Virginia Woolf and the Writing of History
Horaire : 09h00-18h30
Lieu : Maison de l'Université | Mont-Saint-Aignan
With the collaboration of the University of Picardie – Jules Verne and the Société d’Etudes Woolfiennes
Thursday, November 8th2018
09.00-09.45 – Conference opening
09.45-10.45 – Keynote Speaker: Seamus O’Malley (Yeshiva University, New York), Virginia Woolf and Populist History: The Rhythms of The People
10.45-11.00 – Coffee break
Plenary session Virginia Woolf and Past Historiographical Traditions
Chair: Jane de Gay
11.00-11.30 – Eleanor McNees (University of Denver), Fracturing History: Reconfiguring Genre in The Yearsand Between the Acts
11.30-12.00 – Marie Laniel (Université de Picardie), A “singular camera lucida”: Optics as Historiographical Paradigm from Thomas Carlyle to Virginia Woolf
12.00-12h30 – Anne Reus (Leeds Trinity University), Rewriting Literary History: Virginia Woolf and Mary Russell Mitford
12.30-14.00 – Lunch (Maison de l’Université)
Plenary session Feminist Revisions of History
Chair: Marie Laniel
14.00-14.30 – Anne Besnault (Université de Rouen Normandie), The Unrecorded and the Unthought in Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Literary History
14.30-15.00 – Helen Southworth (University of Oregon), Virginia Woolf’s “Lives of the Obscure” and the Writing of History
15.00-15.30 – Valérie Favre (Université Lumière Lyon 2), From Women’s History to Gender History? Re-Reading (Literary) History in A Room of One’s Own
15.30-16.00 – Coffee Break
Plenary session Archives and New Historiographies
Chair : Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio
16.00-16.30 – Adèle Cassigneul (Université Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès), Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House Albums, “life finally uncovered and clarified” (Proust)
16.30-17.00 – Kuo Chia-Chen (Tamkang University, Taiwan), Photography and Virginia Woolf’s Fictional Writing as Historical Testimony
17.00-17.30 – Holly Henry (California State University), Woolf Thinking through the Paleolithic Past
17.30-18.00 – Jane de Gay (Leeds Trinity University), The Past, the Present and the Lessons of History: Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Historiographical Method in Three Guineas
Conference Dinner
Friday, November 9th2018
Plenary session Belated Temporality
Chair: Anne Besnault
09.00-9.30 – Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio (Institut Catholique de Paris), The Shadow of History: Becoming Historical or Virginia Woolf’s Dreaming the Past Awake
09.30-10.00 – Olivier Hercend (Université Paris-Sorbonne), The Common Historian: On the Praxisof Reading the Past in Virginia Woolf’s The Common Reader
10.00-10.30 – Nell Wasserstrom (Boston College), “Surely it is time someone invented a new plot”: Performativity and Belatedness in Between the Acts
10.30-11.00 – Coffee Break
Plenary session Non-Human Historiography
Chair: Catherine Bernard
11.00-11.30 – Catherine Lanone (Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle), Challenging Cenotaphs: Woolf and the Theory of Absent Bodies
11.30-12.00 – Paromita Patranobish (University of Delhi), “Human history is defrauded of a moment’s vision”: Virginia Woolf’s Non-Human Historiography
12.00-12.30 – Thaine Stearns (Sonoma State University), “The house was empty”: Woolf’s Inanimate Histories
12.30-14.00 – Lunch (Maison de l’Université)
14.00-15.00 – Keynote Speaker: Prof. Anna Snaith (King’s College, London), Island Stories: Virginia Woolf and the Historiography of Empire
Plenary SessionModernist Times
Chair: Catherine Lanone
15.00-15.30 – Sam Waterman (University of Pennsylvania), “Suddenly there came a moment”: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Adventure-Time
15.30-16.00 – Iva Dimovska (Central European University, Budapest), Queering Woolf’s Modernist Times
Plenary SessionNarratives of History
Chair: Floriane Reviron
16.00-16.30 – Alexandra Nica (Trinity College Dublin), Fact in Fiction: Virginia Woolf’s Approach to Constructing a Historical Narrative in The Pargiters, a Novel-Essay
16.30-17.00 – Laurelyne Ramboz (Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle), Songs from the Past: The Role of Antiquity in Virginia Woolf’s Late Vision of History
17.00-17.30 – Coffee break
17.30-18.30 – Keynote Speaker: Prof. Catherine Bernard (Université Paris Diderot), “The imagination is largely the child of the flesh”: Virginia Woolf’s Embodied Historicity
Scientific Committee
- Prof. Michael Bentley, University of St Andrews
- Dr. Anne Besnault-Levita, Rouen Normandy University
- Prof. Catherine Bernard, Paris Diderot University
- Dr. Nicolas Boileau, University of Aix-Marseille
- Prof. Melba Cuddy-Keane, University of Toronto
- Prof. Claire Davison, University of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Dr. Anne-Marie Di Biasio, Institut Catholique de Paris
- Prof. Camille Fort, University of Picardie
- Prof. Trevor Harris, University of Picardie
- Dr. Marie Laniel, University of Picardie
- Prof. Scott McCracken, Queen Mary, University of London
- Dr. Caroline Pollentier, University of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Dr. Floriane Reviron-Piégay, University of St Etienne
- Dr. Angeliki Spiropoulou, University of the Peloponnese
