Women’s Writing Online

FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM - HISTORICAL AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

University of Tampere
School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies
Friday, 29 October 2010, Lecture room Pinni B3109

Welcome to the closing symposium of the research project Generation, National Identity, the Body: Polish and Russian Women’s Writing in Transformation (PURU). The aim of the PURU research group has been to investigate what happens to feminist literary theories and concepts when applied in the (post-socialist) East European context; to engage a comparative approach to women’s writing and to investigate subjectivities situated in Russian and Polish culture and literature. For this symposium the research group has invited well-known scholars of Polish, Finnish, and Russian literature to look at women’s writing in a cross-cultural feminist perspective.

PROGRAMME OF THE SYMPOSIUM

11.00-11.15
Opening
Marja Rytkönen

11.15-12.00
Keynote:
Feminist Criticism of Russian Literature in Trans-national Perspective:
from Euphoria to Uncertainty?
Rosalind Marsh (University of Bath)

12.00-12.45
Keynote:
Women’s Literary History and Finland
Päivi Lappalainen (University of Turku)

12.45-13.30
Lunch

13.30-14.00
My Body, Your Country:
Female Citizenship in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing
Urszula Chowaniec (The Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University,
University of Tampere)

14.00-14.30
Women Writers as Cultural Mediators
Viola Parente-Čapková (University of Turku)

14.30-14.45
Coffee/tea

14.45-15.15
The Polish People’s Republic (1945-1989) and Feminist Sensibility in
Bambino (2008) by Inga Iwasiów and Piaskowa Góra (2009) by Joanna Bator
Ursula Phillips (UCL, SSEES)

15.15-15.45
The New Woman of the Turn of the 20th Century Russia
Kirsti Ekonen (University of Helsinki)

15.45-16.15
Women’s Time: Women Writers since Perestroika
Arja Rosenholm (University of Tampere) & Marja Rytkönen (University of Eastern Finland)

16.15-16.45
”Let Me Go Apart From My People”:
The Creation of New Ways in Russian Women’s Poetry of the Post-Soviet Period
Ilya Kukulin (Moscow)

16.45-17.45
Project Review
Marja Rytkönen and Urszula Chowaniec

17.45
Closing

Organizers: Research project Generation, National Identity and the Body: Polish and Russian Women’s Writing in Transformation (Emil Aaltonen Foundation) and Russian Language and Culture, University of Tampere