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In this podcast, Doctorate Candidate María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto (Auxi Castillo Soto) converses with life writing authors Alejandra Ortiz and Chérissa Iradukunda. This conversation is the result of a workshop’s Q&A that Auxi Castillo Soto delivered as part of her EUTERPE internship. During their conversation, Ortiz and Iradukunda talk about their writing process, the language selection, the opinion of their close ones, and many other interesting topics related to their life writing narratives.

Alejandra Ortiz is the author of the book titled De waarheid zal me bevrijden, where she recounts her migratory journey from Mexico, first, to the United States and later to the Netherlands in 2015. And Chérissa Iradukunda is the author of the book titled Broken Object, a life writing narrative about the migratory journey of a teenage girl to the Netherlands.
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https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/international-literature-festival-in-utrecht%3A-q%26a-with-authors-alejandra-ortiz-and-ch%C3%A9rissa-iradukunda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRd05x7nMAQ

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In this two-part episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, doctoral candidate Uthara Geetha (University of Oviedo) speaks with Professor Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University) about her second monograph "Hélène Cixous's Poetics of Voice: Echo - Subjectivity – Diffraction."

Prof. Kaiser reveals how Hélène Cixous’s poetic fictions perform a radical, anti-essentialist model of subjectivity as “voice”– one that emerges not from a closed individual but from a ceaseless echo of other beings, places, and times. Kaiser introduces the concept of “echology” (ecology with a silent *h*) to reframe Cixous’s much-debated “feminine writing” as a material, relational, and deeply situated mode of becoming that includes the dead, the non-human, and the absent. Through a diffractive reading that thinks with Cixous rather than merely about her, this podcast shows how her work offers a timely, decolonial, and eco-logical path for reimagining selfhood, solidarity, and critique in the twenty-first century.

Check out our website and YouTube channel every two weeks for new episodes! This episode has been released as a two-part series. Part 1 and Part 2 are available now on our website, youtube, and soundcloud
https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne-cixous%2C-echo%2C-subjectivity%2C-diffraction-(part-1)%3A-a-conversation-with-professor-birgit-kaiser-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1FzWwCVNFk

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In this episode of the EUTERPE podcast library, host Tamara Cvetković engages in a wide-ranging conversation with Olja Alvir, a multifaceted literary scholar, writer, translator, and journalist who examines the complexities of identity and migration.

Born in Yugoslavia before moving to Austria in 1992, Alvir discusses her academic "excavation" of early Yugoslav partisan films to reveal their artistic value. She reflects on her position as a writer in exile whose homeland no longer exists, and the linguistic friction of navigating between German, English, and Serbo-Croatian (BCMS). Alvir candidly recounts the challenges of being a working-class woman in the male-dominated field of physics—a "heartbreak" that eventually led her toward a career in journalism, poetry, and fiction, where she now uses scientific concepts as raw material for her writing.

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https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/sparkly-pearls-in-the-dustbin-of-literature-%E2%80%93-in-conversation-with-olja-alvir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJRSf_3Wcu4

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For this podcast, Doctorate Candidate Maria Auxiliadora Castillo Soto (Auxi Castillo Soto) conversed with Dr. Francesca Sobande about her book titled "Big Brands are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture" published by University of California Press in 2024. In this episode, Dr. Sobande talks about her experience with writing this book, her bricolage methodology, and other important topics and concepts that she deals with in her research, including morality and racial capitalism. We invite you to dive into this conversation to know more about Dr. Sobande’s work.

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https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/a-conversation-with-francesca-sobande
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8DutRGsz5g

⚡Participation update⚡

Doctorate candidate Maria Auxiliadora Castillo Soto (Auxi Castillo Soto) was invited to participate in an event titled “Feminism in the Global South: Shedding a Light on Underrepresentation,” organized by UNICEF Student Team Utrecht and Feles in Felium (FIF) at Utrecht University.

Castillo Soto presented her experience as a Latin American early-career scholar in the Netherlands, where she is completing her PhD trajectory. She talked about her research, the Euterpe project and the different output that the consortium has developed so far.

Read more about it in our website: https://www.euterpeproject.eu/post/feminism-in-the-global-south

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In this podcast, doctoral candidate Evangeline Scarpulla (Eva Scarpulla) speaks with translator Marta Olivi (Marta Olivi). During the conversation we discuss Marta’s four major English to Italian translation projects: "Canta Ancora, Ragazza" (2022), a translation of Jacqueline Roy’s "The Fat Lady Sings" (2000); "L’Antropocene Inconscio" (2022), a translation of Mark Bould’s "The Anthropocene Unconscious" (2021); "Paradiso Terrestre" (2024), a translation of Laura Vandenberg’s "State of Paradise" (2024); and selected poems from Molly Brodak's "The Cipher" (2020). Olivi also talks about her approach to translation work, the intersections between translation and academic research, and the importance of translation in today's transnational literary landscape. We hope that you enjoy listening to this podcast.

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https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/a-conversation-with-marta-olivi-on-translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj-SlByyJCk&t=371s

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In this episode, Séamus O’Kane interviews Roxana Aguilar and Diana Cruz, two of the founding members of the Libros con L de Latinas book club. They discuss the importance of establishing a Spanish-speaking book club for Latin American women living in Glasgow which allows for migrant women to connect and form a community. The conversation explores how the book club can serve as an inclusive space for expression, solidarity and connecting literature to lived experience.

You can follow the book club on Instagram .

Check out our website and YouTube channel every two weeks for new episodes!
https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/libros-con-l-de-latinas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DhmlTYKSFs&t=323s

✨Susan Stanford Friedman Lecture Series✨

When the planning for the EUTERPE Project started in 2021, one of the first people we reached out to for support and participation was Susan Stanford Friedman (1943–2023). Known for her research in literary and gender studies, whose wide interests included women’s literature, modernity, migration/diaspora studies, global and transnational literatures, and postcolonial studies, Susan Friedman was an author whose work was seminal for the research done in EUTERPE. We were happy and honoured when she accepted our invitation, looking forward to four years of cooperation. However, unfortunately, soon after the start of the project she passed away. It was a hard blow for many of us gathered around EUTERPE because for us Susan was much more than a highly respected and influential scholar. She was a special friend known for her warm personality and intellectual generosity. She selflessly shared her knowledge, supported the work of her colleagues and engaged in teaching and promoting young scholars.

This lecture series was created in her honour to celebrate her legacy and to keep her presence alive. Thank you to Susan’s friends, colleagues, students, and admirers who hosted and delivered these memorial lectures. And thank you to Susan, a dedicated feminist who has touched our lives and who will continue to inspire us in the years to come.

The following three lectures were delivered at our biannual EUTERPE Doctoral Schools hosted by participating universities:
1. "Ruins, Fragments, and the Word: War, Memory, and Utopian Vision in H.D.’s Late Poetry" with Raffaella Baccolini.
2. "Use the Words You Have to Get the Words You Need" with Kimberly Campanello.
3. "Reshuffling: Feminist Collaboration and Transnational Solidarity" with Rebecca L. Walkowitz.

These lectures can be accessed on our website, youtube channel, and soundcloud:
https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library
https://youtube.com/?si=nZT7Q6iRLvWSigYN
https://on.soundcloud.com/khGxy7GFM6JDJ2TeuF

✨We want to congratulate our doctoral candidate Alice Flinta (Alice Flinta) from York University for her recent open access publication titled "Estranged From Himself? A Manuscript-Based Analysis of Meursault in L’Étranger."

This article delves into the manuscript of Albert Camus' "L’Étranger" to explore the creation and evolution of its enigmatic protagonist, Meursault. ​ Drawing on archival research conducted at the Fonds Albert Camus in Aix-en-Provence, Alice Flinta examines Camus' linguistic and syntactic choices, revealing how Meursault's character organically emerged through the writing process.

We invite you to access and read her article through the project's website:

Doctoral Candidates Publications | Euterpeproject Eu This article introduces a Dalit decolonial feminist standpoint as an epistemic and political framework that redefines feminist thought through four interrelated pillars. It argues that decolonial and postcolonial frameworks remain constrained by their inability to recognise caste as the meta-structu...

🚩Announcement🚩

On the 26th of February, we will be releasing a special lecture series to commemorate the life and passing of friend and feminist scholar Susan Stanford Friedman.

These episodes will feature recordings of the memorial lectures given during the EUTERPE doctoral schools by friends, students, and admirers of Susan and her work.

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Our EUTERPE podcast library is now available on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/euterpe-podcast-library?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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