Past event
'Very Young; at the Same Time Unspeakably Aged': 100 Years of Mrs Dalloway A Celebratory Centenary Symposium
The School of English cordially invites you to “feel the fun” with us at…
A One-Day Symposium on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway!
Published in 1925, Mrs Dalloway celebrates its centenary this year. A masterpiece of modernism, the novel follows its characters over the course of one day, weaving a narrative from threads of thought and feeling. In honour of Mrs Dalloway's centenary, we are throwing a party — or, the academic equivalent: a one-day symposium on the novel, for which we have compiled a wonderfully rich and varied programme of papers on the themes of time and timeliness.
We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for this event at: onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/events/school-of-english
The day will include a buffet lunch, tea and coffee, and a sparkling wine reception. In addition to traditional panels of papers from scholars of all career stages, the programme also comprises a roundtable on teaching the novel, and – in keeping with our theme of timeliness – a panel showcasing the work of St Andrews undergraduates on the School's popular Woolf module.
The day will conclude with a keynote from the wonderful Professor Bryony Randall of the University of Glasgow. Professor Randall will speak on the experience of reading Mrs Dalloway through the years, a topic which we hope will bring us all – as Woolf hoped to do with her novel – “into full talk” over a glass of prosecco.
We do hope you can join us! This event will be of interest especially to scholars of any career stage working on Woolf and modernism more widely, but all are invited to the party, and we warmly encourage Woolf's “common readers” to attend.
With best Woolfy wishes,
Ellie Mitchell & Valery Goutorova
Symposium Organisers
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