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As conference sessions start early in the morning on March 07th 2015, continue till early evening and are followed by conference dinner (for Speakers), conference delegates should ideally plan to arrive in Poznań on March 06th and leave on March 08th.

 

 

Programme

7:30 registration desk opens; attendees registering in advance can pick up their badges and conference materials  located opposite room C1

 

8:30-8:55  conference opening room C1:

 

  • Agnieszka Rzepa, Dagmara Drewniak, Katarzyna Macedulska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), “The Aesthetics and Politics of the North American Female Memoir (1990-Present)—Multicultural Perspectives”: project presentation

9:00-10:30 parallel sessions (1)

 

room C1:

Chair: Lindsay Thistle

  • Katarzyna Szmigiero (Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Branch in Piotrków Trybunalski), "Patographies"

  • Katarzyna Małecka (University of Social Sciences, Łódź), "The Self Lost, the Self Adjusted: Forming a New Identity in Bereavement Memoirs by American Women"

  • Justyna Wierzchowska (University of Warsaw), "Exploring Life-Writing: Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document (1973–79) and the Limits of Autobiographical Expression"

 

room 102A: 

Chair: Agnieszka Rzepa

  • Teresa Bruś (University of Warsaw), "Photographer’s Lives: Annie Leibovitz among American Icons and Portraits"

  • Małgorzata Myk (University of Łódź), "Life Fictions: Radicalization of Life-writing in Leslie Scalapino’s Zither & Autobiography and Dalia’s Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction"

  • Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak (University of Warsaw), "Quests for (M)others in the Canadian Documemoir and the American Graphic Memoir"

10:30-10:50 room 18A: tea/coffee break

10:50-11:50 room C1; chair: Agnieszka Rzepa

 

plenary lecture: Julie Rak (University of Alberta),

 

"Life Writing in the Mountains: Women on Mount Everest, K2 and Annapurna"

11:50-12:10 room 18A: tea/coffee break

12:10-14:10 parallel sessions (2)

 

room C1:

Chair: Martina Horáková

  • Małgorzata Poks (University of Silesia), "Norma Elía Cantú’s Canícula: Strategies of Cultural Survival on the U.S.-Mexican Border"

  • Tomasz Jerzy Brenet (University of Silesia), "Documentary Values of Writing by Hispanic Women"

  • Jana Kašparová (University of West Bohemia), "Writing African American Women History in American Sports"

  • Agnieszka Łobodziec (University of Zielona Góra), "Literariness and Racial Consciousness in Black American Women’s Memoirs – Paule Marshall’s Triangular Road and Gloria Naylor’s 1996"

 

room 102A:

Chair: Dagmara Drewniak

  • Magdalena Ładuniuk (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin), "Autobiographical in Feeling but not in Fact. The Finale of Alice Munro’s Dear Life"

  • Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka (State University of Applied Sciences, Konin), "Writing and Un/reading the Self as Place--Aritha van Herk’s Places Far From Ellesmere"

  • Liz Kella (Södertörn University), "Affect and Nostalgia in Life-writing of the Polish Diaspora"

  • Anita Jarczok (University of Bielsko-Biała), "Reconstructing the Self in Writing--Language, Exile and Identity in Anaїs Nin’s Diaries and Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation"

14:10-15:00 room 18A:  lunch break

15:00-16:30 parallel sessions (3)

 

room C1:

Chair: Katarzyna Macedulska

  • Katja Sarkovsky (WWU Muenster), "Imagining the Social: Indigenous Women’s Life Writing in Canada and the United States"

  • Martina Horáková (Masaryk University), "Narrating Women: Indigenous Feminism through Life Writing"

  • Nermin Haikal (Ain Shams University), "Alter/Native Narratives in Maria Campbell's Halfbreed"

 

room 102A:

Chair: Katarzyna Szmigiero

  • Ana Choperena Armendáriz (University of Navarra), "Nurses’ Memoirs in the American Civil War"

  • Lindsay Thistle (Trent University), "Life-Writing and Stories of War by Canadian Women Playwrights"

  • Dominika Żabińska (University of Silesia), "Erotic Rape Fantasies in Contemporary American Fiction and Blog Narratives"

16:30-16:50  room 18A: tea/coffee break

16:50-18:50 session (4)

 

room C1:

Chair: Małgorzata Poks

  • Anna Chyla (University of Silesia), "Remembering through Personal History. Indigenous Female Voice in Shirley Cheechoo’s Path With No Moccasins"

  • Anna Słonina (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz), "Diane di Prima’s Memoirs"

  • Ewa Maj (University of Wrocław), "Two Oral Histories of Two First Ladies: Different Approaches?"

  • Dorota Owczarek (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), "From Ethnocentrism to Ethnorelativism: The Intercultural Experience of the Female Self"

19:00 conference dinner

This conference is supported by the National Science Centre Poland under grant PRO-2012/05/B/HS2/04004

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