Women Telling Nations NEWW International Seminar/COST Milestone conference Wednesday, 10th November 16:00 – 19:00 (Sala de Juntas) Management Committee Meeting COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History (Attendance: only the Management Committee) Thursday, 11th November 9:30 - 10:00 (Paraninfo/Auditorium) Women telling Nations Welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Complutense University Opening: Suzan van Dijk, Chair of COST Action Women Writers In History 10:00 – 11:00 (Paraninfo/Auditorium) Lecture: “The Community of Letters and the Nation State: Bio-Bibliographic Compilations as a Transnational Genre” Hilde Hoogenboom (Arizona State University) 11:00 -11:30 11:30 -13:30 Coffee offered by the Dean (Salón de Grados) Women imagining Nations (Sala de Juntas) Women writing Histories Chair: Suzan van Dijk (Chair of COST Action Women Writers In History) Chair: Nieves Baranda (UNED) •Madeleine Jeay (McMaster University): “Réseaux de femmes auteurs dans l’Europe médiévale” •Begoña Lasa Álvarez (Univ. da Coruña): “Regina Maria Roche and Ireland: A Problematic Relationship” •Henriette Goldwyn (New York University): “Etrange langage et pratiques de désordres: la crise prophétique” •Torill Steinfeld (Univ. of Oslo): “Remapping the North Madame de Staël, ‘Frederike Brun, and the Norway debate 1812–1814’” • Anastácio Vanda (Univ. de Lisboa): “Telling nations before the nation: Portuguese women writers of the 17th Century” •Alejandro Hermida de Blás (Univ. Complutense de Madrid): “Women Writers and the Rise of Czech and Slovak Modern Identity” 13:30 15:00 -19:00 Lunch (Paraninfo/Auditorium) Women Writers in History COST Action Milestone 1 (part a) European Women’s Writing: Quantitative approaches – Production 15.00 15.30 Suzan van Dijk: Short presentation of the draft of Milestone 1 document 15.30 – 15.45 Maarit Leskelä-Kärki (Univ. of Turku): “Biographical writing as women’s tradition in Finland of the late 19th century” 15.45 – 16.00 Inés de Ornellas e Castro (Univ. Nova de Lisboa): “Latine loquor: women acquiring auctoritas” 16.00 – 16.15 Zsuzsanna Varga (Univ. of Glasgow): “Women telling nations: Hungarian women writers as translators of European literature” 16.15 – 16.30 Sirmoula Alexandridou (Democritus University of Thrace): “Early women's press: a challenge for 19th-century East and Greece” 16.30 – Rotraud von Kulessa (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): “Les autrices italiennes et 16.45 la formation de l’identité nationale dans l’Italie du 19e siècle: Prospetto biografico delle donne italiane rinominate in Letteratura de Ginevra Canonici Fachini (1824)” 16.45 – 17.00 Juliana Jovicic (Univ. of Novi Sad): “Talvjs impact in creating national identity of Germans and Serbians” Thursday, 11th November 17.00 – 17.15 17:15-19:15 Coffee break 17.15 – 17.30 Discussion about the individual presentations 17.30 – 17.45 Viola Capkova (University of Turku) Outcome of collective reflection Working Group 1 17.45 – 18.15 Marie-Louise Coolahan (NUI Galway) Outcome of collective reflection Working Group 2 18.15 – 19.15 Discussion in particular about the relationship between the lines sketched in the Milestone document and the individual + WG contributions Friday, 12th November 10:00 – 11:00 (Paraninfo/Auditorium) Women telling Nations Lecture: “Beyond Political Boundaries: Religion as Nation in Early Modern Spain” Nieves Baranda (UNED) 11:00 – 11:30 11:30 -13:30 Coffee break (Salón de Grados) Women looking elsewhere (Sala de Juntas) Women reading locally /globally Chair: Miriam Llamas (LEETHY Group, UCM) Chair: Begoña Regueiro (LEETHY Group, UCM) •Konstanze Baron (Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies, Univ. of Halle-Wittenberg): “Aurelie’s Vision: Theatre and Politics of the Nation in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre” •María Jesús Pando Canteli (Univ. de Deusto): “Expatriates: women communities, mobility, and cosmopolitanism in early modern Europe: the case of Spanish and English religious women in Flanders” •Joanna Partyka (Univ. de Varsovia): “Overpassing state and cultural borders: a Polish female doctor in 18th-century Constantinople” •Arno Gimber y Luis García Fernández (Univ. Complutense de Madrid): “Tisser l'Europe: la Princesse Palatine” •Kati Launis (Univ. of Turku): “Equality and Women’s Rights - Marie Linder (1840-1870) as an Early Feminist Writer” 13:30 15:00 -19:00 Lunch (Paraninfo/Auditorium) Women Writers in History COST Action Milestone 1 (part b) European Women’s Writing: Quantitative approaches – Reception 15.00 15.15 Suzan van Dijk: Short presentation of the document 15.15 – 15.30 Carmen Beatrice Dutu (Dimitrie Cantemir University, Bucarest): “(Re)Shaping Identities in Romanian Mid 19th-Century Culture” 15.30 – Biljana Dojčinović (Univ. of Belgrade): “As a madwoman, I have no country - Milica 15.45 Stojadinović Srpkinja and the ‘national feeling’” 15.45 – 16.00 Ivana Pantelic (Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrado): “Early Modern Women Intellectuals in 19th-century Serbia” 16.00 – 16.15 Ivana Zivancevic-Sekerus (Univ. of Novi Sad): “Les Balkans dans les essais d’Isidora Sekulic - d’oronyme à metaphore” 16.15 – 16.30 Katja Mihurko (Univ. of Nova Gorica): “The representations of Slavic nations in the writings of Josipina Turnogra” 16.30 – 16.45 Ileana Mihaila (Université de Bucarest): “Dora d’Istria et le printemps des peuples du sud-est européen” 16.45 – 17.00 17:00-19:00 Coffee break 17.00 – 17.15 Tovi Bibring (Bar Ilan University) and Hendrik Schlieper (Ruhr Universität Bochum) Outcome of collective reflection Working Group 3 17.15 – 18.00 Discussion and preliminary conclusions about final form of the Milestone-1 document 18.00 – 18:45 Kati Launis (Univ. of Turku) and WG-4 members Presentation of the “Key Women Writers” project Saturday, 13th November 10:00 -11:15 (Salón de Grados) 3a Women telling frontiers (Sala de Juntas) 3b Women telling frontiers Chair: Amelia Sanz (LEETHY Group, UCM) Chair: María José Calvo (LEETHY Group, UCM) •Elena Gretchanaia (Institute of the World literature, Russian Academy of Sciences): “Entre le mythe national et l’idéal transfrontalier: la représentation des nations dans les écrits de femmes russes rédigés en français (XVIIIe – début XIXe siècle)” •Dolores Vilavedra (Univ. Santiago de Compostela): “Rosalía de Castro: escribir desde la(s) fronteras” •Catherine Viollet (Institut des Textes et manuscrits modernes, CNRS-ENS, Paris): “Jeunes voyageuses russes en Europe au début du XIXe siècle: la perception de l'étranger” 11:15 -11:30 11:30 – 13:00 •Angeles Ezama Gil (Univ. de Zaragoza): “La unión ibérica de escritoras entre los siglos xix y xx” •Helena González Fernández (Centre Dona i Literatura, Univ. de Barcelona): “La comunidad sin héroes, o cuando lo sentimental articula la nación. Estudio de las ‘viudas de vivos’ de Rosalía de Castro” Coffee break (Paraninfo/Auditorium) Women imagining Nations Chair: Dolores Romero (LEETHY Group, UCM) •Henriette Partzsch (Univ. of St Andrews): “Connecting People, Inventing Communities: Faustina Sáez de Melgar's Magazine La Violeta (Madrid, 1862-1866) between National(ist) Ideologies and International Allegiances” •Eulalia Piñero Gil (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid): “Sui Sin Far’s Imagined Nation in Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian and Mrs. Spring Fragrance” •Viola Capkova (Univ. of Turku): “Decadent Women Telling Nation” 13:00 14:00 Closure: Amelia Sanz (LEETHY Group, UCM) Lunch outdoors