Second NEWW November meeting
28 November 2008, the international network programme NEWW "New approaches to European Women’s Writing" organised a workshop in collaboration with the Dutch doctoral school Huizinga Instituut (Amsterdam). The theme of this workshop was: Literary Historiography and the "Other". It was the second of a long term series that allows to researchers and graduate students to discuss together various themes.
Meeting place:
Utrecht, Faculty of Humanities:
Drift 23 (near the Janskerkhof), 11.00 – 17.00,
11.00 - 12.30: room 0.12,
13.30 - 17.00: room 1.06.
Program:
- 10.30, room 0.12
Coffee/tea
- 11.00
Anke Gilleir:
Literary Historiography and the "Other": Presentation
- 11.15
Hilde Hoogenboom:
From Bibliography to Canon: Classifying Women in France, England, Germany, and Russia, 1700-2005
- 11.45
Discussion (taking into account the Moretti-article, see below)
- 12.30
Lunch at Drift 17
- 13.30, room 1.06
Anne van Buul, Groningen:
Recycling "old" research material, where "the other" had been left aside
- 13.50
Discussion
- 14.15
Zsuzsanna Varga:
Extending the canon: including Hungarian women into European history
- 14.35
Hanneke Boode, Groningen:
The image of Margit Kaffka in Hungarian literary historiography
- 14.55
Discussion (taking into account the Hutcheon-article, see below)
- 15.15
Tea/coffee
- 15.30
Monica Soeting:
"The first in history, who .....": from surprise to historiography
- 16.00
Discussion
- 16.15
Final discussion: conclusions relevant for other "others" than women?
- 17.00
Closure
Some bibliographical references:
in particular:
- 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.
and for further reading:
- 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.
- Jutta Schlich, Literarische Authentizität. Prinzip und Geschichte. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2002.
AsK, September 2010
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