First NEWW November meeting
November 22 took place the first of these three meetings. The theme of this day was the question of female authorship: “What is a female author ? Who is a woman writer?”. Continuation of the earlier discussion furthered by Michel Foucault's “Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur?” [1] – but with particular focus on gender aspects, and taking into account research pursued since then, for example, by Nathalie Grande [2] and Alicia Montoya [3].
There were also very practical reasons: in the context of the NEWW-project decisions must be taken about including – or not – in the project’s database (www.databasewomenwriters.nl) women who wrote and published. 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
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