Women’s Creativity and the Imaginaries of Gender: Inheriting the Future
Wed, Oct 08
|Pessac
Come and join me to learn how artistic & creative expressions can transform trauma into tangible forms capable of translating both pain and strength. As one of the keynote speakers, I will talk about my personal experience, read poetry, present a paper and chair a session on the second day.
Time & Location
Oct 08, 2025, 9:30 PM GMT+2 – Oct 10, 2025, 11:30 PM GMT+2
Pessac, Domaine Universitaire, 19 esplanade des Antilles, 33607 Pessac, France
About the event
The ERCIF research centre, which has been conducting research on femininities in the arts and literature since its founding in 1985 by Élisabeth Béranger and Ginette Castro, is organizing an international conference on October 9-10, 2025, to mark its fortieth anniversary.
Transdisciplinary in nature, this event reflects the activities of the research team, which brings together scholars from literature, languages, humanities, and social sciences, united by a common interest in:
The study of the various ways in which women's creativity manifests across all literary and artistic fields (including photography, film, visual arts, choreography, music, etc.).
Research on the imaginary of femininities, masculinities/femininities, and associated gender studies.
This multifaceted and inclusive approach—literary, artistic, historical, geographical, philosophical, anthropological, sociological, legal, or medical—adopts a resolutely diachronic perspective, giving ample space to the history of cultures and mentalities (the role of women and the status of femininity in society) as well as a comparative…