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Dear colleagues,
I'd like to bring to your attention the Cross-cultural Seminar on 'Women's
Writing: Writing Childhood', organised by the Centre for the Study of
Contemporary Women's Writing (IGRS), to be held at the IGRS on 7th May.
Please note that the programme includes a paper by Dr Laura Rorato (Bangor)
entitled 'Writing for children/writing about children: depicting childhood
in contemporary Italian fiction'. The event is free but you must register.
Here are the details of the event:
Cross-cultural Seminar on Women's Writing: Writing Childhood
Inaugural meeting 7 May 2010, Room G35, Senate House
IGRS, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1B 5DN
Programme
11-11.25 Arrival and coffee
11.25-11.30 Introduction by Gill Rye (CCWW, IGRS)
11.30-1.00 Session 1 (chaired by Adalgisa Giorgio, University of Bath):
Laura Rorato (Italian, Bangor), 'Writing for children/writing about
children: depicting childhood in contemporary Italian fiction'
Abigail Lee Six (Spanish, Royal Holloway, London), 'Writing childhood in
the Gothic mode'
Claire Williams (Portuguese, St Peter's, Oxford), '"O gosto do mal" [The
taste of evil]: the cruelty of children in Clarice Lispector's shorter
works'
1.00-2.00 Lunch (sandwiches provided)
2.00-3.30 Session 2 (chaired by Godela Weiss-Sussex, IGRS):
Amaleena Damlé (French, Exeter College, Oxford), '"L'enfance est un pays
aussi" [childhood is a country too]: writing childhood in Nina Bouraoui's
work'
Debbie Pinfold (German, Bristol), 'The Zonenkinder speak out: post-Wende
accounts of growing up in the German Democratic Republic'
Debbie Martin (Latin American, Bath), 'Feminine adolescence, the uncanny,
and the representational uses of the child: some theoretical perspectives'
3.30-3.45 Tea
3.45-4.45 Roundtable/general discussion and future meetings of the seminar
(chaired by Gill Rye)
Abstracts of the papers are available on our website:
http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CCWW%20crosscult%20Events.html#abstracts
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