DARIAH Working Group “Women Writers in History” presents their Virtual Research Environment.
Ljubljana, 16th November 2017
Conference venue: Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novitrg 4, Ljubljana
One of the focal points of the DARIAH Working Group Women Writers in History is the connection to be created between scholarly research about early women’s authorship and teaching (both academic and secondary). Teaching covers a wide range of activities, from using outcomes of the research to contributing to it.
We think indeed that students could be given a more important role than the rather passive one they are allowed to have now. Besides, given the important number (over 6000) of women authors discovered up to now and accumulated in our NEWW Virtual Research Environment, we have to enlarge the group of active collaborators. And most importantly, it now seems possible to have the collaboration of students – in the classroom or as trainees – and seniors as “citizen scientists”. They can, much more than before, participate in scholarly enterprises like ours, considering that so much textual material (including those by and about women authors; including also the periodical press) is now available online.
For the moment this availability is still in part theoretical, as often texts are just put there as a complete mess, each of the texts lacking their historical context. By integrating them in our NEWW VRE we can provide them with a rigorous structure, and give the texts their “logical” place within the literary communication as going on at an international scale.
During the last four years, thanks to our European HERA Traveling TexTs project, this NEWW VRE was developed and reworked, as the successor of the WomenWriters Database (first version of which was opened in 2002). There are much more possibilities now – in particular for creating this connection between research and teaching. On a practical level this will also require some supplementary features. Both the possibilities and the technical requirements will be discussed during this conference.
Colleagues (researchers as well as teachers) from Slovenia and abroad (working on women’s authorship between the Middle Ages and the early 20th century), present as well as future members of DARIAH WWIH are invited to take part in these discussions.
Programme committee:
- Prof. Katja Mihurko Poniž, University of Nova Gorica
- Assist. Prof. Aleš Vaupotic, University of Nova Gorica
- Prof. Amelia Sanz, Complutense University of Madrid
- Dr. Suzan van Dijk, Huygens Institute fort he History of the Netherlands, Amsterdam
The conference is organized by the DARIAH Working Group Women Writers in History, by the University of Nova Gorica and by the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association.
Conference programme:
- 9.00-11.00
- Welcome: Katja Mihurko Poniž and Aleš Vaupotic (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenian Comparative Literature Association)
- Session 1: Research in female authorship and the use of digital tools (chair: Marie Nedregotten Sørbø)
- Suzan van Dijk (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Amsterdam): The NEWW VRE: a research tool recently further developed (HERA TTT) and tested by colleagues and trainees
- Päivi Lappalainen and Viola Parente-Capková (University of Turku): Transnational Reception of Nordic Women Writers in Finland at the fin de siècle: conclusions drawn from HERA TTT research
- Zsuzsana Varga (University of Glasgow): Growing up digital—women’s writing and the development of the digital sphere
- Beatrijs Vanacker (University of Leuven): Authorial self-fashioning and networks of authority: some notes on Isabelle de Charrière’s and Fanny Burney’s letters
- 1.00-11.30 Coffee/Tea break
- 11.30–13.00
- Session 2: NEWW VRE in the classroom I (chair: Nadezhda Alexandrova)
- Milena Mileva Blažic (University of Ljubljana): Slovenian Women Fairy Tale Writers on Wikiversity — Case Study Josipina Turnograjska
- Ursula Stohler (University of Basel): Teacher education and the use of the NEWW VRE
- Séverine Genieys-Kirk (University of Edinburgh): Teaching early modern French women writers at undergraduate level in the University of Edinburgh: challenges and strategies
- Session 2: NEWW VRE in the classroom I (chair: Nadezhda Alexandrova)
- 13.00-14.00 Lunch
- 14.00–16.00
- Session 3: NEWW VRE in the classroom II (chair: Amelia Sanz)
- Marie Nedregotten Sørbø (Volda University College): The NEWW VRE as a resource for Bachelor and Master theses: A Norwegian test case (outcome of HERA TTT)
- Nadezhda Alexandrova (University of Sofia): Teaching women writers in Bulgaria at university level –problems and perspectives
- Carme Font (Autonomous University of Barcelona ): In-depth connections: using the NEWW VRE to enhance interpretation in research about women’s writings
- Amelia Sanz (Complutense University Madrid) and Eve-Marie Lampron (University of Quebec in Montreal): Teaching Women Writers in History: tested experiences, and implications for digital tools
- Session 3: NEWW VRE in the classroom II (chair: Amelia Sanz)
- 16.00-16.30 Coffee/Tea break
- 16.30-18.00
- Session 4: Presenting women writers to the larger audiences, thanks to digital tools (chair: Viola Parente-Capková)
- Kerstin Wiedemann (University of Lorainne): Between fame and oblivion: reception discourse and literary career through the example of the German writer Ricarda Huch (1864-1947)
- Isabel Lousada (New University of Lisbon): Claudia de Campos (1859-1916) – Learning from her – teaching for all
- Biljana Dojcinovic (University of Belgrade): Digital platform and more creative learning
- Session 4: Presenting women writers to the larger audiences, thanks to digital tools (chair: Viola Parente-Capková)
- 18.00 Closing words and first comments
- 19.00 Concert: Josipina Turnograjska’s songs: Aleksandra Naumovski Potisk/Martina Burger
- 20.00 Conference dinner
