Welcome to the closing symposium of the research project Generation, National Identity, the Body: Polish and Russian Women's Writing in Transformation (PURU, www.womenswriting.fi) affiliated to the University of Tampere, School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies (2007-2010). The aim of the PURU research group has been to investigate what happens to feminist literary theories and concepts when applied in the (post-socialist) East European context; to engage a comparative approach to women's writing and to investigate subjectivities situated in Russian and Polish culture and literature. For this symposium the research group has invited well-known scholars of Polish, Finnish, and Russian literature to look at women's writing in a cross-cultural feminist perspective.

Students can gain 2 ECTS by listening to all of the presentations given in the symposium and writing a learning diary of at least 10 pages based on five (5) presentations. The learning diary must be turned in as a printed version to prof. Arja Rosenholm (room PinniB 5053) by November 30th 2010.

The programme of the symposium can be found here

Enrollment via e-mail: sirje.lalla(at)uta.fi