Virginia Woolf et l'écriture de l'histoire
Université de Rouen
Thursday, November 8th 2018
9.00-9.45 Conference opening
9.45-10.45 Keynote Speaker: Seamus O’Malley
(Yeshiva University, New York)
Virginia Woolf and Populist History: The Rhythms of The People
10.45-11.00 Coffee break
Plenary session Virginia Woolf and Past Historiographical Traditions
Chair: Jane de Gay
11.00-11.30 Eleanor McNees (University of Denver)
Fracturing History: Reconfiguring Genre in The Years and Between the Acts
11.30-12.00 Marie Laniel (Université de Picardie)
A “singular camera lucida”: Optics as Historiographical Paradigm from Thomas Carlyle to Virginia Woolf
12-12h30 Anne Reus (Leeds Trinity University)
Rewriting Literary History: Virginia Woolf and Mary Russell Mitford
12.30-14.00 Lunch (Maison de l’Université)
Plenary session Feminist Revisions of History
Chair: Marie Laniel
14.00-14.30 Anne Besnault (Université de Rouen)
The Unrecorded and the Unthought in Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Literary History
14.30-15.00 Helen Southworth (University of Oregon)
Virginia Woolf’s “Lives of the Obscure” and the Writing of History
15.00-15.30 Valérie Favre (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
From Women’s History to Gender History? Re-Reading (Literary) History in A Room of One’s Own
Coffee Break: 15.30-16.00
Plenary session Archives and New Historiographies
Chair : Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio
16.00-16.30 Adèle Cassigneul (Université Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès)
Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House Albums, “life finally uncovered and clarified” (Proust)
16.30-17.00 Kuo Chia-Chen (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
Photography and Virginia Woolf’s Fictional Writing as Historical Testimony
17.00-17h30 Jane de Gay (Leeds Trinity University)
The Past, the Present and the Lessons of History: Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Historiographical Method in Three Guineas
Conference Dinner
Friday, November 9th 2018
Plenary session Belated Temporality
Chair: Anne Besnault
9.00-9.30 Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio (Institut Catholique de Paris)
The Shadow of History: Becoming Historical or Virginia Woolf’s Dreaming the Past Awake
9.30-10.00 Olivier Hercend (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
The Common Historian: On the Praxis of Reading the Past in Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader
10.00-10.30 Nell Wasserstrom (Boston College)
“Surely it is time someone invented a new plot”: Performativity and Belatedness in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
Plenary session Non-Human Historiography
Chair: Catherine Bernard
11.00-11.30 Catherine Lanone (Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Challenging Cenotaphs: Woolf and the Theory of Absent Bodies
11.30-12.00 Paromita Patranobish (University of Delhi)
“Human history is defrauded of a moment’s vision”: Virginia Woolf’s Non-Human Historiography
12.00-12.30 Thaine Stearns (Sonoma State University)
“The house was empty”: Woolf’s Inanimate Histories
12.30-14.00 Lunch (Maison de l’Université)
14.00-15.00 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Anna Snaith
(King’s College, London)
Island Stories: Virginia Woolf and the Historiography of Empire
Plenary Session Modernist Times and Narratives of History
Chairs: Catherine Lanone & Floriane Reviron-Piegay
15.00-15.30 Sam Waterman (University of Pennsylvania)
“Suddenly there came a moment”: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Adventure-Time
15.30-16.00 Iva Dimovska (Central European University, Budapest)
Queering Woolf’s Modernist Times
16.00-16.30 Laurelyne Ramboz (Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Songs from the Past: The Role of Antiquity in Virginia Woolf’s Late Vision of History
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.00 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Catherine Bernard
(Université Paris Diderot)
“The imagination is largely the child of the flesh”: Virginia Woolf’s Embodied Historicity
18h-19h End of conference cocktail
Scientific Committee
Prof. Michael Bentley, University of St Andrews
Dr. Anne Besnault-Levita, University of Rouen
Prof. Catherine Bernard, Paris Diderot University
Dr. Nicolas Boileau, University of Aix-Marseille
Prof. Melba Cuddy-Keane, University of Toronto
Prof. Claire Davison, University of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle
Dr. Anne-Marie Di Biasio, Institut Catholique de Paris
Prof. Camille Fort, University of Picardie
Prof. Trevor Harris, University of Picardie
Dr. Marie Laniel, University of Picardie
Prof. Scott McCracken, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr. Caroline Pollentier, University of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle
Dr. Floriane Reviron-Piégay, University of St Etienne
Dr. Angeliki Spiropoulou, University of the Peloponnese