Forthcoming seminars at the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research:
Saturday 1 March 2014, 2.30-4.30 pm, Room 246, Senate House, University of London
Echoes of Antigone in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French Seminar
Speakers:
Valérie Lebrun (Montreal/CCWW-IMLR): ‘From the Ashes of Love: Defying Antigone in Christine Angot’s La Peur du lendemain’
Gillian Ni Cheallaigh (King’s College London): ‘Linda Lê's Mad Maids Married with Death’
For further details, see http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/15446/Echoes+of+Antigone+in+Contemporary+Women%27s+Writing+in+French
ALL WELCOME
Please advise Gill Rye ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) if you plan to attend.
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Friday, 7 March 2014, 2‐6 pm, room G21a, Senate House, University of London
Translating the Female Body in Contemporary Women's Writing, CCWW Cross-Cultural Seminar
Speakers:
Michela Baldo (Siena, CCWW‐IMLR), ‘Painful Italianness: The Italian‐Canadian and Italian‐American female body translated into Italian’
Emily Spiers (New College, Oxford): ‘Bodies of Work: Intertextuality and Corporeality in Helene Hegemann’s Axolotl Roadkill’
Eliana Maestri (Warwick): ‘Performativity and the Body in Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiographie de ma mère [Autobiography of my mother]’
Georgina Paul (St Hilda’s, Oxford): ‘Different Frequencies: Translating Women’s Voices into writing (Cixous, Bachmann, Wolf, Köhler)’
For further details, see http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/15307/Translating+the+Female+Body+in+Contemporary+Women%27s+Writing
ALL WELCOME
Please advise Gill Rye ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) if you plan to attend.
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Friday 16 May 2014, 2‐5.30 pm, room G34, Senate House, University of London
Paradoxical Languages: Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women’s Writing, CCWW Cross‐Cultural Seminar
Speakers:
Kathryn Robson (French, Newcastle): ‘Recovering (from) Anorexia: Reading Narratives of Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women’s Writing’
Petra M. Bagley (German, Central Lancashire): ‘The Austrian Art of Starvation as depicted by Anna Mitgutsch and Helene Flöss’
Francesca Calamita (IMLR‐CCWW): ‘Filling the Void: Bulimarexic Characters in Postmodern Italian Women’s Writing’
Victoria Richardson (Cambridge/IMLR‐CCWW): ‘Anorexia in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Marie NDiaye’s ‘Le Jour du Président’ [‘The Day of the President’]’
For further details, see http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/15231/Paradoxical+Languages%3A+Eating+Disorders+in+Contemporary+Women%27s+Writing
ALL WELCOME
Please advise Gill Rye ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) if you plan to attend.
Professor Emerita Gill Rye,
Director, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing,
Institute of Modern Languages Research,
School of Advanced Study,
University of London,
Senate House,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU,
U.K.
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