Zovka Kveder (1878-1926), Alma Karlin (1889-1950)

“Every woman should study women's history for at least a year, no matter what she does. Every woman changes when she realizes that she has a story. " (Gerda Lerner)

The concepts that will be discussed in the courses, in the summer schools and in other events will enable thinking about different constructions of gender in and through literature. Students will learn about rich female literary tradition and will be empowered for own agency in the field of literature but also in everyday life. Nevertheless, the answer to the question why we would like to offer to the students a new wider range of competences in the field of women writer’s history and digital humanities is hidden in the words of American historian Gerda Lerner who said: “Women, ignorant of their own history, did not know what women before them had thought and taught. So, generation after generation, they struggled for insights others had already before them, resulting in the constant inventing of the wheel.”

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