[Vwoolf] 24 May Leonard Woolf Symposium

[annemarie bantzinger]

Leonard Woolf Society 
Symposium 


A Retrospective of the Life and Work of Leonard Woolf


Room G37 Senate House, 
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Friday 24 May 
2013


Programme
1.00 pm 
Registration
 1.30 
pm Introduction 
Dr 
Shihan de Silva (Senior Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth 
Studies)


1.35 pm Mayor of Camden 
(tbc)


1.40 pm High 
Commissioner for Sri Lanka (tbc)


1.45 pm Leonard Woolf 
Society
               
Dr Surendra Paul (Chairman, Leonard Woolf Society)

                Chair: 
Dr Richard Espley (Senate House Library, University of 
London)


2.00 pm Critiquing Imperial Violence: From The 
Village in the Jungle (1913) to Economic 
Imperialism (1920) 
                 Dominic Davies (University of Oxford)


2.30 pm Leonard Woolf: the best of British 
imperialists? 
                  William Clarance 
(Institute of Commonwealth Studies)


3.00 pm Fact and Fiction in the Southern 
Province of Sri Lanka: Leonard Woolf’s Autobiography 
and 
The Village in the 
Jungle 

                  Dr Shihan de 
Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) &
                  Dr Hemal 
Jayasuriya (Aristotelian Society)
 
                  Chair: 
Dr Richard Espley (Senate House Library, University of 
London) 3.30 pm Break


4.00 pm Colonial capitalist development in 
Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the 
Jungle 

                  Nicola Robinson (University of 
York)


4.30 pm “Their greasy 
little notebooks”: Debt and the Headman in The Village in the 
Jungle 

                  Priyasha 
Mukhopadhyay (University of Oxford) 




5.00 pm The Woolfs and the Women’s 
Co-operative Guild 

                 Dr Alice Wood 
(Portsmouth University)

                 Chair: 
Nathan Sivasambu (Leonard Woolf Society) 5.30 pm Break 


6.00 pm A View from an 
Indian Ocean Verandah
                Professor Elleke Boehmer 
                (Professor of World Literature in English, University of 
Oxford) 
6.30 pm Reading from Chris 
Ondaatje’s Woolf in Ceylon: 
an 
imperial journey in the shadow of Leonard Woolf, 1904-1911 
                Pramila Muthiah (Secretary, Leonard Woolf 
Society) 


 
6.40 pm Closing remarks 

Cecil Woolf, Honorary President, Leonard Woolf 
Society 

















 		 	   		  
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