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Second issue of WWoL published!

Kirsi — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:15:49 +0000

Women’s Writing Online wants to serve as a forum for literary, cultural and feminist research, but from the very beginning we have also been looking into the possibility of publishing fictional texts and translations on our website. Now we are happy and proud to publish Izabela Filipiak’s My Life as a Rabbit, translated into English by Karen Kovacik and Izabela Filipak as the long waited second issue of WWoL.

Enjoy Filipiak’s drama in English here.

Take a look at our recently published book Mapping Experience!

Kirsi — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:45:37 +0000

Read reviews and description of the book here.

Welcome to the PURU Closing Symposium!

Kirsi — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:54:01 +0000

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

Welcome to our Reading Room!

Kirsi — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:17:48 +0000

We have opened a reading room where we will publish interesting material on Polish and Russian women’s writing. Read now in our reading room about emigration in Polish literature and Izabela Filipiak’s interview by Ula Chowaniec!

Photos of Kraków Symposium

Kirsi — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:14:07 +0000

Take a look at the Photo Gallery of the Kraków Symposium!

Photo Gallery

Generation and Transformations in Women’s Writing

Kirsi — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:24:44 +0000

Call for Articles: The Poetics of Friendship between Women

Kirsi — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:08:57 +0000

Women’s Writing Online

Kirsi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:54:47 +0000

Feminizm i Religia in Poland

Kirsi — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:00:14 +0000

Feminism and Religion by Ursula Phillips

Book release, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, March 30, 2009

Narcyza Żmichowska is one of the mothers of Polish feminist thought. Ursula Phillips explores in her book Narcyza Żmichowska: Feminism and Religion, the romantic roots of Narcyza Żmichowska’s feminist thought as well as her reinterpretation of the Christian philosophy, and especially women’s participation and position in it.

The book was published in 2008 in Poland and it is written in Polish. Read one chapter of the book in English here

Nature Writing / Call for Papers

Kirsi — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:06:09 +0000

Next week: 29th - 30th of May 2009, University of Tampere
Women’s Nature Writing: New Perspectives on Russian Literature.

Read the programme of the conference here.

The conference is open to everyone. Welcome!

Click the picture to enlarge the CFP.