Check-in/registration for early arrivals begins at 10 a.m.

6:00 Reception for early arrivals

8:00 Film series Woolf in the Reel World - "Mrs. Dalloway," starring Vanessa Redgrave

10:00 Informal discussion - Jordan Common Room - campus housing complex

Thursday, June 5

Registration throughout day

7:15-8:30 Breakfast for those in campus housing

9 -3 Field trip to The Mount, home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, MA (optional)

3:30-4:15 Performance - "A Room of One's Own," with Clare Dalton as Virginia Woolf.

5:00 Conference officially opens. Conference welcome and opening plenary session, Smith College President Carol T. Christ, "Virginia Woolf and Education," and President Emerita Jill Ker Conway (topic to be announced)

6:45-8:45 Dinner reception for conference participants in Book Arts Gallery - Exhibition: "A Pen and a Press of Her Own"

7:00-8:45 Book arts demonstrations: pastepapers - Claudia Cohen; bookbinding - Barbara Blumenthal; typesetting and letterpress printing on the handpress - Hosea Baskin, Art Larson and Michael Russem; wood engraving - Abigail Rorer.

8:30 Film series - THE HOURS - screening of the film plus a sneak preview of the DVD commentary by director Stephen Daldry and novelist Michael Cunningham and other DVD extras

10:00 Informal discussion - Jordan Common Room - campus housing complex

Friday, June 6

Registration throughout day

Book and Art Fair 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m and 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

7:15-8:30 Breakfast for those in campus housing

9:00 Concurrent sessions of presentations begins

2:00 Concurrent sessions

3:30 Refreshment break

4:00 Carolyn Heilbrun interviewed by Susan C. Bourque

5:15 Reception for conference participants in the atrium of the Brown Fine Arts Center- "Vanessa Bell and Bloomsbury Artists"

6:30 Plenary session - Gretchen Gerzina, "Bloomsbury and Race" and Frances Spalding "When are words not enough? Roger Fry and Virginia Woolf"

8:00 Dinner on your own (See Northampton restaurants.)

10:00 Informal discussion - Jordan House Common Room (campus housing complex)

Saturday, June 7

7:15-8:30 Breakfast for those in campus housing

Registration throughout day

9:00 Plenary session - Lyndall Gordon, "This Loose Drifting Material of Life: Virginia Woolf and Biography"

10:30 Refreshment break

10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Book and art fair, Neilson Library, 3rd floor (open to public).

11:00 Concurrent sessions

12:30 Lunch on your own (boxed lunch may be ordered on registration form or see restaurant information)

1:30 Concurrent sessions

3:00 Refreshment break

3:30 Concurrent sessions

3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Book and art fair, Neilson Library, 3rd floor (open to public).

5:00 Break

5: 30 Plenary session - Hermione Lee, "Undiscovered Countries: Woolf, Illness, and Reading" is based on Lee's introduction to the essay "On Being Ill."

7:00 Dinner - Banquet (optional) with entertainment by the Virginia Woolf Players

9:00 Reception for conference participants at Lyman Botanical Conservatory -"Virginia Woolf: A Botanical Perspective," and illumination of gardens and . Hermione Lee will sign copies of "On Being Ill" at the reception.

10:00 Informal discussion - Jordan House Common Room (campus housing complex)

Sunday, June 8

7:15-8:30 Breakfast for those in campus housing

Book and Art Fair 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (open to the public)

9:00 Concurrent sessions

10:30 Refreshment break

11:00 Concurrent sessions

12:30 Lunch (boxed lunch may be ordered on registration form or see restaurant information.)

1:30 Staged reading of Woolf-Strachey letters, directed by Ellen Kaplan, Smith College Theatre Department, with Maghan Flaherty as Virginia Woolf, Shawn Dempewolf-Barrett as Lytton Strachey, and Sean Cote as Leonard Woolf. This event is open to the public. It is last formal event for all conference participants.

4-7 Optional trip to Emily Dickinson homestead and Dickinson sites (THIS TRIP IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. NO ADDITIONAL RESERVATIONS ARE AVAILABLE)

7:00 Dinner (not provided)

10:00 Informal discussion - Jordan Common Room

9-11 Film series - Sally Potter's "Orlando" - open to the public.

Monday, June 9

7:15-8:00 Breakfast for those in campus housing

12 noon Final check-out time for attendees in Smith housing