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-== COST Action ==+== COST Action IS0901 ==
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-''Abstract:''<br>+The NEWW project has been instrumental in preparing a European-wide '''[http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS0901-Women-Writers-in-History-Toward-a-New-Understanding-of-European-Literary-Culture-End-date-May-2013 COST Action]''' entitled :<br><br>
-The historiography of literature needs renewal. In particular women’s contribution to European literary practice must be accounted for in a much more adequate way than current literary histories do. This COST Action lays the foundations for an innovative European-scale approach. The neglect of women as cultural agents is indeed an international phenomenon, directly relating to gender inequality in modern societies. International cooperation is needed in order to change things and demonstrate that women’s growing presence, since the Middle Ages, prepared the way for their massive entrance into the "literary field" (Bourdieu) during the 20th century.<br><br>+'''Women Writers in History:''' <br>
 +'''Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture'''.<br><br>
-Using recent theoretical insights (Moretti, Hutcheon, Valdés) and new technological means, the Action prepares avenues for collective research by organizing a strong network of European (and other) researchers. This network mirrors the trans-national relationships that existed between and around women authors. Participants are working in an online virtual collaboratory where – as a major contribution to revolutionary Humanities-research – they share and analyse texts and source material.<br><br>+The first meeting of the Management Committee, with members representing the fifteen European countries then involved, was held in Brussels on 1 and 2 October 2009. This collaborative Action will last four years and will be financed by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). This is an excellent opportunity for the NEWW network, which seeks to renew literary historiography from a gender and a transnational perspective. The COST Action will allow the extension of the existing network and the preparation of a large scale research project in which European (and other) scholars (present and future NEWW members) will further collaborate – in the real and virtual world. <br><br>
-At the end of the Action the network will be ready to carry out a large European research programme that contributes to a more balanced picture of – western and eastern – Europe’s cultural heritage.<br><br><br>+The aim of this COST Action of course corresponds to the NEWW objectives. It is: to lay the groundwork for a new history of European women’s participation in the literary field of the centuries before 1900. What was these women’s influence? Which active roles did they play as authors and readers in the broadest sense of the word, i.e. including their roles as transcribers, translators, mediators and educators? What happened to them when they fell into the hands of 19th-century canonizers? How is their disappearance from literary history to be explained? <BR><BR>
-'''More information soon'''. <br>+The COST Action will further develop the [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl database ''WomenWriters''] into a broad Research Infrastructure, allowing researchers to stock and manipulate data concerning the contemporary reception of women’s writing, and to apply different research models to these data.<br><br>
-'''See also [http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS0901-Women-Writers-in-History-Toward-a-New-Understanding-of-European-Literary-Culture-End-date-May-2013 COST website]'''. <br> <br>+
 +Particular attention will be paid to women’s participation in transnational cultural dynamics and to the overlooked role of “smaller”, less internationally known literatures within the larger European context. This interdisciplinary research will lead to a new way of looking at Europe’s literary past – male and female –, which also implies a different perspective on Europe’s present. <br><br>
 +*'''Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary of this Action, based at Huygens Institute The Hague (NL):''' <br>
 +**[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Suzan_van_Dijk%2C_Utrecht_University Suzan van Dijk],<br>
 +**[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Vanda_Anastacio Vanda Anastacio], <br>
 +**[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Marie-Louise_Coolahan Marie-Louise Coolahan].<br><br>
 +*'''Working Group leaders:'''<br>
 +**[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Viola_Parente-Capkova Viola Parente-Capkova],<br>
 +**[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Marie-Louise_Coolahan Marie-Louise Coolahan], <br>
 +**[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Tovi_Bibring Tovi Bibring],<br>
 +**[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Gillian_Dow Gillian Dow].<br><br>
 +*'''Universities currently represented in the Action’s Management Committee:''' <br>
 +**Universiteit Gent, Université de Liège (Belgium), <br>
 +**University of Southern Denmark,<br>
 +**University of Turku (Finland), <br>
 +**Université Nancy 2 (France),<br>
 +**Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Trier (Germany),<br>
 +**National University of Ireland Galway, <br>
 +**Bar Ilan University (Israël), <br>
 +**University of Utrecht, University of Groningen (Netherlands), <br>
 +**Volda University College, University of Oslo (Norway),<br>
 +**Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade Nuova de Lisboa (Portugal),<br>
 +**University of Bucarest, University of Cluj (Romania), <br>
 +**University of Belgrade (Serbia),<br>
 +**University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia),<br>
 +**Universidad Complutense Madrid, University of Valencia (Spain),<br>
 +**University of Bern, Université de Genève, Université de Lausanne (Switzerland),<br>
 +**University of Southampton, Oxford Brookes University (United Kingdom).<br><br>
-SvD, 27 June 2009+Colleagues researchers in other countries not mentioned, willing to collaborate, can take contact with Chair, Vice-Chair or Secretary mentioned above. <br><br>
 + 
 +In the [http://www.costwwih.net Action website] COST members can communicate together. Important COST announcements also here such as:<br><br>
 + 
 +*'''Calendar of dates and meetings:'''<br>
 +** 26 May 09: <br>announcement of approval proposal of COST Action <br>
 +** 12-13 July 09, Lisbon: <br>meeting of the Portuguese group (PWW), organised by Vanda Anastacio <br>
 +** 1-2 October 09, Brussels: <br>first meeting of the Management Committee<br>
 +** 20 November 09, The Hague: <br>Workshop, organized together with the NEWW network and Huizinga Institute Amsterdam: [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/20_November_2009 '''Quantitative methods in cultural history''']<br>
 +** 21 November 09, The Hague:<br> second meeting of the MC; first meeting of the Working Groups <br>
 +** 26-27 January 10, Lisbon:<br> meeting of the MC core-group <br>
 +** 19 February 10, Utrecht:<br> meeting of the Dutch group (DWW) organised by Ton Naaijkens and Suzan van Dijk <br>
 +** 24-26 May 10, Turku:<br> third meeting of the MC; second meeting of the Working Groups
 +** 11-13 November 10, Madrid: <br> Conference, presenting the first Milestone<br><br>
 + 
 +*'''Dissemination activities:''' <br>
 +** 15 September 09, Geneva Switzerland: Agnese Fidecaro organising a meeting informing about the Action - Geneva University, Faculty of Letters <br>
 +** December 09, Volda Norway: Marie Nedregotten Sørbø presenting the Action on Volda college's [http://www.hivolda.no/index.php?ID=11728&lang=nyn&displayitem=3589&module=news home page] <br>
 +** December 09, The Hague Netherlands: Suzan van Dijk interviewed in NWO journal [http://www.nwo.nl/files.nsf/pages/NWOP_7YRESK/$file/Geestesoog%202009-4.pdf ''Geestesoog''] <br><br>
 + 
 +*'''National groups,''' where also non-COST researchers are invited to participate:<br>
 +**''Portuguese Women Writers (PWW)'', organised by Vanda Anastacio<br>
 +**''[http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/dutch-women-writers Dutch Women Writers] (DWW)'', project in Huygens Institute welcoming interested researchers and trainees<br>
 +**''Finnish Women Writers (FWW)'', organised at Turku University <br><br>
 + 
 +SvD, May 2010
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-*Project news > COST<br><br>+*Presentation > COST Action<br><br>

Revision as of 07:50, 16 September 2010


COST Action IS0901



The NEWW project has been instrumental in preparing a European-wide COST Action entitled :

Women Writers in History:
Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture.

The first meeting of the Management Committee, with members representing the fifteen European countries then involved, was held in Brussels on 1 and 2 October 2009. This collaborative Action will last four years and will be financed by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). This is an excellent opportunity for the NEWW network, which seeks to renew literary historiography from a gender and a transnational perspective. The COST Action will allow the extension of the existing network and the preparation of a large scale research project in which European (and other) scholars (present and future NEWW members) will further collaborate – in the real and virtual world.

The aim of this COST Action of course corresponds to the NEWW objectives. It is: to lay the groundwork for a new history of European women’s participation in the literary field of the centuries before 1900. What was these women’s influence? Which active roles did they play as authors and readers in the broadest sense of the word, i.e. including their roles as transcribers, translators, mediators and educators? What happened to them when they fell into the hands of 19th-century canonizers? How is their disappearance from literary history to be explained?

The COST Action will further develop the database WomenWriters into a broad Research Infrastructure, allowing researchers to stock and manipulate data concerning the contemporary reception of women’s writing, and to apply different research models to these data.

Particular attention will be paid to women’s participation in transnational cultural dynamics and to the overlooked role of “smaller”, less internationally known literatures within the larger European context. This interdisciplinary research will lead to a new way of looking at Europe’s literary past – male and female –, which also implies a different perspective on Europe’s present.

  • Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary of this Action, based at Huygens Institute The Hague (NL):
  • Working Group leaders:
  • Universities currently represented in the Action’s Management Committee:
    • Universiteit Gent, Université de Liège (Belgium),
    • University of Southern Denmark,
    • University of Turku (Finland),
    • Université Nancy 2 (France),
    • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Trier (Germany),
    • National University of Ireland Galway,
    • Bar Ilan University (Israël),
    • University of Utrecht, University of Groningen (Netherlands),
    • Volda University College, University of Oslo (Norway),
    • Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade Nuova de Lisboa (Portugal),
    • University of Bucarest, University of Cluj (Romania),
    • University of Belgrade (Serbia),
    • University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia),
    • Universidad Complutense Madrid, University of Valencia (Spain),
    • University of Bern, Université de Genève, Université de Lausanne (Switzerland),
    • University of Southampton, Oxford Brookes University (United Kingdom).

Colleagues researchers in other countries not mentioned, willing to collaborate, can take contact with Chair, Vice-Chair or Secretary mentioned above.

In the Action website COST members can communicate together. Important COST announcements also here such as:

  • Calendar of dates and meetings:
    • 26 May 09:
      announcement of approval proposal of COST Action
    • 12-13 July 09, Lisbon:
      meeting of the Portuguese group (PWW), organised by Vanda Anastacio
    • 1-2 October 09, Brussels:
      first meeting of the Management Committee
    • 20 November 09, The Hague:
      Workshop, organized together with the NEWW network and Huizinga Institute Amsterdam: Quantitative methods in cultural history
    • 21 November 09, The Hague:
      second meeting of the MC; first meeting of the Working Groups
    • 26-27 January 10, Lisbon:
      meeting of the MC core-group
    • 19 February 10, Utrecht:
      meeting of the Dutch group (DWW) organised by Ton Naaijkens and Suzan van Dijk
    • 24-26 May 10, Turku:
      third meeting of the MC; second meeting of the Working Groups
    • 11-13 November 10, Madrid:
      Conference, presenting the first Milestone

  • Dissemination activities:
    • 15 September 09, Geneva Switzerland: Agnese Fidecaro organising a meeting informing about the Action - Geneva University, Faculty of Letters
    • December 09, Volda Norway: Marie Nedregotten Sørbø presenting the Action on Volda college's home page
    • December 09, The Hague Netherlands: Suzan van Dijk interviewed in NWO journal Geestesoog

  • National groups, where also non-COST researchers are invited to participate:
    • Portuguese Women Writers (PWW), organised by Vanda Anastacio
    • Dutch Women Writers (DWW), project in Huygens Institute welcoming interested researchers and trainees
    • Finnish Women Writers (FWW), organised at Turku University

SvD, May 2010


  • Presentation > COST Action

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