[Vwoolf] Leonard Woolf

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This message was received from 
Alexander Bubb, Hertford College, Oxford, UK 
Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the 
Jungle (1913) Saturday 9 March 2013
Venue: Haldane 
Room, Wolfson College, Oxford. OX2 
6UD. 
The Oxford Centre for 
Life-Writing at Wolfson College is delighted to 
host this workshop marking the centenary of the publication of Leonard Woolf’s 
path-breaking first novel, set in then Ceylon, The Village in the Jungle.  Woolf’s novel (the first of only two) is a 
leading yet often overlooked modernist document and is increasingly recognized 
as an extraordinarily far-sighted colonial text, an oblique record of his years 
as a colonial officer in Ceylon (1904-11).  It has also become a foundational novel in the Sri 
Lankan literary canon.  The workshop will consider Woolf’s radical 
colonialist legacy, and will explore the relationship 
of The Village in the 
Jungle to his later oeuvre 
of economic theory and political commentary, as well as to the field of 
post/colonial and empire writing more broadly. We will be interested, too, in 
the many intertextual links running between the 1910s work of Virginia Woolf, 
Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster and others of and related to 
the Bloomsbury group, and 
that of Leonard Woolf, and consider some of the intersections between their 
works and their lives.
 Please address any queries about the symposium to Dominic Davies by 
emailing leonard.woolf.symposium at gmail.com
Workshop convenor: Professor Elleke 
Boehmer
Workshop facilitator: Dominic 
Davies
 SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
 9:30-10:00: 
Registration
 10-11:15: Opening Keynote
Chandani Lokuge (Monash 
University, Australia) 
‘Indigenous Tradition and the 
Western Imagination:
Leonard Woolf's The Village in 
the Jungle’
 11:15-11:30: 
Coffee/Tea
 11:30-12:45: The Village in 
the Jungle Roundtable
A discussion of key passages 
from Leonard (and possibly Virginia) Woolf, led by
Elleke Boehmer (Oxford), Hermione Lee (Oxford), Susheila Nasta (OU), 
Nisha Manocha (Wolfson)
Anna Snaith (KCL), David Trotter (Cambridge) 
tbc
The readings will be circulated 
to all participants in advance.
12:45-1:45: Lunch
1:45-3:15: Panel discussion: ‘Perceptions of the 
Jungle’
Chair: Nicola Robinson (York)
 Ruvani 
Ranasinha (KCL)
'The Village in the Jungle then 
and now/here and there'
Susan Jones (St 
Hilda’s, Oxford)
‘Visual and kinaesthetic 
presentations of the jungle’
Dominic Davies (St 
Anne’s, Oxford)
'Structural Violence and 
Violence against Structures in The Village in the 
Jungle'
Priyasha Mukhopadyay (Wolfson College, Oxford)
‘"Their greasy little notebooks": 
Debt and the Headman in The Village in the Jungle’
3:15-3:30: Tea/Coffee



3:30-4:45: Closing Plenary
Victoria Glendinning (biographer 
of Leonard Woolf)
Introduced by Hermione Lee 
(biographer of Virginia Woolf)
‘The Village in the Jungle as 
colonial memoir: Woolf writing home’
5:00-6:00: Writers reading
Roshi 
Fernando
Roma 
Tearne
OCLW offers sincere thanks to 
the Wolfson South Asia cluster for its support of the writers’ 
panel.
In order to register please fill out 
the form below and return to: leonard.woolf.symposium at gmail.com.
 Symposium: 
Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle
Oxford Centre 
for Life-Writing
Saturday 9th March 
2013
 
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