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| During these days, there will also be a parallel activity, indirectly commenting in a particular way on our scholarly discussions about femininity and the question if writing belongs to it: participating in the [http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk/EDC.htm Open Source Embroidery Project] initiated some years ago by Ele Carpenter, and going on since then in different countries of Europe.<br><br> | During these days, there will also be a parallel activity, indirectly commenting in a particular way on our scholarly discussions about femininity and the question if writing belongs to it: participating in the [http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk/EDC.htm Open Source Embroidery Project] initiated some years ago by Ele Carpenter, and going on since then in different countries of Europe.<br><br> | ||
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Workshop Belgrade, 14-16 April 2011
The next meeting of the Working Groups of COST Action WWIH will be entitled: “International Female Networks”. It will take place in Belgrade (14-16 April, an MC meeting being planned for April 13), and will be organized by Biljana Dojcinovic, in collaboration with other members of the Serbian team of COST Action IS0901, and the Faculty of Philology of the Belgrade University.
In this meeting we will continue the presentations and discussions of the first COST year, from which we have tried to draw some conclusions ("Milestone 1"); at the same time we will prepare the November conference ("Milestone 2"). Just as the Turku meeting constituted a preliminary meeting preparing the Madrid conference, this Belgrade meeting will relate to the Oxford conference (November) as an (internal) brainstorming session to the presentation of results.
Entering our second COST year, we now start preparing the 2nd Milestone. In this second phase we will be focusing on “qualitative and comparative research”. Ideally selection of the texts to be analysed and compared will have taken place on the basis of their quantitative importance. These texts will be discussed on their degree of “femininity”, “feminism”, “normality”, “transgression” – as intended apparently by the authors and/or as perceived by contemporary readers. Comparisons (by the authors themselves or by their readers) with other female activities than writing (such as: helping others; educating; sewing or embroidery) may be focused on, in order to understand the women’s degree of (non-)conformity to the doxa, and their willingness to participate in public debate.
For discussion of these questions a certain number of narrative elements will be particularly useful (as far as novels and stories are concerned): those which present:
- Women’s role in society according to current norms, or deviant from them;
- Marriage and refusal to marry;
- “Normal” clothing and travesty;
- “Normal” sexuality and deviation from norms;
- “Normal” and “abnormal” women’s activities;
- More generally: norms concerning women’s behavior as respected by female authors and their characters (male as well as female).
You are invited to find these kinds of elements in the women’s texts you are studying, and in the comments on the women’s texts by contemporary readers. Narrative topoi such as those studied within SATOR (Société pour l’Analyse de la TOpique Romanesque, see www.satorbase.org) for pre-1800 French literature are considered as providing good possibilities for tracing and selecting relevant fragments.
All members of this COST Action are invited to send - before January 5 - proposals for papers to be presented during this meeting. The exact program of which will largely depend on your own contributions. We plan two days of work with the Working Group members, and a third day, which will be a more “open” event (Saturday,16th): three keynote speakers will discuss the three elements of the meeting’s title – central aspects of our Action: “networking”, “transnationality”, “femininity”.
During these days, there will also be a parallel activity, indirectly commenting in a particular way on our scholarly discussions about femininity and the question if writing belongs to it: participating in the Open Source Embroidery Project initiated some years ago by Ele Carpenter, and going on since then in different countries of Europe.
Provisional program of the meeting.
SvD, January 2011
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