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British Comparative Literature Association & Goldsmiths College
autobiografictions
A workshop conference
Draft Programme
Monday 8 September
12:00-13:45 Registration
13:50-14:50 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: Günter 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."
Shazia Iftkhar (Wisconsin-Madison), "Assia Djebar's 'Fantasia':
Autobiographical Fiction as Post-Colonial Critique"
17:00-18:00 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)biographie fictive’"
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 (UWE Bristol), "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.
Registration information and further details are available from the
conference website:
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/autobiografictions
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autobiografictions
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Goldsmiths College
University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
UK
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