Conference Schedule
Friday, June 7th
Session III: 9:00–10:30 A.M.
“Modernism Archive Publishing Project (MAPP): The Hogarth Press: A Roundtable”
Denman Ballroom
Chair: Elizabeth F. Evans, University of Notre Dame
- Claire Battershill, Ontario College of Art and Design
- Elizabeth Wilson Gordon, King’s University
- Helen Southworth, University of Oregon
- Alice Staveley, Stanford University
- Nicola Wilson, University of Reading
Ecofeminism, Gardens, and Pageantry
Gilford Room
Chair: Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky University
“Homosexuality, Englishness, and Empire in the Gardens of Woolf, Forster, and Sackville-West”
- Diana L. Swanson, Northern Illinois University
“From Dresses to Insects: The Function of Imagery in Woolf’s 'The New Dress’ and Doris Lessing’s Alfred and Emily”
- Christine W. Sizemore, Spelman College
“‘Drawn from Our Island History’: Virginia Woolf, Nancy Mitford, and the Politics of Pageantry”
- Erica Gene Delsandro, Bloomsburg University
Outsiders and Occupiers Unite!
Beach Room
Chair: Amy C. Smith, Lamar University
“Woolf’s Outlaw Knowledge of the Recumbent: Illness as a Site of Modernist Aesthetics and Ethics”
- Cheryl Hindrichs, Boise State University
“‘There are no foreigners’: The Virtual Commonwealth in Three Guineas”
- Audrey D. Johnson, University of North Dakota
Refreshment Break: 10:30–11:00 A.M.
Plenary IV: 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M.
“War, Peace, Internationalism: The Legacy of Bloomsbury”
Denman Ballroom
Introduction: J.H. Stape, Simon Fraser University
- Christine Froula, Professor, English, Comparative Literary Studies, and Gender Studies, Northwestern University
Sponsor: Simon Fraser University Department of English
Lunch: 12:00–1:00 P.M.
Session IV: 1:00–2:30 P.M.
The Stephen Legacy: From Empire to Commonwealth
Denman Ballroom
Chair: Karen Levenback, Franciscan Monastery
“Of Scrapbooks, War, and Newspapers: Leslie Stephen’s Legacy”
- Beth Rigel Daugherty, Otterbein College
“James Stephen’s Anti-Slavery Politics: A Woolfian Inheritance”
- Jane de Gay, Leeds Trinity University
“Leslie Stephen’s Science of (Ecological) Ethics”
- Catherine W. Hollis, University of California, Berkeley
“The Indian Shadow: Woolf's Imperialist Legacy”
- Eleanor McNees, University of Denver
Antipodean Woolf
Barclay Room
Chair: Jane Stafford, Victoria University Wellington
“Wealth in Common: Gifts Economies in Woolf and Mansfield”
- Kathryn Simpson, University of Birmingham
“From Bloomsbury to Fountain Lakes: An Australian Virginia Woolf”
- Melinda Smith, University of Hawaii at Manoa
“Trauma and Landscape in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and Gail Jones’ Sorry”
- Nancy Paxton, Northern Arizona University
Leonard Woolf and Imperialism
Gilford Room
Chair: Brenda Silver, Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor, Emerita, Dartmouth College
“Virginia Woolf’s Research for Empire and Commerce in Africa (Leonard Woolf, 1920)”
- Michele Barrett, Queen Mary’s College, University of London
“Leonard Woolf’s Diaries in Ceylon and The Village in the Jungle: Modeling an 'Old Bloomsbury Critique of Economic Imperialism”
- Alice Keane, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Leonard Woolf and the Ceylon Civil Service: ‘I had come to dislike imperialism’”
- Lolly J. Ockerstrom, Park University
Avoiding the Foreign: Woolf and Race
Beach Room
Chair: Kathy Mezei, Simon Fraser University
“Woolf’s Troubled and Troubling Relationship to Race: The Long Reach of the White Arm of Imperialism”
- Lisa L. Coleman, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
“‘A model dairy’: Maternity, Englishness, and Racial Eugenics in To the Lighthouse”
- Matt Franks, University of California, Davis
“Virginia, Lydia, and Foreignness”
- Evan Zimroth, Queens College, The City University of New York
Refreshment Break: 2:30–3:00 P.M.
Plenary V: 3:00–4:00 P.M.
Thursdays Writing Collective: “Word Squatting Virginia Woolf”
Denman Ballroom
Thursdays Writing Collective is a non-profit organization that runs free, drop-in creative writing classes at Carnegie Community Centre for members of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, an area challenged by poverty-related issues and beloved by residents for its optimism, activism and creativity. Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Director, along with members of the Collective, will speak to their ongoing “word squatting” project. For the conference, the Collective will “word squat” Virginia Woolf.
Sponsor: Simon Fraser University Lifelong Learning
Bill Reid Gallery, Reception and Lecture: 5:00–7:00 P.M.
The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art opened in May 2008 in downtown Vancouver. This public art gallery is named after Bill Reid (1920 – 1998), the acclaimed Haida master goldsmith, carver, sculptor, writer, spokesman and one of Canada’s greatest artists. The Gallery is devoted to understanding and appreciating contemporary Aboriginal art of the Northwest Coast. The museum is located at 639 Hornby Street. Mike Robinson, CEO of the Bill Reid Trust and Executive Director of the Bill Reid Gallery will present an overview of Northwest Coast art. Light refreshments based on Aboriginal cuisine will be served and conference attendees will have an opportunity to visit the galleries.