[Vwoolf] IVWS news and calendar alerts!

[International Virginia Woolf Society]

Hello all,

I’m compiling here a long email with a lot of information about MLA,
the VW conference, panel proposals for the next MLA, and general news!

Angelica Garnett VW Essay prize for undergraduates.
We would like to launch an annual VW essay contest for undergraduates
in honor of Angelica Garnett.  The winning essay (2500 words maximum,
including all notes and Works Cited) would be published in the
Miscellany and would earn a prize of $200.  Time frame and details
TBA.

MLA CHICAGO!  Please mark these sessions & events on your MLA calendar!

Thursday, 9 January 7:00–8:15 p.m.
183. Woolf, Wittgenstein, and Ordinary Language
BELMONT Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the International Virginia Woolf Society
Presiding: Madelyn Detloff, Miami Univ., Oxford; Gaile Pohlhaus, Miami
Univ., Oxford
1. "Woolf, Wittgenstein, and Nonsense: The Voyage Out as Therapy,"
Megan M. Quigley, Villanova Univ.
2. "'Stand Roughly Here': Woolf, Keynes, and Ordinary Language in the
1930s," Alice Keane, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
3. "Dumb Colloquy: The Aesthetics of Conversation and Conversational
Aesthetics of To the Lighthouse," Erin Greer, Univ. of California,
Berkeley
For abstracts, contact detlofmm at miamioh.edu.

THURSDAY FROM 8:45-10:  All IVWS members are invited to attend the
SHARP cash bar on Thursday, Jan. 9, from 8:45-10pm in the Chicago IX
room at the Sheraton. [SHARP = Society for the History of Authorship,
Reading, and Publishing; we have a joint panel with them Friday!]
This would be a great option after the Wittgenstein/Woolf panel & a
wonderful way to see other Woolfians too.  See you there !?!?

Friday, 10 January 5:15–6:30 p.m.
398. Virginia Woolf and Book History
McHenry, Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the Society for the History of Authorship,
Reading, and Publishing and the International Virginia Woolf Society
Presiding: Leslie Kathleen Hankins, Cornell Coll.
1. "A Library of Her Own: Virginia Stephen's Books," Beth Rigel
Daugherty, Otterbein Univ.
2. "An Experiment in Form and Content: Vanessa Bell and Virginia
Woolf's Monday or Tuesday," Amanda Miller, Duquesne Univ.
3. "Blank Spaces: The Hogarth Press and 'Lost' Women Publishers,"
Alice E. Staveley, Stanford Univ.
Respondent: Karen V. Kukil, Smith Coll.
For abstracts, visit sharpweb.org.

Saturday, 11 January 3:30–4:45 p.m.
609. Virginia Woolf and London's Colonial Writers
Belmont Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the International Virginia Woolf Society
Presiding: Elizabeth F. Evans, Univ. of Notre Dame
1. "Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press, and South African Modernism,"
Laura A. Winkiel, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
2. "Virginia Woolf, Mulk Raj Anand, and the Novel of Political
Transition," Jeannie Im, New York Univ.
3. "Virginia Woolf's Caribbean Connections," Mary Lou Emery, Univ. of Iowa
For abstracts, contact evansef at gmail.com.

Dinner plans for IVWS members and interested others:
        You are invited—with 30 of Virginia Woolf’s other closest
friends—to an International Virginia Woolf Society dinner party at MLA
in Chicago, the evening of Saturday, January 11th, at 6:15 in the
evening. The venue has come highly recommended:  a local legend of
Chicago: Shaw’s Crab House: http://www.shawscrabhouse.com/

The menu is delightful and varied; we will have 5 entrees to choose
from, including such choices as grilled salmon, Maryland crab cakes,
chicken, vegetarian cous cous, and others.   The meal will include
soup, salad, entrée and dessert—as well as wines.
        And, Shaws is right near the downtown hotels, at 21 E. Hubbard
Street, so we can easily segue over there after the appetizer of the
VirginiaWoolf and London’s Colonial Writers panel, which ends around
4:45 or5.  The dinner at Shaw’s is set for 6:15, and we have a room of
our     own, the Oyster Hall of Fame room.
        We will saunter towards the restaurant after the session, or taxi,
depending on the weather. The cost per individual is $55. The IVWS
will contribute wine (Meanwhile the wineglasses had flushed yellow and
flushed crimson; had been emptied; had been filled), the gratuity, and
subsidize $20 of the individual price for graduate students. If you
mentor graduate students, consider inviting them to the dinner and
bringing them along.  It is always so refreshing to share our
camaraderie with new members or members-to-be.
        Spaces are filling quickly, so please email me TODAY because the
first 30 to make reservations will be the lucky ones at the party.
First Come, first served!  Do sign up quickly so we can plan ahead
with wines and festivities.  Contact me at: vwsociety at gmail.com with
the subject heading:  MLA DINNER

Chicago again: JUNE VW Conference
The 24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf,
co-sponsored by Loyola University Chicago and Northern Illinois
University, will take place in Chicago, 5 – 8 June 2014. “Virginia
Woolf: Writing the World” aims to address such themes as the creation
of worlds through literary writing, Woolf’s reception as a world
writer, world wars and the centenary of the First World War, and
myriad other topics.
We invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops on
any aspect of the conference theme from literary and interdisciplinary
scholars, creative and performing artists, common readers, advanced
undergraduate and graduate students, and teachers of Woolf at all
levels. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
Woolf as a world writer, including reception and/or influence of her
work
writing as world creation
the globalization of Woolf studies
feminist re-envisionings of the world
lesbian, gay, and/or queer
worlds
living worlds
natural worlds
cosmology, physics, different
kinds of worlds
geography(y)(ies) and/or mapping the world
“First” and
“Third” worlds
postcolonialism
the centenary of World War I
the World
Wars
peace, justice, war, and violence
feminist writers of 1914 and/or
suffragettes and WWI
pacifist and conscientious objector movements
class and/in Woolf’s world(s)
writing the working class
socialists
“righting” the world
expatriate worlds
artistic worlds
inter-arts
influences, including painting, cinema, music, and journalism
the
publishing world transnational modernisms and postmodernisms
Woolf
and/on international relations
imperialism and anti-imperialism
teaching Woolf in global contexts
teaching Woolf outside of the
traditional 4-year college classroom
Woolf and the new global media
Woolf and Chicago connections/reception
	For individual papers, send a 250-word proposal. For panels (three or
four papers, please), send a proposed title for the panel and 250-word
proposals for EACH paper. For roundtables and workshops, send a 250-
to 500-word proposal and a brief biographical description of each
participant. Because we will be using a blind submission process,
please do not include your name(s) on your proposal. Instead, in your
covering e-mail, please include your name(s), institutional
affiliation (if any), paper and/or session title(s), and contact
information. If you would like to chair a panel instead of proposing a
paper or panel, please let us know.
Email proposals by attachment in Word to Woolf2014 at niu.edu.
Deadline
for proposals: 25 January 2014
For more information about the
conference, including the keynote speakers, go to
www.niu.edu/woolfwritingtheworld/.

Panel Proposal Deadlines for topics for Vancouver next MLA 2015
The 2015 MLA will be in Vancouver, especially delightful for
Woolfians, who may have sweet memories of the VW conference hosted by
Helen Wussow in June 2013.  Please send to me asap ideas for topics
for the IVWS panels, and for possibilities for joint panels with
Allied Organizations.  I will be sending out ballots when I get all
the proposals.  Deadline for sending panel proposals:  January 15.
I’d like to get the ballots out by VW’s birthday.
The VANCOUVER MLA will be held in Vancouver 8-10 January 2015.  How
lovely it will be to revisit the scene of the fabulous VW conference
organized by Helen Wussow in June 2013!! Your mission is to propose
fascinating potential proposals for IVWS panels:
                        Call for Proposals
129th Modern Language Association Meeting
The 2015 MLA Meeting will be held in Vancouver (8-10 January 2015).
Our *International Virginia Woolf Society* will have one guaranteed
panel, and we can submit one additional panel.  We will also (as we have done
for this upcoming MLA with the SHARP Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) collaborate with another society
and submit a third panel.
        You are invited to submit a *panel topic* for the Vancouver MLA. Note
that this is a call for panels, not individual paper proposals. Please
submit only one topic.  We will need from you:  1)  a 35 word
description (word count includes title) no longer!!!  2) the name(s)
and contact information of the proposed organizer(s).
        Submit to Leslie Kathleen Hankins electronically (topic line Woolf
MLA Vancouver 2015).
Deadline:   January 15th for the receipt of proposals.  (IVWS voting
on the resulting proposals will be completed in January, so as to meet
MLA deadlines.
Contact:  Leslie Kathleen Hankins
IVWSociety at gmail.com (note only ONE S in the address)

Louisville Conference International Virginia Woolf Society Panel 2014
February 20-22

Panel Chair: Lauren Short, University of Louisville
Panelists and Paper Titles:
Denise A. Ayo, University of Notre Dame
Staging (Self-)Censorship: Virginia Woolf’s “Women Must Weep”
Kristina Reardon, University of Connecticut
The Body of Word and Image in “Kew Gardens”
Illya Nokhrin, University of Toronto
Experiments with Virginia Woolf’s “Own Voice”: Narrative Style in the
Manuscripts of Night and Day
Audrey M. Lehr, Kent State University
Disability Aesthetics and “The Human Apparatus” in To the Lighthouse

I did tell you we had a lot of news to cover!  More forthcoming, no
doubt, but for now, time passes.

Best, LKH

Leslie Kathleen Hankins
President, International Virginia Woolf Society
lhankins at cornellcollege.edu

(sorry for any duplicate mailings!)
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