BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2249@dg.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250407T170727 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250410T091500 SUMMARY:Workshop: "Women Writers and the Construction of National Identitie s in the Long 19th Century: Comparative Perspectives" DESCRIPTION:Situated at the crossroads of women’s studies and imperial st udies\, this highly innovative and ambitious scientific event aims to answ er the following guiding questions: is not women’s subordination to men inherent in the patriarchal conception of the social body made even more s uffocating when empires peripheralise ethnic groups\, forcing women to fig ht both for their own rights and for the rights of their nation and cultur e? And\, beyond the history of women’s rights\, should women who have co ntributed to the progress of democracy and the cultural emancipation of th eir countries not be brought out of the shadows? To answer these questions \, we will start from the long 19th century\, considered as the age of the invention of national identities\, and we will see how this movement of i ntertwining of discourses for national self-determination and struggles fo r the moral and cultural sovereignty of women continues in the 20th centur y. This will also be an opportunity to discuss the relevance of the period icity of this division into centuries. \\r\\nAnd precisely\, this worksho p will be all the more innovative as it will include a strong methodologic al dimension aimed at leading\, beyond case studies\, to reproducible resu lts. In particular\, we will ask ourselves what concepts we need to study the history and posterity of the struggle for gendered and cultural self-d etermination in non-national (i.e. trans- or sub-national/trans-imperial a nd multilingual) cultural spaces. We will discuss in particular the very r elevance of the concept of identity\, which we will put in competition wit h the concept of self-determination\, the women whose works and speeches w e will study being often less focused on the definition of an essentialist identity (national and/or feminine) than on a free construction of self e nlightened by the comparative knowledge of a European culture in the broad sense. \\r\\nThis workshop is open to the public. The organizers explici tly welcome people to join and participate in this event. X-ALT-DESC:

Situated at the crossroads of women’s studies and imperial studies\, this highly innovative and ambitious scientific event aims to an swer the following guiding questions: is not women’s subordination to me n inherent in the patriarchal conception of the social body made even more suffocating when empires peripheralise ethnic groups\, forcing women to f ight both for their own rights and for the rights of their nation and cult ure? And\, beyond the history of women’s rights\, should women who have contributed to the progress of democracy and the cultural emancipation of their countries not be brought out of the shadows? To answer these questio ns\, we will start from the long 19th century\, considered as the age of t he invention of national identities\, and we will see how this movement of intertwining of discourses for national self-determination and struggles for the moral and cultural sovereignty of women continues in the 20th cent ury. This will also be an opportunity to discuss the relevance of the peri odicity of this division into centuries. \;

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And precisely\, th is workshop will be all the more innovative as it will include a strong me thodological dimension aimed at leading\, beyond case studies\, to reprodu cible results. In particular\, we will ask ourselves what concepts we need to study the history and posterity of the struggle for gendered and cultu ral self-determination in non-national (i.e. trans- or sub-national/trans- imperial and multilingual) cultural spaces. We will discuss in particular the very relevance of the concept of identity\, which we will put in compe tition with the concept of self-determination\, the women whose works and speeches we will study being often less focused on the definition of an es sentialist identity (national and/or feminine) than on a free construction of self enlightened by the comparative knowledge of a European culture in the broad sense. \;

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This workshop is open to the publ ic. The organizers explicitly welcome people to join and participate in th is event.

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