Displacements: Women’s Writing and Creative Practices in Modern Central and southeastern Europe.

Displacements: Women’s Writing and Creative Practices in Modern Central and southeastern Europe. Emancipatory Experiences and Transnational Trajectories?

International conference

Convenors: Mateusz Chmurski, Clara Royer, Lola Sinoimeri
Time and Place: March 16-17, 2023 – CEFRES and online:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85661902411?pwd=M3FUZmR0OUhIUWF0ZDFYVzBKa2QvZz09
Meeting ID: 856 6190 2411
Passcode: 456173
Languages of the conference: French & English

Scientific Committee:
Anna Borgos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities), Libuše Heczková (Univerzita Karlova), Luba Jurgenson (Sorbonne Université), Iwona Kurz (Uniwersytet Warszawski), Jasmina Lukić (Central European University), Markéta Theinhardt (Sorbonne Université)

Partners: EUR’ORBEM (CNRS-Sorbonne University), CEFRES (CNRS-MEAE), Departement of Czech and comparative literature, Charles University (ÚČLK FF UK), Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw university (IKP WP UW) – with the support of the European University Alliance 4EU+, the GDR “Connaissance de l’Europe médiane” (CNRS) and the French Institute in Prague

Read the thesis of the conference here.

Abstracts of each intervention available here.
Schedule
Thursday 16th March, 2023

9:00      Welcome of participants and introduction by Mateusz Chmurski, Clara Royer et Lola Sinoimeri

Inaugural conference 

  • 9:30     Jasmina Lukic (Central European University, Vienna) : Dépaysement as a Category: The Case of Diaspora Women Writers from ex-Yougoslavia

Session I – Displaced in the country? Emancipatory strategies
Chairperson of the meeting : Mateusz Chmurski (Sorbonne University / CEFRES)

  • 11:00      Cécile Gauthier (Université de Reims) : Ici et/ou ailleurs : l’émancipation féminine entre départ(s) et retour(s) chez Božena Němcová et Ossip Schubin
  • 11:30     Jana-Katharina Mende (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) : Re-tracing Displaced Female Writers from Central Europe within German Literary History: A Quantitative Comparison
  • 12:00     Magdalena Eriksröd-Burger (Universität Bamberg) : “[…] it is not fun to fight for a place where you are not wanted.” Social Displacement as Collective Experience of Women in the Artistic Field in Interwar Prague    
  • 12:30     Gertraude Zand (Universität Wien) : Honza Krejcarová: On the Use and Abuse of Displacement for Literature

13:00 — Lunch break

Session II – Cosmopolitan trajectories
Chairperson of the meeting : Clara Royer (Sorbonne Université, zoom)

  • 14:30       Guillaume Métayer (CNRS) : De l’Itóka de Nyugat à la Sandor Kemeri de Paris, en passant par le Japon : stratégies et concessions d’une Transylvaine dépaysée, naturalisée francienne 
  • 15:00      Cécile Rousselet (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, zoom) : Le dépaysement comme nouveau pays. Esther Kreitman, Fradl Shtok et les méandres d’un discours déplacé
  • 15:30      Charles Sabatos (Université Yeditepe, Istanbul): Displacement in Contemporary Transnational Writing by Slovak Women 

16:00 — Coffee break

Session III – Forced migration and appropriation of exile
Chairperson of the meeting : Jasmina Lukić (Central European University, Vienna) 

  • 16:30    Iryna Vikyrchak (Université de Wroclaw, zoom) : Writing on Czernowitz ghetto: Rose Ausländer and Klara Blum as poetesses of different continents
  • 17:00    Lola Sinoimeri (Université Paris 8 & Sorbonne Université) : Transnational Autobiographies Against the Western and Male Gaze? The Case of two Women Authors from the Balkan Diasporas, Elvira Dones and Melinda Nadj Abonji
  • 17:30    Roberto Gómez Martínez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) : Literature after Yugoslavia: Uprooting and Loss of Identity in Dubravka Ugrešić and Slavenka Drakulić
Friday 17th March 2023

Session IV – Displacement and committed feminisms
Chairperson of the meeting : Iwona Kurz (Institut of polish culture , Warsaw University)

  • 9:30    Jiřina Šmejkalová (Charles University): Re-reading Unreadable Notes: Crossing Frontiers in the Work of Anna Pammrová
  • 10:00    Alenka Jensterle Doležal (Charles University) : South Slavic women writers in Prague in the beginning of 20th century: nomadic authors between the cultures
  • 10:30     Marika Kuźmicz (Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw) : A Gesture of Emancipation: Traveling Performance Practice of Barbara Kozłowska 

11:00 — Coffee break

  • 11:30    Adrian Pelc (Universität Wien) : Exile and Incarceration: Vera Kamenko’s and Marianne Herzogs’s War
  • 12:00    Justyna Górny (Warsaw University) : How to tame foreignness? Female students and non-heteronormative women in non-German novels of the first half of the 20th century 

12:30 — Lunch break

 Session V – Displacement as the creation of an imaginary kingdom
Chairperson of the meeting : Libuše Heczková ( Charles University)

  • 14:00    Nicolas Aude (Sorbonne Université) : ”Je suis une lettre” (Julia Kristeva) : la mémoire du cyrillique dans les pratiques d’écriture des écrivaines translingues
  • 14:30    Ksenia Shmydkaya (Tallinn University) : Roots of One’s Own: Stanisława Przybyszewska and Displacement as a Possibility for (Re)Creation
  • 15:00    Lucie Antošíková (Czech Academy of Sciences) : Narrative as a Means of Self-Anchoring in Exile 

15:30 — Coffee break

Chairperson of the meeting : Markéta Theinhardt (Sorbonne University) 

  • 16:00    Aleksandra Wojda (Université de Lorraine) : Dépaysements mis en voix : les « contre-ciels » et les détours d’Anna Prucnal et d’Eva Killutat
  • 16:30    Hélène Martinelli (ENS Lyon / CEFRES) : Mère Ubu, sortie de nulle part : les ré-illustrations d’Ubu roi par Franciszka Themerson
  • 17:00     Marlena Wilczak (Eur’ORBEM, Labo Junior) : Les pratiques intimes d’Olga Boznańska (1865-1940) dans son atelier parisien, un espace isolé, coupé de la vie dynamique de la métropole européenne
  • 17:30    Pauline Walkiewicz (Inalco) : L’expérience parisienne de trois artistes polonaises au parcours transnational, Mela Muter (1876-1967), Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976) et Zofia Piramowicz (1886?-1958)