WOMEN WRITING ACROSS CULTURES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
An international symposium at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford
Friday 26 September to Sunday 28 September 2014
The ‘What is Women’s Writing?’ Interdisciplinary Research Group,
supported and funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Call for Papers
«Women´s writing» has been a disputed term for sevela decades. In particular, recent work in fields such as feminist postcolonial theory, queers studies, transgender theory, feminist race studies, or development studies prompts us to reconsider the question «what is women´s writing?», as an open field, ripe for the fresh exploration of interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and transtemporal connections.
This symposium aims to foster dialogue among researchers and practitioners dealing with women´s writing in a variety of fields:
– transnational writing and writing across cultures;
– writing across academic disciplines, across the humanities and social sciences, across the arts and sciences;
– encounters between the critical and the creative, the academic and the popular, arte and life, history and life-writing, orality and literacy, collective and individual authorship, analysant and analyst;
– crossing temporal boundaries: women´s writing of the past impacting on the present, imagining futures for women´s writing.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Patience Agbabi, poet, performer and Fellow in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University; Prof. Regenia Gagnier, Department of English Literature, University of Exeter; Dr. Fei-Wen Liu, Institute of Ethnology Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Individual Titles and Abstracts: (100-‐200 words) to be emailed to womenswriting@torch.ox.ac.uk
by 10 March 2014
Panel Proposals: 3 speakers, named chair and abstracts to be emailed to womenswriting@torch.ox.ac.uk
by 10 March 2014
*Symposium fee £80 (£40 reduced rate for graduate/unwaged/independent researchers); two nights’ accommodation and meals:
in the region of £160, excluding conference dinner; conference dinner: £46
Steering Committee: Professor Ros Ballaster, Dr Claudia Pazos Alonso, Dr Pelagia Goulimari
