“HUMBLE WOOLF”

PhD Seminar organised by EMMA and SEW 27-28 November 2014

Convened by Nicolas Boileau (AMU-SEW) and Christine Reynier (EMMA)
Organised by L. Haghshenas, L. Ke, X. Le Brun and A. Yesref (EMMA)

THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER

2 p.m.• opening of the PhD seminar by M. Ganteau, Head of the Doctoral School 58

Humility in Woolf’s Fiction

Chair: David Bradshaw

2.15 p.m. • Nicolas Pierre Boileau (Aix-Marseille University-LERMA)
Knowledge and the Humility of the Subject in Mrs Dalloway
3 p.m. • Xavier Le Brun (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier- EMMA/ENS Lyon)
Leaving Jacob Room: Narratorial Humility in Jacob’s Room
4.15 p.m. • Victoria Levêque (University Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle)
What’s in the Shadow of a Doubt? Woolf, Joyce and Ontological Humility
5 p.m. • Christine Reynier (University Paul-Valéry-Montpellier-EMMA)
Woolf, Property, Illegitimacy and Poverty

FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER

Humble Genres, Humble Influences

Chair: Christine Reynier

9 a.m. • Lingxiang Ke (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier-University of Bergamo)
Virginia Woolf’s Humble Art of Letter Writing
9.45 a.m. • Wassila MOURO (University of Tlemcen, Algeria)
Humble Woolf, the Victorian Heritage and Metafiction
10.30 a.m. • Julie Chevaux (University Paris III-ENS Lyon)
The Voyage Out and A Room with a View: E. M. Forster, early Woolf and the Comedy of Manners

Crafts(wo)manship

Chair: Nicolas Pierre Boileau

11.45 a.m. • Rossana Bonadei (University of Bergamo, Italy)
In Wireless Conversation. Virginia Woolf and the BBC
12.30 am. • Adèle Cassigneul (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès)
Betwixt and Between: Virginia Woolf and the Art of Craftsmanship

Humble Bloomsbury

Chair: Rossana Bonadei

2 p.m. • David Bradshaw (Oxford University, UK)
A Very Sympathetic Spectator: Woolf, Coarseness and the Contours of Obscurity
2.45 p.m. • Leila Haghshenas (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier- EMMA)
Leonard Woolf: Between Elitism and Humbleness

3.30 p.m. • networking: SEW (Société d’Études Woolfiennes), etc.