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Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Autobiography and Changing Identities
CONFERENCE: CALL FOR PAPERS
27-30 July 2000
This conference at UBC will focus on autobiographies that involve a
significant displacement or reconstruction of "self" and identity on the
part of the autobiographical subject, including, but not limited to:
- Autobiographies of trauma
- Autobiographies around themes of multiculturalism,
diaspora, and migration
- Autobiographies of nation (i.e. self/subject and
community, self/subject and "nation," including
First Nations)
- Autobiographies around themes of gender and sexuality
- Autobiographies of social class
We are particularly interested in papers that explore non-literary as
well as literary uses of the autobiographical in relation to these
topics, addressing autobiographical representation in:
- Popular culture
- Visual art
- Oral histories
- Performance art
- Anthropological literature
- Film
- Dance
We also plan to edit a volume of essays based on this conference.
The conference language will be English. Proposals (500-750 words)
should outline clearly the scope of the paper and its aims. Twenty
minutes will be allowed for each presentation. Please submit a short
biographical note with your proposal and send it to:
Eileen Oertwig
Secretary to the Dean of Arts
The University of British Columbia
1866 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z1
Proposals may also be sent by e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All proposals should be received by no later than March 1, 1999.
Conference Organizers:
Susanna Egan
Associate Prof. of English
U. of British Columbia
Gabriele Helms
Postdoctoral Fellow, English
U. of British Columbia
Shirley Neuman
Prof. of English, Dean of Arts
U. of British Columbia
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Division of Environmental Management & Design
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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