Speaker: Dr. Biljana Dojčinović (Full professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia)

 

Moderator: Merima Omeragić (Postdoctoral Fellow, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

 

Date: 2025/04/21 (mon.)

 

Time: 5 PM

 

*This event will be conducted online*

 

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81136098131?pwd=LU0JrzM5HvqXQg0bHaoWuU3Nt4Orom.1

 

Meeting ID: 811 3609 8131

 

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Abstract:

 

Knjiženstvo, theory and history of women’s writing in Serbian until 1915 (www.knjizenstvo.rs), a research project, began as a national project financed by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development in 2011. The project has been built as an endeavor to rediscover, preserve, and promote women’s writing, recreating the female literary tradition in Serbian culture.

 

The project ended in 2019, yet its two main parts—the electronic database and the publications, including the journal Knjiženstvo, are now a part of an academic platform about gender, literature, and culture: Knjiženstvo, literature, gender, culture. The electronic database Knjiženstvo comprises more than 170 women authors, from the Middle Ages all the way to the second half of the 20th century, along with a number of periodicals. This presents a counter-canon and a challenge to the national literary canon.

 

The future of the database and the journal is important for the culture and its history, especially for the women’s part in it. The impact of the new knowledge about women’s writing on mainstream culture and academic research, however, is still not strong, and thus we must ask ourselves: what is the future of the rediscovered past, what do we do to unlock the literary canon and to change both the past and the future of women’s writing, and what is the role of digital humanities in these processes?

 

 

Speaker: Dr. Biljana Dojčinović

 

Dr. Biljana Dojčinović was one of the founders of the Women’s Studies Center in Belgrade, as well as the Indoc Center in the Association for Women’s Initiative. She was the director of the national project Кnjiženstvo – Theory and History of Women’s Writing in Serbian until 1915 (www.knjizenstvo.rs) and the founder and the first editor-in-chief of Knjiženstvo, Journal for Studies in Literature, Gender and Culture (www.knjizenstvo.rs/magazine.ph...) .She is a member of the CEEPUS Network Women Writers in History and the Women Writer’s Route project certified by the European Commission. She has also been a member of John Updike Society since its founding, one of the editors of John Updike Review since 2010, and one of the JUS directors since 2015. She has published seven academic books. The books she edited, independently or in cooperation within the Knjiženstvo project, can be found at the link http://www.knjizenstvo.rs/sr/i....