
Laura Tscherry (Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.), “Kaleidoscopic Space: Jacob’s Room and The Waves”
Whitney Gaskell (Florida Gulf Coast University, U.S.), “Louis’s and Rhoda’s Escapist Masturbation in The Waves”
C-S2. Writing Ethically / Ethical Writing
Chair: Claire Battershill
Chat Moderator: Casey Ford
Julia Dallaway (Oxford University, England, UK), “‘Floating Incidents’: The Ethics of Essayistic Life-Writing in Woolf’s ‘A Sketch of the Past’”
Elizabeth Mackinlay (Southern Cross University, Australia) & Karen Madden (University of Queensland, Australia), “‘Could she see her?’ Writing ethically as feminist autoethnographers with Virginia Woolf”
Pamela L. Caughie (Loyola University Chicago, U.S.), “Woolf’s Ethical Prose”
C-S3. The Ethics of Life Writing
Chair: Laura Cernat
Chat Moderator: Maria Rita Drummond Viana
Chunhui Lu (University of New South Wales, Australia), “Orlando, and Intimacy, and the ‘Cruelty Optimism’ of Life Writing”
Todd Avery (University of Massachusetts Lowell, U.S.), “‘Biofiction, the New Biography, and the Ethics of the Fact’”
Andy Koenig (Harvard University, U.S.), “‘Virginia Woolf and the Fraught Ethics of Biography’”
C-S4. Negotiating Class, Crafting Intimacies
Chair: Diana Royer
Chat Moderator: Sharon Joffe
Tomo Nakadoi (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Japan), “Enfolding Metaphors in To the Lighthouse”
Jeanne Dubino (Appalachian State University, U.S.), “‘Unkempt, Uncollared, and Living in a Gutter: The Street Dogs in Flush’”
Aili Pettersson Peeker (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.), “Crosby, Sands, and McNab: Woolf Writing Working Women”