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-*prof. UAM dr hab. Magdalena Koch, <br>+*[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Magdalena_Koch prof. UAM dr hab. Magdalena Koch], <br>
*prof. dr hab. Ewa Kraskowska, <br> *prof. dr hab. Ewa Kraskowska, <br>
*dr Suzan van Dijk (The Netherlands),<br> *dr Suzan van Dijk (The Netherlands),<br>
-*dr Lucyna Marzec, <br>+*http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Lucyna_Marzecdr Lucyna Marzec], <br>
-*mgr Adriana Kovacheva.<br>+*[http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Adriana_Kovacheva mgr Adriana Kovacheva].<br>
-Contact: magdalena.jolanta.koch@gmail.com+Contact: magdalena.jolanta.koch[at]gmail.com

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Conference Poznan November 2012




Transcultural, Transnational, Trans-disciplinary
Perspectives on Women’s Literary History

International conference presenting the 3rd COST-WWIH Milestone
to be held 26-28.11.2012
at Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna? (Poland)

This conference, for which the deadline of sending proposals is 15.07.2012, will constitute the 3rd Milestone of the international COST Action IS 0901 “Women Writers In History: Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture”. It is being organized by the Institute of Slavic Studies and the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender and Identity Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?.

The “TRANS” categories are essential ones within the COST Action “Women Writers In History”. They provide in particular a critique of binary oppositions, and take into account the mobility, migration cross-referencing, nomadism, which characterize women’s writing – more than that of men. Adopting this “TRANS” perspective may be a step towards a new historiography of women’s authorship, allowing approaches other than the chronological, and helping us to understand the complexity of women’s contribution to literature – a complexity resulting from the overlapping of, and contradictions between norms and images regarding women’s behaviour and actual women’s own desires and activities.

This perspective will be adopted in the upcoming COST-WWIH conference. In order to have the full benefit of the different “TRANS” categories for discussion of the real impact of European female authors, the organizers invite colleagues working on women’s writing before the First World War to apply these categories to their data, and to test them against their own research questions.

We suggest focusing on:

  • Trans-national connections and perspectives – beyond binary oppositions and comparisons;
  • Transgressing gender norms by women authors, and ways in which transgressive writings have been received;
  • Trans-disciplinary dimensions of research on women’s writing activities: historians, historians of education, philosophers, theorists of literature and gender all of them being invited to collaborate with literary historians;
  • Trans-generic aspects of women’s writing, such as choices made between fiction and non-fiction and opportunities for women to be polemical – including the ways in which such choices were appreciated;
  • Translation as a means of circulating women’s writing, including the multilingualism and polyglot experience of women writers;
  • any other Trans-cultural phenomena ....

Data and analytical commentary on “TRANS” dimensions lend themselves particularly well to visualization, which is the COST-WWIH Action’s current focus. For this reason we suggest that contributions include reflections on “maps, graphs, trees”, as ways of enhancing understanding.

Organizers:

Contact: magdalena.jolanta.koch[at]gmail.com






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