Conference Schedule
Welcome to the 23rd Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader, conference schedule. The schedule is "preliminary" until two weeks before the conference in order to allow for any last minute changes, such as emergency cancellations, offers to chair a session, and/or possible changes to conference room locations at the Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites in Vancouver, British Colombia.
Thursday, June 6th
Session I: 9:00–10:30 A.M.
Picturing Empire: Display, Exhibition, and Nationhood
Denman Ballroom
Chair: Alessandra Capperdoni, Simon Fraser University
“Degrees of Separation and the Matter of Abstraction – Pictures from an Exhibition”
- Suzanne Bellamy, University of Sydney
“‘A troop of naked natives whirled darts in the air’: Woolf, Empire, and Display”
- Lois J. Gilmore, Bucks County Community College
“Bought for the Nation: Woolf’s Literary House Museums”
- Ruth Hoberman, Eastern Illinois University
Influencing Woolf/Woolfian Influences
Barclay Room
Chair: Beth Rigel Daugherty, Otterbein University
“Plot and Counterplot: Hope Mirrlees and Virginia Woolf”
- Sandeep Parmar, University of Liverpool
“Virginia Woolf and the Newly Enfranchised Reader, or A Short History of Woolf’s Literary Work as Reviewed in Time and Tide (1922-1941)”
- Aurelea Mahood, Capilano University
“Proportion, Conversion, Transition: War Trauma and Sites of Healing in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony”
- Kristin Czarnecki, Georgetown College
Empire at Home and Away
Gilford Room
Chair: Lolly J. Ockerstrom, Park University
“Virginia Woolf, the Home and the World”
- Alexandra Peat, Franklin College, Switzerland
“Networks of Empire: Virginia Woolf, Humour, and the Travel Writing of Emily Eden”
- Jeanne Dubino, Appalachian State University
“‘I wanted to dethrone her from the perch of the goddess’: Mulk Raj Anand's Virginia Woolf in Conversations in Bloomsbury”
- Rebecah Pulsifer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Refreshment Break: 10:30–11:00 A.M.
Plenary I: 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M.
“Education and Empire in Victorian Bloomsbury”
Denman Ballroom
Introduction: Jane de Gay, Leeds Trinity University
- Rosemary Ashton, Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London
Lunch: 12:00–2:00 P.M.
IVWS Business Lunch (all welcome; please bring your own lunch)
Barclay Room
Session II: 2:00–3:30 P.M.
Writing In/Against Notions of a Commonwealth
Denman Ballroom
Introduction: Helen Wussow, Simon Fraser University
Moderator:
- Renee Sarojini Saklikar, author, thecanadaproject, a life-poem chronicle
- Jordan Abel, author, The Place of Scraps
- Fiona Tinwei Lam, author, Intimate Distances, Enter the Chrysanthemum, Double Lives
- Cecily Nicholson, author, Triage
Sponsor: Simon Fraser University Department of English
The Common Man, Capitalism, and the Commonwealth
Barclay Room
Chair: Alice Keane, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“‘A Fair Prospect of Doing Well in Canada’: Virginia Woolf’s Writing as General Economy”
- Alessandra Capperdoni, Simon Fraser University
“Exceptional Modernism: Virginia Woolf and the Power of Exclusion in Three Guineas”
- Martin Winquist, University of Saskatchewan
“The Lanchester’s Fluid Fly Wheel: Virginia Woolf and British Car Culture”
- Ann Martin, University of Saskatchewan
The Dominance of Carnivores: Will the Real Animal Stand Up
Gilford Room
Chair: Katherine Thorsteinson, University of Manitoba
“From Rhoda’s ‘Joint of Meat’ to ChickieNobs: Eating Animals and Becoming Meat in the Fiction of Woolf and Atwood”
- Vicki Tromanhauser, State University of New York, New Paltz
“‘Gentles and Simples, I Address You All’: Elizabeth Costello as the Miss La Trobe of the Commonwealth”
- Heather Levy, Western Connecticut State University
Refreshment Break: 3:30–4:00 P.M.
Plenary Session II: 4:00–5:30 P.M.
Denman Ballroom
Welcome
- Andrew Petter, President, Simon Fraser University
“On a View from the Rims: Katherine Mansfield and Emily Carr”
Introduction: Kathryn Simpson, University of Birmingham
- Mary Ann Gillies, Professor, Department of English, Simon Fraser University
Sponsor: Simon Fraser University Department of English
Welcoming Reception: 6:30–7:45 P.M.
Evergreen and City View Room at the Top: Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres
Welcome
- Jonathan Driver, Vice President, Academic and Professor of Archeology, Simon Fraser University
Sponsor: Simon Fraser University, Vice President, Academic Conference Fund
Plenary III: 8:15–9:30 P.M.
Introduction: Katherine McManus, Simon Fraser University
Poets Reading In/Against the Commonwealth
Denman Ballroom
- Renee Sarojini Saklikar, author, thecanadaproject, a life-poem chronicle
- Jordan Abel, author, The Place of Scraps
- Fiona Tinwei Lam, author, Intimate Distances, Enter the Chrysanthemum, Double Lives
- Cecily Nicholson, author, Triage
Sponsor: Simon Fraser University Department of English