On Friday, 27th March, Dr Henriette Partzsch will represent TTT at a networking event that brings together researchers from the HERA “Cultural Encounters” call and the AHRC’s “Translating Cultures” in Senate House, London.
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Nature of Connections (I), at Bristol University
Henriette Partzsch will present TTT in the academic keynote of the PG Conference “Nature of Connections (I)” at Bristol University (Wednesday, 18 February 2015).
A pan-European literature of domesticity?
Find out what happens if we go looking in Spain for the best-selling works of the Swedish author Fredrika Bremer, one of the great protagonists of the women’s movement in the nineteenth century:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2014.0129
Marie Nedregotten Sørbø at Norden / The North: Anglo-Nordic Exchanges, 1700-1850
Marie Nedregotten Sørbø will present TTT at the conference Norden/The North: Anglo Nordic Exchanges, 1700-1850 at St. Mary’s University, Strawberry Hill, London (28-29 November 2014), organised in conjunction with the Nordic Association for Romantic Studies, and with the generous support of the Danish Embassy in London and the Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation. She will discuss some preliminary results Continue reading
Tanja Badalič on the reception of European Women Writers
Tanja Badalič’s dissertation Reception of European Women Writers in Slovenian Multicultural Territory of teh 19th Century until the End of the First World War is available online: http://www.ung.si/~library/doktorati/interkulturni/32Badalic.pdf
Meeting literary foremothers: Slovene writers discuss their work
You can now find all the interviews that students from the Gimnazija Nova Gorica conducted with Slovene writers online, in a publication with the title Navdušujoča raznolikost (“Fascinating Diversity”).
Presentation of the publication with the round table “Meeting Literary Foremothers”
News from the developers
The current version of the database WomenWriters is now closed for data entry because of the switch over to the new Women Writers Enhanced Virtual Environment (WWEVE)! We will keep you informed.
Marie Sørbø’s book on Jane Austen on screen has been published
Under the title of Irony and Idyll: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park on Screen, Marie Sørbø analyses all existing screen adaptations of the two novels. The study is published by Rodopi and you can find further information here: http://www.brill.com/products/book/irony-and-idyll
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Contemporary writers meet their “foremothers”
What is the meaning of women’s traditions and women’s genealogies today? How do contemporary writers perceive their role in a transcultural society? What is the meaning of periphery and centre? These are some of the questions which the writers Elsa Korneti (Greece/Germany), Dimitra Xidous (Canada/Ireland) and Gabriela Babnik (Slovenia) will explore in a round table discussion about “Meeting literary foremothers”, chaired by Dr Viola Parente Čapkova from the Finnish group of TTT. The event is part of the Vilenica 29th International Literary Festival and will take place on Friday, 5 September 2014, at 12noon (Ljubljana, Kult3000).
You can find more information about the festival here: http://www.vilenica.si/vilenica_2014/p/3520/l/2/
Dynastic Networks as Vehicles for Cultural Transfer: Sources, Methods and Theoretical Approaches
On Tuesday 15 july 2014, the first international Marrying Cultures workshop will bring together scholars from universities, museums and libraries who work on the material aspects of cultural exchange for an intense exchange of ideas. The format of the conference, with short talks on a single object or relevant consort or collection, is designed to provide ample time for general discussion on methodology and approaches to working on the history of the cultural contribution of dynastic consorts.