Summer School Intimacy in Women’s Writing and Reading
From August 22 to 27, the Intimacy in Women’s Writing and Reading Summer School was held, organised by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica, the Association of Writers’ Path and the Ceepus Network Women Writers in History. Participants from seven European countries took part in a six-day programme on women writers and intimacy. Activities took place at various locations in Ljubljana, and in Nova Gorica. On the one-day trip they visited Gorizia, Vipava Križ, and Vipava, and the exhibition at the House of »aleksandrinke« in the village Prvačina.
The summer school also included In the international research workshop titled Censoring Intimacy in Women’s Writing and Reading, where researchers from across Europe discussed the connections between intimacy and (self)censorship in the 19th century and the present. It took place on August 23 and 24 at the Oton Župančič Library in Ljubljana, where a series of lectures were given on issues of intimacy and its connection to (self-)censorship from theoretical, historical, and spatial perspectives. The event, which was attended by the University of Nova Gorica, the Women Writers Route Association, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University of Bucharest, the University of Gothenburg and the University of Turku, was conceived by Dr. Katja Mihurko Poniž, Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica. With audience participation, the researchers discussed topics that have often been neglected in academia in the past – including why women were censored in the past, why they were not allowed to talk about love and sexuality, and why they often had to write under male pseudonyms.
Students Laura Andrei and Eliza Belu about the summer school
Student Michal Kucharski about the summer school
Assist. prof. dr. Maša Grdešić about the summer school
Student Julija Ovsec about the summer school
Student Darko Ilin about the summer school
