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Madrid, November 2010



2010, 11-13 November:
Women telling nations
NEWW international conference
University Complutense (Madrid-Spain)
Org. Amelia Sanz, Begoña Reguiero, M.José Calvo

Traditionally and even nowadays, the Academy has conceived literatures in terms of nations, in the frame of printed books culture and canon. In the 21th century we have to think otherwise. Since the three challenges are parallel, it is time to ask how we can think cultures beyond the nation, literatures without the nation, women out of or in the nation, other kind of literary maps for women, as much as new supports for new representations.

The creation of a national identity has been a main issue from 1492 until the Revolutionary times and the establishment of the Nations as States. First, writers working for Monarchies and Empires, and later on, intellectuals creating the idea of Nation, have made strong that identity. The Academy has paid attention to men´s actions in this direction, but what are women doing while the national identities are appearing, from 16th to 19th centuries? In which way are women, as readers and writers, contributing or rejecting to build these imaginary communities? What forms of identification are being developed based on an imagined singularity? The time of the Nations, is it the women's time? And their territories are the women's ones? Due to the circulation of literary materials by reading and writing, what kind of “nations” women are building? What are women's nations in an ethymological sense? How were they telling boundaries in times of national construction in a political and intellectual sense?

During this conference we have looked closely at how women were telling and de-telling stories and Histories, territories and boundaries, literary nations.


Programme



Wednesday, 10 November 2010

16:00 - 19:00
Management Committee Meeting
COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History
(Attendance: only the Management Committee)

Thursday, 11 November 2010

9:30 - 10:00
Women telling Nations
Welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Complutense University
Opening: Suzan van Dijk, Chair of COST Action Women Writers In History

10:00 - 11:00
Lecture: “The Community of Letters and the Nation State: Bio-Bibliographic Compilations as a Transnational Genre”
Hilde Hoogenboom (Arizona State University)

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee offered by the Dean

11:30 - 13:30
Parallel session: Women imagining Nations
Chair: Suzan van Dijk (Chair of COST Action Women Writers In History)

  • Anastácio Vanda (Univ. de Lisboa): “Telling nations before the nation: Portuguese women writers of the 17th Century”

11:30 - 13:30
Parallel session: Women writing Histories
Chair: Nieves Baranda (UNED)

13:30
Lunch

15:00 - 19:00
Women Writers in History COST Action Milestone 1 (part a)
European Women’s Writing: Quantitative approaches – Production

15.00 - 15.30
Suzan van Dijk: Short presentation of the draft of Milestone 1 document

15.30 – 15.45
Maarit Leskelä-Kärki (Univ. of Turku): “Biographical writing as women’s tradition in Finland of the late 19th century

15.45 – 16.00
Inés de Ornellas e Castro (Univ. Nova de Lisboa): “Latine loquor: women acquiring auctoritas

16.00 – 16.15
Zsuzsanna Varga (Univ. of Glasgow): “Women telling nations: Hungarian women writers as translators of European literature

16.15 – 16.30
Sirmoula Alexandridou (Democritus University of Thrace): “Early women's press: a challenge for 19th-century East and Greece”

16.30 – 16.45
Rotraud von Kulessa (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): “Les autrices italiennes et la formation de l’identité nationale dans l’Italie du 19e siècle: Prospetto biografico delle donne italiane rinominate in Letteratura de Ginevra Canonici Fachini (1824)”

16.45 – 17.00
Juliana Jovicic (Univ. of Novi Sad): “Talvjs impact in creating national identity of Germans and Serbians

17.00 - 17.15
Coffee break

17.15 – 17.30
Discussion about the individual presentations

17.30 – 17.45
Viola Capkova (University of Turku)
Outcome of collective reflection Working Group 1

17.45 – 18.15
Marie-Louise Coolahan (NUI Galway)
Outcome of collective reflection Working Group 2

18.15 – 19.15
Discussion in particular about the relationship between the lines sketched in the Milestone document and the individual + WG contributions

Friday, 12 November 2010

10:00 - 11:00
Women telling Nations
Lecture: “Beyond Political Boundaries: Religion as Nation in Early Modern Spain”
Nieves Baranda (UNED)

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break

11:30 -13:30
Parallel session: Women looking elsewhere
Chair: Miriam Llamas (LEETHY Group, UCM)

  • Konstanze Baron (Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies, Univ. of Halle-Wittenberg): “Aurelie’s Vision: Theatre and Politics of the Nation in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre

Parallel session: Women reading locally /globally
Chair: Begoña Regueiro (LEETHY Group, UCM)

13:30
Lunch

15:00 -19:00
Women Writers in History COST Action Milestone 1 (part b)
European Women’s Writing: Quantitative approaches – Reception

15.00 - 15.15
Suzan van Dijk: Short presentation of the document

15.15 – 15.30
Carmen Beatrice Dutu (Dimitrie Cantemir University, Bucarest): “(Re)Shaping Identities in Romanian Mid 19th-Century Culture

15.30 – 15.45
Biljana Doj?inovi? (Univ. of Belgrade): “As a madwoman, I have no country - Milica Stojadinovi? Srpkinja and the ‘national feeling’”

15.45 – 16.00
Ivana Pantelic (Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrado): “Early Modern Women Intellectuals in 19th-century Serbia

16.00 – 16.15
Ivana Zivancevic-Sekerus (Univ. of Novi Sad): “Les Balkans dans les essais d’Isidora Sekulic - d’oronyme à metaphore”

16.15 – 16.30
Katja Mihurko (Univ. of Nova Gorica): “The representations of Slavic nations in the writings of Josipina Turnogra

16.30 – 16.45
Ileana Mihaila (Université de Bucarest): “Dora d’Istria et le printemps des peuples du sud-est européen

16.45 - 17.00
Coffee break

17.00 – 17.15
Tovi Bibring (Bar Ilan University) and Hendrik Schlieper (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
Outcome of collective reflection Working Group 3

17.15 – 18.00
Discussion and preliminary conclusions about final form of the Milestone-1 document

18.00 – 18:45
Kati Launis (Univ. of Turku) and WG-4 members
Presentation of the “Key Women Writers” project

Saturday, 13 November 2010

10:00 -11:15
Parallel session: Women telling frontiers 3a
Chair: Amelia Sanz (LEETHY Group, UCM)

Parallel session: Women telling frontiers 3b
Chair: María José Calvo (LEETHY Group, UCM)

  • Helena González Fernández (Centre Dona i Literatura, Univ. de Barcelona): “La comunidad sin héroes, o cuando lo sentimental articula la nación. Estudio de las ‘viudas de vivos’ de Rosalía de Castro”

11:15 -11:30
Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00
Women imagining Nations
Chair: Dolores Romero (LEETHY Group, UCM)

  • Eulalia Piñero Gil (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid): “Sui Sin Far’s Imagined Nation in Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian and Mrs. Spring Fragrance

13:00
Closure: Amelia Sanz (LEETHY Group, UCM)

14:00
Lunch outdoors



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