STANDING COMMITTEE FOR THE HUMANITIES (SCH) Strategic Activities

FIRST-PERSON WRITING, FOUR-WAY READING

Programme
Thursday 1 December
9-9.40
9.30-9.45 9.45-10.45 10.45-12.30

Coffee & registration

SH Woburn

Introduction to ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities & this project Keynote 1 History: Claudia Ulbrich (chair: FJR) Senate House Woburn Suite (SH G22-26) Self- Narratives: Transcultural and transdisciplinary perspectives Plenary Panel 1 Ralph Houlbrooke Baiba Bela-Krmia Michael Sheringham Jens Lohfert Jrgensen Modes of 1 st-person writing (chair: FJR) Senate House Woburn Suite (SH G22-26) English autobiography c. 1500 c. 1640 Ethnography of a textual representation: suspicious 1st-person writing The Stuff of lives: autobiography and the archive Autobiographic Fullness

12.30-2
2-3

Lunch
Keynote 2 Writing as a woman Literature: Marie Darrieussecq (chair: NS)

own arrangements
Bbk Clore B01

3-3.20
3.20-5

Tea break
Plenary Panel 2 Tuulikki Kurki Brian Hurwitz Max Saunders Antonio Castillo-Gomez

Bbk Clore foyer

Theories of 1 st-person writing (chair: PA) Bbk Clore B01 Who is the narrating I in ethnography? Composing the case: eyes of the naturalist, novelist and memoirist Varieties of the autobiographical Writing from below

Friday 2 December
9-9.30
9.30-11.15

Coffee
Plenary Panel 3 Alexander Kiossev Ene Kresaar Philip Rieder Arianne Baggerman Break-out 1 Breast cancer narratives Hospital stories Psychoanalysis Workshop

SH Woburn
The lives of others (chair: KK) Senate House Woburn Suite (SH G22-26) The mystic double of the Communist poet The symbolic universe of WWII: Estonian veterans life-stories Self and medical practice in the 18c: Louis Odier (1748-1817) Practices of autobiographical writing in the long 19c 4 groups (chairs: underlined) Bbk Malet/Torrington Kimberly Myers, George Simms, Maria Vaccarella Angela Woods, Ilaria Cover, Franziska Gygax Susie Christensen, Ana Tomljenovic, Anne-Marie Picard on 1st-person history texts led by Franois-Joseph Ruggiu rm rm rm rm 252 253 254 255

11.25-12.30

12.30-2
2-3.30

Lunch
Break-out 2 Diaries Holocaust The pain of others Workshop

own arrangements
4 groups (chairs: underlined) Bbk Malet/Torrington Heidi MacDonald, Maria Ng, Izabella Badiu, Biljana Oklopcic Anne Freadman, Rubn Peinado Abarrio, Anna Maria Lorusso, Julia Vassilieva Katie Jones, Katrien Horemans, Harriet Hulme, Emma Sweeney on 1st-person literary texts led by Naomi Segal rm rm rm rm 252 253 254 255

3.40-4.40

Keynote 3 Medical humanities: Rita Charon (chair: PA) Self-Telling Writing in Clinical Settings, or the Body Never Lies

Senate House Woburn Suite (SH G22-26)

4.40-5
5-6.45

Tea break
Plenary Panel 4 Yuri Zaretsky Amy Shuman Giorgio Pressburger Cheryl Moskowitz

SH Woburn
Bodies and souls (chair: NS) SH Senate House Woburn Suite (SH G22-26) Pain and healing in first-person narrative historically speaking Available narratives, dominant narratives and personal narratives The transcended identity: narrative without narrator An I for an I 2|Page

8.30

Conference Dinner

Rasa Samudra, 5 Charlotte St., W1T 1RE

Saturday 3 December
9.30-10
10-11 11-12.30

Coffee

Bbk Malet B04

Keynote 4 Ethnography: Nigel Rapport (chair KK) Bbk Malet Theatre B35 Between individual human being and humankind: the problem of generalization in science and in society Break-out 3 Disguises Mens lives Womens bodies Workshop 4 groups (chairs: underlined) Bbk Malet/Torrington Anda Bukvic, Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, Lada ale Feldman, Simo Valente Timothy Ashplant, Anne Heimo, Aslihan Aksoy Sheridan, Anastasiya Ilchanka Nausica Zaballos, Sarah Berry, Andrea Milanko, Laura Kounine on 1st-person medical humanities texts led by Petter Aaslestad rm rm rm rm 539 540 630 631

12.30-2
2-3.30

Lunch
Break-out 4 Fathers & children Alternatives Writing the self Workshop

own arrangements
4 groups (chairs: underlined) Bbk Malet/Torrington Louise Hardwick, Jean Owen, Mihail Evans, Jelena Sesnic Maciej Maryl, Marina Grishakova, Nathalie Wourm, Rosamund Davies Sam Ferguson, Maja Zorica, Erika Flp, Kjersti Bale on 1st-person ethnography texts led by Kristin Kuutma rm rm rm rm 539 540 630 631

3.30-4
4-5

Tea break
Closing plenary Future plans (PA, KK, FJR, NS)

Bbk Malet B04

Bbk Malet Theatre B35

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