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BRIEF CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, JUNE 4   
Registration opens at 10:00, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby
    Coffee and snacks from 11:00

Session 1 Thursday 12:00-1:30
1A: Women Walking the City 
1B: Geographies of Mind
1C: Cities of Feeling: Emotion and the City
1D: Victorian Woolf
1E: Woolf in the Wild: Negotiating City and Country
Session 2 Thursday 2:00-3:30
2A: "Leaving the City": Virginia Woolf's Travelers
2B: City Space as Creative Space
2C: Memory, Geography, and War 
2D: Cosmopolitan Woolf
2E: Stalking the Cyber-Woolf in a Digital Age 
PLENARY 1: 4:00-5:30 "Pausing, Waiting," Tamar Katz, Brown University, Pope Auditorium

6:00-7:30 Reception, Mercantile Library, 17 E 47th St.

8:00 Staged reading of "Vita and Virginia"starring Alison Fraser, Pope Auditorium

FRIDAY JUNE 5

8:00 Continental Breakfast, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

Session 3 Friday 9:00-10:30
3A: Flush
3B: Bloomsbury and Fashion 1
3C:  Space and Orientation
3D: Woolf, Women, and Publishing, 1915-2009 
3E: Woolf and Other Modernists
3F: Woolf and Plagiarism/Plagiarizing Woolf and Her Readers: If it
can happen here… 
10:30-11:00 Coffee break, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

11:00-12:30 PLENARY 2: The Years, Street Music and Acoustic Space, Anna Snaith, Kings College London, Pope Auditorium

12:30-1:30 Lunch, Cafeteria Atrium

Session 4 Friday 1:30-3:00
4A: Woolf's Creative Violence 
4B: Queer City/Feminist Geography
4C: How Should One Read a Map?: Intersections of Public and Private
Mappings 
4D: From London to New York
4E: 3504: Fordham University Undergraduate Roundtable
4F: Creative Writers Reading 1      
3:00-3:30 Snack break, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

3:30-5:00, KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Rebecca Solnit, Pope Auditorium

5:00-6:30 RECEPTION, Cafeteria Atrium

Dinner on your own

8:00 Stephen Pelton Dance Theater & Princeton, Pope Auditorium

10:00 Post-performance reception, Hudson Hotel, 356 W 58th St. (Cash Bar)

SATURDAY, JUNE 6

8:00 Breakfast, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

Session 5 Saturday 9:00-10:30
5A: "Enough Powder to Blow up St. Pauls:" The Documentary Forms of  The Years  and  Three Guineas
5B: Navigating the Teeming Streets: Female Flânerie in Woolf  
5C: Woolf's Twenty-First Century
5D: Woolf and the Language of Music 
5E:Archival Treasure Hunts: Urban, Rural, Global A/V =Needs Computer & Projector for Powerpoint
5F: "More Forms and Stranger": Woolf, Theory and Teaching (Cheryl Hindrichs) 
10:30-11:00 Coffee break, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

Session 6 Saturday 11:00-12:30
6A: Walking into History: Mapping London's Past (Alexandra Harris)
6B: The Somatic City: Woolf and Phenomenology
6C: Urban Genders
6D: Nationalism and British Politics
6E: Exhibiting Virginia Woolf’s Urban Affiliations: An
Undergraduate Research Project at Alfred University
6F: Creative Writers Reading 2
12:30-2:00 Lunch on your own
  
Session 7: Saturday 2:00-3:30
7A: Bloomsbury and Fashion 2   
7B: Architectural and Material Woolf 
7C: Theories of Woolfian Space
7D: Woolf & Visual Culture 
7E: Woolf Teaching, Teaching Woolf  
7F: Girls Write Now

4:00-5:30 INSPIRED BY WOOLF: Katherine Lanpher in conversation with Dr. Ruth Gruber, Susan Sellers, and Kris Lundberg, Pope Auditorium

5:30-7:00 RECEPTION, Cafeteria Atrium

7:00 BANQUET, 12th Floor Lounge 

SUNDAY, JUNE 7

8:00 Continental breakfast, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

Session 8 Sunday 9:00-10:30
8A: London in Motion
8B: Objects, Scraps, and Flowers
8C: Contemporary Woolf
8D: Woolf and Empire 
8E: Far From the Madding Crowd: Woolf in the Country 
8F: NEW DIRECTIONS IN WOOLF CRITICISM
10:30 Coffee break, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

Session 9 Sunday 11:00-12:30
9A: The City as Transitional Text: Woolf, London, and Modernity
9B: City and Country Contrasts 
9C: Movement and Rhythm in the City
9D: Virginia Woolf's Postwar London
9E: An Undergraduate Course Looks at Virginia Woolf and Toni
Morrison
9F: Writers Read 3: Contests Winners from the College at Sixty read their work12:30 Box lunch pick-up, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

12:30-2:00 CLOSING PLENARY"You Then": Three Guineas, The Spanish Civil War, and the Challenge of the Home Front, Jessica Berman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Pope Auditorium



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