Fifth Anglo.fem Conference
Roots/Routes: Writing between Two Cultures
Friday 16 May 2003, Utrecht University
Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, Stijlkamer, room 1.06
Anglo.fem is a network association of women who work as teachers and researchers in the English departments of universities in the Netherlands. Over the past four years, we have met annually for a day of inspiring talks and informal networking. These meetings have been very productive as a forum for discussing new directions in the field of feminist theory and criticism, as well as for exchanging ideas and making connections with the aim of strengthening the position of women in the profession. This year’s Anglo.fem symposium, loosely organised around the theme "Roots/Routes: Writing between Two Cultures" is scheduled for Friday 16 May 2003, in Utrecht.
Our keynote speaker will be Ellen Carol DuBois, Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. Professor DuBois is a prominent scholar in the field of the history of American feminism. She is also interested in multicultural perspectives. She is the author of "Harriet Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997) and co-editor (with Vicki Ruiz) of "Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in Women's History" (New York: Routledge, 1994). She was the recipient of the 1999 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
The costs for the conference will be € 15 (student rate: € 10), which can be paid on arrival. Please forward this message to any colleagues or students who may be interested in the conference.
We look forward to seeing you. As we need to order lunch and coffee in advance, we would like to hear if you are coming. Could you let us know as well whether you intend to join us for an informal dinner after the conference at restaurant Moby Dick (Kromme Nieuwegracht 16-18)? Please send an email to
before 1 May.
Organising committee:
Gonny Pasaribu (Roosevelt Study Center / UU)
Roselinde Supheert (UU)
Usha Wilbers (Roosevelt Study Center / KUN)
Programme
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10.30 |
Registration and coffee |
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11.00 |
Lotte Jensen (UU), "The Reception of English and American Women Writers in Dutch Women's Magazines in the Nineteenth Century" |
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11.40 |
Marieke van Tol (RUG), "Eavan Boland: 'Object Lessons' and a Vocabulary of Belonging" |
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12.20 |
Sarah De Mul (UvA), "'I Want to Take a Rest from the West:' Rewriting the Travel Genre from a Transcultural Perspective; Travel Narratives in Dutch and English by Female 'in between' Travellers" |
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13.00 |
Lunch |
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14.00 |
Keynote lecture (room 006): |
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Prof. Ellen Carol DuBois (UCLA) "Women's History of/in the United States: A Three Decade Overview" |
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15.00 |
Tea |
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15.30 |
Panel discussion: |
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Travel grants and exchange schemes |
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16.30 |
Next year's conference and closure |
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17.00 |
Drinks and dinner in Utrecht |
Sponsored by Instituut Vreemde Talen (UU), Opleiding Engels (KUN), OGC, NSES
