Plenary Lecture:
Ann Jefferson (Oxford), "The Writing Life:
Vocation and Régime"
14:50-15:15
Coffee break
15:15-16:55
PANEL SESSION A
Panel 1
Antje Lindenmeyer (Warwick),
"Memory or Gedächtnis: Fictional Recollections in Christa Wolf's Patterns of Childhood"
Rebecca Beard (Oxford),
"The Art of Self-Construction: Günther Grass's Use of Camus and Orwell in His 'Political Travel Novel'
Headbirths or the Germans Are Dying Out"
Alfred White (Cardiff),
"The Birth and Death of Modernism: Identity and Genre Confusion in Karl Philip Moritz's
Anton Reiser (1785) and Max Frisch's Montauk (1974)"
Panel 2
Julia Watson (Ohio), "Self-love, Self-pleasure, and Self-production: Autobiographical Conundrums in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother"
Anjana Sharma (Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi), "Writing
Gender: Mary Hays's The Memoirs of Emma Courtney."
Plenary Lecture: Peter Davies (Edinburgh), "The
Enemy Within: Autobiography and Stalinism in Germany"
18:15
Welcome Reception
Offered by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College
20.00
Conference Dinner
Tuesday 9
September
9:00-10:00
Plenary Lecture:
Maurice Slawinski (Lancaster),
"The Future of the Past: Private and Public Histories of an
Italian"
10:00-10:20
Coffee break
10:20-12:00
PANEL SESSION B
Panel 3
Anna Jackson (Victoria University Wellington), "New Zealand Poetry and
the Translation of Autobiography"
Mara Cambiaghi (Konstanz), "Staging Memory in the House of Fiction: Christine Brooke-Rose's Remake"
Davy Van Oers (Antwerp), "The Memoirs of
Carlo Goldoni: A Literary Mask"
Panel 4
David Messmer (Rice), "Sympathy in Lady’s Day: The Legacy of the
Sentimental Novel in the Autobiography of Billie Holiday"
Carole Jones (Trinity College Dublin), "‘An Imaginary Black Family’:The Writing
of Scottish Blackness in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet"
Katy Brundan (Oregon), "Seduction Incarnate: Women's Memoirs of Sensation from the Nineteenth-century Asylum"
12:00-13:00
Plenary Lecture Ivan Callus (Malta),
"Thanatography: Life, Death, and Mourning in Jacques
Derrida and Tim Parks"
13:00-13:50
Lunch
13:50-15:20
PANEL SESSION C
Panel 5
Elizabeth Crossley (Goldsmiths College
London), "Before the Letter: Perec's
W ou le souvenir d'enfance"
Erin Wunker (McGill),
"Two Factors in Terms of Three: A Foray into the
Derridean Borderline in Anne Carson's Irony Is Not Enough: Essay on My Life as Catherine Deneuve (2nd Draft), Robyn Sarah's
Accept My Story, and
Gail Scott's Main Brides"
Christopher Gregory-Guider (Sussex), "Facts
made fictive:
Fictionalisation as a Strategy of Ethical Representation in the Works of W.
G. Sebald"
Panel 6
Sumana R. Ghosh (Darjeeling), "Mother / Son: Whose Autobiography Is it Anyway?"
Dianne Newell and Jenea Tallentire (U. of British
Columbia), "Surveying
the Lines: Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings for Readers and
Writers of Co-authored
Auto/biography"
Rocio Davis (Navarre), "Dialogic Selves: Discursive Strategies in
Transcultural Collaborative Autobiographies"
15:20-15:40
Coffee break
15:40-17:20
PANEL SESSION D
Panel 7
Rosalia Baena (Navarre), "Recipes for Selfhood: Food as a Narrative Trope and Strategy in Transcultural Memoirs"
Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, (University College London), "The Photograph in Autobiography: Documentary Fictions?"
Jaana Loipponen (Joensuu), "Plaiting the Memory Threads: Life Histories of War Widows, Family History and Autobiography"
Panel 8
Carole Allamand (Rutgers), "Toward a Primal Scene of Writing? Biography as Autobiography in
Marguerite Yourcenar's 'Dear Departed' "
Susan Bainbrigge (Edinburgh), "Viewing the World Otherwise: Dominique Rolin's Portrait of the Artist in L'Infini chez Soi and L'Enragé, ‘autographie’ and ‘(auto)biographiefictive’"
Richard Littlejohns (Leicester), "Fiction in the Guise of Fact: Marbot, Tabor and Cake"
17:20-18:20
Plenary Lecture: Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths College London), "Heterobiographies, or, The Delirium of Autobiography"
18:30
The John Dryden Translation Prize
Sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation.
Competition awards ceremony,with readings from the winners and reception offered by Goldsmiths College
Wednesday 10
September
9:00-11:15
PANEL SESSION E
Panel 9
Florian Mussgnug (Scuola Normale
Superiore, Pisa),
"A Life Unlike Any Other: Authenticity and Fiction in Primo
Levi's work"
Nicola King (U. of West of England), "Structures of
Contemporary Autobiography: Dan Jacobson, Tim Lott, Lisa Appignanesi,
W. G. Sebald"
Andrea Hammel (Sussex),
"The Globalisation of Personal Histories: Autobiographical
Texts by German-Jewish Survivors"
Screening of:
Julia Creet (York University, Toronto), "The Memory of M",
introduced by the author.
Panel 10
Mar Inestrillas (U. Nevada-Reno),
"Nausea, Disgust and Repulsion in Rosa Chacel's
Alcancía: A
Non-fictional Existent Confined to Her Diary"
Margaret Topping (Cardiff),
"Writing the Self, Writing the Other in Pierre Loti's
Madame Chrysantheme
and Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a
Geisha"
Lisa Newnham (Auckland),
"Narrating Self: The Orientalist Writing of Two
Nineteenth-century Italian Women"
Yuko Yamade (Florida)
"Auto-Ethnography and Bio-Fiction in Migrant Women's Writings
in Canada and Quebec:
Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms
and Régine Robin's La
Québecquoise and
L'Immense fatigue des pierres"
11:15-11:40
Coffee break
11:40-12:40
Plenary Lecture:
Laura Marcus (Sussex), (Title to
be announced)
12:45-13:30
Round Table Discussion: Calling it Names
Laura Marcus, Max Saunders, Lucia
Boldrini.
