Image: A portrait of Virginia Woolf (Courtesy of Smith College Museum of Art)
Art, literature, politics and economics will come together this academic year at Duke University with a campus-wide series of events celebrating the contributions of the Bloomsbury Group, a set of British artists, writers and intellectuals that included novelists Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster, biographer and critic Lytton Stratchey, economist John Maynard Keynes, artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and Dora Carrington, artist and critic Roger Fry, as well as political theorist Leonard Woolf.
“The Bloomsbury Group continually challenged conventional wisdom through active and ongoing conversation -- in their art, their writings, their activism as well as in one-on-one conversations in each others’ living rooms,” said Craufurd Goodwin, James B. Duke Professor of Economics and one of the lead organizers of the Bloomsbury project. “We hope to attract a broad audience to this programming that will take part in many of these events, and will see the recurring themes from different perspectives.”
Craufurd Goodwin, (GLS professor and Advisory Committee member) and Diane Pettus, (current GLS student) have brought together departments and groups throughout Duke to offer a wide array of events highlighting the extraordinary contributions of The Bloomsbury Group. |
Professor Craufurd Goodwin with Anne Olivier Bell in Dadie Ryland's Rooms,
Kings College, Cambridge. GLS "Bloomsbury Study Abroad" 2004.
(photo courtesy of Cheryl Bock)
When students in my GLS seminar focus on a challenging question, we find the boundaries between disciplines melting away. We move wherever we need to go to get answers. That is what scholarly inquiry should do all the time but seldom does.
Craufurd Goodwin
James B. Duke Professor of Economics
Professor Goodwin is a member of the GLS Advisory committee. He will offer his GLS seminar, The Bloomsbury Group in Spring 2009.
Craufurd Goodwin talks about the important contribution of The Bloomsbury Goup. Watch video featured in Duke Today.
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Dora Carrington's painting of Tidmarsh Mill (1918)
In spring 2009, GLS alumni Joshua Bond (2008), Jason Chumley (2003), and Naomi Lambert (2006) will perform a staged reading of the Strachey-Carrington letters in conjunction with Duke in Depth: Bloomsbury Vision & Design weekend February 27 & 28 offered by Duke Alumni Association. In addition to the reading, GLS will host a conversation, Bloomsbury and the Liberal Arts as part of the weekend's events. This event marks the kick-off of the upcoming 25th anniversary of Graduate Liberal Studies at Duke University. For details and reservations for these events, visit www.bloomsburyatduke.com
The campus-wide events complement the exhibition, "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collection" on display at the Nasher Museum of Art December 18-April 5. Click on the link to the right for further details of the exhibit and additional Bloomsbury events at the Nasher.
Bookmark this page and check back for program updates. We hope you will attend as many events as your schedule allows for this exciting year of events.
The year of Bloomsbury-related programming is sponsored in part by the Duke University Provost Common Fund, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, Inc., with support from the Duke Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, the Office for International Affairs, the Nasher Museum of Art, the Office of Alumni Affairs, the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, the Women Studies Program and the Program in the Study of Sexualities, the Center for International Studies, the Duke Economics Department, the Center for the History of Political Economy, and the Graduate Liberal Studies Program.
The Nasher Museum exhibition is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. A full-color exhibition catalogue has been produced in conjunction with the show.
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A Year of Bloomsbury Events
A complete listing and more information on the year’s Bloomsbury-related programs and registration guidelines is available online at www.bloomsburyatduke.com.
“ Vision and Design: A Year of Bloomsbury” will include panel discussions, theatrical programs, a film series, an online book chat and a related exhibition at Duke Library’s Perkins Gallery, all taking place between September 2008 and April 2009.
The on-campus programming complements the exhibition “A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections,” organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University in conjunction with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke. The exhibition at the Nasher runs December 18 to April 5.
Visit the On-line Duke Libraries Bloomsbury exhibit, "How full of life those days seemed" at http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/bloomsbury/
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