Thanks for this, Lyn.
CFP: FEMALE NETWORKS IN EUROPE, 1700-1900
READERS, WRITERS, SALONNIÈRES: FEMALE NETWORKS IN
EUROPE, 1700-1900
Keynote speakers:
Professor Isabelle Bour (Université de la Sorbonne
Nouvelle Paris III)
Professor Helen Chambers (University of St Andrews)
Professor Dena Goodman (University of Michigan)
Proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary two-day
conference to be
held at Chawton House Library, Hampshire, 22nd and
23rd May 2008. The
event is jointly organised by the University of
Southampton English
Discipline, the University of Warwick French
Department and Swansea
University German Section.
The conference is one in a series being held in
conjunction with the
Netherlands Research Organisation (NWO) project "New
Approaches to
European Women's Writing" which is based at the
University of Utrecht and is
directed by Dr Suzan van Dijk.
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an
explosion of interest in
Europe in foreign languages and literatures, and
recent research has
begun to explore the part played by women in
cross-cultural interchange.
This conference seeks to examine the trans-national
links between
literary women in Europe in the period 1700-1900. To
what extent were women
writers from different countries aware of each other
and each other's
work? We invite papers which look at women who read
or were inspired by
the work of women abroad, as well as papers exploring
actual links
(for example, through correspondence, visits or
contact in the salons)
between women writers of different nationalities.
Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes and should be
given in
English. Please send a 250-word abstract for the
attention of the organisers
Katherine Astbury, Hilary Brown and Gillian Dow to
the conference
administrator Sandy White: [log in to unmask]
The deadline for abstracts is 7th January 2008.
Funding from the NWO and Chawton House Library will
enable us to waive
the conference fee for speaking delegates.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue
of the journal
Women's Writing.
For further information on the NWO project, please see
www.womenwriters.nl
See www.chawton.org for information about the
location.
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