Tuesday 26 May 2009
Print version[provisional]
9.30-10.00 Registration
9.50 Welcome & Introduction:
Professor Clare Brant, King's College London, Co-Director Centre for Life-Writing Research
9.50 Welcome & Introduction:
Professor Clare Brant, King's College London, Co-Director Centre for Life-Writing Research
10.00-11.00 Parallel Panel Sessions
Session 1: Biography, History & Theory
Professor Megan Matchinske, UNC: 'Historical Bigamy, Life-writing, and the Politics of Deniability'
Dr Sanja Perovic, King's: 'Writing the Biography of a Revolutionary Self: Exemplary History during the French Revolution'
Jane Darcy, King's: 'Early theories of biographical writing in the late 18th century'
Chair: Professor Roderick Beaton, King's
Session 2: Multiplicities of Life-Writing
Jerome Boyd Maunsell, King's: 'Biography and Repetition'
Jane McVeigh, Roehampton University: 'Biographies as Composite Stories'
Judit Gyorgi Varga, University of Bristol: '"Looking" Autobiographically: Rethinking the Mirror-Metaphor and the "Enigma of Autobiography"'
Session 1: Biography, History & Theory
Professor Megan Matchinske, UNC: 'Historical Bigamy, Life-writing, and the Politics of Deniability'
Dr Sanja Perovic, King's: 'Writing the Biography of a Revolutionary Self: Exemplary History during the French Revolution'
Jane Darcy, King's: 'Early theories of biographical writing in the late 18th century'
Chair: Professor Roderick Beaton, King's
Session 2: Multiplicities of Life-Writing
Jerome Boyd Maunsell, King's: 'Biography and Repetition'
Jane McVeigh, Roehampton University: 'Biographies as Composite Stories'
Judit Gyorgi Varga, University of Bristol: '"Looking" Autobiographically: Rethinking the Mirror-Metaphor and the "Enigma of Autobiography"'
11-11.30 Coffee (and Registration continued)
11.30-13.00: Three Plenary Papers
11.30-13.00: Three Plenary Papers
- Professor William Andrews, UNC: 'The First Fugitive Slave Narrative in US History'
- Professor Jeremy Popkin, U. of Kentucky and invited Lecturer, College de France: ‘Lifewriting in the Family’
- Professor Philippe Lejeune, Emeritus Professor, Université de Paris-Nord: 'Genetic Studies of Life- Writing'
14.30-15.30 Keynote Dialogue:
Professor Sidonie Smith, University of Michigan, and Professor Julia Watson, Ohio State University: 'Subject Formations Beyond the Book: The Visual - Verbal - Virtual Contexts of Life Narrative'
15.30-16.00 tea
Professor Sidonie Smith, University of Michigan, and Professor Julia Watson, Ohio State University: 'Subject Formations Beyond the Book: The Visual - Verbal - Virtual Contexts of Life Narrative'
15.30-16.00 tea
16.00-17.15 Parallel Panel Sessions
Session 1: Life Writing and the Personal: Essays, Diaries, Letters
Dr Meg Jensen, Director, Centre for Life Narratives, Kingston University: 'The Practice Ground for Fiction: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Louisa May Alcott and The Writer's Diary'
Dr Oliver Herford, UCL: 'Henry James and Insincerity'
Professor Isabel Durán, Universidad Complutense, Madrid: 'The Personal Essay as Autobiography'
Chair: Dr Janet Floyd, King's
Session 2: Life-Writing in the Family
Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir, University of Iceland and University of Akureyri: 'Story by Story: The Role of Postmemory in Family Narratives: a Case Study from 20th-Century Iceland'
Professor Astrid Sæther, Oslo University: 'In Ibsen's Workshop: The Dramatist's Wife as Co-producer'
Professor David Nokes, King's: 'Tetty: what do we know of Mrs Johnson?'
Session 3: Life-Writing and Medicine
Lucinda M. Rasmussen: 'Is Laughter the Best Medicine After All? The Use of Humour in Breast Cancer Memoirs by Tania Katan and Meredith Norton'
Dr Ruth Richardson, Affiliate Scholar HPS Cambridge, Visiting Professor, School of Humanities, Hong Kong University: 'The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy - Biography of a Medical Textbook'
Dr Olivia Sagan, University of the Arts, London: 'Interminable knots: hostages to toxic stories'
Session 1: Life Writing and the Personal: Essays, Diaries, Letters
Dr Meg Jensen, Director, Centre for Life Narratives, Kingston University: 'The Practice Ground for Fiction: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Louisa May Alcott and The Writer's Diary'
Dr Oliver Herford, UCL: 'Henry James and Insincerity'
Professor Isabel Durán, Universidad Complutense, Madrid: 'The Personal Essay as Autobiography'
Chair: Dr Janet Floyd, King's
Session 2: Life-Writing in the Family
Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir, University of Iceland and University of Akureyri: 'Story by Story: The Role of Postmemory in Family Narratives: a Case Study from 20th-Century Iceland'
Professor Astrid Sæther, Oslo University: 'In Ibsen's Workshop: The Dramatist's Wife as Co-producer'
Professor David Nokes, King's: 'Tetty: what do we know of Mrs Johnson?'
Session 3: Life-Writing and Medicine
Lucinda M. Rasmussen: 'Is Laughter the Best Medicine After All? The Use of Humour in Breast Cancer Memoirs by Tania Katan and Meredith Norton'
Dr Ruth Richardson, Affiliate Scholar HPS Cambridge, Visiting Professor, School of Humanities, Hong Kong University: 'The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy - Biography of a Medical Textbook'
Dr Olivia Sagan, University of the Arts, London: 'Interminable knots: hostages to toxic stories'
17.15-18.15 Discussion and Memoir Readings
- Maureen Duffy in conversation with Professor Clare Lees, King's
- Dr Vesna Goldsworthy, author of Chernobyl Strawberries (2005): The dissected self: On writing (and teaching) your own life'
18.15 Reception
19.00 Marcus Wood film: '1807 - 2007 A Visual Diary of the Slavery Bicentennial'
20.00 Formal Dinner
19.00 Marcus Wood film: '1807 - 2007 A Visual Diary of the Slavery Bicentennial'
20.00 Formal Dinner
