virginia Woolf season 2023-24
Join us for unique seasons of lectures and seminars on the major works of Virginia Woolf. Each session has a live online lecture and seminar via Zoom.
Fourth Woolf Season 2023-24
Live online
Our theme for 2023-24 is Woolf and Freedom. These sessions are all at 6.00-8.00 pm British time:
• Saturday 9 September 2023, 6.00 pm. Lecture 1. Freedom and the Woman Novelist in The Voyage Out (1915), with Karina Jakubowicz.
• Sunday 22 October 2023, 6.00 pm. Lecture 2. War Trauma and Loss of Freedom in Mrs Dalloway (1925), with Trudi Tate. SOLD OUT
• Saturday 11 November 2023, 6.00 pm. Lecture 3. Women and Freedom in To the Lighthouse (1927), with Alison Hennegan. SOLD OUT
• Saturday 9 December 2023, 6.00 pm. Lecture 4. Women’s Freedoms through The Years (1937), with Ellie Mitchell.
• Saturday 6 January 2024, 6.00 pm. Lecture 5. To the Lighthouse (1927), Art and the Freedom of Movement, with Kabe Wilson. SOLD OUT
• Sunday 4 February 2024, 6.00 pm. Lecture 6. A Room of One’s Own (1929): Intelligence and Intellectual Freedom, with Natasha Periyan. SOLD OUT
• Saturday 23 March 2024, 6.00 pm. Lecture 7. Shakespeare’s Sister and Creative Freedom in A Room of One’s Own (1929), with Varsha Panjwani. SOLD OUT
• Saturday 6 April 2024, 6.00 pm. Lecture 8. Freedom of Thought in Woolf’s Essays, with Beth Rigel Daugherty. SOLD OUT
• Saturday 4 May 2024, 6.00 pm. Lecture 9. Freedom of The Waves (1931), with Angela Harris.
• Saturday 8 June 2024, 6.00 pm. Lecture 10. ‘The Essence of Freedom’ in Three Guineas (1938), with Claire Davison.
• Book all 10 sessions for the price of 9. Offer closes 9 September 2023 at 5.00 pm British Summer Time (just before the first lecture). Offer now closed.
Prices
Individual lectures
£32.00 full price
£27.00 Students and CAMcard holders
£27.00 Members of the VWSGB
Full season
£288 Full price for all 10 sessions
£243 Students and CAMcard holders for all 10 sessions
£243 Members VWSGB for all 10 sessions
All prices include VAT at 20%
Recordings
Each lecture will be recorded live and will be available to participants after the live event for up to 48 hours. We hope this will be helpful to participants in various time zones, and to those who want to hear the lecture again. The recordings are available only to people who have booked the session. The seminars are not recorded.
Previous Woolf Seasons
In our first Woolf Season, we studied the complete major works of Virginia Woolf in order of publication, October 2020 to June 2021. You can see the lecture list here, along with the Second and Third Woolf Seasons.
Time Zones
Most of our online sessions are at 18.00 British Time / 19.00 Central European Time / morning or early afternoon in American time zones. Each session lasts a maximum of 2 hours.
Some sessions are held at 10.00 am or 14.00 British Time, for the benefit of participants in Japan, China, Thailand, Korea, New Zealand, Australia, &c. But you are welcome to book for any session, wherever you are in the world.
Summer Time and Greenwich Mean Time: please note that clocks in Britain change from GMT to summer time to GMT on 31 March 2024.
Recordings
Each lecture will be recorded live and will be available to participants after the live event for up to 48 hours. We hope this will be helpful to participants in various time zones, and to those who want to hear the lecture again. The recordings are available only to people who have booked the session. The seminars are not recorded.
If you cannot attend a session you have booked
Please note that, because places are limited, we cannot usually give refunds if you cannot attend a session. But if you contact us in advance, we can usually transfer your booking to a different session.
Zoom link
We will send you a zoom link by email approximately 24 hours before the lecture. If it does not arrive, please let us know by email in good time, at least an hour before the session, so we can re-send.
Woolf Season 5 2024-25
Woolf and Politics
• Saturday 14 Sept. 2024. Lecture 1. Karina Jakubowicz on The Voyage Out
• Saturday 12 Oct. 2024. Lecture 2. Alison Hennegan on Flush
• Saturday 23 Nov. 2024. Lecture 3. Mark Hussey on Politics in Mrs Dalloway
• Saturday 7 Dec. 2024. Lecture 4. Ellie Mitchell on Woolf’s War Diary
• Saturday 11 Jan. 2025. Lecture 5. Danell Jones on A Room of One’s Own and Black Britain
• Saturday 8 Feb. 2025. Lecture 6. Natasha Periyan on Education in The Years.
• Saturday 8 March 2025. Lecture 7. Trudi Tate on Mrs Dalloway and the Vote
• Saturday 12 April 2025. Lecture 8. Varsha Panjwani on The Politics of Orlando.
• Saturday 10 May 2025. Lecture 9. Angela Harris on The Politics of Jacob’s Room.
• Saturday 14 June 2025. Lecture 10. Claire Davison Body Politics and Clothing in Three Guineas
Bookings for Season 5 open soon.
Books
Please support your local bookshop or an independent online shop when buying books for our courses. Map of independent bookshops in England. Online, if you buy through Hive or Bookshop.org, the sale helps to support independent bookshops.
Time Out recommends some independent bookshops in the US.