[Vwoolf] my talk in London, Friday 11/1

Tue Oct 1 07:45:26 EDT 2019

 Thanks, Anne, I've added this to the VWSGB website. I'll check my schedule and plan to attend if possible.

If anyone else is holding or knows of VW events taking place in the UK, I can promote them on the VWSGB Events page. Please see http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk/events for examples and guidelines on how to submit the details.  

Sarah M. HallPublicity & Marketing OfficerVirginia Woolf Society of GB

    On Saturday, 28 September 2019, 15:58:04 BST, Anne Fernald via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:  

 Dear Woolfians,
Fordham University has a newly renovated London Centre which we're anxious to show off. To that end, I'll be giving a talk on Woolf there on November 1st. I do hope some of you will be able to come. It's free and open to the public, with a light lunch before and drinks (there's a lovely terrace there, I understand) after. 
So let's nurse our Brexit hangovers together by talking about Woolf and kindness. The event is free, but please RSVP here. And please share with your networks,
Anne
more info:

Not Quite So Kind: Woolf and the limits of kindness

In Woolf’s 1925 novel, Mrs. Dalloway, kindness has its limits. When the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith and his wife announce their intention to seek a second opinion from Sir William Bradshaw, their Dr., Dr. Holmes turns on them with stunningly rapid bitterness “if they were rich… by all means let them go to Harley Street; if they had no confidence in him, said Dr. Holmes, looking not quite so kind” (84). In Mrs. Dalloway and throughout her writing, Woolf explores both the limits of mere kindness and what it means to be of a kind, to be kin, stressing the common root of adjective and noun. This talk unpacks several of Woolf’s key uses of the word kind to explore how, in 2019, we might understand the complex interactions of social cues, intimacy, fondness, and mistrust in Woolf and how those stories continue to resonate today.

Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Fordham University. A scholar of modernism with a special focus on Virginia Woolf, she is the editor of the Cambridge University Press Mrs. Dalloway (2014), and one of the editors of The Norton Reader, a widely-used anthology of essays. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (2006) as well as articles and reviews on Woolf and feminist modernism. She is a co-editor of the journal Modernism/modernity. She occasionally updates her blog, Fernham, and can be found on twitter @fernham.

A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1330, and the talk will commence at 1400. Refreshments will be served at 1530 and the session will end at 1630.

Fordham University (www.fordham.edu) is a research university founded in 1841 in New York City. It has over 15,000 students from 65 countries spread across ten different colleges. Each year over 600 students from the University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Gabelli School of Business come to London to study at the Fordham University London Centre.

Anne E. Fernald (she/her)Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesSpecial Advisor to the Provost for Faculty DevelopmentCoeditor, Modernism/modernityfernald at fordham.edu
Rose Hill: Cunniffe 230718-817-3312
Lincoln Center: Martino Hall 422 212-636-7613 

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