Dissatisfied modernities
NEWW conference:
Intellectual Women: Dissatisfied Modernities
The end of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century are witnesses of a revolution in Europe: scientific and technological advances, new media, oriental spiritual influence, social advances, new aesthetics… A whole revolution in which women had an important role that has not been always recognized. In this conference we will try to explore the deep imprint that intellectual women left in the cultural history of Europe in those years, we will consider how dialogues got established between intellectual women from different countries and how the new and modern female voices proposed other possible modernities.
Continuing the tradition created within the NEWW network and the COST Action "Women Writers In History", the Complutense Groups LEETHI (European Literatures from Texts to Hypermedia) and TEGEP keep on working to make visible the dialogues between European women and to analyse the answers that these dissatisfied women gave to the modernities.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 13 November
9.30
Opening: Presentation by LEETHI Group
- Intellectual Women: Dissatisfied Modernities
Session 1: Highlighting women
Chair: Jenny Bergenmar
10.00
Tatiana Crivelli: (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- “Hurricane Jessie”: A Case Study
10.30
Suzan van Dijk (Huygens ING The Hague, The Netherlands):
- The modernity (dis/satisfied?) of Isabelle de Charrière around 1900
11.00 Discussions
11.30 Coffee break
Session 2: A case-study: Norway
Chair: Viola Parente-?apková
12.00
Torill Steinfeld (University of Oslo, Norway):
- Maternal feminism, human feminism, or anti-feminism? Hulda Garborg and Sigrid Undset on Charlotte Gilman Perkin’s works
12.30
Marie Nedregotten Sørbø (Volda University College, Norway):
- Anglo-Nordic connections in turn of the century feminism
13.00 Discussions
13.30 Lunch time
Session 3: Women mediating
Chair: Begoña Regueiro
14.30
Jenny Bergenmar (University of Göteborg, Sweden):
- Selma Lagerlöf and Female Folklore. Dissatisfied Modernity or Nationalism?
15.00
Viola Parente-?apková (University of Turku, Finland):
- Finnish women writers/intellectuals at the beginning of the 20th century
15.00 Discussions
16.00 Coffee break
Session 4: Women creating/destroying fantasies
Chair: Amelia Sanz
17.00
Senem Timuro?lu (Ozyegin University, Turkey):
- Harem Narratives: “Room of Their Own” of Ottoman Women in the 19th Century
17.30
Alenka Jensterle-Doležal (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic):
- The Crisis of Identity: the Doppelganger in the early Poems of Slovene Lili Novy
18.00 Discussions
Friday 14 November
Session 5: Women distancing
Chair: Henriette Partzsch
9.30
Elisa Müller-Adams (University of Trier, Germany):
- Love and Europeanness in Annette Kolb’s travel novel Das Exemplar [The Specimen] (1912)
10.00
Zsuzsanna Varga (University of Glasgow):
- From feminism to conservativism: the life and career of Emma Ritoók
10h30
Ursula Stohler (University of Zurich, Switzerland):
- Dissatisfaction about intellectual women inside a non-intellectual environment: E. Marlitt’s female protagonists
11.00 Discussions
11.30 Coffee break
Session 6: A case-study: Romania
Chair: Tatiana Crivelli
12.00
Carmen Beatrice Dutu (Dimitrie Cantemir University, Romania):
- From Textual Battlegrounds to Shifting Gender Roles: Towards a Feminine Romanian Romanticism
12.30
Ramona Mihaila (University of Bucharest, Romania):
- Intellectual Women’s Space in the Late-Nineteenth Century Romanian Print Journalism
13.00 Discussions
13.30 Lunch time
Session 7: Women positioning
Chair: Dolores Romero
14.30
Alba del Pozo García (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
- Between Tourism and Pilgrimage: Women Hispanists in Spain during the Fin de Siècle
15.00
Isabel Navas Ocaña (Univ. de Almería, Spain)
- A landmark of feminist criticism in Spain: Las Escritoras españolas, de Margarita Nelken (1930)
15.30 Discussions
16.00 Coffee break
16h30 NEWW Meeting: New Horizons
- Chair: Suzan van Dijk
19.Dinner and Flamenco show
The conference is organised by Begoña Regueiro and Amelia Sanz, and held at Complutense University (Madrid) on November 2014, the 13th and 14th.
For information, please write to: bregueirosalgado[at]edu.ucm.es.
See also: https://www.ucm.es/leethi/.
SvD, October 2014
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