Workshop Belgrade, 14-16 April 2011
The second meeting of the Working Groups of COST Action WWIH took place in Belgrade (14-16 April, after a COST MC meeting on April 13). It was 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 were work meetings for the Action members; yet external visitors were also invited, and were actually present.
During this workshop we continued 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 prepared the November conference ("Milestone 2"). Just as the Turku workshop constituted a preliminary meeting preparing the Madrid conference, this Belgrade meeting relates 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 will have taken place on the basis of their quantitative importance. But the papers presented also discussed the works' "qualities", in particular their degree of “femininity”, “feminism”, “normality”, “transgression”, as perceived by contemporaries.
In relation to this, the links between writing, communicating, networking, embroidery and gender were also 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 also discussed and opposed during the workshop these and other (more or less "typically") 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 tried to understand the women’s degree of (non-)conformity to the doxa, and their willingness to participate in public debate.
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
- Aleksandra Vraneš, dean of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade,
9.50
- Suzan van Dijk:
- From Milestone 1 to Milestone 2: quantitative research as basis
- From Milestone 1 to Milestone 2: quantitative research as basis
10.10
- Discussion (general issues)
10.20
- Ele Carpenter (Goldsmiths College, University of London):
- The Embroidered Digital Commons. Presentation of the 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.
- The Embroidered Digital Commons. Presentation of the 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
- Session I "Networks and Genealogies"
- Chairperson: Vanda Anastacio
- Biljana Doj?inovi? (WG1), Embroidery – textile and/or textual art
- Henriette Goldwyn, Women Writing Women
- Ileana Mihaila (WG4), Des femmes par des femmes
- Zsuzsanna Varga (WG4), Creating a virtual network
- Monica Burguera (WG3), Re-Appropriating Middle-Class Womanhood
- Jenny Bergenmar (WG3), The Network around Selma Lagerlöf
- Biljana Doj?inovi? (WG1), Embroidery – textile and/or textual art
13.00
- Lunch
14.00
- Session IIa "Male-Female Transvesting"
- Chairperson: Henriette Partzsch
- Session IIb "Evaluating Women Authors"
- Chairperson: Gillian Dow
15.30
- Break
16.00
- Session IIIa "Norms and Exceptions"
- Chairperson: Viola Capkova
- Session IIIb "Gender vs. National Identities"
- Chairperson: Hendrik Schlieper
18.00
- Chairpersons of the day: Preliminary conclusions
19.00
- Dinner
Friday, April 15th: discussing the work in progress
9.30
- Presentation and discussion of WomenWriters database and related ICT projects and items:
- GertJan Filarski (see his presentation)
- Astrid Kulsdom
- Carme Font Paz
- Suzan van Dijk
- GertJan Filarski (see his presentation)
11.00
- Break
11.15
- Separate meetings of Working Groups 1, 3 and 4 (see agenda in Action site (uploaded file))
- 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
- Preparing the Chawton meeting in November
- Each WG presenting items and ideas considered important and to be discussed
- 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: Morning session chaired by Ivana Panteli?
- Keynote Lecture
- Aleksandra Vraneš (University of Belgrade):
11.00
- Break
11.15
- Keynote Lecture
- Ele Carpenter:
12.00
- Important announcement
- Biljana Doj?inovi?:
13.00
- Lunch
14.00: Afternoon session (1) chaired by Zorica Be?anovi? Nikoli?
- Presentation of COST Action Working Groups (outcome of meetings yesterday)
- Nicole Pohl:
- Models and Theories (WG1)
- Models and Theories (WG1)
- Hendrik Schlieper:
- Selection and Use of Relevant Sources (WG3)
- Selection and Use of Relevant Sources (WG3)
- Gillian Dow:
- Dissemination and Extension of the Research Network (WG4)
- Dissemination and Extension of the Research Network (WG4)
- Nicole Pohl:
15.00
- Ljiljana Markovi? (University of Belgrade):
15.30
- Closing Lecture
- Suzan van Dijk:
16.00: Afternoon session (2) chaired by Jelena Pilipovi?
- End of the Meeting
- Ele Carpenter:
- The Embroidered Digital Commons. Presentation of the outcome.
- The Embroidered Digital Commons. Presentation of the outcome.
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