{"id":11285,"date":"2026-05-03T12:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/?p=11285&lang=en"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:30:36","slug":"11285","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/?p=11273","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral Seminar \u2013 Of Woman Born Out of Context: Motherhood Studies and East European Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mary Orsak <\/strong>
\n(University of Oxford)<\/p>\n

20 May 2026 (Wednesday) at 10:00 CET<\/strong>
\nInstitute of World Literature SAS<\/p>\n

The lecture is organized as part of the VEGA project Slovak Literature in Inter-Literary and Transcultural Contexts<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This seminar will explore the American poet, essayist, and feminist Adrienne Rich\u2019s seminal work, Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience And Institution<\/em> (1976)<\/a>, which distinguishes between \u201cthe potential relationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction\u2014and to children; and the institution\u2014which aims at ensuring that that potential\u2014and all women\u2014shall remain under male control\u201d (13). The seminar will examine how effectively Rich\u2019s interrogations of motherhood function in other contexts, particularly in Czech, Slovak, and Russian literature of the 1990s.<\/p>\n

Mary Orsak<\/strong> is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on contemporary Czech, Slovak, and Russian literature. She has written two chapters on Milan Kundera in Milan Kundera: Known and Unknown<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2024)<\/a> and Modern Czech Literature: Writing in Times of Political Trauma<\/em> (Vernon Press, 2025)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary Orsak (University of Oxford) 20 May 2026 (Wednesday) at 10:00 CET Institute of World Literature SAS The lecture is organized as part of the VEGA project Slovak Literature in Inter-Literary and Transcultural Contexts. This seminar will explore the American poet, essayist, and feminist Adrienne Rich\u2019s seminal work, Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience And … Pokra\u010dova\u0165 na Doctoral Seminar \u2013 Of Woman Born Out of Context: Motherhood Studies and East European Literature<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pozvanky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11285"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11317,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions\/11317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}