Events
Past events:
Generation and Transformations in Women’s Writing:
Interdisciplinary Perspective
on Post-Communist and Postcolonial Studies
Poland, Kraków, May 14-15, 2010
Read more about the symposium here.
Women’s Nature Writing:
New Perspectives on Polish and Russian Literature
University of Tampere, School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies, May 28 - 31, 2009
Organizers: Department of Russian Language and Culture and Research Project: “Generation, National Identity and the Body: Polish and Russian Women’s Writing in Transformation”.
Read call for papers here.
PROGRAMME/ПРОГРАММА
Friday, 29th May/Пятница, 29 мая
University of Tampere, Pinni Building B, Room B3110
10.00 Opening: Arja Rosenholm & Marja Rytkönen
10.15-11.15 Keynote Speech: Jane Costlow (Bates College, Lewiston, Maine), Hungers of Body and Soul in Late Imperial Russian Women’s Writing
11.15-11.45 Coffee&tea/Кофе&чай
11.45-12.15 Kirsti Ekonen (Tampere), Nature, Gender and Creativity in Russian Futurism
12.15-12.45 Arja Rosenholm (Tampere), Bella Ulanovskaia’s Aesthetics of Wandering
12.45-13.45 Lunch/Обед, Minerva
13.45-14.15 Elisabeth Cheauré (Freiburg), «К ужасающей пустыне приведен путем своим…» Образ природы в лирических текстах Каролины Павловой
14.15-14.45 Ursula Stohler (Bern), Mariia Pospelova: The Woman Poet as Interpreter of Creation
14.45 - 15.00 Coffee&tea/Кофе&чай
15.00-15.30 Eleonora Lohrer (Freiburg), Природа в стихотворениях Е.П. Рoстопчиной через гендерную призму
15.30-16.00 Людмила Коль, писательница, редактор журнала LiteraruS, читает рассказ «Птичий хор»
16.00-18.00 City tour
18.00- Dinner at Restaurant Telakka
Суббота, 30 мая/ Saturday 30th May
University of Tampere, Pinni Building B, Room B3110
11.00-11.30 Elisabeth Cheauré (Freiburg) «В этих бледных снегах мне не видно пути…» Образ природы в лирических текстах Поликсены Соловьевой
11.30.-12.00 Ирина Савкина (Тампере), Животное (и) женское в рассказе С. Василенко «За сайгаками»
12.00-12.30 Regine Nohejl (Freiburg), Svetlana Vasilenko meets Lermontov или кто боится царицы Тамары? Женское тело как символ власти и бессилия природы
12.30-13.30 Обед/Lunch, Linna
13.30-14.00 Oльга Гаврилина (Москва), Обряд инициации и художественное пространство в современной женской прозе
14.00-14.30 Marja Rytkönen (Tampere), Nature and Nation in Contemporary Russian Emigrant Women’s Writing
14.30-15.00 Заключение/Conclusions, coffee & tea, B5069
15.00 -16.45 Film «Путешествие с домашними животными»
Departure to Teisko, ”Back to Nature at Lulu’s”
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
Poland Under Feminist Eyes
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 5 November 2008
One-day workshop on the reception and application of feminist ideas and methodologies to the field of Polish Studies, mainly to literary and cultural studies (drama and film), but also including a presentation by a Polish anthropologist. Read more here.
Shame in Women’s Writing
Department of Finnish literature, University of Turku, October 10, 2008
Our project’s cooperation with the Department of Finnish literature (University of Turku) continues. In October 2008 we were invited to Turku to discuss the theme of shame in women’s writing.
PROGRAM OF THE SEMINAR:
11.30 - 12.15 Viola Parente-Čapková: “Shame, Rebellion and Matrilineage”
12.15-13 Lunch
13.15-14.00 Kirsi Kurkijärvi: “Shame and War: Soviet Women Writing about the Second World War”
14.15-16 Discussion on the third chapter (“The Shamer and the Shamed”) of Elspeth Probyn’s Blush: Faces of Shame. (Minneapolis – London: University of Minnesota Press 2005)
17.00 Dinner
Mapping Experience
Seminar on Transformation, Gender and Generation in Russian and Polish Women’s Writing, March 14.-15., 2008
We welcome scholars interested in Eastern European literature and gender studies to a two-day seminar on women’s experience and literature. The seminar will concentrate on the themes of both collective and individual experience, and its intertwinement with the transformation, generational change, and gender in Polish and Russian women’s literature. The main forum is the Polish and Russian cases, but abstract of women’s writing in all Slavonic areas are welcome.
Programme of the Seminar
General travel information for Conference Guests
Follow this link for the CFP
We are planning a post-conference publication. Click here to see the call for abstracts!
Exploring Women’s Writing: The Finnish, Russian and Polish Cases
9th November 2007, University of Tampere
What do we talk about, when we talk about women’s writing? This question is a starting point for a seminar, the aim of which is to bring together scholars working on Finnish, Russian and Polish women’s writing. The participants of the seminar come from the Department of Finnish Literature, University of Turku and the School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies, University of Tampere.
