The 5th Korea-Japan International Virginia Woolf Conference 2022, titled “Rethinking Life, Art, and Virginia Woolf,” will take place on Friday, August 19, 2022.
It will be a hybrid conference, hosted at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea and on Zoom.
Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
Kim Daegon Hall 402
Zoom Meeting ID: 853 1697 4834 / Password: 310019
The program is as follows:
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09:50-10:20 Registration
10:20-10:30 Opening Remarks
Youngjoo Kim (Sogang University, President of the Virginia Woolf Society of Korea)
Tae Yamamoto (Doshisha University, President of the Virginia Woolf Society of Japan)
Megumi Kato (Tsuru University)
10:30-12:00
Session 1: Sensory Experiences
Moderator: Youngjoo Son (Seoul National University)
In the Circle of Wagner Fans: Who Is Richard Wagner for Virginia Woolf?
Joori Lee (Chonnam National University)
Creak, Groan, Sound of Work, and then Half-Heard Melody, Intermittent Music: A Soundscape in To the Lighthouse
Keisuke Shinohe (Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University)
Virginia Woolf’s Flights
Mi Jeong Lee (Seoul National University)
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00
Session 2: Community and Collectivity
Moderator: Ki Yoon Jang (Sogang University)
The Poetic Character and the Ethical Community in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
Seolji Han (Seoul National University)
Collective Ageing Represented in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
Yasutaka Kabuto (Tsuru University)
Discovering the Affective Community of Women Through the World of Fiction in “Street Haunting” and A Room of One’s Own
Sarah Lee (Ewha Womans University–Grad)
15:00-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-16:50
Session 3: Space and Gender
Moderator: Ilsu Sohn (Pusan National University)
“The Angel in the House” and “The Angel in the Battlefield”: Virginia Woolf and Florence Nightingale Icon
Akemi Yaguchi (National Defense Medical College)
Invasion of Private/Imaginative Space in Woolf’s Short Stories
Ken Hatakeyama (Akita University)
Women’s Desires and Experiences of Beauty in To the Lighthouse
Eunha Leem (Chonnam National University–Grad)
16:50-17:20 Open Discussion
Moderator: Ilsu Sohn (Pusan National University)
17:20-17:30 Closing Remarks
Kunio Shin (University of Tokyo)
Boosung Kim (Ewha Womans University)
17:30 General Meeting of the Virginia Woolf Society of Korea
Click on the link below to see the conference poster.