Invisibility and Visibilty of Women Writers
Place: Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen invites to the conference and research workshop: Invisibility and Visibilty of Women Writers: Practices, Approaches, Methods.
Throughout history women were active as writers, literary critics, philosophers, and translators. In numerous fields and periods women shaped thinking, politics, literature – yet their names have not been recorded in intellectual history or cultural memory. They are largely forgotten, their names and works and contributions still remain unknown. Especially in today's world, which offers more opportunities to engage with invisible women thanks to digitization and access to archives, new literary discoveries can be made, networks revealed, and contexts created.
How did women writers and thinkers fall into oblivion, and what are the reasons for their invisibility? Which institutions, practices and individuals are involved in this process?