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EUTERPE Spring School Lecture Series Date and Time:  Wednesday 21 May 2025, 5pm–7pm Location:  BS/005, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (In-person and online) Admission:  Free, booking required → Book tickets Photo credit:  Efe Ersoy “Gaza does not propel people to cool contemplation; rather, she propels them to erupt and collide with the truth.” – Mahmoud Darwish, Silence for Gaza  (1973) In collaboration with Comma Press , the EUTERPE project  is proud to present A Collision with Truth , a powerful panel event amplifying Palestinian British voices  in literature and lived experience. This timely and urgent discussion will feature writers and performers Nada Shawa , Mohammed Ghalayini , and Azhar Herez , in conversation with moderator and EUTERPE doctoral researcher Ninutsa Nadirashvili . Together, they will explore the role of writing, storytelling, and transnational authorship amidst the trauma and injustice of ongoing violence in Gaza. Through a blend of testimony, creative reflection, and critical insight, the panel will ask: What does it mean to write under siege? To speak for and within a community facing genocide? How do we bear witness on the page and in public? A Q&A will follow the panel, offering audience members the chance to engage directly with the speakers. About the Speakers Nada Shawa  is a Palestinian writer and dancer who moved from Gaza to Scotland as a child. Her work fuses personal experience, disability activism, and solidarity with Palestinian resistance. Her latest publication, Indigenous Soul: Gaza and Me , supports the Gaza Culture and Development Group. Mohammed Ghalayini  is a writer, translator, and co-author of the play Light in Me Don’t Die , which brings to life the words of Palestinian survivors and martyrs. His work bridges journalism, science, and literature, with extensive reporting from Gaza and translations published widely by Comma Press. Azhar Herez  is a poet of mixed Palestinian and English heritage whose father’s family is from Gaza. She began publicly performing her work in response to the ongoing violence, offering her voice as both protest and solidarity. Ra Page  is the founder and CEO of Comma Press , an award-winning publisher committed to global, political, and socially conscious fiction. He has edited over 30 anthologies and is a leading figure in the UK publishing scene. Venue Map:   View map Enquiries:   Contact us This event is part of the EUTERPE Spring School Lectures — a space for critical engagement, creative resistance, and transnational literary dialogue. Join us in person or online for this vital conversation.

16–23 May 2025 | University of York The University of York is delighted to host the EUTERPE York-Coventry Spring School 2025 , a week-long event welcoming doctoral candidates, scholars, and creative practitioners from across Europe. Taking place from 16 to 23 May 2025 , the Spring School is part of the EUTERPE  project (European Theatre Performance Research), a transnational initiative exploring the intersections of literature, performance, translation, gender studies, and political memory. This year’s programme brings together an exciting range of workshops, seminars, public events, and collaborative activities designed to support early-career researchers and foster international exchange. Programme Highlights Creative workshops  with renowned scholars including Dr Juliana Mensah , Prof. Derek Attridge , Prof. Birgit M. Kaiser , and Prof. Anthony Vahni Capildeo , engaging with themes such as power and agency in research, the translocal, multilingual poetics, and feminist theory. Public evening events , including a conversation and multilingual poetry reading on Translation as Deep Reading and Creative Practice , and a roundtable titled A Collision with Truth: Palestinian British Voices , held in collaboration with Comma Press . Keynote address by Prof. Kimberly Campanello  on poetic language, vulnerability, and resistance. Hands-on experiences , such as a typesetting and printing workshop with Thin Ice Press , and a career development session tailored for doctoral researchers. Participants will also visit the Yorkshire Sculpture Park  and join evening dinners and networking opportunities designed to cultivate ongoing collaboration and community. The Spring School represents a unique opportunity for doctoral candidates to exchange ideas across disciplines and national boundaries, deepening their engagement with socially and politically engaged research practices. For further details, or to register for public events, please contact euterpe-project@york.ac.uk .

Date & Time:  Tuesday 20 May 2025, 5pm–7pm Location:  The Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York & Online Admission:  Free, but booking is required → Book Tickets Photo credit:  Olivia Braggs Use the words you have to get the words you need Susan Stanford Friedman Keynote Performance-Lecture With this poetic invitation, the University of York welcomes Professor Kimberly Campanello for the Susan Stanford Friedman Keynote Performance-Lecture — a powerful and evocative exploration of language, feeling, and form. Join us on Tuesday 20 May  for an evening that promises not just a talk, but a transformative experience. Campanello, Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds and an internationally celebrated writer, invites us into a space where words are not simply spoken but felt , passed , resurrected . This performance-lecture will experiment with language as a living, moving force — an “unmapping” of land and memory, a choreography of phrases that dignify, open, and ask. With fragments that brush against Gertrude Stein, Dante, Lorca, and beyond, Campanello’s piece traverses poetic terrain that is urgent, raw, and beautiful. It’s a space where a sentence becomes a gesture, and a wound becomes a bridge. Where syntax isn’t a cage, but a key. “A word is a seed. It’s not like one. We know this is true when we tend one, and we know it even more when we don’t.” This lecture is part of the EUTERPE series  honoring feminist scholar and theorist Susan Stanford Friedman. A wine reception will follow the event. About the Speaker Kimberly Campanello is the author of An Interesting Detail  (Bloomsbury Poetry) and Use the Words You Have  (Somesuch Editions), the debut novel from the BAFTA- and Oscar-winning production company’s literary imprint. Her work spans poetry, fiction, and hybrid forms, with recent pieces appearing in Poetry Ireland Review , Still Point , and Notre Dame Review . Her current project, This Knot , reimagines Dante’s Commedia  in radical and resonant new ways. For more on Kimberly’s work, visit: www.kimberlycampanello.com

Overview of the research and training program Based upon a truly interdisciplinary gendered approach to knowledge production, EUTERPE offers a new and innovative quality of PhD training characterized by synergy between research, training, and supervision. Within a broader area of research that focuses on transnational literature on a European level, EUTERPE creates a considerable added value compared to standard PhD or research programs through its carefully planned collaborative approach that includes several major components: training at the host university; training at the secondment university; consortium-wide specialized intensive training via summer and winter schools; bespoke employability enhancement with the support of an individually assigned Employability Mentor; skills development through periods of two-month internships with an Associated Partner organization; hands-on training in open science research methods, academic publication and alternative forms of content dissemination within the EUTERPE Transnational Literary Research Laboratory while working on the project’s main impact outputs: the Dictionary of Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe, the Digital Catalogue and the Podcast Library. The EUTERPE Transnational Literary Research Laboratory as an essential eminent of EUTERPE research across eight universities will represent the project’s central research hub responsible for the conceptualization, investigation, and intellectual design necessary for the project’s overarching impact outputs, the Dictionary of Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe, the Digital Catalogue, and the Podcast Library. The Laboratory will rely on the interdisciplinary expertise of the consortium members as well as on the practical know-how concentrated amongst our Associate Partners, but just as importantly, all DCs are expected to be active members of the Laboratory, within which they will have a chance to get hands-on experience with the process of designing, researching, shaping, and launching a top-notch open access academic and literary publication and website, as well as receive training in open science methodology, and learn how to apply it in their own research work.

EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective Coordinator: CEU PU Vienna, Austria Principal Investigator: Jasmina Lukic Funding: Marie Skłodowska–Curie Actions – Doctoral Network (MSCA DN) Duration: 1 October, 2022 - 31 September, 2026 Grant Ref: EP/X02556X/1. The aim of EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective is to offer an innovative approach to rethinking European cultural production in the light of complex social and political negotiations that are shaping European spaces and identities at present. EUTERPE intends to do that by bringing together gender and transnational perspectives within an interdisciplinary approach to literary and cultural studies. The research is organized into 8 work packages within four main areas: Transnational women’s literature and its travels: points of entry and pathways (WP 1, WP2); Translational genres: crossing borders in gender, form, space, and identity (WP 3, WP4); Transnational women intellectuals, multilingualism and decolonising European pedagogies (WP 5, WP6); Transnational literature and cultural production: intermediality as a form of translation (WP7, WP8). The Doctoral Candidates’ academic training will include two supervisors from cooperating universities, a compulsory secondment period, and an industrial internship with an Associated Partner organization to support bespoke employability enhancement. The major impact outputs of the project: 11 PhD theses; a co-produced open-source Dictionary of Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe with key concepts and bio-bibliographic entries on leading representatives of the field; and a Digital Catalogue and Podcast Library , which will make accessible all relevant material collected during the creation of the Dictionary. As a complex, interdisciplinary project, EUTERPE brings together literary and gender studies, as well as transnational studies, translation studies, migration studies and European studies. Objectives EUTERPE is envisaged as a complex, multilayered project, which has several long-term objectives, connected with very concrete tasks in the intersecting fields of gender studies, literary studies, translation studies and European studies. The objectives of the project are the following: To map the field of transnational literary studies in Europe as an interdisciplinary field, which brings together a range of interconnected disciplines and approaches, with gender perspective as the main integrative component and gender as a key analytical concept. To propose an interdisciplinary and intersectional framework for a theory of transnational literature. To contribute to the furthering of the discussion of European identity in academia and beyond by focusing on questions of non-national identity in contemporary European literary and cultural production. To set the frame for a history of transitional women’s literature in Europe by focusing on women-identified authors in the research of Doctoral Candidates (DCs), in the Dictionary of Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe, and in the Digital Catalogue and Podcast Library, the major results of the project. To produce the open access Dictionary of Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe as a major contribution to several intersecting disciplines: transnational studies, literary studies, gender studies, European studies, translation studies and migration studies. The Dictionary will consist of two parts: the first will be dedicated to theoretical and conceptual issues, and the second will bring together original bio-bibliographical articles dedicated to major women-identified authors in Europe today. To create the Digital Catalogue and Podcast Library to enhance the cross-border circulation of European cultural wealth by establishing and running an inclusive and flexibly available platform about European transnational literary output. Through the Catalogue all bio-bibliographic entries of the second part of the Dictionary will be online accessible and searchable together with extra links and contents, such as the author interviews of the Podcast Library. To offer comprehensive training in interdisciplinary thinking and intersectional, gender conscious research practices to the employed DCs. To train DCs in socially responsible, open science practices. To provide custom-made employability skills training for all DCs through ‘industrial’ internships within cogent but diverse organizations through associate partnerships across European contexts with libraries, publishing houses, museums, art networks. The Associate Partners offer important skills training in the fields of academic publishing, lexicographic writing, podcast recording, archival and curatorial work in order to open career choices for the DCs beyond academia. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement nr. 101073012. This project has received funding from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Research Grant, Grant Ref: EP/X02556X/1.

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