The 6th Japan-Korea International Virginia Woolf Conference 2025
Virginia Woolf and Our Future: Mrs Dalloway's Centennial and Beyond
PROGRAM
DAY 1
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
18:00-21:00 Banquet at Tsuki café (1-3-1 Otsuki, Otsuki Yamanashi）
Mini Concert: “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf” by Dominick Argento
Haruka KONDO (Sop.) / Kozo KOBAYASHI (Pf.)
DAY 2
Saturday, August 23rd, 2025
8:50-9:20 Registration (5205)
9:20-9:30 Opening Remarks (5101) Megumi KATO (Organizer of the Conference)
9:30-11:50 Parallel Panels (10:30-10:50 Tea Break)
Panel 1: The Aesthetics of To the Lighthouse (5101) 9:30-
Moderators Hiromi HARADA(1)(2) / Fuhito ENDO(3)(4)
(1) Noriko NISHINO “‘why we should have a snail on the wall’: Virginia Woolf and Collage”
(2) Naoya CHONAN “Woolf's excesses of remembrance: Perception, Memory and World WarⅠin "Mark on the Wall" and To the Lighthouse”
(3) Beth HARPER “Finding new angles at which to enter reality: traditional Chinese aesthetics in Woolf's depiction of Mr Carmichael in To the Lighthouse as Daoist Saga”
(4) Joseph Yosup KIM “Analysis of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse in Light of Mathematical Concepts of Calculus”
Panel 2: Woolf after the 1930s (5102) 9:30-
Moderators Masayuki IWASAKI(5)(6) / Ryunosuke KOMURO(7) / Yasutaka KABUTO(8)
(5) Ryohei HASHIMOTO “Is Flush a Mere Symbol or a Failed Attempt at ‘Otherness’? : Reading Flush Through Embodied Cognition”
(6) Minyoung PARK ““I called that cruel”: Recognizing the Frames of Failure in Between the Acts”
(7) Hyunji CHOI “Disruptive Soundscapes: Political and Affective Dimensions of Sound in Woolf’s Between the Acts and Bae Suah’s works”
(8) Yu NAGASHIMA “‘Poetic’ Woolf/MacNeice and Beyond”
Panel 3: Woolf and Gender (5103) 9:30-
Moderators Yuko ITO (9)(10) / Keisuke SHINOHE (11)
(9) Anna Noelle EGAN “Gender, Class, and Agency: A Feminist Critique of Socialization in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway”
(10) Eri KAI “Beyond “the Future of Monogamy”: Vera Brittain as an Ally in a To-Day and To-Morrow’s Essay”
(11) Reiko KAMIISHIDA “Women’s Suffrage Movement in 1920s and Woolf’s Anti-war Essays”
Panel 4: Intertextuality of Mrs Dalloway (5201) 10:00-
Moderator Sonoko MATSUMIYA (12)(13)(14)
(12) Henry TAM ““Here, this instant, now”: The Ordinary and The Alternative in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Stephen Daldry's The Hours”
(13) Shinhyun PARK “Climatic Ontology and Environmental Sensibility: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Maggie Gee’s The Ice People”
(14) Misako YORA “Beyond the Iron Cage: Efficiency, Marriage, and the Ordinary in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway via D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
11:50-13:15 Lunch at Cafe & Dining ‘tinymany’ at nicot (near 5th building)
13:15-13:30 VWSJ General Meeting (5101)
13:30-15:40 Special Symposium (5101)
“Mrs Dalloway's Centennial and Beyond”
Erica ASO(Chair) “Trees, Gardens and War in Mrs Dalloway”
Joori LEE “Dancing Bodies: Choreographic Translation in Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works (Royal Ballet) and the Novels of Virginia Woolf”
Kunio SHIN “Beyond the Pastoral Elegy: War, Trauma, and Deforestation in Woolf, Freud, and Torquato Tasso”
Mi Jeong LEE “Vertical Woolf”
16:00-17:10 Keynote Lecture (5101) Moderator: Megumi KATO
Max SAUNDERS “The Future and the Novel in the 1920s”
17:10 Closing Remarks (5101)
Youngjoo SON (President of VWSK) / Nobumitsu UKAI (President of VWSJ)
18:00-20:00 Reception at Communication Hall at Tsuru University
DAY 3
Sunday, August 24th, 2025
9:00-15:00 A Short Trip around Mt. Fuji by chartered bus