| X: Culture, Creativity and Spirituality |
Monday June 21
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| Auditorium B 302 Math Sciences Building
Capacity: 134 |
Auditorium B 203, Math Sciences Building
Capacity: 64 |
| 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker |
B 302, Math Sciences Building
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| Griselda Pollock (UK)
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| 2nd. Session |
| Weaving Stories, Weaving Lives: Narratives from a
Female Perspective (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Yuanxi Ma (USA) Participants: Hsiu-Ling Lin (China): The Study of Modern Chinese Female Autobiography Kathleen Seaton (China): Coping, Choosing, Resisting: We Flew Over the Bridge; The Memoirs of Faith Riggold Kristin Fitzpatrick (Taiwan): American National Identity in Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Gardner Prince Yuanxi Ma (USA): An Endless Journey: Breaking through Confinements and Constraints. |
Women in Botswana (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Musa W. Dube-Shomanah (Botswana) Musa W. Dube-Shomanah (Botswana): Boleo: A Post-Colonial Reading of Women’s Characters in the Novels of O. Garbone. Musa W. Dube-Shomanah (Botswana): African Storytelling Neo W.J. Matome (Botswana): Women and Art ? Botswana Baskets |
| 3rd Session |
| Narratives from a Female Perspective
Chair/Coordinator: Rosaleen Nhlekisana (Botswana) Maria Holmgren Troy (Sweden): Telling Lives in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Elizabeth Stoddar's The Morgesons, Octavia Butler's Kindred and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. Rosaleen Nhlekisana (Botswana): The Role of Women in Setswana Oral Literature with Special Reference to Poetry and Storytelling Airi Markkanen (Finland): The Finnish Women's Life Course: Conflicts Between Generations |
Women in Different Countries
Chair/Coordinator: Eva Thun (Hungary) Eva Thun (Hungary): Cultural Feminism as an Alternative Vehicle of Social Change in Hungary Agatha Schwartz (Canada): Hungarian Women between Two fin-de-siècles Caroline Graeske (Sweden): Writing from the Margin ? Text and Context. Stina Aronson and the Swedish Literary Modernism |
| 4th. Session |
| Narratives from a Female Perspective (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Aino-Maija Hiltunen (Finland) Aino-Maija Hiltunen (Finland): Conversion as a Turning Point ? Ideological and Religious Narratives Describing Personal Changes Ane Hoel (Norway): Faithful Women and Treacherous Men: An Analysis of Healing and Destructive Forces in “Pretenders” by Henrik Ibsen Léonie Metangmo-Tatou (Cameroon): Intellectuelles" á l'école de leur culture ethnique: Vers l'apprentissage et l'appropriasion des chants dialogues |
Women in Different Countries (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Jaana Maria Vikström (Norway) Felizitas Sagebiel (Germany): Women’s Friendship in Eastern Germany Jaana Maria Vikström (Norway): Quality of Life in the North Ludmila Ougolkova (Russia): Lesbian Sub-Culture in Russia, Plus Video: Lesbian Women: Coming Out – The Early 90’s in Russia |
| 5th. Session |
| Women in the Arts: "Promesa", A Cultural Project Interrelating
the Arts Chair/Coordinator: Ivannia Sanchez (Costa Rica) Rocio del Valle (Costa Rica): Soprano Pablo Vargas (Costa Rica): Pianist and composer Gloriana Alan (Costa Rica): Ballet dancer Annabelle de Garrido (Costa Rica): Narrator |
Lithuanian Women-99 (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Virginija Sidlauskiene (Lithuania) |
| X: Culture, Creativity and Spirituality |
Tuesday June 22
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| Auditorium B 302 Math Sciences Building
Capacity: 134 |
Auditorium B 203, Math Sciences Building
Capacity: 64 |
| 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker |
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| 2nd. Session |
| Language and Gender
Chair/Coordinator: Marlis Hellinger (Germany) Hadumod Bussmann (Germany) and Marlis Hellinger (Germany): Gender Across Languages: Taking a Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Linguistic Representation of Women and Men Helen M. Hacker (USA): Female Voices in the Hebrew Bible: Challenging Patriarchy Tatou Metamo (Cameroon): Local Languages in an Francophone World Seen from Woman's Perspective |
Women and Media
Chair/Coordinator: Jenny Pretorius (South Africa) Nico Carpentier (Belgium) and Sonja Spee (Belgium): Different Voices ? Different Identities: Women Participating in Audience Discussion Programs Sylvi Liljegren (Norway): Who Speaks in Television: A Comparative Study Jenny Pretorius (South Africa): The Image of Women as Communicated by the Media in South Africa. |
| 3rd Session |
| Language and Gender (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Christiana Lambrinidis (Greece) Ria Snellinx (Belgium): Gender Conflict in the Theatre Seen from a Linguistic Point of View. Lanford Wilson's 'The Mound Builders, a Case in Point Christiana Lambrinidis (Greece): Writing Mothers and Daughters: Civil Wars In the Construction of Language Janne Bromseth (Norway): Gender, Culture and Values in Two Norwegian Electronic Discussion-Lists: Are Posting Style and Value Preferances in Net-Discussions Gendered? |
Women and Media (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Giedre Baltrusaityte (Lithuania) Susan Sheridan (Australia): The Australian Women's Weekly, 1946-1971 ? Who Was That Woman? Lyudmila Mouhortova (Russia): Women in Mass Media Giedre Baltrusaityte (Lithuania): The Image of Femininity in Women's Magazines: Focus on Female Reader |
| 4th Session |
| Language and Gender (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Christiana Lambrinidis (Greece) Ria Snellinx (Belgium): Gender Conflict in the Theatre Seen from a Linguistic Point of View. Lanford Wilson's 'The Mound Builders, a Case in Point Christiana Lambrinidis (Greece): Writing Mothers and Daughters: Civil Wars In the Construction of Language Janne Bromseth (Norway): Gender, Culture and Values in Two Norwegian Electronic Discussion-Lists: Are Posting Style and Value Preferances in Net-Discussions Gendered? |
Women and Media (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Magda Michielsens (Netherlands) Marilyn Poole (Australia): The Politics of Women's Book Discussion Groups in Victoria: Are Book Discussion Groups Really Bitch and Stitch Sessions with the Needle and Thread? Magda Michielsens (Netherlands): My Virtual Me Is on the Move: The Role of (New) Media in the Construction of Reality |
| 5th Session |
| Culture and Feminism – A Feminist Culture?
Chair/Coordinator: Kaija-Helena Heikkinen (Finland) Jurate Stauskaite (Lithuania): A Woman's School of My Dreams (The Role of Art in the World of Women) Kaija-Helena Heikkinen (Finland): The Figure of the "Baba", a Village Woman, in the Post-Socialist Countryside in Russia Natalia Novikova (Russia): The Fates of the Mansi Women |
| X: Culture, Creativity and Spirituality |
Wednesday June 23
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| Auditorium B 302 Math Sciences Building
Capacity: 134 |
Auditorium B 203, Math Sciences Building
Capacity: 64 |
| 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker |
NB! Aud. Medicine and Health
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| Monica Kristensen (Norway): Antarctica ? A World of Men?
The Presence of Women on a Sacred Testing Ground for Masculinity
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| 2nd. Session |
| Role-Play: Personal Pilgrimages: Collaborative Storytelling
for Personal Transformation (Workshop) Chair/Coordinator: Anne Elliott (Canada) Participants: Susan Drake (Canada) Mary Leigh Morbey (Canada) Karen Pacheco (Canada) |
Women and Art
Chair/Coordinator: Anna Lisa Tota (Italy) Beatrix Gates (USA): Poetry Reading in the Open Barbara Meadowcroft (Canada): Painting Friends: Ten Montreal Women Painters Anna Lisa Tota (Italy): Art as Place and Space for "Work": Oppositional Gaze and Resisting Spectatorship |
| 3rd Session |
| Pilgrimage and Travellers
Chair/Coordinator: Carolyn Redl (Canada) Carolyn Redl (Canada): Women Going North Bobbie Larson (USA): Wild Women Adventures: Pushing the Gender Boundaries Ulrike Brisson (USA): Transgressing Boundaries and Establishing Barriers in Mary Kingley’s Travel in West Africa |
Women and Art (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Maggie Humm (UK) Mari Laanemets (Lithuania): Autobiography-Gendering Subject and Strategy in the Estonian Art of 1990s Beatrix Gates & Electa Arenal (USA): Lesbian Collaborations in Art, Life and Work Maggie Humm (UK): The Same Pair of Eyes, Only Different Spectacles: the Photographs of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell Katrin Kivimäe (Estonia): Towards a Practice of Self-Definition: Feminism and Estonian Contemporary Art |
| 4th Session |
| Female Sámi Students in Tromsø: Video
Film (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Vivi Pedersen (Norway) Participants: Vivian Aira (Norway) Ingvild Giutal (Norway) Siri Wernberg (Norway) |
| 5th Session |
| X: Culture, Creativity and Spirituality |
Thursday June 24
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| Auditorium B 302 Math Sciences Building
Capacity: 134 |
Auditorium B 203, Math Sciences Building
Capacity: 64 |
| 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker |
NB! B 302, Math Sciences Building
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| Elisabeth Møller-Jensen (Denmark): Writing a Women’s Literary History: The Nordic Experience |
| 2nd. Session |
| Literature, Texts and Metaphors
Chair/Coordinator: Julia Samarina (Estonia) Ana Zelaya (Costa Rica) and Evangelina Aguiluz (Costa Rica): The Use of Costa Rican Values in Children's Literature Julia Samarina (Estonia): Angela Carter on the Ideology of Pornography: Rereading Marquis de Sade Sinikka Tuohimaa (Finand): Divided Subjectivity in the Writing of Northern Finnish Woman Writers |
Women’s Rituals and Drama
Chair/Coordinator: Olga Tchurakova (Russia) Svetlana Samodurova (Russia) and Olga Tchurakova (Russia): Male Roles in Creation of Spiritual and Material Culture: Gender Aspects of Creation Joan Bean (USA): Long Runs: Women in the American Theatre Olivia Bunari (Papua New Guinea): Culture, Creativity and Spirituality in Papua New Guinea |
| 3rd. Session |
| Literature, Texts and Metaphors (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Helena Ospina (Costa Rica) Antelak Almutawakil (Yemen): Gender in the Lives of Yemeni Female Writers Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (Estonia): The Theme of Punishment as a Metaphor of Self-Definition in Estonian Novel of the 1990s by Women Helena Ospina (Costa Rica): Feminism and Literature |
“Simzisani"
Chair/Coordinator: Gertrude Matshe (South Africa) Gertrude Matshe & Tembelani Dube (South Africa): “Simzisani" ? A Compilation of Drama, Poetry, Song and Dance |
| 4th.Session |
| Texts, Metaphors and Themes
Chair/Coordinator: Janke Klok (Netherlands) Kerstin Munck (Sweden): Giving Birth to Text, the Childbirth Metaphor in Hélène Cixous' Fiction Janke Klok (Netherlands): The Literary City of Women. The Importance of the City in the Work of Some Dutch and Norwegian Women Writers Elo Lindsalu (Estonia): Dilemma of Lydia Koidulas' Poetry: Loving Him or Fatherland? |
Holy space: Drumming site (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Nanna Paalgard Pape (Norway) |
| 5th. Session |
| Texts, Metaphors and Themes (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Stine Jensen (Netherlands) Gul Tekay Baysan (Turkey): The Heroine as the Eponym of the Nineteenth Century French Novel Stine Jensen (Netherlands): Why Women Like Apes. Bestial Fantasies in Film and Literature |
| X: Culture, Creativity and Spirituality |
Friday June 25
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| Auditorium B 302 Math Sciences Building
Capacity: 134 |
Auditorium B 203, Math Sciences Building
Capacity: 64 |
| 1st.Session: Keynote Speaker |
NB! Kulturhuset
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| Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe): Writing Inside the Bone
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| 2nd. Session |
| Writing and Theory
Chair/Coordinator: Rauna Kuokkanen (Canada/Sapmi) Rauna Kuokkanen (Canada/Sapmi): Stories as Theory: Looking at Wor(l)ds of Our Own Interpretation Anne Holden Rønning (Norway): Bicultural Identities in Discourse |
Spiritual Leadership of Women
Chair/Coordinator: Tori Haring-Smith (Egypt) Hwiada Abu Baker (Austria): The Culture of Disease and the Wisdom of The Traditional Medical System ? Case Study: The Spiritual Possessions Among Women in Sinkate Area of Eastern Sudan Tori Haring-Smith (Egypt): Presenting Female Sexuality on the Egyptian Stage: Nehad Gad, Egyptian Playwright Mary E. Friel & Willie Hurley (USA): Spirituality: A New Threshold Yehudith Hübner (Israel): Women and Religion |
| 3rd. Session |
| Beside Ourselves: Putting the ‘Me’ into the
‘Me’thodology (Workshop) Chair/Coordinator: Jeanne Marie Schoenwandt (Canada) Jeanne Marie Schoenwandt (Canada): Writing Textual Bodies, Writing Bodies of the Self Maria del Carmen Suescun-Pozas (Canada): Performing Historical Bodies in/and the Writing of Performance Constanza Camelo (Canada): Bodily Displacement: Between the Individual and the Social Shauna Beharry (Canada): Citing Silence Karen Hoeberg (Canada): The Linking of Lullabies |
Spiritual Leadership of Women (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Rehana Ghadially (India) Jill Hilford (Sweden): International Friendship and Women Travellers Rehana Ghadially (India): Muslim Women's Religious Gatherings in South Asia Fanta Christine (Cameroon): Therapeutic Knowledge and Power of "Nbgang Sew"Annabelle de Quesada De Garrido (Costa Rica): On Suffering |
| 4th. Session |
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| 5th. Session |