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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Virginia Woolf and the Writing of History</span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">8-10 November 2018</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">University of Rouen</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">ERIAC (</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><a href="http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr/"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Organisers: Dr. Anne Besnault-Levita, Dr. Marie
Laniel, Dr. Anne-Marie Smith-di Biasio HDR</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">With the collaboration of the University of
Picardie - Jules Verne</span><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><a href="https://www.u-picardie.fr/unites-de-recherche/corpus/presentation/"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">https://www.u-picardie.fr/unites-de-recherche/corpus/presentation/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">And the Société d’Etudes Woolfiennes</span><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><a href="http://etudes-woolfiennes.org/"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">http://etudes-woolfiennes.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Confirmed keynote speakers:</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Prof. Anna Snaith (King’s College, London)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dr. Seamus O’Malley (Yeshiva University, New
York)</span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Call for papers<br>
Proposal submission deadline: January 30th, 2018</span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">We propose to examine Virginia Woolf’s
relationship to history by reflecting on her reading and writing of history,[1]
be that the history of her own time, of the past, women’s history or literary
history. This will involve analysing how the literary and historicity are
interlinked not only in her novels, but also in the essays, letters and journals.
This in turn might lead us to consider the question of anteriority and
tradition, engaging both the po-ethical and political dimensions of a Woolfian
writing of history and of pre-history, such as that which informs her late
essay “Anon,” but is also present throughout her writing in the attention it
accords to a cultural unconscious, subtending the present of language like a
sometimes conscious, sometimes not yet conscious memory of the past.[2] We
might also be led to see Woolfian historiography from the perspective of
materialist revisionism, a feminist rewriting of the past, or an infinite
working through the library of her father, Leslie Stephen. Other possible
perspectives would be to consider her work as that of an archivist writing
against the archives of patriarchy in search of her own arkhe,[3]or examining
how she reinvents the historiographical, biographical and literary traditions.
Woolf’s engagement in the history of Modernity might in turn be considered from
a Benjaminian perspective, as a form of historiographical reconfiguration
anticipating post-modern philosophy.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">The question of Woolf’s hermeneutics of history
might lead us to define the different forms of her engagement in women’s
history, in the history of class, of her queering of history, her heterodoxy.
We can also read her writing as a form of archeology delving into the written
and non-written traces of history, attentive to the emergence of spectres and
forms of survival or survivance[4] but also as a response to what Woolf herself
called, in Three Guineas, “history in the raw.” Thus addressing how Woolf
arrests the kairos of historical moment, her own inscription of two world wars
as if in negative, might lead us furthermore to consider her writing as a form
of resistance, nonetheless steeped in the Real of history, the present and the
body.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">We invite papers which address these questions
among others from a variety of theoretical, literary and cultural approaches.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br>Possible topics may include:</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Virginia Woolf as
a reader and interpreter of history</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Virginia Woolf as
an apprentice historian</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Virginia Woolf’s
revisionist historiography</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Virginia Woolf’s
counter literary histories</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Virginia Woolf’s
complex relations to past and present historiographical       traditions</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Virginia Woolf,
Historicism and New Historicism</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Virginia Woolf,
historicity and the new biography</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Virginia Woolf’s
feminist take on history and literary history</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Virginia Woolf,
history and its “effect upon mind and body” (Three Guineas)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Virginia Woolf’s
writing of history and pre-history</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Memory, the
immemorial, oral tradition</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • History,
historiography and chronotopes in Virginia Woolf’s works (libraries, museums,
monuments…)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">        • Archeology,
material artifacts and the archive</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Submission</span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Paper proposals (a<b> 300-word abstract with a
title </b>plus a<b> separate biographical statement</b>) should be sent by <b>January
30th 2018</b> to Anne Besnault-Levita (</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><a href="mailto:anne.besnault@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">anne.besnault@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">), Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio
(</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><a href="mailto:amdibiasio@neuf.fr"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">amdibiasio@neuf.fr</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">) and Marie Laniel (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><a href="mailto:marie.laniel@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">marie.laniel@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Advisory Committee</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Prof. Michael Bentley, University of St Andrews</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dr. Anne Besnault-Levita, University of Rouen</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Prof. Catherine Bernard, University of Paris 7</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dr. Nicolas Boileau, University of Aix-Marseille</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Prof. Melba Cuddy-Keane, University of Toronto</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Prof. Claire Davison, University of Paris 3 –
Sorbonne Nouvelle</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dr. Anne-Marie Di Biasio, Institut Catholique de
Paris</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Prof. Camille Fort, University of Picardie</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Prof. Trevor Harris, University of Picardie</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dr. Marie Laniel, University of Picardie</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Prof. Scott McCracken, Queen Mary, University of
London</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dr. Caroline Pollentier, University of Paris 3 –
Sorbonne Nouvelle</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dr. Floriane Reviron-Piégay, University of St
Etienne</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dr. Angeliki Spiropoulou, University of the
Peloponnese</span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Selected Bibliography</span><br>
<br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Beer, Gillian, “Virginia Woolf and Prehistory”,
Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996,
6-28.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Bentley, Michael, “Introduction: Approaches to
Modernity: Western Historiography since the Enlightenment”, Companion to
Historiography, Michael Bentley (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, 1997,
395-506.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">_____, “The Evolution and Dissemination of
Historical Knowledge”, The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain,
Martin Daunton (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 173-198.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">_____, Modernizing England’s Past: English
Historiography in the Age of Modernism: 1870-1970, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Blakeney-Williams, Louise, Modernism and the
Ideology of History: Literature, Politics, and the Past, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Cuddy Keane, Melba,  “Virginia Woolf and
the Varieties of Historicist Experience”,Virginia Woolf and the Essay, B. C.
Rosenberg and J. Dubino (eds.), New York: St. Martin’s press, 1997, 59-77.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">_____, Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual and the
Public Sphere, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">De Certeau, Michel, The Writing of History
(1975), trans. from the French Tom Conley, New York: Columbia University Press,
1988.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">De Gay, Jane, Virginia Woolf’s Novels and the
Literary Past, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">De Gay, Jane, “Virginia Woolf’s Feminist
Historiography in Orlando”, Critical Survey19.1 (2007): 62-72.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Foucault, Michel, “Nietzsche, Genealogy,
History” [1971], The Foucault Reader, Paul Rabinow (ed.), New York: Pantheon,
1984.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Gättens, Marie-Luise, Women Writers and Fascism:
Reconstructing History, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Gualtieri, Elena, Virginia Woolf’s Essays:
Sketching the Past, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">_____, “The Impossible Art: Virginia Woolf on
Modern Biography”, Cambridge Quarterly 29.4 (2000): 349-361.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Hotho-Jackson, Sabine, “Virginia Woolf on
History: Between Tradition and Modernity”, Forum of Modern Language Studies
27.4 (1991): 293-313.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Kore Schröder, Leena, “Who’s Afraid of Rosamond
Merridew, Reading Medieval History I ‘The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn’”,
The Journal of the Short Story in English 50 (Spring 2008): 103-119.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Lilenfeld, Jane, Lisa Low, and Jeffrey Oxford
(eds.), Virginia Woolf and Literary History, Woolf Studies Annual 9, New York:
Pace UP, 2003.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Longenbach, James, Modernist Poetics of History:
Pound, Eliot and the Sense of Past, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1987.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Marcus, Jane, “Thinking back through our
mothers”, New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf, Jane Marcus (ed.), London:
Macmillan, 1-30.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">McIntire, Gabrielle, Modernism, Memory, and
Desire: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2008.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">O’Malley, Seamus, Making History New: Modernism
and Historical Narrative, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Peach, Linden, Virginia Woolf and New
Historicism, London: Macmillan, 2000.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Rosenberg, Beth Carole, “Virginia Woolf’s
Postmodern Literary History”, MLN 115.5 (2000): 1112-130.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Snaith, Anna, "A View of One's Own: Women's
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