Brief Summary of the Talk The intellectual significance of Night and Day in Woolf’s development as a writer and thinker has long been overlooked. In this paper, I consider Woolf’s critical engagement with Platonism in the novel, where it appears both as genre model and as a reservoir of imagery, to which Woolf makes polyvalent references that ...

Woolf Seminar Luca Pinelli – Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and the Materiality of Life/Writing 24 October 2025 – 19.00 pm (Turkey time) This talk addresses the resonances between Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, in particular by arguing that both authors engage, though from sometimes different angles, with the very ‘stuff’ of life. Although ...

Christine Froula Victorian intellectual Leslie Stephen’s public and private stances toward women, as well as actual and fictional women in his personal orbit and public purview, cast fresh, scintillating light over his life, work, and biography. This talk foregrounds a select array of the women in Stephen’s private and public life to sketch backgrounds for ...

Title: Virginia Woolf, Money, and the Oldest Profession for Women Speaker: Vara Neverow Date: 28.12.2024 Dr. Neverow’s talk will bring together various aspects of Woolf’s sustained focus on prostitution throughout her work. Woolf consistently defends those who work in the “world’s oldest profession for women” because those women have extremely limited alternatives to survive. However, ...

Title: Woolfian Soundscapes: Noises, Voices, and Music in Virginia Woolf’s Novels Speaker: Assoc. Prof. F. Zeynep BİLGE Date: 24.05.2024 While focusing on the inner worlds -or, rather, inner voices- of her characters, Woolf displays a vivid portrayal of these characters’ physical environment as well. Sounds of the city, sounds of nature, newly developing auditory technologies, ...

Title: “only writing composes it”: Woolf’s ethical and remedial craftsmanship(?) Speaker: Savina Stevanato Date: 26.04.2024 Virginia Woolf’s corpus variously resonates with, and sheds light on, our contemporary condition of anthropogenic global crisis. But can it also impact it by suggesting some corrective measures? Any answer, albeit tentative, must consider Woolf’s wider perspective on otherness and ...