Patricia Laurence

Is Biography Modernist? Organizer, Moderator, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 2008.

China Book Tour, September 2008:
The Narrow Bridge of Art: Bloomsbury, Modernism and China. Fudan University, Shanghai; East China Normal University, Shanghai; Beijing Bookworm, Beijing.

Modernism's Quarrel with the Lyric Voice: East-West Views. Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 2008.

Waking the Sleeping Books of the Republican Era: Virginia Woolf and Ling Shuhua, Julian Bell and Ye Junjian. Modernist Studies Associatiion Conference, Long Beach, Ca., Nov.2, 2007.

Hours in a Chinese Library: Re-Reading Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury and Modernism. Invited Plenary Speaker, Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Miami University, Ohio, June 8, 2007.

Virginia Woolf and International Women Writers, Moderator, MLA, Washington, D.C., December, 2005

Recording Family History: An Oral History Workshop, Family History Fair, Graduate Center, CUNY, October 24, 2004.

Julian Bell's China Album, Annual Virginia Woolf Conference Institute of English Studies, London, June 27, 2004.

A King’s Quartet: G.L. Dickinson, Xu Zhimo, Julian Bell, Xiao Qian, Modernism and Orientalism Conference, King’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, June 14, 2004.

Literature, History and Social Responsibility. CUNY-Taiyuan Educational Exchange Conference, Brooklyn College, CUNY, June 6, 2004.

Bloomsbury, Modernism and China, China Institute, Library, 125 East 65th St., NYC, April 27, 2004.

History, Memory and Fiction: Ling Shuhua, Virginia Woolf and Julian Bell, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, International Affairs Building, February 10, 2004.

Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Virginia Woolf and Ling Shuhua, Brooklyn College, The Wolfe Institute, November 13, 2003.

Multiple Modernisms, The Graduate Center, CUNY, English Department Lounge, October 24, 2003.