Alicia Montoya
Professor of French Literature and Culture, Radboud University
alicia.montoya@ru.nl
The underrepresentation of women in cultural historiography has been challenged since the 1970s by a number of feminist responses in the form of supplementary female canons. Women Writers in History takes this task a step further, and investigates historical sources until 1930 to find out whether female authors were read in the past. Evidence of readership, translations and commentary is contained in a database, which serves as a collaborative research tool for the working group. Its latest incarnation is a virtual research environment (VRE) named New approaches to European Women’s Writing (NEWW). The group also runs a BRILL book series and pursues methods of incorporating this new knowledge at the different levels of education through regional groups. Further concerns consist in finding openings for outreach and for funded, future research projects.
* Thursday, April 27th, 15h-16h CEST
Lucreția Pascariu, Alexandra Olteanu, Tiberiu Bădeliță (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania)
Mapping women’s jobs and social status in the Romanian ELTeC collection
The researchers will explore level 2 of the Romanian ELTeC collection, part of the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC), which currently has 100 Romanian novels published between 1840 and 1920. They will analyse the distribution of women’s occupations vs. social status in the Romanian ELTeC collection. They will present the problems encountered (those related to the lack of instruments for the Romanian language); the extractions of NE (females’ name) and possible lists of nouns, adjectives, and verbs that show the women’s jobs and social status; their data analysis.
* Thursday, May 25th, 15h-16h CEST
Alba Comino (Institute of Contemporary History, Lisbon, Portugal)
Latin American Women Travel Logs in the 20th Century: some digital approaches to Clorinda Matto de Turner
The interdisciplinary project REWIND develops an original approach to analyse the European Cultural Heritage (ECH) as a construction of collective memories using travel books written by Latin American women who visited Europe before the Second World War. The researcher will use the book Viaje de Recreo (1909) by the Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909) as a case-study. She will applies XML-TEI encoding to tag all the references about monuments, museums, historical places, artworks, etc., that Matto de Turner visited during her travel around Europe in 1908. After geo-semantic annotation, she will map this data to visualize her itinerary and will connect the information about the ECH using LOD.
* Thursday, June 22nd, 15h-16h CEST
Ivana Hadjievska (State Archives of North Macedonia, Macedonia)
History of women and transgression of methodological nationalism: the experience from the research project “Invisible archives”
The researcher will present Invisible archives, a project dedicated to systematization, historical analysis and digital preserving and presentation of women’s participation in periodicals from the Macedonian past. The researcher will focus on educational web-outlet (https://nevidliviarhivi.mk/ ) and the digitization of the magazine Makedonka – Organ of Women’s Antifascist Front of Macedonia.
Interested in participating? Please email Katja Mihurko (katja.mihurko.poniz@ung.si) or Amelia Sanz (amsanz@ucm.es) for the link details.
Interested in submitting a new webinar? Please contact the organisers (we are preparing the 2024 agenda!): Katja Mihurko (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia): katja.mihurko.poniz@ung.si
Amelia Sanz (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain): amsanz@ucm.es
Colleagues interested in joining the Women Writers in History working group can contact Chair Alicia Montoya (contact details below). The full list the working group members, updated in July 2022, is available in a PDF.
Amelia Sanz
Professor Dr., Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Responsible for collaboration with national libraries
Responsible for collaboration with national libraries
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