Woolf Conference 2025

THE 6TH JAPAN-KOREA INTERNATIONAL VIRGINIA WOOLF CONFERENCE 2025

Virginia Woolf and Our Future:

Mrs Dalloway's

Centennial and Beyond

5th Building at Tsuru University, Yamanashi, Japan

August 22nd-24th, 2025

Poster of The 6th Japan-Korea International Virginia Woolf Conference 2025

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Virginia Woolf and Our Future:

Mrs Dalloway’s Centennial and Beyond

Held at Tsuru University, Yamanashi, Japan, “Virginia Woolf and Our Future: Mrs Dalloway’s Centennial and Beyond” is the 6th Japan-Korea International Virginia Woolf Conference 2025 organized by the Virginia Woolf Society of Japan and co-hosted by the Virginia Woolf Society of Korea and the 45th conference of the Virginia Woolf Society of Japan. The aim of the conference is to think about our future by reappraising the works of Virginia Woolf.

The year 2025 marks 100 years since the publication of Mrs Dalloway and 80 years since the end of the World WarⅡ. Over the past century, while the world has undergone drastic changes due to scientific and technological advances and globalization, humanity has been facing the tragedies of war and the disparity between the rich and the poor, in addition to the climate change and population crisis. The age of modernization in interwar Britain that Woolf went through was also the time of crisis. We are particularly interested in how Woolf leads us to reconsider the narratives of our life, society, technology, art and environment by encouraging interdisciplinary thinking in uncertain times.

Featured Lecture

Professor Max Saunders

‘The Future and the Novel in the 1920s’

Professor MAX SAUNDERS is Interdisciplinary Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1996); Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature (OUP 2010); Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31 (OUP 2019) and Ford Madox Ford: Critical Lives (Reaktion, 2023). He has edited The To-day and To-morrow Reader: Future Speculations from the 1920s and early 1930s (Routledge, 2024); Alfred Cohen – An American Artist in Europe: Between Figuration and Abstraction (with Sarah MacDougall; Alfred Cohen Art Foundation / Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, 2020); and (with Lisa Gee) Ego Media: Life Writing and Online Affordances (Stanford University Press, 2023).

Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31 (Oxford, 2019)

The To-day and To-morrow Reader: Future Speculations from the 1920s and Early 1930s (Routledge, 2024)

Special Symposium

'Mrs Dalloway's Centennial and Beyond'

Prof. Erica ASO

Aoyama Gakuin University

Erica Aso is a professor in the Department of English at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. She is interested in the representation of war, peace, and nature in British novels. Her articles on the works of Virginia Woolf, J. G. Ballard and Kazuo Ishiguro are included in: Feminism Unfinished: Language, Desire, and “Working” Women (in Japanese, co-editor, 2016), Writing is Resistance: World War II and British Women Writers (in Japanese, 2023) and Japanese Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro (2024).

Prof. Joori LEE

Chonnam National University

Joori Joyce Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Chonnam National University. Her teaching and research focus on 20th- and 21st-century English literature and world literature. Currently, she is working on a study that explores testimonial literature, posing the research question: How can political literature engage a sense of beauty? In addition to her academic research, she is preparing to publish a Korean translation of Silas Marner by George Eliot.

Prof. Kunio SHIN

University of Tokyo

Kunio Shin is an associate professor of English at the University of Tokyo. His articles are published or forthcoming in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies, Literature Compass, Modernist Cultures, and Studies in English Literature. He is also a Japanese translator of Fredric Jameson’s The Archaeology of the Future and Raymond Williams’s Orwell.

Prof. Mi Jeong LEE

Seoul National University

Mi Jeong Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Seoul National University, in South Korea, where she teaches modern and contemporary British literature. Mi Jeong’s research interests are spatiality, forms of the global, ecological scale, and global/Korean modernism(s). Her work has appeared in Journal of Modern Literature, Studies in the Novel, and elsewhere.

Day 1

August 22, 2025

Registration & BanquetOptional Pre-event

Day 2

August 23, 2025

The 6th Japan-Korea International Virginia Woolf Conference 2025

Day 3

August 24, 2025

Short Trip around Mt.FujiOptional Excursion

Venue

https://70th.tsuru.ac.jp

Tsuru University is a public university with a 70-year history in humanities and education. We are honored to announce that this conference is held as one of the events celebrating 70th Anniversary of Tsuru University.

The university and the Virginia Woolf Society of Japan will welcome you to explore our campus surrounded by nature, located close to Mount Fuji, the World Heritage Site.

5th Building at Tsuru University

https://www.tsuru.ac.jp/site/english/177.html

Address: 3-8-1 Tahara, Tsuru-shi, Yamanashi-ken 402-8555

Conference Participation Fees

Registration:《VWSJ VWSK Members》Free

《Non-Members》[Full-time/Part-time] ¥15000 [Students] ¥5000

Banquet /Dinner Party/Mt.Fuji Tour: [Full-time/Part-time] ¥6000 each [Students] ¥3000 each

Lunch box on Saturday, August 23rd ¥1,000 yen

Chartered bus

(1) Otsuki Hotel (8:00) - Tsuru University (8:35) 1,000 yen

(2) Tsuru University Station (9:00) - Tsuru University (9:10) Free

(3) Tsuru University (20:00) - Otsuki Station (20:35) - Otsuki Hotel (20:50) 1,000 yen

Registration & Reservations

[ Registration/Banquet /Dinner Party/Mt.Fuji Tour ]

All participants are required to register from here !

[Bus & Lunch Choices] https://forms.gle/HrW2qd8ZDQMQtwnq8

Lunch at tinymany café

[ Menus Choices ]

Order your lunch in advance from the link below.

https://forms.gle/HrW2qd8ZDQMQtwnq8

・Lunch will be provided in the form of a lunch box at the tinymany café, a 4-minute walk from the conference venue. You can eat it in the cafe, in the open space, or in the classroom in Building 5 where the conference will be held.

・If you are busy running the conference or preparing for your afternoon presentation, or would like to avoid traveling in the scorching heat, student helpers will bring the lunch boxes to the classroom. Please fill out the form above with your request.

・You can enjoy local venison from Yamanashi in the gibier sandwich.

・Please order your own drinks at the café. (Cold water is free.)

・Coffee, tea, snacks, etc. will be available in the lounge in 5th Building.

Itinerary of a Shor Trip around Mt. Fuji on August 24th

The itinerary of Mt. Fuji tour on August 24th has been decided. We will move from the hotel to Lake Kawaguchi, and first enjoy the spectacular view of Mt. Fuji and Lake Kawaguchi from Oishi Park, then experience the beauty of Japanese artistic Kimono at Itchiku Kubota Art Museum（https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e6912.html）.

We have prepared a compact but fulfilling course that includes a lunch of Yamanashi specialty hoto noodles, and finally a refreshing view of the spring-fed ponds of Mt. Fuji at Oshino Hakkai. We hope that many people will participate. Please apply through the registration form by 8/3.

Toyoko INN Hotel 08:30 ══ 09:20 Oishi Park 09:45 ══ 10:00 Itchiku Kubota Art Museum 11:15 ══ 11:35 Houtou Restaurant (Lunch) 12:30 ══ 13:00 Oshino Hakkai 13:50 ══ 14:40 Otsuki Station

Accomodation

For accommodation, please book the following hotel, Yamanashi Toyoko Inn Fujisan Otsuki-eki（東横イン富士山大月駅 / 토요코인 후지산 오쓰키 에키), respectively for the two nights 22-24 Aug. Booking starts on 22/23 March . Cancellation is free until noon on the day of your stay, so early booking is recommended if you wish to attend the conference.

https://www.toyoko-inn.com/search/detail/00329?lcl_id=en

Toyoko Inn Fujisan Otsuki-eki

2-3-1 Mitachi, Otsuki City, Yamanashi 401-0012 Japan

TEL: +81-(0)554-21-2045

Googlemap https://goo.gl/maps/SHqs8vfab6m5paJcA

Organizing Members

Megumi KATO Tsuru University

Akemi YAGUCHI National Defense Medical College

Sonoko MATSUMIYA Kwansei Gakuin University

Keisuke SHINOHE Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University

Hiromi HARADA NIT, Kitakyushu College

Ryunosuke KOMURO Tsuru University

Yasutaka KABUTO Tsuru University

This conference is organized by

the Virginia Woolf Society of Japan

co-hosted by the Virginia Woolf Society of Korea

supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 24K03750 & Tsuru Univeristy

Important Dates

March 31, 2025: Deadline for Abstract Submission

April 30, 2025: Notification of Acceptance

August 22, 2025: Banquet (Optional Pre-event)

August 23, 2025: The 6th Japan-Korea International Virginia Woolf Conference

August 24, 2025: A Short Trip around Mt. Fuji (Optional Excursion)

Application

already closed on April 1st, 2025

Please send the title of the paper, an abstract of 250 words and a 5-line biography of the presenter together with the contact details, to the conference organizing committee at jk.vwoolf.conference@gmail.com by March 31st, 2025. Non-members may apply for presentations and participations if they have a referral from a member of either society. Acceptance notices will be sent out by email by April 30th, 2025. For further inquiries, please contact the organizing committee.

Call for Papers

We invite papers addressing the theme of “Virginia Woolf and Our Future: Mrs Dalloway’s Centennial and Beyond” from Woolf scholars, students and readers. You can discuss Woolf’s works other than Mrs Dalloway. We hope that this will provide an opportunity to explore and build a sustainable future in the broadest sense.

Possible Topics

Conference language is English. Oral presentations will last 20 minutes and the question period 10 minutes. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• modernism

• war, violence and peace

• life writing

• narratives around care and age

• anthropocene and environment

• technology and networking

• biopolitics and bioethics

• literature, visual arts, music, and other forms of art

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