Workshop Bucharest 26-28 April 2012

Women’s Writing and the East-West connections within Europe:
Visualizing the channels

COST-WWIH Workshop Bucharest, organized by Ramona Mihaila at Spiru Haret University in Bucharest, 25-28 April 2012.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

25 April

14.00

• Ramona Mihaila
  
  • Welcome
    
    

14.30 – 16.00

Session 1: Comparing between East and West (19th century)

• Nadezhda Alexandrova (Bulgaria)
  
  • West European and East European Women Travellers in Istanbul
    
    

• Tanja Badali? and Aleš Vaupoti? (Slovenia)
  
  • The Reception of Female Authors from East and West European Countries in 19th-Century Slovenia
    
    

• Kerstin Wiedemann (France) and Elisa Müller-Adams (Germany)
  
  • Mapping Europe: Ida Hahn-Hahn’s travel writing (East and West)
    
    

16.30 - 18.30

Working Groups meeting

Visit to the Castle of Marthe Bibescu, Romanion-French author.

26 April

9.00

10.30 – 12.00

Session 2: “Female” Spaces and Places

• Marianna D'Ezio (Italy)
  
  • Venice : International Connections as seen through Elisabetta Caminer Turra’s Europa Letteraria (18th century)
    
    

• Alenka Jensterle-Doležal (Czech Republic)
  
  • Between Vienna and Prague: Slovene author Zofka Kveder and her cultural connections (around 1900)
    
    

• Biljana Doj?inovi? (Serbia)
  
  • East and West in Serbian Women’s Writing (early 20th century)
    
    
    

14.30 – 16.30

Session 3: International “female” influences (19th century)

• Corinne Fournier-Kiss (Switzerland)
  
  • George Sand and the Rottová Sisters (Bohemia)
    
    

• Luiza Marinescu (Romania)
  
  • Fany Seculici connecting Romania to Europe
    
    

• Ivana Zivancevic-Sekerus (Serbia)
  
  • European Romanticism and Dragojla Jarnevi? (Croatia)
    
    

• Aspasia Vasiliki (Greece)
  
  • Alexandra Papadopoulou’s peregrinations as a means of disseminating ideas
    
    

17.00 – 18.00

Discussion about Visualizing: Maps

27 April

9.30 - 11.30

MC meeting

11.30 - 12.30

Using the WomenWriters database

Session 4: Looking from the outside

• Nancy Isenberg (Italy)
  
  • Giustiniana Wynne: inventing Eastern Europe in Italy (18th century)
    
    

• Henriette Partzsch (UK)
  
  • Looking from Spain: Emilia Pardo Bazán and the Dissemination of Russian Literature (19th century)
    
    

16.30 – 18.00

Session 5: International figures (19th century)

• Toril Steinfeld (Norway)
  
  • Dagny Juel Przybyszewska: a Norwegian woman transcending boundaries
    
    

• Michaela Mudure (Romania)
  
  • Queen Elizabeth of Romania (ps. Carmen Sylva): her role and influence
    
    

• Begoña Regueiro (Spain)
  
  • Sofía Casanova: transnational point of a view of a Spanish woman in Russia
    
    
    

28 April

9.30 – 11.30

Session 6: The Influence of Western Ideas

• Katerina Dalakoura (Greece)
  
  • Two women transferring Western educational practices to the Ottoman Greek system (19th century)
    
    

• Malgorzata Dajnowicz (Poland)
  
  • Western women’s rights debated by Polish female authors (19th – 20th century)
    
    

• Sofija Nemet (Serbia)
  
  • The refusal of Western ideas expressed by a woman (Isidora Sekuli?; early 20th century)
    
    

• Magdalena Koch (Poland)
  
  • East, West and the Concept of Feminism in Jelena Dimitrijevi?’s prose (early 20th century)
    
    
    

14.00 – 15.30

Session 7: International Reception Networks

• Amelia Sanz (Spain)
  
  • Internationalizing Authorship: the European circulation of Mme de Villedieu's and Mlle de La Roche-Guilhem's works
    
    

• Alicia C. Montoya (Netherlands)
  
  • The French Enlightenment seen from Eastern Europe: reassessing Mme Leprince de Beaumont’s impact
    
    

• Yvonne Leffler and Gunilla Hermannson (Sweden)
  
  • Swedish Women Writers on Export (19th century)
    
    

• Ileana Mihaila (Romania)
  
  • [Mme de Genlis' Romanian reception]
    
    

16.00
Discussion about Visualizing: other than Maps

17.00
Closure

Organizing this Workshop in Bucharest allows to focus on the ways in which women – as authors – have contributed to establishing contacts between the Western and the Eastern part of Europe: between, for instance, Norway and Finland, Ireland and Russia, Spain and Poland; but also between Budapest and Paris (cf. Emilia Kanya), Bucharest and Domburg NL (cf. Carmen Sylva), Istanbul and London (cf. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu), again: taking these names just as examples..

Which influences were at play here? Increasing travelling possibilities? Need for money? Increasing education? Feminism? Political developments? Growing curiosity? In view of the third Milestone of our COST Action we will continue reflecting on what kind of factors were at stake when women put themselves to writing, publishing and entering into contact with readers. Some of them, and how to enter them in the records, have been discussed during the second COST year. We will find more of them….

On the technological level Visualizing is at stake now: what kinds of "maps, trees, graphs" (cf. Moretti) do we want the programme to generate for us, in view of our really progressing and approaching the questions on a larger scale?

• Maps – showing influences (what kind?) going from West to East and vice versa?
• Graphs – making visible proportions and percentages?
• Trees – illustrating influences exerted by a work, an author, a group of authors? (cf. the present, still primitive, visualizing possibility).
  
  

This Workshop is preparatory to the November meeting, and will help explaining to developers what we need. Discussion will be about authors for whom works and receptions will have been entered into the WomenWriters database.

SvD, March 2012

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