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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Virginia Woolf and Ethics</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">31st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">June 9-12, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Lamar University (Beaumont, TX, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The 31st annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf takes as its theme "Virginia Woolf and Ethics," and aims to promote conversation about the topic across disciplinary boundaries.
We hope to explore Woolf's engagement with specific ethical issues in her writing. These may include, but are not limited to, war and pacifism, human rights, human-animal relations, environmental ethics, bioethics, fascism, empire, patriarchy, racism, and
bigotry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The theme also suggests a reconsideration of Woolf in relation to various ethical approaches. For instance, participants may wish to read Woolf's thought in conversation with care ethics,
narrative ethics, moral psychology, moral imagination, moral luck, virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, communitarianism, liberalism, religious or spiritual ethics (Christian, Quaker, Jewish, Buddhist, Indigenous, etc.), or other moral theories or concepts.
Papers might address the moral philosophy of Woolf's milieu, including the thought of Russell, Moore, or Leslie Stephen. Participants may wish to consider Woolf's thought with continental theorists such as Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Badiou
and others who address ethical concerns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">We invite participants to consider Woolf in relation to broader ethical considerations, such as the relation of ethics to reading practices (or to literature); ethics of teaching, scholarly
community, and academic life; secularism, religion, and/or mysticism in Woolf's thinking; and reading Woolf as an ethical (or social or political) theorist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">What might a Woolfian ethic look like? How might we read Woolf's aesthetic practices in ethical terms (eg. narrative indeterminacy and the cultivation of certain forms of attention,
moral imagination, or empathy)? How does Woolf navigate competing demands of justice, individual liberty and rights, and collectivity and social responsibility, in her fiction and non-fiction?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Papers on members of the Bloomsbury Group and other associates of Virginia Woolf in relation to the conference theme are also appropriate. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, roundtables,
and workshops from scholars, students, artists, and common readers from all backgrounds and fields. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Abstracts of maximum <b>250 words</b> for single papers and 500 words for panels, as well as questions, should be sent to </span><a href="mailto:Virginia.Woolf@usd.edu"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Virginia.Woolf@lamar.edu</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> by <b>January
31, 2022</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The conference welcomes proposals for presentations in languages other than English to foster a more open exchange at this international conference. A few caveats: the organizers ask
that all abstracts and proposals be submitted in English. Also, to ensure a more effective exchange among all participants, we ask that non-English presentations be accompanied by a handout of main points in English as well as (if possible) a PowerPoint presentation
in English. Note that Q&A sessions will be conducted in English as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Possible topics and approaches may include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ethics and reading, ethics of reading<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ethical scholarly community and academic life<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Woolf as ethical/social/political theorist<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Human-animal relations, the natural world<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Racism, patriarchy, and bigotry<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The ethics of biography and life writing<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Woolfian teaching, ethics in teaching<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">War, pacifism, fascism, empire, human rights<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Narrative practices, reading experiences<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Empathy, regard, attention<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Individuality and collectivity<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Knowledge, reason, objectivity, and certainty<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Secularism, religion, and spirituality<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">A range of moral philosophies and concepts (listed above and extending further)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amy C. Smith<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shaver Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Teaching<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Professor of English & Modern Languages<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Co-editor, <i>Lamar Journal of the Humanities</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lamar University,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Member, The Texas State University System<o:p></o:p></p>
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