Contemporary European woman writers: Looking for panelists

[Tania Vorobyova]

Hi everyone,

    My US colleague and me were thinking on organizing a panel on
Eastern European women writers for this conference (the detailed
information about the conference is given below).
    Vlatka Velcic, my colleague and friend, is willing to organize
this panel, and to present on women writers from former Yugoslavia,
while I will be glad to present on Ukrainian women writers; and we are
looking for scholars who are interested in joining or panel.
    Those who are considering this possiblility (or know the ones
interested) please let us know by responding to tvorobyo at csulb.edu
(Tetyana Vorobyova) and/or vvelcic at csulb.edu (Vlatka Velcic)ASAP.
    Thank you.

Tetyana Vorobyova,
teaching instructor of the Department of English Philology, Kirovohrad
State Padadogical University
postgraduate of the Department of Ukrainian Literature.



> Department of European Studies and Modern Languages and
> Centre for Women's Studies , University of Bath, UK
>
> International Conference on Contemporary European Women Writers:
>   Gender and Generation
>
> Second Call for Papers
>
> NB: It would be useful to have expressions of interest in
> attending the conference or offers of papers for the conference
> volume by 30 June 2004, but exact titles and/or abstracts could
> be sent later.
>
> An international conference on Contemporary European Women
> Writers will be held at the University of Bath, UK, on 31 March
> to 1 April 2005 under the overarching theme and title of ‘Gender
> and Generation’.
>
> There is evidence in the literature of some European countries
> that the explosion of women’s writing in the 1970s and 1980s has
> stimulated the emergence of new generations of women writers in
> the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century. It
> is now time to test out this hypothesis and analyse whether it is applicable
> to other European countries too. The aim of this
> conference is to explore the legacy of earlier texts by European
> women and to draw comparisons and contrasts between different
> generations of writers.
>
> In view of the reluctance of many female authors to be identified
> as ‘women writers’, we will also enquire whether contemporary
> European writers regard their gender as a burden, or as valuable
> and empowering. Is it a factor of primary importance for them, or
> does it exert only a limited influence on their writing?
>
> Within the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages
> at Bath there are particularly strong research interests in the
> literatures and cultures of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and
> Russia. However, we welcome contributions on contemporary women
> writers of any European country, including the UK, Ireland,
> Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Belarus.
>
> We welcome both nation-specific and comparative approaches to
> women's writing in Europe in the last 20 years, focusing
> particularly on contemporary writers and the changes that have
> occurred during the period in question. Areas of particular
> interest include:
>
> • Legacies, influences, and/or contrasts and conflicts
>   between women writers of different generations
>
> • Feminist, non-feminist or post-feminist writing?
>
> • Women writers' response to social and political change
>
> • Mothers and daughters, mothers and sons
>
> • The treatment of certain themes by women writers:
>   time, memory, sexuality, maternity, education and personal
>   development, female friendship, relationships with men,
>   children and family members, women's issues, illness,
>   suffering and death, women and work, women and violence,
>   women and war
>
> • The female body, women’s psychology and spirituality
>
> • Race, ethnicity, immigration and emigration
>
> • Women’s representations of men and the masculine
>
> • The relationship between literature and theory in specific
>   countries
>
> • Genre and style in women's writing: autobiography, lyric
>   poetry, prose genres, Иcriture fИminine, imagery, mythology
>
> We will be inviting prominent women writers to the conference
> to discuss their own work and ideas. The well-known Italian
> writer Francesca Sanvitale has already confirmed her attendance.
>
> We aim to produce a collection (or most probably several)
> collections of articles on the subject of women's writing in
> individual European countries and Europe as a whole.
>
> Please send proposed paper titles and abstracts of about 150
> words by 30 June 2004 to ceww-conference at bath.ac.uk
>
> Conference committee: Adalgisa Giorgio
>                       Rosalind Marsh
>                       Julia Waters
>

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