The Agenda

(Timings to follow. Registration will open in September, follow @_rosieglow_ for updates).

Welcome and introduction

Rosie Reynolds, University of Westminster

Keynote Address

Dr. Suzana Zink, Université de Neuchâtel Title TBC

Panel 1 – Woman Questions: feminist readings of Night and Day

Dr. Rebecca Welshman, Independent Researcher ‘“Violet and Crimson”: Suffrage and Feminist Colour Aesthetics in Night and Day’

Dr. Stanislava Dikova, University of Essex ‘Acts of Power: Night and Day and the History of Women’s Emancipation’ 

Dr. Nicolas Pierre Boileau, Aix-Marseile University‘“It’s the combination that’s odd – books and stockings.” Night and Day or Woolf’s Attempts at New Combinations for Women’

Jenni Råback, Queen Mary, University of London’Portrait of the Artist’s Sister as a Young Woman in a Blue Dress’

Lunch

Panel 2 – Night and Day in conversation: reading Night and Day alongside other texts

Dr. Helen Glew, University of Westminster ‘Astronomy, suffrage and marriage: reading Winifred Holtby’s The Crowded Streetagainst the backdrop of Night and Day’

Ellie Mitchell, University of Cambridge ‘Touchy Subjects: Reading Night and Day as a Response to and Revision of The Wise Virgins’

Jessica Gray, University of Kent ‘Office girl narratives and marriage plots in Virginia Woolf’s Night and Dayand Rebecca West’s The Judge’

Dagmara Kottke, KUL University Poland ‘Illusions and Realities of Marriage in Vita Sackville-West’s The Easter Party’

Panel 3 – Making it New: innovation, controversy and modernity in Night and Day 

Dr. Annalisa Volpone, Perugia University ‘Situating consciousness: body perception and mental reality in Night and Day’

Dr. Annika Lindskog, Linköping University ‘Free-Love Unions in Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day’

Mariachiara Leteo, University of Oxford ‘Poetry That Is Written and Poetry Which Is Felt: The Question of Poetry and Modernity in Night and Day’

Dr Sue Reid, University of Northampton ‘On not Writing about the War: Woolf, her Contemporaries and Wartime London’