Women's Writing

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.

Poland Under Feminist Eyes

Kirsi — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:37:11 +0000

School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 5 November 2008

Poland Under Feminist Eyes is a one-day workshop on the application of feminist and gender perspectives to Polish literature and culture.

Click below to see the poster of the workshop.
To leave a comment, click “leave a comment” below the poster.

Call For Abstracts!

Kirsi — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:59:00 +0000

Following the international seminar “Mapping Experience: Transformation, Gender and Generation in Polish and Russian Women’s Writing”, we are planning to publish a volume which will focus on some of the specific issues discussed in the seminar. Click below to see the call for abstracts!

Mapping Experience: Programme FINAL

Kirsi — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:13:01 +0000

We have updated the seminar programme. Click here to read it.

PROGRAMME / MAPPING EXPERIENCE

FRIDAY, MARCH 14, ROOM B3110

10.00-10.30 Welcome speech by Marja Rytkönen, Round Table

PANEL 1 Nineteenth-Century Women Writing
Chair: Marja Rytkönen
10.30-10.50 Arja Rosenholm: “Russkaja ideja” from the Perspective of a Woman: “Kamen’ pretknovenija” by S.V.Engel’gardt
10.50- 11.10 Ursula Phillips: Glory to the Vanquished or Tribute to Lived Experience? Eliza Orzeszkowa’s Representation of 1863 in her Cycle of Stories Gloria Victis (1910)
11.10-11.30 Discussion

11.30-11.45 Coffee Break

11.45-12.05 Maria Mikhailova: Творческая индивидуальность и репутация писательницы (судьба произведений Габриэлы Запольской в России)
12.05-12.20 Discussion

12.20-14.15 Lunch break

PANEL 2 Women’s Writing and Memory
Chair: Urszula Chowaniec
14.15-14.35 Samanta Gorzelniak: Writing Utopia
14.35- 14.55 Olga Demidowa: ’In Their Own Voice’: Émigré Daughters about Themselves
14.55-15.15 Discussion

15.15-15.30 Coffee Break

PANEL 3 In Search of Individual Writer’s Experience (Towards Modernity 2)
Chair: Kirsti Ekonen
15.30-15.50 Nataliia Botkina: Фигура повествователя в письмах М. Цветаевой К. Родзевичу
15.50-16.10 Olga Kul’bakina: «Бред – с большой буквы…» (Самовосприятие в автобиографической повести А.И.Цветаевой «История одного путешествия»)
16.10-16.20 Discussion

16.20-16.30 Coffee break

PANEL 4 Pain and Extremity in Women’s Writing
Chair: Ursula Phillips
16.30-16.50 Ula Chowaniec: Different Time – Different Body - Different Pain? The Experience of Body in Pain in Polish Women’s Writing: The Fist Blood by Krzywicka (1930) and E.E. by Tokarczuk (1995)
16.50-17.10 Renata Ingbrant: ”The Trace of Extremity Within”: Anna Swirszczynska’s Poems from “Building the Barricade” (1974).
17.10-17.20 Discussion

18.30 Dinner at the Department of Russian Language and Culture (Room B5069)

SATURDAY, MARCH 15, ROOM B3110

PANEL 5 In Search of Historical Experience
Chair: Arja Rosenholm
10.00-10.20 Kirsi Kurkijärvi: Soviet Women in the Second World War—Experience, Memory and Generation
10.20-10.40 Marja Rytkönen: In Search of Historical Experience: Two Women Writers Recollecting the Soviet Past
10.40-11.00 Evgenia Stroganova: Женщина-автор и проблема мужского патронажа (Е.А. Ган и О.И. Сенковский)
11.00-11.15 Discussion

11.15-11.30 Coffee Break

PANEL 6 The Contemporary Women’s Writing
Chair: Evgenia Stroganova
11.30.-11.50 Irina Savkina: «Пиковая дама». Женственность и старость в современной женской прозе в России
11.50-12.10 Irina Mart’ianova: Реабилитация кинометафоры жизни в современной русской женской прозе (кинометафора жизни, кинодискурс)
12.10-12.30 Discussion

12.30-14.00 Lunch Break

PANEL 7 In Search for a Paradigm
Chair: Kirsi Kurkijärvi
14.00-14.20 Elena Sokol: Matrilineal moments: Generational intertexts in the novels of Daniela Hodrová
14.20-14.40 Agnieszka Mrozik: Catching a Wave? The Paradigms of the Women’s Movement in Poland after 1989
14.40-15.00 Katarzyna Czeczot: Dorota Maslowska’s Excessive Prose
15.00-15.15 Discussion