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Workshop Belgrade, 14-16 April 2011




The next meeting of the Working Groups of COST Action WWIH will take place in Belgrade (14-16 April, an MC meeting being planned for April 13, at 3.00). It is 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.

The three days are work meetings for the Action members; yet external visitors are very welcome to enter into contact with this Action and its activities. In particular the presentations of Thursday 14 April, and the key-note lectures and other papers of Saturday 16 April will be interesting to them.

During this workshop 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 workshop constituted a preliminary meeting preparing the Madrid conference, this Belgrade meeting will relate to the Chawton conference of November as an (internal) brainstorming session to the presentation of results.

During our second COST year, preparing the 2nd "Milestone", we are focusing on “qualitative and comparative research”. Ideally selection of the texts discussed yesterday will have taken place on the basis of their quantitative importance. But the papers presented will discuss the works' "qualities", in particular their degree of “femininity”, “feminism”, “normality”, “transgression”.

In relation to this, the links between writing, communicating, embroidery and gender will also be researched - on different levels. Knowing that women authors themselves have often been comparing between the (writing) pens and the (sewing or knitting) needles - the latter being judged much more corresponding to "femininity" than the former -, we will also discuss and oppose during the workshop these and other women's activities. The more so because one of the famous literary works of Serbia is actually a text embroidered embroidered by a woman: Jefimija. For her, and other European women, we will try to understand the women’s degree of (non-)conformity to the doxa, and their willingness to participate in public debate.


Provisional program:

Thursday, April 14th: presentations of work in progress

9.30

  • Welcome by
    • Aleksandra Vraneš, dean of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade,
    • Biljana Stojanovi?, COST National Coordinator for Serbia,
    • Biljana Doj?inovi?, Coordinator of the Serbian COST Action IS0901 Team

9.50

  • Suzan van Dijk, Chair of COST Action IS0901: Milestone 1 to Milestone 2 (presentation)

10.10

  • Discussion (general issues)

10.20

  • Ele Carpenter (Goldsmiths College, University of London): Presentation of the Open Source Embroidery Project initiated some years ago, and going on since then in different countries of Europe - a parallel activity, indirectly commenting in a particular way on our scholarly discussions about femininity and the question if writing belongs to it.

10.30

  • Break

10.45

13.00

  • Lunch

14.00

15.30

  • Break

16.00

18.00

    • Chairperson t.b.a.: Conclusions of the first day

19.00

  • Dinner


Friday, April 15th: discussing the work in progress

9.30

11.00

  • Break

11.15

  • Separate meetings of Working Groups 1, 3 and 4 (agenda will be communicated)
  • Chairpersons: WG leaders

13.00

  • Visit to the Museum of Serbian Orthodox Church: Jefimija’s Embroidery

14.00

  • Lunch

15.00

  • Continuing the meetings per Working Group (WG 1, 3 and 4)
  • Chairpersons: WG leaders

17.00

  • Break

17.30

  • Common meeting:
    • Each WG presenting items and ideas considered important and to be discussed
    • Conclusions concerning possibilities for links between WGs
  • Chairpersons: Vanda Anastacio and Henriette Partzsch

19.00

  • Dinner


Saturday, April 16th: "International Female Networks" (presenting the COST Action)

10.00

  • Welcome (Biljana Doj?inovi?)

10.15

  • Keynote Lecture
  • Aleksandra Vraneš: Transnationality

11.00

  • Break

11.15

12.00

  • Important announcement
  • Biljana Doj?inovi?: A new project in Serbian women's literary history

13.00

  • Lunch

14.00

  • Presentation of COST Action Working Groups
    • Viola Capkova: WG1
    • t.b.a.: WG2
    • Tovi Bibring and Hendrik Schlieper: WG 3
    • Gillian Dow: WG4

15.00

  • Ljiljana Markovi?: Reception of European Women’s Writing in Japan till the end of 19th Century

15.30

  • Closing Lecture
  • Suzan van Dijk: Embroidery, networks and networking

16.00

  • End of the Meeting
  • Ele Carpenter: Presentation of outcome of the Open Source Embroidery project






SvD, March 2011




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