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| - | 2nd NEWW-November-meeting : Literary Historiography and the "Other". <br><br> | + | 28 November 2008, the international network programme NEWW "New approaches to European Women’s Writing" organises a workshop in collaboration with the Dutch doctoral school ''Huizinga Instituut'' (Amsterdam). This is the second of a long term series that allows the network researchers to discuss various themes of their research project. Graduate students are invited to participate and to propose papers. <br><br> |
| - | The international network programme NEWW "New approaches to European Women’s Writing" organises a workshop in collaboration with the Dutch doctoral school Huizinga Instituut (Amsterdam). This is the second of a long term series that allows the network researchers to discuss various themes of their research project with graduate students in order to get some input and reflexion. This year’s workshop will take place 28th November 2008. <br><br> | + | The theme of this workshop will be: '''Literary Historiography and the "Other"'''. Discussion will be about historiography and the question of "cultural heritage": how did our present day knowledge of historical literature get established and how did it present and represent "others" (women as well as other "others")<br><br> |
| - | The main theme of this workshop is, as the title indicates, literary historiography and the question of "cultural heritage": how did our present day knowledge of historical literature get established and in what sense does literary criticism reflect this? Obviously as children of the 21st century we know that history is a construction. Philosophy of history has investigated into history as a textual practice (H. White, F. Ankersmit), we have learned how collective memories are formed and institutionalized (A. Assmann), we realize that both on collective and individual level memory functions in a spatio-temporal context, we have come to estimate the impact of trauma, we know that traditions are invented (E. Hobsbawm), that concepts such as "origin" and "generation" are not mere facts of nature but highly functional terms in the process of community formation, terms that may blur diversity and incompatibility of historical experience (S. Weigel). At the end of the addition we are extremely conscious, yet how does it influence our practice as scholars in literary history? <br><br> | + | Obviously as children of the 21st century we know that history is a construction. Philosophy of history has investigated into history as a textual practice (H. White, F. Ankersmit), we have learned how collective memories are formed and institutionalized (A. Assmann), we realize that both on collective and individual level memory functions in a spatio-temporal context, we have come to estimate the impact of trauma, we know that traditions are invented (E. Hobsbawm), that concepts such as "origin" and "generation" are not mere facts of nature but highly functional terms in the process of community formation, terms that may blur diversity and incompatibility of historical experience (S. Weigel). At the end of the addition we are extremely conscious, yet how does it influence our practice as scholars in literary history? <br><br> |
| - | Our workshop addresses questions on the kinds of literature we deal with, on how much – in spite of every possible form of reflexion - we take for granted the canonical inheritance in spite of all sorts of ideological awareness. PhD-students who address this matter either as their main research question or as a side-glance are invited to present their reflexions in our workshop, in which senior researchers will also participate. <br><br. | + | Our workshop addresses questions on the kinds of literature we deal with, on how much – in spite of every possible form of reflexion - we take for granted the canonical inheritance in spite of all sorts of ideological awareness. PhD-students who address this matter either as their main research question or as a side-glance are invited to present their reflexions in our workshop (send an e-mail to Suzan.vanDijk@let.uu.nl), in which senior researchers will also participate. <br><br. |
| - | 28th November 2008, 11 :00 – 17 :00. The meeting will take place in Utrecht, in one of the buildings of the Faculty of Humanities: Drift 23 (near the Janskerkhof), room 0.12.<br><br> | ||
| - | Anke Gilleir, Alicia Montoya, Suzan van Dijk | + | '''Meeting place:'''<br><br> |
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| - | Some bibliographical references:<br><br> | + | Utrecht, Faculty of Humanities:<br> |
| + | Drift 23 (near the Janskerkhof), room 0.12, 10.00 – 17.00.<br><br><br> | ||
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| + | '''Some bibliographical references:'''<br><br> | ||
| * Aleida Assmann, ''Vergessene Texte''. Konstanz: UVK Univers. Verlag.<br> | * Aleida Assmann, ''Vergessene Texte''. Konstanz: UVK Univers. Verlag.<br> | ||
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| - | Op 28 november organiseert de werkgroep “New approaches to European Women’s Writing” de tweede van een serie jaarlijkse bijeenkomsten waar de leden de gelegenheid krijgen om een voor het gezamenlijke onderzoek relevante kwestie te bespreken: onderling én met Huizinga-promovendi die zich met deze materie bezighouden – volgens een binnen het Huizinga Instituut inmiddels beproefde methode. Voor deze bijeenkomsten worden ook collega’s uitgenodigd die deel uitmaken van het internationale samenwerkingsverband; de voertaal zal dan ook Engels zijn.<br><br> | ||
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| - | Thema voor deze bijeenkomst zal zijn: de geschiedenis van de historiografie inzake vrouwelijke schrijvers. Hoe werden schrijfsters herinnerd en gepresenteerd vóór het begin van de 20e eeuw, en in het bijzonder vóórdat Virginia Woolf zich distancieerde van de tot dan min of meer gangbare presentatie (zie bijvoorbeeld deze [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/reception.asp?receptionID=17042 recensie] van een biografie van Elisabeth Gaskell). De bedoeling is om voor verschillende Europese landen deze vroegste geschiedschrijvers van vrouwenliteratuur - in Frankrijk bijvoorbeeld de abbé de La Porte, auteur van de ''Histoire littéraire des [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=¬esfield=&pseudonym=1&personal=&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&bibliography=la%20porte&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn femmes françaises]'' (1769); in Nederland A.J. van der Aa, auteur van ''Parelen uit de lettervruchten van Nederlandsche [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=¬esfield=&pseudonym=1&personal=&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&bibliography=parelen&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn dichteressen]'' (1856) - te bespreken en om met name ook in te gaan op de onderlinge verschillen. Promovendi/dae wier onderzoek raakt aan deze kwesties worden hartelijk uitgenodigd om een voorstel toe te sturen. <br><br><br> | ||
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Second NEWW November meeting
28 November 2008, the international network programme NEWW "New approaches to European Women’s Writing" organises a workshop in collaboration with the Dutch doctoral school Huizinga Instituut (Amsterdam). This is the second of a long term series that allows the network researchers to discuss various themes of their research project. Graduate students are invited to participate and to propose papers.
The theme of this workshop will be: Literary Historiography and the "Other". Discussion will be about historiography and the question of "cultural heritage": how did our present day knowledge of historical literature get established and how did it present and represent "others" (women as well as other "others")
Obviously as children of the 21st century we know that history is a construction. Philosophy of history has investigated into history as a textual practice (H. White, F. Ankersmit), we have learned how collective memories are formed and institutionalized (A. Assmann), we realize that both on collective and individual level memory functions in a spatio-temporal context, we have come to estimate the impact of trauma, we know that traditions are invented (E. Hobsbawm), that concepts such as "origin" and "generation" are not mere facts of nature but highly functional terms in the process of community formation, terms that may blur diversity and incompatibility of historical experience (S. Weigel). At the end of the addition we are extremely conscious, yet how does it influence our practice as scholars in literary history?
Our workshop addresses questions on the kinds of literature we deal with, on how much – in spite of every possible form of reflexion - we take for granted the canonical inheritance in spite of all sorts of ideological awareness. PhD-students who address this matter either as their main research question or as a side-glance are invited to present their reflexions in our workshop (send an e-mail to Suzan.vanDijk@let.uu.nl), in which senior researchers will also participate.
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Meeting place:
Utrecht, Faculty of Humanities:
Drift 23 (near the Janskerkhof), room 0.12, 10.00 – 17.00.
Some bibliographical references:
- Aleida Assmann, Vergessene Texte. Konstanz: UVK Univers. Verlag.
- Walter Benjamin, "Ausgraben und Erinnern", in : Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Timan Rexroth. Frankfurt : Suhrkamp, 1972, IV/1.
- Susan A. Crane, "Writing the Individual Back into Collective Memory", in: American Historical Review, 1997, 102/5.
- Amanda Gaily, "How Anthologists Made Dickinson a Tolerable American Woman Writer", in: The Emily Dickinson Journal, 2005, XIV/1.
- Linda Hutcheon, "Interventionist literary histories: nostalgic, pragmatic, or utopian", in: Modern Language Quarterly, 1998, 59/4.
- Franco Moretti, "The slaughterhouse of literature", in: "Modern Language Quartely", 2000, 61/1.
- Jutta Schlich, "Literarische Authentizität. Prinzip und Geschichte". Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2002.
SvD, July 2008
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