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</font><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3" face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif">Leonard Woolf Society
Symposium</font></font></font></strong>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="center"><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><b>A Retrospective of the Life and Work of Leonard Woolf</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" lang="en-US" align="center"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3">Room G37 Senate House,
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" lang="en-US" align="center"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif">Friday 24 May
2013</font></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" lang="en-US" align="center"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b>Programme</b></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b>1.00 pm
Registration</b></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"></font></font></font> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b>1.30
pm Introduction </b></font></font></font></p>
<p style="text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.54cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3">Dr
Shihan de Silva (Senior Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth
Studies)</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b>1.35 pm Mayor of Camden
</b>(tbc)</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b>1.40 pm High
Commissioner for Sri Lanka </b>(tbc)</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b>1.45 pm Leonard Woolf
Society</b></font></font></font></p>
<p style="text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.54cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3">
Dr Surendra Paul (Chairman, Leonard Woolf Society)</font></font></font></p>
<p style="text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.54cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"> Chair:
Dr Richard Espley (Senate House Library, University of
London)</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" align="center"><br></p>
<p style="text-indent: -3.81cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 3.81cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b>2.00 pm</b> <b>Critiquing Imperial Violence: From </b><i><b>The
Village in the Jungle</b></i><b> (1913) to </b><i><b>Economic
Imperialism</b></i><b> (1920)</b> </font></font></font></p>
<p style="text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.54cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"> Dominic Davies (University of Oxford)</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>2.30 pm </b></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Leonard Woolf: the best of British
imperialists? </b></font></font></p>
<p style="text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.54cm;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"> William Clarance
(Institute of Commonwealth Studies)</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>3.00 pm </b></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Fact and Fiction in the Southern
Province of Sri Lanka: Leonard Woolf’s<em> </em></b></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b><em>Autobiography
</em></b></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>and
</b></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><i><b>The</b></i></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b> </b></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><i><b>Village in the
Jungle</b></i></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><i>
</i></font></font></p><font size="3">
</font><p style="text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.54cm;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"> Dr Shihan de
Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) &</font></p><font size="3">
</font><p style="text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.54cm;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"> Dr Hemal
Jayasuriya (Aristotelian Society)</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"> Chair:
Dr Richard Espley (Senate House Library, University of
London)</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font size="3" face="Cambria"></font> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Cambria"><strong>3.30 pm Break</strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" align="center"><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>4.00 pm</b></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"> </font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Colonial capitalist development in
Leonard Woolf’s </b></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><i><b>The Village in the
Jungle</b></i></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>
</b></font></font></p><font size="3">
</font><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"></font><font size="3" face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"> Nicola Robinson (University of
York)</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b>4.30 pm “Their greasy
little notebooks”: Debt and the Headman in </b><i><b>The Village in the
</b></i></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><i><b>Jungle
</b></i></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"> Priyasha
Mukhopadhyay (University of Oxford) </font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>5.00 pm The Woolfs and the Women’s
Co-operative Guild</b></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif">
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</font><p style="text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.54cm;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"> Dr Alice Wood
(Portsmouth University)</font></p><em><font size="3">
</font></em><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br><font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"> Chair:
Nathan Sivasambu (Leonard Woolf Society)</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font size="3" face="Cambria"></font> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><strong><font size="3" face="Cambria">5.30 pm Break</font></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" align="center"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" align="center"><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>6.00 pm A View from an
Indian Ocean Verandah</b></font></font></p><font size="3">
</font><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 3.81cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"> Professor Elleke Boehmer </font></font></p><font size="3">
</font><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 3.81cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"> (Professor of World Literature in English, University of
Oxford)</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 3.81cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font size="3" face="Cambria"></font> </p><font size="3">
</font><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><strong><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif">6.30 pm</font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif">Reading from Chris
Ondaatje’s </font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><i>Woolf in Ceylon</i></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><i>:</i></font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><i>
</i></font></strong><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"><i><strong>an
imperial journey in the shadow of Leonard Woolf, 1904-1911</strong>
</i></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif"> Pramila Muthiah (Secretary, Leonard Woolf
Society)</font><font face="Cambria, Palatino Linotype, serif">
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