Full Programme
Conference Programme
35th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference
Virginia
Woolf
and Sound
Woolf
and Sound
Virginia Woolf and Sound
Schedule in Brief
Day One
Wednesday 24 June
Wednesday 24 June
08:30 Registration Opens – Light breakfast and refreshments
09:00–09:30 Opening Remarks
09:45–11:00 Session 1
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–13:00 Session 2
13:00–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30 Session 3
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:30 Keynote Lecture · Anna Snaith · Infrasonic Woolf
18:00–18:30 Performances · Klea Dina & Kirsty Warrick
18:40–19:00 Exhibition Opening & Performative Gesture
19:00–20:30 Reception, Energy Museum Ground Floor
Day Two
Thursday 25 June
Thursday 25 June
08:30–09:00 Registration - Light breakfast and refreshments
09:00–10:30 Session 4
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 Session 5
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30 Session 6
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:00 Plenary Speech · Jean Moorcroft Wilson · Leonard and Virginia Woolf and Music
17:10–18:30 Featured Panel · “What is Commonly Thought Small”: Woolf and Scale · Anne Fernald, Melissa Johnson, and Urmila Seshagiri
18:45–20:30 Exclusive Screening & Conversation with Justine Waddell and Simon Goff · Night and Day — Film Screening
Day Three
Friday 26 June
Friday 26 June
08:30–09:00 Registration - Light breakfast and refreshments
09:00–11:00 Workshops (A–F)
11:00–12:30 Keynote Lecture · Elicia Anne Clements · Affordances of Sound
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30 Session 7
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:30 In Conversation · Anna Snaith & Urmila Seshagiri · The Life of the Violet
19:30–22:00 Conference Banquet · BİZ İstanbul — AKM, Taksim, Beyoğlu
Day Four
Saturday 27 June
Saturday 27 June
08:30–09:00 Registration - Light breakfast and refreshments
09:00–10:30 Session 8
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 Keynote Lecture · Emma Sutton · “Music of a rustic kind”: Goats, Goat Music and Tragedy
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30 Session 9
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:30 Session 10
18:30–20:00 Concert · The Shared Desk: Virginia and Leonard in Their Own Words
20:00 Closing Remarks - Reception
Day Five
Sunday 28 June
Sunday 28 June
All day Tours · Topkapı Palace and Hagia Sophia
24–27 June Site-Specific Performance · Echoes of the Room
24 June – 24 July Exhibition · Virginia Woolf: Echoes Across Shores
24–27 June Silent Auction · Throughout conference days at the foyer in ÇSM Building
Venue & Practical Information
Registration Desk
ÇSM Building, Floor 1. Open from 08:30 each morning. Collect your badge, programme booklet, and delegate materials here.
Refreshments & Breaks
Coffee breaks and light refreshments are served on ÇSM Building, Floor 2. Lunch is provided in the same area except for one outdoor lunch (weather permitting).
Keynote Lecture Hall
Courtroom Hall hosts all keynote lectures and in-conversation events.
Panel & Workshop Rooms
Parallel sessions: ÇSM 201, 202, 203, 204, 205.
Special events and Workshops: Energy Museum Ground Floor, Control Room, ÇSM 404, E1–Green Studio, E3–101, E4–301, E6–101, Event Tent.
Special events and Workshops: Energy Museum Ground Floor, Control Room, ÇSM 404, E1–Green Studio, E3–101, E4–301, E6–101, Event Tent.
Getting Around
All activities take place at İstanbul Bilgi University, santralistanbul Campus. Key facilities are in the ÇSM Building, Energy Museum, and adjacent event spaces.
WiFi Access at İstanbul Bilgi University
İstanbul Bilgi University is connected to the Eduroam network. If your institution is an Eduroam member, you will be able to connect to the internet using your existing Eduroam credentials upon arrival.
If you do not have an Eduroam account, guest access will be provided through the BilgiGuest network. To arrange this, guest accounts have been created using your registered name and email address, and your login details will be sent to you ahead of the conference. Your email address will serve as your username when connecting to the network.
If you have not yet provided your details and require guest access, please get in touch with us at woolf2026@bilgi.edu.tr as soon as possible.
1
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Registration · Sessions 1–3 · Keynote · Performances · Exhibition Opening · Reception
08:30
Registration
Registration Opens - ÇSM Building, Floor 1
ÇSM Floor 2 - Snacks and Refreshments
09:00–09:30
Opening Remarks
Welcome remarks by Prof. Dr. Ege Yazgan, President of the University, and Demet Karabulut Dede, Conference Organiser
Room: Courtroom Hall
Session 1 · 09:45–11:00
09:45–11:00
Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Event
Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Event
Room: ÇSM 204
Lead: Jung-Hsin Hsieh
Open participation — all attendees are welcome to join!
Open participation — all attendees are welcome to join!
Masja Horn De Gruyter Brill
“How Do I Design a Successful Collected Volume? A Publisher-led Workshop”
Led by Masja Horn, Sr Acquisitions Editor Literature & Cultural Studies at De Gruyter Brill, the group will work through the design process of a collected volume, avoid the most common pitfalls and pave the road to a successful collaboration and contribution to the field. Be welcome to join, but be ready to participate.
Peter Cherry British Institute at Ankara
“Applying for the British Academy Grants”
Jung-Hsin Hsieh
Aleyna Durmuş
Özge Öz
Busenur Aslan
Minjung Ha
Selin Akçay
Erasmus BIP Meeting
Erasmus BIP Meeting
Room: ÇSM 205
Undergraduate and Postgraduate students participating in the Erasmus Blended Intensive Programme from İstanbul Bilgi University, Oslo National Academy of Arts and University of Palermo will gather to introduce themselves and discuss their projects. All are welcome to attend.
Anna Rognstad
Antonio Granata
Deniz Lal İldeş
Ecem Naz Güngördü
Elisa Sofia Dirosa
Emilie Korneliussen
Frances Elanur Sağman
Francesca Maiore
Günsu şireci
Nova Lie
Pernille Grimsrud
Şule Yıldız
Tahsin Aladağ
Vincenzo Dinoto
Yağmur şenyurt
Panel 1
Fugue, Form, and the Musical Essay
Room: ÇSM 201
Chair: Vara Neverow
Patrizia Muscogiuri Independent Scholar
“Woolf’s Art of Fugue? The Hegemonic Machine, the (Un)Thinking Viewer, and the Symphonic-Painterly Essay”
Chiara Sciarrino University of Palermo
“Hearing Thought: Bach, Musical Form, and Listening in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out”
Neslihan Ekmekçioğlu Çankaya University
“The Soundscapes Reflecting Nature’s Time: The Musical Fugue Reflecting Characters’ Inner Flow of Time in The Waves”
Panel 2
Modernist Sound Networks
Room: ÇSM 202
Chair: Helen Tyson
Nikolai Vitsyn Independent Researcher
“The Intersections of Sound and Text: Virginia Woolf, Nadia Boulanger, and the Musicality of Modernism”
Helen Southworth University of Oregon
“Breaking the Silence and Resurrecting Ghosts: Maria Chabot Reading Virginia Woolf’s Orlando in El Paso, Texas, in 1932”
Anna Selvey Independent Researcher
“ ‘Life stand still here’: Virginia Woolf and Barbara Hepworth”
11:00–11:30
Coffee Break
Snacks and Refreshments, ÇSM Building, Floor 2
Session 2 · 11:30–13:00
11:30–13:00
Panel 3
Sounding Otherwise: Animal, Social, and Schizophrenic Voices in Mrs Dalloway
Room: ÇSM 201
Chair: Joanne Dexter
Jeanne Dubino Appalachian State University
“Mrs Dalloway’s Urban Animal Soundscape: London as a Zoopolis”
Georgy Liseyev Independent Researcher
“ ‘The invincible thread of sound’: Sound as a Tool of Connection in Mrs Dalloway”
Tahsin Aladağ İstanbul Bilgi University
"Septimus Smith and the Linguistic Sounds of Schizophrenia"
Panel 4
Creaking, Tolling, Erasing: The Sound of Age and Death in Woolf
Room: ÇSM 202
Chair: Cecilia Servatius
Eret Talviste University of Tartu
“The Sound of Aged Bodies in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”
Cynthia Port Coastal Carolina University
“Sounding Time: Aged Consciousness and Acoustic Depth in Virginia Woolf”
Emine Şentürk Akdeniz University
“The Whispering Silence of Death in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway”
Panel 5
Resonance and Resistance: Sound as Affective Force in Woolf
Room: ÇSM 203
Chair: Ilse Verhaegen
Alison Luyten University of Antwerp
“ ‘As if they were floating like flowers on water out there’: The Listening Mind in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction”
Ahmet Ergün Koç University
“Sounds of Suffering: The Traumatic Inhibition of Affective Transmission in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway”
Hyunji Choi Ewha Womans University
“The Politics of Malfunction: Affective Sonority in Woolf and Bae Suah”
13:00–14:00
Lunch
Included in registration, ÇSM Building, Floor 2
Session 3 · 14:00–15:30
14:00–15:30
Panel 6
Beyond the Machine: Sound Technology, Gender, and Modernity
Room: ÇSM 201
Chair: F. Zeynep Bilge
Ruth Clemens Leiden University
“ ‘Beyond a machine’: Woolf, Player-Pianos, and Cyborg Feminism”
Annabel Williams University of St Andrews
“ ‘The bell is pressed and I do not ring’: Service Bells and Silence in Late Woolf”
İpek Ebru Yıldız İstanbul Bilgi University
“Doing Silence: Performativity and Sonic Interruption in Virginia Woolf”
Panel 7
Listening through the Centuries: Poetry and Sound in Orlando
Room: ÇSM 202
Chair: Peter Cherry
Amelia Howard University of Birmingham
“ ‘He need never speak’: The Silence(ing) of the Poet in Orlando”
Paula Maggio Independent Researcher, Blogging Woolf
“The Poetry of Sound in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando”
Margherita Lanza Heidelberg University
“Hearing Time: Sounds in Woolf’s Orlando”
Panel 8
The Sound the Page Makes: Woolf, Media, and Sonic Form
Room: ÇSM 203
Chair: Julie Vandivere
Lois Gilmore Bucks County Community College
“ ‘The memory, the eye, and the ear’: Virginia Woolf and the Permeability of Sound”
Minjung Ha Texas A&M University
“Across Water and Distance: Teaching Readers to Watch in To the Lighthouse”
Berkem Sağlam Çankaya University
“Madness and Sound in The Hours: The Novel and the Film”
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
Snacks and Refreshments, ÇSM Building, Floor 2
16:00–17:30
Keynote Lecture
Anna Snaith · King’s College London
“Infrasonic Woolf”
“Infrasonic Woolf”
Chair: Melissa Johnson
16:00–17:30 · Courtroom Hall
2
Thursday, 25 June 2026
Registration · Sessions 4–6 · Plenary Speech · Featured Panel · Exclusive Preview
08:30–09:00
Registration
Registration - ÇSM Building, Floor 1
ÇSM Floor 2 - Snacks and Refreshments
Session 4 · 09:00–10:30
09:00–10:30
Panel 9
Music as Metaphor: “Rustic Music” and Cultural Translation
Room: ÇSM 201
Chair: Emily Trask
Julie Vandivere Independent Scholar
Safa Saraçoğlu Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania
Marie Saraçoğlu Musician
Panel 10
The Limits of Speech in The Voyage Out
Room: ÇSM 202
Chair: Emma Sutton
Aleyna Durmuş Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University
“ ‘How Communicate?’: Sound and Silence in The Voyage Out”
Kritika Tandon Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
“Resonance, Cadence, and The Voyage Out”
Graham Borland Cambridge University
“ ‘Things people don’t say’: Silence, Religion, and the Politics of the Unknowable in The Voyage Out”
Panel 11
Silences and Failed Communications in Between the Acts
Room: ÇSM 203
Chair: Berkem Sağlam
Andrea Saenz Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
“Not-Writing about War When Writing About It: Silence and Diversion in Between the Acts”
Linda Camarasana SUNY
“Blowing Words Away: Silence in Between the Acts”
James Kearns University of Plymouth
“ ‘Ourselves! Ourselves!’: Hearing Voices in Between the Acts”
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
Snacks and Refreshments, ÇSM Building, Floor 2
Session 5 · 11:00–12:30
11:00–12:30
Panel 12
Politics of Reading and Listening
Room: ÇSM 201
Chair: Özden Sözalan
İstanbul Bilgi University
İstanbul Bilgi University
Esra Zeynep Hacıismailoğlu Boğaziçi University
“Soundscape and Distinction: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway through a Bourdieusian Lens”
Zeynep Türkü Ekşi Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University
“Fragmented Sounds & Woolf’s Song: Reading Mrs Dalloway in the Light of Cixousian Feminism”
Geoffrey Bridgman The Pratt Institute School of Information
“Reading With the Ear: Bibliomania and How Virginia Woolf Transcended a 19th-Century Vision of Loving Books Too Much”
Panel 13
Listening Across Texts: Music and Intertextuality
Room: ÇSM 202
Chair: Elicia Anne Clements
Helen Tyson University of Sussex
“ ‘Carried Away’ — Woolf, Milner and Music”
Selena Özbaş İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University
“Fiddling with the Text: Sterne, Woolf, and the Acoustic Prose”
Jung-Hsin Hsieh King’s College London
“Subversive Echoes in Orlando: Virginia Woolf’s Ambivalent Resonance of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Eighteenth-Century Female Authorship”
Panel 14
Ballet, Sound, Movement
Room: ÇSM 203
Chair: İnci Bilgin Tekin
İstanbul Bilgi University
İstanbul Bilgi University
Fatma Zeynep Bilge Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
“Intermedial Representation of Subjective Time: From Woolf to McGregor’s Ballet Woolf Works”
Nicole Wong Columbia University
“Toward a Polytonal Biography: Orlando, Petrushka, and the Novel as Performance”
Qiyu Chen South China University of Technology
“The Ear without Eyelids: Sonic Porosity, Vibrational Ontology, and Moments of Being in Mrs Dalloway”
12:30–14:00
Lunch
Included in registration, In the Garden
Session 6 · 14:00–15:30
14:00–15:30
Panel 15
No Such Thing as Silence: Different Forms of Silence and the Unspeakable
Room: ÇSM 201
Chair: Siân White
Malcolm Troon University of Sussex
“The Sonic in the Absence of the Ear: Un-listened and Un-Tensed Sounds as the Sentient Amplification of Time ... Passing”
Cecilia Servatius University of Graz
“ ‘There’s no such thing as silence’: the Voice of the Void”
Emily Trask Independent Scholar & Musician
“Echoes of Woolf: Evocations of Music, Memory, Silence, and Self (Presentation + Performance of Three Songs: ‘Moments of Being’, ‘Eye of the Storm’, ‘The Watcher’)”
Panel 16
Whose Voice Is Heard?: A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
Room: ÇSM 202
Chair: Helen Southworth
Noriko Matsunaga Waseda University
“Where Can Judith Speak?: Feminist Noise, Space, and Modernity in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own”
Beyza Güngör Boğaziçi University
“Reclaiming Sound through Silences in A Room of One’s Own”
Victoria Pekala CUNY Graduate Center
“Androgynous Pacifism: Sensory Experience and the Politics of Impersonality in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas”
Panel 17
Collective Listening in The Waves
Room: ÇSM 203
Chair: Veronika Krajíčková
Lennart Posch Robert Schumann Hochschule
“Waving — An Acoustic Essay on Polyphonic Processuality”
Lisa Thomas Delhi University
“Rhythms of Sound and Nature: Ethical Listening and Musical Form in The Waves”
Ge Yunuo Beijing Language and Culture University
“Auditioning the ‘Common Fund of Experience’: Renegotiating Public and Private in The Waves through a Woolfian Poetics of Resonance”
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
Snacks and Refreshments, ÇSM Building, Floor 2
16:00–17:00
Plenary Speech
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
“Leonard and Virginia Woolf and Music”
“Leonard and Virginia Woolf and Music”
Chair: Vara Neverow
16:00–17:00 · Room: ÇSM 202
Featured Panel · 17:10–18:30
17:10–18:30
Featured Panel
“What is Commonly Thought Small”: Woolf and Scale
Room: ÇSM 201
Chair: Davi Pinho
Anne Fernald Fordham University
“Look! Attention and Beauty in Mrs Dalloway”
Melissa Johnson Illinois State University
“ ‘giving movement to the surrounding language’: activating Audra Wolowiec’s Workbook for a Performance (The Waves)”
Urmila Seshagiri University of Tennessee–Knoxville
“Breaking the Sequence”
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Friday, 26 June 2026
Workshops · Keynote · Session 7 · In Conversation · Conference Banquet
08:30–09:00
Registration
Registration - ÇSM Building, Floor 1
ÇSM Floor 2 - Snacks and Refreshments
Workshops · 09:00–11:00
09:00–11:00
A · Ane Thon Knutsen
“Ink-Pot Interventions: A Participatory Performance”
Ane Thon Knutsen
Event Tent
B · Elizabeth Crawford, Sam Young & Yestyn Griffith
“ ‘Intermittent Music’: Sound and Silence in ‘Time Passes’ — An Interdisciplinary Presentation and Performance”
Elizabeth Crawford, Sam Young & Yestyn Griffith
ÇSM 404
C · Ayşe Orhon
“THROUGH – MOVING – IMAGES: Movement Workshop”
Ayşe Orhon
E4 301
D · Stephanie Fernandes
“Virginia Woolf, Can You Hear? On Dalloway, Landscapes and the Sound Ways of Being a Foreigner”
Stephanie Fernandes
ÇSM 202
E · Özay Uyanık
“Marble Painting”
Özay Uyanık
E6 101
F · Semin Turalı
“The Sounds of the Golden Horn — Soundwalk”
Semin Turalı
Meeting Point: Café Nero
Please note that some workshops are now fully booked; however, places remain available for others. You can check availability and register via this link.
11:30–13:00
Keynote Lecture
Elicia Anne Clements · York University, Canada
“Affordances of Sound”
“Affordances of Sound”
Chair: James Kearns
11:30–13:00 · Courtroom Hall
13:00–14:00
Lunch
Included in registration, ÇSM Building, Floor 2
Session 7 · 14:00–15:30
14:00–15:30
Panel 18
The Tension Between Inner and Outer Voices
Room: ÇSM 201
Chair: Jeanne Dubino
Vara Neverow Southern Connecticut State University
“Soundscapes in Night and Day”
Suzana Zink University of Neuchâtel
“ ‘A desire, an echo, a sound’: Self-Sounding in Night and Day”
Hatice Bay Cappadocia University
“The Object Voice in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts”
Panel 19
Sounds and Spaces in Short Stories and Essays
Room: ÇSM 202
Chair: Şima İmşir
Koç University
Koç University
Veronika Krajíčková University of South Bohemia
“Rhythms of Walking: Virginia Woolf and the Peripatetic Theory”
Valery Goutorova University of St Andrews
“The Music Room as Queer Space in ‘Slater’s Pins Have No Points’”
Sookyoung Lee St Lawrence University
“Somatic Sounds in ‘On Being Ill’ ”
Jiuxia Xu The University of Western Australia
“ ‘No picture of any sort came to interpret it’: Sight and Sound in Virginia Woolf’s ‘Three Pictures’ ”
Roundtable
“Virginia Woolf: Echoes Across Shores” Exhibition
Room: ÇSM 203
Derya Sayın İstanbul Bilgi University & Koç University
Bengisu Bayrak Beykoz University
Levent Tökün İstanbul Bilgi University & University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
Mesrure Melis Bilgin Koen İstanbul Bilgi University
Paola Giorgi & Azra Naz Tan Brera Academy of Fine Arts
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
Snacks and Refreshments, ÇSM Building, Floor 2
16:00–17:30
In Conversation
Anna Snaith & Urmila Seshagiri
“Conversation on The Life of the Violet”
“Conversation on The Life of the Violet”
16:00–17:30 · Courtroom Hall
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Saturday, 27 June 2026
Sessions 8–10 · Keynote · IVWS Meeting · Concert · Closing Remarks
08:30–09:00
Registration
Registration - ÇSM Building, Floor 1
ÇSM Floor 2 - Snacks and Refreshments
Session 8 · 09:00–10:30
09:00–10:30
Panel 20
Woolf in Dialogue: Sound and Intertextuality
Room: ÇSM 201
Chair: Jeanne Dubino
Xi Xu Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University
“From English to Chinese Soundscapes: Cultural Translation of Sounds in Mrs Dalloway and The Waves”
Tsung-Han Tsai National Cheng Kung University
“ ‘What was the use (someone asked) of music like that?’: Music, War, and Male Intimacy in E. M. Forster’s ‘Dr Woolacott’ ”
Clara Burghelea University of Texas at Dallas
“Soundscapes and Wordscapes: Music and Literature in Virginia Woolf’s ‘The String Quartet’ and Carl Dennis’s ‘String Quartet’ ”
Panel 21
Phenomenology, Perception, and Sound
Room: ÇSM 202
Chair: Julie Vandivere
Özden Turhan Independent Scholar
“The Sounds of The Waves”
Joanne Dexter Loomis Chaffee School
“Exclamation and Individuation: Woolf’s The Waves and Bernard Stiegler’s Whirlpools”
Uday Kanungo Arizona State University
“Moving Sounds: Acoustics, Ambulation, and Kinesthesia in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway”
Panel 22
Hearing Mrs Dalloway: Cacophony, Radio, and Adaptation
Room: ÇSM 203
Chair: Alison Luyten
Hamutal Dotan University of Toronto
“A Cacophony of Meaning on the Phenomenology — and Serious Function — of Clarissa Dalloway’s Party”
Ilse Verhaegen CVO Encora, Antwerp
“Making Minds Audible in Michelene Wandor’s Mrs Dalloway”
Busenur Aslan Ege University
“ ‘Life like this’: Chorus of Sounds as Modernist Expression in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) and Between the Acts (1941)”
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
Snacks and Refreshments, ÇSM Building, Floor 2
11:00–12:30
Keynote Lecture
Emma Sutton · University of St Andrews
“Music of a rustic kind”: Goats, Goat Music and Tragedy”
“Music of a rustic kind”: Goats, Goat Music and Tragedy”
Chair: Siân White
11:00–12:30 · Courtroom Hall
12:30–14:00
Lunch
Included in registration, ÇSM Building, Floor 2
13:00–13:45
Lunchtime Event
International Virginia Woolf Society Meeting
Room: ÇSM 205
Session 9 · 14:00–15:30
14:00–15:30
Panel 23
Virginia Woolf in Turkey
Room: ÇSM 201
Chair: Vara Neverow
Peter Cherry British Institute at Ankara
“The Noise of Noon: Modernist Soundscapes in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) and Sevgi Soysal’s Yenişehir’de Bir Öğle Vakti (Noontime in Yenişehir) (1973)”
Demet Karabulut Dede İstanbul Bilgi University
“Sound, Rhythm, and Woolfian Influence in Selim İleri’s Bodrum Dörtlemesi (Bodrum Quartet)”
Egem Atik Özyeğin University
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar?”
Panel 24
What the Dog Hears
Room: ÇSM 202
Chair: Veronika Krajíčkov
Zhiyue Ding New York University
“Bark Back: Queer Ears and Canine Voices in Virginia Woolf’s Flush”
Letizia Dolcini University of Trento
“ ‘She spoke. He was dumb’: A Cognitive Perspective on Voiced and Unvoiced Representations of the Self in Virginia Woolf’s Flush: A Biography”
Siân White James Madison University
“The Silent Sound of Gunshot in Between the Acts”
Panel 25
Woolf’s Natural Soundscapes
Room: ÇSM 203
Chair: Cecilia Servatius
Semin Tunalı İstanbul Bilgi University / İstanbul Technical University
“Fluid Realms: Orlando and the Golden Horn”
Francesco Di Perna Roma Tre University
“Listening to the Sea: Water as Sound in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and The Waves”
Teresa Bruś Uniwersytet Wrocławski
“The Soundscapes of Gardens”
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
Snacks and Refreshments, ÇSM Building, Floor 2
36th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference Planning Meeting
Room: ÇSM 205
36th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference Planning Meeting
Room: ÇSM 205
Session 10 · 16:00–17:30
16:00–17:30
Forum
Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation
Room: ÇSM 204
Chair: Ana Carolina Mesquita
Ana Carolina Mesquita
Ana Carolina de Azevedo Guedes
Chiara Sciarrino
Kaio Moreira Veloso
Lisa Thomas
Luiza Moreira Miranda
Ricardo Maciel
Victor Santiago
Vitor Alevato do Amaral
Panel 26
The Sounds in “Time Passes”
Room: ÇSM 201
Chair: Amelia Howard
Kirsty Warrick Independent Scholar & Musician
“ ‘Harmony falters … silence falls’: An Analysis of Nature’s Personification and Aural Landscape in ‘Time Passes’ ”
Yishu Wu University of Oxford
“ ‘A Half-heard Melody’: The Rising and Falling of Sound in Virginia Woolf’s Revision of ‘Time Passes’ ”
Pierpaolo Martino University of Bari
“The Novel as Concert: Listening to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”
Panel 27
Poetics of Sound and Phantasmagoria in Woolf’s Soundscapes and Territories: Brazilian Resonances
Room: ÇSM 202
Chair: Davi Pinho
Lauro Iglesias Federal University of Bahia
“Audible Ghosts: Sound and Phantasmagoria in Virginia Woolf’s Naturecultures”
Maria Oliveira Federal University of Paraíba
“Natural Soundscapes in The Voyage Out”
Nicea Helena de Almeida Nogueira Federal University of Juiz de Fora
“The Poetic Role of Sound in Virginia Woolf’s Short Story ‘A Haunted House’”
Panel 28
Cultural Encounters
Room: ÇSM 203
Chair: Ceyhun Aslan
Koç University
Koç University
Luisa Espindula PUC–Rio
“Through the Window, Time Sounds: The End of Hyde Park Gate News”
Jiwon Choi Chungbuk National University
“Lulling Modernism: ASMR, Bedtime Audiobooks, and Drifting Readers of Virginia Woolf”
Petek Yiğit Ankara University
“Listening as Resistance: Sound, Silence, and Feminine Subjectivity in Mrs Dalloway”
5
Sunday, 28 June 2026
Topkapı Palace and Hagia Sophia Tours
Ongoing Events Throughout the Conference
Site-Specific Performance · 24–27 June 2026
Echoes of the Room
İstanbul Bilgi University, Energy Museum, Control Room
Organised by Duygu Çelik and Papatya Tıraşın
Organised by Duygu Çelik and Papatya Tıraşın
Exhibition · 24 June – 24 July 2026
Virginia Woolf: Echoes Across Shores
İstanbul Bilgi University, Energy Museum Ground Floor
Curated by Demet Karabulut Dede · Derya Sayın · Levent Tökün
Curated by Demet Karabulut Dede · Derya Sayın · Levent Tökün
Silent Auction · 24–27 June 2026
Available throughout conference days at the venue.
Named in honour of our dear friend Suzanne Bellamy, a distinguished Woolf scholar, feminist educator, avant-garde artist, and generous champion of the Woolf community, the fund helps make the Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf more accessible to scholars who might otherwise be unable to attend. In doing so, it carries forward one of Suzanne’s deepest commitments: widening access to the conversations, friendships, and intellectual exchange that make our conference so special.
If you have books, author or editor copies, artwork, handmade pieces, prints, Bloomsbury keepsakes, or any other Woolf-related items you would like to donate, we would be delighted to hear from you. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch at davi.pinho@uerj.br
If you have books, author or editor copies, artwork, handmade pieces, prints, Bloomsbury keepsakes, or any other Woolf-related items you would like to donate, we would be delighted to hear from you. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch at davi.pinho@uerj.br
Booksellers · 24–27 June 2026
The Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation
İstanbul Bilgi University Press
İstanbul Bilgi University Press
Access Copies · by 22 June 2026
Presenter access-copy guidance
To ensure that all attendees can follow along and engage fully with each paper, we ask that all presenters provide an access copy of their text. Please upload your file(s) to the conference Google Drive by 22 June 2026 through this link, so that attendees have time to read ahead and prepare.
There are three common ways to share an access copy:
1. A physical copy brought to the session
2. An electronic copy (e.g. a Google Doc) shared via QR code or direct link displayed on your slides (see Benjamin Hagen's helpful guidelines on using Google Docs; guidance on QR codes; and a QR code generator)
3. An electronic copy uploaded to the conference Google Drive (see uploading instructions on the conference website)
There are three common ways to share an access copy:
1. A physical copy brought to the session
2. An electronic copy (e.g. a Google Doc) shared via QR code or direct link displayed on your slides (see Benjamin Hagen's helpful guidelines on using Google Docs; guidance on QR codes; and a QR code generator)
3. An electronic copy uploaded to the conference Google Drive (see uploading instructions on the conference website)