First NEWW November meeting
November 22 is to take place the first of a series of three meetings to be held in November, and to be organized in the context of the project “New approaches to European Women’s Writing” (NEWW; 2007-2010), in collaboration with the Huizinga Institute / Interuniversity Doctoral School in Cultural History (Amsterdam). The intention is to create opportunities for discussion between researchers of this international networking project and Dutch (or other) Ph.D.-students working in the same field. Discussion should concern current research as it is being pursued, rather than research results.
The theme of this day will be the question of female authorship: “What is a female author ? Who is a woman writer?”. We will continue on the earlier discussion by Michel Foucault: “Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur?” (1969) – but with particular focus on gender aspects, and taking into account research pursued since then, for example, by Nathalie Grande and Alicia Montoya. There is also a very practical discussion to be had: in the context of the NEWW-project decisions must be taken about including – or not – women who wrote in the project’s database (www.databasewomenwriters.nl) ? How to categorize them: as real “writers” or in specific categories of “translators”, “commentators” ? Taking into account contemporary judgments or outcomes of canon formation ? What about these women’s intentions ?
Meeting place:
Utrecht, one of the buildings of the Faculty of Humanities:
Drift 23 (near the Janskerkhof), room 0.12, 10.00 – 17.00.
Program:
10.00
Welcome
10.30
Suzan van Dijk (UU):
Short presentation of the project “New approaches to European Women’s Writing”
11.00
Teresa Sousa de Almeida (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Vanda Anastácio (Universidade de Lisboa):
Networks around 18th-century Portuguese women authors, in particular around the Marquesa d’Alorna (1750-1839)
11.45
Nina Geerdink (Free University Amsterdam):
Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711): another Sappho
12.30
Lunch at Drift 21 (Hall)
14.00
Agnese Fidecaro (University of Geneva):
Reflections around "La femme auteur" by Madame de Genlis (1746-1830)
14.45
Annemarie Doornbos (University of Amsterdam):
"Mrs Bosboom-Toussaint" or "Geertruida Toussaint" (1812-1886) ? Male or female writing ?
15.30
Zsuzsanna Varga (De Montfort University, Leicester):
Margaret Oliphant’s (1828-1897) reconceptualisation of female authorship
16.15
Closing remarks
16.30
Drinks at Drift 21
SvD, November 2007
- The writing side > “What is a female author?”