HERA "Travelling TexTs 1790-1914"

Second meeting and workshops
Turku, Finland, May 5th and 6th 2014

5. 5. 2014 Monday; Turku City Library (Associated Partner of the TTT), Studio

10.00

• Welcome on behalf of the Finnish Team of TTT (Päivi Lappalainen, Viola Parente-?apková)
  
  

10.10

• Welcome on behalf of Turku City Library, presentation of the Library (Inkeri Näätsaari) and the Old Collection (Laura Yli-Seppälä)
  
  

11.00

• Presentation of TTT:
  
  • General presentation of the Project, WomenWriters Database, question of sources (Henriette Partzsch, Suzan van Dijk)
    
  • Developing the new Virtual Research Environment (Gertjan Filarski)
    
  • Discussion
    
    

13.30

• Presentation of the sources & some initial results of the Finnish part of the TTT:
  
  • Viola Parente-?apková: Cygneaus Collection, Old Collection of the Turku City Library
    
  • Päivi Lappalainen: Digital Newspaper Archives
    
  • Discussion
    
    

14.15

• Presentation of the other “national teams", sources & initial results:
  
  • Henriette Partzsch: Questioning sources: Women writers and serialised novels in Spanish newspapers 1850-1870
    
  • Suzan van Dijk: Some (provisional) research outcomes for the Netherlands - using the "old version" of the WomenWriters database
    
  • Tanja Badali?: Sources and Translations in the 19th-century Slovenian territory
    
  • Marie Nedregotten Sørbø: Unearthing Norwegian translations: the yield of the sources
    
  • Discussion
    
    

16.30

• Invited speaker:Outi Paloposki: Translating Women. Women, Translations and Society in Late 19th Century Finland
  
• Discussion
  
  

17. 30

• Closing Remarks
  
  

6. 5. 2014 Tuesday; Turku University, Sirkkala Campus (a seminar room booked 10 – 18)

10.00

• Discussion about the milestone:
  
  • the question of sources,
    
  • the key theoretical concepts used in the project,
    
  • the issues connected with literary history (cf. Suzan's paper "Behind literary history: studying “forgotten” texts"),
    
  • etc....
    
  • special focus on the term transnationalism: discussion with the Finnish colleagues working with the concept.
    
    

• Discussion about a position paper:
  
  • some theses about TTT and
    
  • its transnational, national and international aspects
    
    

13.30

• Admin update - agreeing on how to write our document about sources
  
  

14.30

• Discussion about the stage of the development of the Database and the VRE
  
  

15.00

• Presentation by Astrid Kulsdom and Janouk de Groot: Curating our data in view of the new VRE
  
  

15.50

• Preparing the next phase:
  
  • our activities in view of literary festivals and the start of dissemination, based on first results
    
  • organising the writing of the position paper
    
  • organising start of next phase
    
    

17.00

• Closing remarks
  
  

SvD, April 2014

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