A two-day conference on the "Mission of Women in Literature" began at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" on June 19.
The event is organized by lecturers and researchers from the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology and the Institute of Literature - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The conference is being held for the second consecutive year with a new topic, again related to women, and is considered successful and useful, reported for FACT Senior Asst. Prof. Dr. Radeya Gesheva, who is also the project manager. The organizational team includes Senior Asst. Dr. Iliana Chalakova from the "Portuguese and Lusophone Studies" department, ch. assistant Dr. Martin Dimitrov and Dr. Milena Sahakyan from the Department of "Japanese Studies" in FCNF and chap. assistant Dr. Elena Borisova and Assistant Professor Dr. Boryana Vladimirova from the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
According to prof. Dr. Gergana Petkova - Dean of the Faculty of Literature and Literature, a prominent representative of Japanese Studies in Bulgaria and author of the plenary report "On the Mission of Women..." - the mission of women can refer to aposiopesis - a stylistic figure in rhetoric, in which there is a sudden silence and thoughts remain unsaid.
According to Senior Assistant Professor Dr. Radeya Gesheva from the specialty "Italian Philology", Department of "Romance Studies", Faculty of Literature and Literature, who delivered a report on the topic "The Mission of Women in the Literature of the 20th Century - Maria Bellonchi and the "Strega" Award, the female presence is related to the creative process of creation and transformation in the socio-cultural context. According to the conference participants, the topic of the mission of women is particularly important at a time when the world is torn apart by military conflicts, debates about gender, and the difficult experience of preserving values.
Today, the participants will discuss the topics of women as catalysts in various mythologies, literatures, and cultures. The organizers have the ambition to make the event an annual and traditional one.