Virginia Woolf Season
Woolf and Politics
September 2024 to June 2025
Join us for unique seasons of lectures and seminars on the major works of Virginia Woolf. Each session has a live online lecture and seminar via Zoom.
Our theme for 2024-25 is Woolf and Politics. These sessions are all at 6.00-8.00 pm British time:
• Saturday 14 September 2024. Lecture 1. Karina Jakubowicz on The Politics of Conquest in The Voyage Out (1915). BOOKINGS NOW CLOSED.
• Saturday 12 October 2024. Lecture 2. Alison Hennegan on The Politics of Flush (1933). BOOKINGS NOW CLOSED.
• Saturday 23 November 2024. Lecture 3. Mark Hussey on Politics in Mrs Dalloway (1925). SOLD OUT
• Saturday 7 Dec. 2024. Lecture 4. Ellie Mitchell on Woolf’s War Diary. BOOKINGS NOW CLOSED.
• Saturday 11 Jan. 2025. Lecture 5. Danell Jones on A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Black Britain
• Saturday 8 Feb. 2025. Lecture 6. Natasha Periyan on Education in The Years (1937)
• Saturday 8 March 2025. Lecture 7. Trudi Tate on Mrs Dalloway (1925) and the Vote
• Saturday 12 April 2025. Lecture 8. Varsha Panjwani on Orlando (1928) and the Politics of Biography
• Saturday 10 May 2025. Lecture 9. Angela Harris on The Politics of Jacob’s Room (1922).
• Saturday 14 June 2025. Lecture 10. Claire Davison on Body Politics and Clothing in Three Guineas (1938)
• Book all 10 sessions for the price of 9. Offer closes Sat. 14 September 2024 at 4.00 pm British Summer Time (just before the first lecture). OFFER NOW CLOSED.
Bookings are open. Scroll down for booking pages
PRICES
Individual lectures
£32.00 full price
£27.00 Students and CAMcard holders
£27.00 Members of the VWSGB
Full season
£288 Full price for all 10 sessions (save £32)
£243 Students and CAMcard holders for all 10 sessions (save £27)
£243 Members VWSGB for all 10 sessions (save £27)
All prices include VAT at 20%
Book for the full season and get 10 sessions for the price of 9. Offer now closed.
Recordings
Each lecture will be recorded live and will be available to participants after the live event for up to 48 hours. We hope this will be helpful to participants in various time zones, and to those who want to hear the lecture again. The recordings are available only to people who have booked the session. The seminars are not recorded.
Time Zones
These online sessions are at 18.00 British Time / 19.00 Central European Time / morning or early afternoon in American time zones. Each session lasts a maximum of 2 hours.
Summer Time and Greenwich Mean Time: please note that clocks in Britain are on Summer Time in September 2024, and change to Greenwich Mean Time on 27 October 2024. In spring 2025, the clocks change from GMT to Summer Time on 30 March 2025.
If you cannot attend a session you have booked
Please note that, because places are limited, we cannot usually give refunds if you cannot attend a session. But if you contact us in advance, we can usually transfer your booking to a different session.
Zoom link
We will send you a zoom link by email approximately 24 hours before the lecture. If it does not arrive, please let us know by email in good time, at least an hour before the session, so we can re-send.
Selected Further Reading
Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan, Virginia Woolf and the Professions (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Clara Jones, Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist (Edinburgh University Press, 2016)
Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (biography) (1996)
Marielle O'Neill, ‘Thunder (and Reckoning) at Wembley: Virginia Woolf's Anti-Imperialist Activism Against the British Empire’, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, 101, (Fall-Winter 2023), pp. 60-65.
Marielle O'Neill, ‘The Woolfs and the Webbs: Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Anti-Imperialist Activism against British Colonial Policy in Kenya’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, 77, (September 2024), pp. 31-46.
The Virginia Woolf Podcast, Episode 7: The Legacies of Leonard Woolf, with Peter Stansky and Marielle O’Neill, hosted by Karina Jakubowicz:
Alex Zwerdling, Virginia Woolf and the Real World (University of California Press, 1986)
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