Hundreds of European Women Writers in One Database

June 14, 2017 – NIAS St. Jorishof Korte Spinhuissteeg 3, Amsterdam
Hundreds of European Women Writers in One Database
Launch of the NEWW VRE
A NIAS workshop closing the HERA Travelling TexTs project
11.00 Welcome
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Collaborating in a common database or: Virtual Research Environment
o Suzan van Dijk (Huygens ING): The project, the VRE and the online exhibition resulting
o Marie Nedregotten Sørbø (Volda University College Norway): Shared discoveries: a
resurfaced translation of a novel by Jane Austen
o Lotte Jensen (Radboud University Nijmegen): Understanding spontaneous discoveries
by providing them with a context: Isabelle de Montolieu in Dutch
12.30-14.00 Lunch
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Collaborating between research projects
o Orsolya Réthelyi (Huygens ING and Eötvös Loránd University Budapest): NEWW VRE
and Eastbound: the case of A.S.C. Wallis
o Petra Broomans (Groningen University): NEWW VRE and Intermediaries: the case of
Philippine Wijsman
Collaborating within infrastructures
o Christophe Verbruggen (Universiteit Gent TBC): NEWW VRE and Timbuctoo
o Femmy Admiraal (DANS The Hague): Women Writers in History within DARIAH
15.30– 16.00 Tea
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17.30
Presentation of the new tool - official launch of the NEWW VRE
o Daan Cartens (Literatuurmuseum The Hague): Collaborating between Huygens ING and
Literatuurmuseum
o Janouk de Groot (Huygens ING assistant in HERA Travelling TexTs): The case of Pim van
Oostrum’s copy of Met en zonder lauwerkrans: progress made during the last decades.
Entering Pim’s hand written notes (taken after the Heinemeyer collection at Leiden
University Library) into the NEWW VRE
New possibilities generated
o One of the “Wikipedians” participating in the Gender Gap project (Wikimedia Utrecht):
NEWW VRE and Wikimedia
o Isabel Lousada (New University of Lisbon, Portugal): The experience of preparing
together with local authorities the commemoration of Cláudia de Campos
o Amelia Sanz (Complutense University Madrid, Spain): The experience of collaborating
with “citizen scientists”
Drinks
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with: possibility of testing the NEWW VRE, and exhibits remembering “Because I had
something to say” (exhibition which took place within the context of HERA TTT in the
Netherlands; 2015-2016); in particular will also be shown photographs of jewelry by
Ingeborg de Groot (goldsmith in Geertruidenberg), inspired by her reading of Juliana de
Lannoy’s writings.