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

> 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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