CFP: Biography in the 20th Century, St Petersburg, April 2010

[Josephine von Zitzewitz]

CALL FOR PAPERS – BIOGRAPHY IN THE 20TH CENTURY



The Research and Information Centre “Memorial” (St Petersburg), the European
University in St Petersburg, the Franco-Russian Centre for Humanities and
Social Sciences (Moscow), the International “Memorial” Society and the
General Consulate of the Republic of Poland in St Petersburg are pleased to
announce the 8th International Biographic Readings “The Right to a Name:
Biography in the 20th Century” in Memory of Veniamin Iofe.

The Readings will take place on 20-22 April 2010 at the European University
in St Petersburg. A scholarly seminar during the Readings will bring
together historians, sociologists, philosophers, ethnologists,
anthropologists, psychologists, scholars of literature and culture,
psychologists, writers, directors, journalists and museum specialists who
work in the field of 20th century biography.


The main topics of the 8th Readings are:
- Contemporary biographical research: new approaches and opportunities, new
means of describing and presenting biographies;
- The problem of sources: the reliability of sources, the interpretation of
life events;
- Biography and myth: omissions and stigmatisation in biographies; that
which does not make it into biography; the interpretation of biography;
- Posthumous biography: death and biography, biography and memory;
disappearance as a biographical fact, forced disappearances;
- The study of autobiography;
- The presentation of biography

And other topics


Paper proposals *in Russian* should be submitted before 1 March 2010 to
Tatiana Kosinova (kossinova at mail.ru) and Irina Flige(flige at yandex.ru) and
consist of a short paper abstract of no more than 2000 signs and a short CV
(main data of the speaker, institution, status, degree, contact details) of
no more than 200 signs.
The official language of the Readings is Russian. Papers must not exceed 20
minutes. Each paper is followed by 20 minutes of discussion.

Conference papers will be published in a separate volume, scheduled to
appear in April 2011. All papers must be presented by the author. The
abstracts will not be included in the collection.

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