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[ecrea] Life Writing and Intimate Publics -- 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference

Fri Jul 17 20:55:51 GMT 2009



Status: CfP Call for Paper
Conference
Life Writing and Intimate Publics -- 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference
29.06.10-02.07.10
University of Sussex

Late modernity has spot-lit intimate relations. Families, feelings and love lives have been opened to public politics through pressures of globalisation, digitisation, the mass media and social movements such as feminism. At the same time, traditional citizenships of public rights and responsibilities find new definition through trauma, consumption, identity and care. As boundaries between 'public' and 'private' multiply, new constituencies of belonging and claim are convened, from Fathers for Justice to flood survivors to Facebook. This conference begins from Lauren Berlant's term 'intimate public' to explore these new constituencies in relation to life writing and life storying across media, discipline and profession.

Guest speakers:
NANCY K. MILLER
City University of New York, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature. Books include 'Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death', 1996/2000, and 'But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives', 2002.

SIDONIE SMITH
University of Michigan, Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies. Books include 'Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition', co-written with Kay Schaffer, 2004, and 'Reading Autobiography: A Guide to Interpreting Personal Narratives', co-authored with Julia Watson, 2001.

ALESSANDRO PORTELLI
University of Roma-La Sapienza, Professor of American Literature. Books include The Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue 1997 and The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome, 2007.
Kontaktperson: Margaretta Jolly
Email: (iaba2010 /at/ sussex.ac).u

Further information...

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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