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Workshop Bucharest 25-28 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

      • note that contributions by colleagues and advanced students of the organiser will also be added: this is a very interesting occasion of creating discussion between Action members and Romanian researchers and students

25 APRIL

14.00 - 14.30

  • Ramona Mihaila
    • Welcome

14.30 – 16.00

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

16.30 -

Visit to the Castle of Marthe Bibesco, Romanian-French author.

26 APRIL

9.00 - 10.00

10.00 - 10.30: coffee break

10.30 – 12.00

Session 2: “Female” Spaces and Places
session president:

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

12.00 - 13.00

  • Astrid Kulsdom (WG 4, Netherlands, Database Editorial Board)
    • Working in the WomenWriters database: demonstration and discussion (questions and items for discussion can be sent before 24 April to Astrid);
    • Handling the large-scale sources, as used (and to be used) in the database.

13.00 - 14.30: lunch

14.30 – 16.30

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

  • Luiza Marinescu (Romania)

17.00 – 18.00

  • Spiru Haret students contributing to the conference


27 APRIL

9.00 - 10.30

Session 4: International Reception Networks
session president:

10.30 - 11.00: coffee break

11.00 - 12.30

  • Discussion about presentations of session 4:
    • how to visualize our research material into maps and networks. Contributing Gertjan Filarski, developer HUygens ING.
    • how to continue working on this material in view of the Milestone 3 conference, to be held in Poznan, November 2012, and to be announced here by Magdalena Koch.

12.30 - 14.00: lunch

14.00 - 15.00

  • Working Groups meeting I

15.00 - 16.00

Session 5: Looking from the outside
session president:

16.00 - 16.30: coffee break

16.30 – 17.30

  • Discussion about presentations of sessions 4 and 5: visualizing our research material.
    • Discussion with contribution by Gertjan Filarski.
    • Facing the further away future: research to be planned, connections to be created, proposals to be/being formulated. Contributions by Henriette Partzsch and Madeleine Jeay.

17.30 - 18.30

  • Working Groups meeting II


28 APRIL

9.00 – 11.00

Session 6: The Influence of Western Ideas
session president:

  • Senem Timuroglu (WG , Turkey)
    • Neither East Nor West: Zeyneb Hanoum, An Ottoman Woman Without A Home

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

11.00 - 11.30: coffee break

11.30 - 12.30

  • MC meeting

12.30 - 14.00: lunch

14.00 – 15.30

Session 7: International figures (19th century)
session president:

16.00 - 17.00

  • WGs meeting III

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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