NIAS Workshop – Women Writers in History

14 June 2017, at NIAS in Amsterdam. Register by 6 June.

The NEWW VRE (NEWW: New approaches to European Women’s Writing) will be presented to colleagues, students and interested readers of women’s literature, during a NIAS workshop.

This workshop will illustrate the progress made – thanks to the COST and HERA projects, as well as to  support by NWO, SURF and CLARIN-NL – for research about women’s literary history. The ways in which the NEWW VRE is functioning will be demonstrated. This tool will be at the core of future and ongoing collaboration: in the form of a recently created DARIAH Working Group, entitled Women Writers in History. We will highlight the coherence and continuity between the earlier research, digitizing and internationalizing projects and this new, more open, situation as a Working Group.

Background

Between 2013 and 2016 the European HERA Travelling TexTs project has been carried out in 5 countries – one of those being the Netherlands, more precisely The Hague: Huygens ING. The other countries were the United Kingdom (with the project leader in Glasgow), Finland, Norway and Slovenia. This research project had been prepared during a European COST Action, and was being done within an online database. The database itself was also completely restructured, extended and further developed – allowing new research. Some of the outcomes were already presented and published; two books are to follow.

Further details

The workshop will be held in English and covers 2 days: the “presentation day” (14 June) will be followed by an expert meeting in which Working Group members will discuss their future collaboration.

Colleagues and interested readers, specialist and non-specialists are invited to take part in the “presentation day” on 14 June, where speakers will include:

  • Marie Nedregotten Sørbø (Volda University College, Norway)
  • Amelia Sanz (Complutense University Madrid, Spain)
  • Orsi Réthelyi (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary and Huygens ING)
  • Isabel Lousada (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
  • Lotte Jensen (Radboud University Nijmegen)
  • Petra Broomans (Groningen University)

Click here to view the programme

Anyone interested is invited to join us on 14 June. Please register here before June 6 2017.

Colleagues, MA students, stakeholders in Cultural Heritage Institutions can join the discussions of the expert meeting on 15 June – please contact the organizer Suzan van Dijk (suzan.van.dijk[at]Huygens.knaw.nl)

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