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<div>Regarding the CFPs for the 23rd Annual Virginia Woolf Conference…</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Virginia Woolf <<a href="mailto:virginia-woolf@sfu.ca">virginia-woolf@sfu.ca</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, January 18, 2013 12:06 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:virginia-woolf@sfu.ca">virginia-woolf@sfu.ca</a>" <<a href="mailto:virginia-woolf@sfu.ca">virginia-woolf@sfu.ca</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>23rd Annual Virginia Woolf Conference<br>
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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This is a friendly reminder that the due date for proposal submissions is <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT852_com_zimbra_date">
<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT853_com_zimbra_date">FEBRUARY 1, 2013</span></span>. The call for submissions, submission guidelines, hotel information, information about traveling to Vancouver, and a description of a post-conference tour are now all
available at the conference website:<br>
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<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT854_com_zimbra_url"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfu.ca/woolf">http://www.sfu.ca/woolf</a></span><br>
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I would greatly appreciate it if you would share this information with interested colleagues. The registration page and biographies of keynote speakers will be on the website soon, but I am privileged to announce that the following individuals have agreed
to provide plenary addresses:<br>
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Dr. Rosemary Ashton, Quain Emeritus Profesor and Honorary Fellow, University College, London<br>
Dr. Paul Delany, Professor Emeritus, English, Simon Fraser University<br>
Dr. Christine Froula, Professor, English, Comparative Literature Studies, and Gender Studies, Northwestern University<br>
Dr. Mary Ann Gillies, Professor, English, Simon Fraser University<br>
Dr. Sonita Sarker, Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English, Macalester College<br>
Dr. Jane Stafford, Associate Professor, School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington<br>
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Furthermore, on Friday, <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT855_com_zimbra_date">
<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT857_com_zimbra_date">June 7, 2013</span></span>, conference registrants will have the opportunity to visit the Bill Reid Gallery in downtown Vancouver and have hors d'oeuvres based on Pacific Northwest aboriginal cuisine.
Mike Robinson, the Gallery's Executive Director, will provide an introductory lecture to Pacific Northwest aboriginal art and the work of Bill Reid, a master artist of Haida heritage. For more information about the Gallery, please see
<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT856_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT858_com_zimbra_url"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.billreidgallery.ca/">http://www.billreidgallery.ca/</a></span></span><br>
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Thank you for your interest in the 23rd Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, "Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader," to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT859_com_zimbra_date"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT860_com_zimbra_date">June 6</span></span>-9, 2013 and sponsored by Simon Fraser University.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Helen Wussow<br>
Associate Professor, English<br>
Dean, Lifelong Learning<br>
Simon Fraser University<br>
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