CALL FOR PAPERS: The 5th Korea-Japan International Virginia Woolf Conference 2022
The Korea-Japan Virginia Woolf Conference with the theme, “A Journey to Combine and to Create,” was held at Ewha University in Seoul, Korea on 24 April, 2010, hosted by the Virginia Woolf Society of Korea. It was the first attempt at a scholarly cooperation between the two Woolf societies of Korea and Japan. The conference turned out to be a true Woolfian celebration, promoting mutual understanding between the two different academic cultures. There were 6 speakers: 3 Japanese and 3 Koreans. The speakers and their papers were:
Noriko Kubota (Tsuru University)
“Elizabeth Dalloway’s ‘Chinese Eyes’: Virginia Woolf and the Age of Japonisme”
Young Joo Kim (Sogang University)
“Ethics of Potentialities in Virginia Woolf’s The Years”
Mayuko Nakazawa (Chukyo University)
“‘A Wandering Flame’: Words and Things in Orlando”
Megumi Kato (Tokyo Gakugei University)
“Orlando and the biomedical imagination/technology of age extension in the early twentieth century”
Youngjoo Son (Seoul National University)
“The powers of distance”: Ethics and Aesthetics in To the Lighthouse”
Myung Hee Chung (Kookmin University)
“ Mrs. Ramsay as a Woolfian Character.”
