'Bloomsbury Adaptations' includes plenary lectures by Professor Frances Spalding, Newcastle University and Professor Paul Edwards, Bath Spa University, and a creative writing workshop run by Professor Susan Sellers (author of Vanessa and Virginia). There will also be a free performance of 'Vanessa and Virginia' by Elizabeth Wright on the afternoon of Thursday 5 May.

To register for the conference please print this form and return it to: Chris Lewis, c/o Department of English and Cultural Studies, Bath Spa University, Newton Park Campus, Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN.

Conference Schedule and Panels

This schedule is provisional at the moment, but I don’t anticipate many (if any) changes to it.

Workshop 1

Professor Susan Sellers of the University of St Andrews, author of Vanessa and Virginia and the forthcoming Minuet, leads a creative writing workshop.

Panel 1 – Hulme, Bloom and Moore

1. Talent and Tradition Abroad: T.S. Eliot, Harold Bloom and Jorge Luis Borges – Sarah Roger, University of Oxford.
2. T.E. Hulme and Bloomsbury – Christos Hadjiyiannis, University of Edinburgh.
3. G. E. Moore, Clive Bell and T. E. Hulme: The Anti-Humanist Ethics of Modernism – Chris Lewis, Bath Spa University.

Panel 2 – Film and Theatre

1. Interiority and Atmosphere in Theatre and Film Adaptations of Virginia Woolf – Jens Peters, University of Exeter.
2. A Heritage Film unravelled: Maurice, Class and Sexuality – Emma Anne James, De Montfort University.
3. Woolf, Cinema and Atonement - Åsa Mäki, Stockholm University .

Workshop 2

BSU Centre for Contemporary Writing Research presents a practical Adaptation workshop with Elizabeth Wright, Ursula Sarma and Steve May.

Panel 3 – Art

1. Woolf and Cubism – Sarah Phillips, University of Wales, Newport
2. A Mistress of the Brush - Hana Leaper, University of Liverpool

Panel 4 – Before, during and after Bloomsbury

1. ‘All Sapphism as Far as I Got’: Hope Mirrlees’s Madeleine – Sandeep Parmar.
2. ‘... she is what happened after Bloomsbury’: Elizabeth Bowen and the ghost of Woolf – Annabel Wynne, Independent Scholar.

Panel 5 – Contemporary Writers

1. The Quest for Her Story: Vanessa and Virginia as Metaphysical Detective Story – Kirby Joris, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
2. De-labelling the Writer, Rescuing the Poet: Jeanette Winterson’s Creation of Virginia Woolf – Agata Wozniak, University of Durham.
3. ‘What a lark! What a plunge! Woooooooo-hooooooo what a fall what a soar what a plummet what a dash’: Virginia Woolf and Ali Smith; a novelist of the future? – Ian Blyth, University of St Andrews.
4. ‘To Hell with the Blooms Berries’: Katherine Mansfield in Mansfield and the poetry of C.K. Stead – Gerri Kimber, The Open University.

Panel 6 – Performance and Printing

1. ‘Too many poets – And not enough hens’: The view from outside Bloomsbury – Susan Reid, University of Northampton.
2. Jeux (1913), sometimes known as ‘The Bloomsbury Ballet’; Vaslav Nikinsky’s Modernist work – Sue Ash, Oxford Brookes University.
3. ‘We get so absorbed , we can’t stop; I see that real printing will devour one’s entire life...’: Bloomsbury Letterpress – Anna Fewster.

Performance of ‘Sailing On’ by ShadyJane

A performance piece in Newton Annex ladies toilets, which addresses the image of the drowned woman in art literature. (50mins).

Panel 7a – Bath Spa Modernism

1. BSU’s Contemporary Writing Research Centre presents: Contemporary Modernism; poet Tim Liardet discusses the influence of Modernism on his work with expert Richard Kerridge. Tim will also read from his newly published collection, The Stormhouse, launched May 5th.

Panel 7 – Creative Responses I

1. On Being Left Behind: A forty-minute audio recording – Ellie Lavan, New York University.

Panel 8 – Mind and Body

1. Bloom, Bloomsbury and Influential Structures of Signification – Kate Symondson, Kings College London.
2. Bridging the Granite and the Rainbow: Virginia Woolf and the legacies of subverting the Cartesian mind/body dualism – Avishek Parui, University of Durham.
3. ‘How can I know what I think till I see what I say?’: An examination of Christopher Isherwood’s journey from experiments in Modernism to self-reflection inspired by E.M. Forster and Freudian Psychoanalysis – Rebecca Gordon, University of Aberdeen.

Workshop 3

Actors Kitty Randle (Vanessa) and Sarah Fullagar lead a practical performance workshop. Clothes that you find easy to move in are required.

Panel 9 – Creative Responses II

1. Angel in the House – Claire Hynes, UEA
2. A Book for All and None: A Reading – Clare Morgan, University of Oxford.

Panel 10 – Environment

1. D.H. Lawrence and Scientific Knowing – Leo Salter, Cornwall College.
2. Dogs and Monkeys: Flush (1933), Mitz: the marmoset of Bloomsbury (2007) and the New Biography – Bethany Layne, University of Leeds.
3. ‘Something that would stand for the conception’: Sexual allegory and botanical adaptation in Between the Acts and ‘Anon’ – Shelley Saguaro, University of Gloucestershire.

Performance – ShadyJane

A repeat performance in Newton Annex ladies’ toilets, which addresses the image of the drowned woman in art and literature (50 mins).

Extras

An exhibition of work by artist Felix Wilkinson will be held in the University Theatre Foyer throughout the conference: http://www.freewebs.com/felixwilkinson/

By Felix Wilkinson: ‘Stranger’ (below, left) and ‘Toxic’ (below, right):