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From: Andrea Salter [mailto:Andrea.Salter at ed.ac.uk]
Sent: 26 March 2012 19:47
To: lives-and-letters at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk
Subject: Lives & Letters Mailing: March 2012
Dear Colleagues
Welcome to another Lives & Letters Mailing ...
This mailing contains information about:
1. Letters and words changing lives in Ecuador 2.
Memory Box - an installation by Niroshini
Thambar, Edinburgh 3. W.T. Stead - A Centenary
Conference for a Newspaper Revolutionary, British
Library, 16-17 April 2012 4. Writing Lives: an
interdisciplinary symposium on the uses of
biography, University of Warwick, 25 May 2012 5.
Women's History Scotland: 2012 Annual Conference:
'Women and Wellbeing' Historical Perspectives,
University of Edinburgh, 13 October 2012 6.
Letters between Mothers and Daughters, c1200 to
the present, Monash Centre, Prato, mid April 2013
7. The Expatriate Archive Centre, The Hague, the
Netherlands 8. Life Writing Matters in Europe,
eds. Marijke Huisman, Anneke Ribberink, Monica Soeting & Alfred Hornung.
Heidelberg: Winter Verlag
9. Announcing Words & Silences, the official
journal of the International Oral History
Association http://wordsandsilences.org/ 10. Journal Special Issues:
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 25.2 - The Work of Life Writing!
Biography 34.1 (2011) - Life Writing as Intimate Publics
See
http://www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk/Announcements.html
for an electronic version of this mailing.
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1. Letters and words changing lives in Ecuador
On November 25, 2011, the International Day for
the Elimination of Violence against Women, the
municipality of Quito in partnership with the
German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and with
support from UN Women, issued a call to solicit
testimonies of women's lives through letters,
asking also for letters on what would make a
better world without violence or discrimination against women.
The result of this innovative participatory
campaign was overwhelming -in three months 10,000
letters were received. See the link below for
more information about this fascinating project:
http://www.unwomen.org/2012/03/letters-and-words-changing-lives-in-ecuador/
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2. Memory Box - an installation by Niroshini Thambar, Edinburgh
Memory Box - an installation by Niroshini Thambar
An installation of audio memoir, music and
visual/audio ephemera that engages with identity,
migration and memory from a Sri Lankan Diaspora perspective.
This is the culmination of an artist residency
with the Edinburgh Mela which has given me the
space to develop my artistic practice through
engaging with ideas around identity and diaspora
from my own personal/cultural perspective - that
of a British-born second generation Sri Lankan Tamil.
Having looked at the area of work that you are
engaged in, I hope that this may be of some interest to you
The preview is from 6-9.30pm on Friday 23 March
2012 at Art's Complex, St Margaret's House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh EH7 6AE.
The exhibition runs from 24 March until the 8th of April.
I hope to see you there, and also would be very
grateful if you were able to circulate this
information to any students/other contacts that
you think may also be interested.
With kind regards
Niroshini Thambar
Artist-in-Residence, Edinburgh Mela
07963 596 889
www.niroshinithambar.com
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3. W.T. Stead - A Centenary Conference for a
Newspaper Revolutionary, British Library, 16-17 April 2012
"When William Stead died on the maiden voyage of
the Titanic in April 1912, he was the most famous
Englishman on board. He was one of the inventors
of the modern tabloid. His advocacy of
'government by journalism' helped launch military
campaigns. His exposé of child prostitution
raised the age of consent to sixteen, yet his
investigative journalism got him thrown in jail.
A mass of contradictions and a crucial figure in
the history of the British press, Stead was a
towering presence in the cultural life of late
Victorian and Edwardian society. This conference
marks the centenary of his death. We aim to
recover Stead's extraordinary influence on modern
English culture and to mark a major moment in the
history of journalism. In Stead's spirit we will
also investigate our own revolution in newspapers
and print journalism in the age of digital news.
With Stead as a focal point, we will use aspects
of his career to develop multiple avenues into
the history of his time and ours.
This is not a narrowly focused specialist
conference, but one that aims to adopt wide cultural perspectives"
The conference is organised by Laurel Brake,
Professor Emerita of Literature and Print
Culture, Birkbeck, Professor Jim Mussell,
Professor Roger Luckhurst and Ed King, Head of
Newspaper collections at the British
Library. Keynote speakers include Laurel Brake,
John Durham Peters, Tristram Hunt MP and Geoffrey Robertson QC.
Across the two days, amongst many others, papers will be presented by:
Professor Alexis Easley, University of St Thomas:
'W.T. Stead, Women and the Review of Reviews'
Drs Maria Di Cenzo and Lucy Delap: 'Chivalry and Pragmatism: W.T.
Stead and the Women's Movement';
Christine Pullen- 'Featherbrained' or a Force to be reckoned with:
W.T. Stead, the New Journalism and the New Woman
Tom Hughes: Revolting Accusations - Mr Stead and
the Pall Mall Gazette v 'the Honourable and
Gallant Col FC Hughes Hallet MP - The Great
Parliamentary Scandal of 1887 Deborah Mutch -
Stead, Hardie and the Boer War Clare Gill: 'I'm
really going to kill him this time' Olive
Schreiner, W.T. Stead and the Politics of Publicity.
Mike Barrett: W.T. Stead and Cecil Rhodes
A programme for the conference can be found on
the conference website -https://sites.google.com/site/stead2012/.
If you are your colleagues are interested Tickets
can be booked by phoning the British Library Box
Office +44 (0)1937 546546 or on-site in the
ticket office at St Pancras. Further details of
prices can be found at http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event124192.html
With best wishes,
Robert
Robert Davies
Engagement Support Officer, Social
Sciences
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1
2DB
+44 (0)207 412 7318 twitter:
@BLRobertDavies
http://www.bl.uk/socialsciences
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4. Writing Lives: an interdisciplinary symposium
on the uses of biography, University of Warwick, 25 May 2012
Call for Contributions
Jointly hosted by the Department of Film and
Television Studies and the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
DEADLINE: Monday 23 April 2012
This symposium will explore the methodological,
ethical and intellectual implications of using
biographical material in scholarly practice.
'Biographical material' is defined broadly,
including, for example, historical narratives of
real people, biography as fiction and
non-fiction, film/television/digital adaptations
of real lives, or research which incorporates
aspects of the life stories of subjects, such as
narrative inquiry, or oral history.
It will offer a space to reflect on the practical
challenges and rewards presented by using data
about the lives of real people. It will also
offer room for discussion and debate on the boundaries offered by biography:
boundaries of history and narrative, boundaries
of truth and fiction, boundaries of form and meaning.
Contributions can take the form of EITHER a 20
minute paper, outlining research ideas which
relate to the themes of the symposium OR a 10
minute presentation, which discusses the ethical,
methodological or scholarly implications of using
biographical data in your own research.
Contributions are particularly welcome in the following areas:
- biographical fiction/non-fiction
- the 'biopic' in film or television
- biography in/and digital culture
- auto-biography
- biography as history/narrative
- Research methodologies related to biography
Please send an abstract (max 200 words), and a
brief biographical (!) note to
hannah.andrews at warwick.ac.uk
<mailto:hannah.andrews at warwick.ac.uk> by MONDAY
23 APRIL 2012. Be sure to specify the type of contribution you wish to make.
Applicants will be informed by Friday 27 April.
Dr Hannah Andrews
University of Warwick
e-Portfolio
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/fsread/
Producer, Third Row Centre www.thirdrowcentre.com
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5. Women's History Scotland: 2012 Annual
Conference: 'Women and Wellbeing' Historical
Perspectives, University of Edinburgh, 13 October 2012
Call for Papers
This year's annual conference will explore the
historical connections between women and
'wellbeing'. We welcome proposals relating to all
historical periods (eg. classical, medieval,
modern, contemporary) and all geographical places including Scotland.
We understand 'wellbeing' to refer to sets of
ideas and practices that encompass (but are not
restricted to) the following areas:
- healing, health and medicine
- social work, philanthropy, the welfare state and social policy
- spiritual roles, religious interventions and missionary activity
- 'emotional labour' within family, household, workplace or
other institutions
- 'commonweal' and community
- humanitarianism and international concerns
The conference will explore women's roles as
carers and practitioners but also as patients or
subjects of intervention. Has women's historical
association with caring and nurturing roles
served to restrict or empower them? To what
extent has women's 'hidden' labour advanced the
'wellbeing' of past societies? In what ways have
the gendered dynamics of health and wellbeing
shifted across time? How might we analyse the
relationship between carers/practitioners and
their patients/clients? The conference will also
examine the contributions that women's and gender
history can make to current debates concerning
social policy, health and welfare; we particularly welcome papers in this area.
We welcome proposals for a) papers of
approximately 20 minutes in length or b) poster
presentations, from scholars at all stages of
their careers and from independent researchers.
The conference organisers are Louise Jackson,
Lesley Orr and Emily Stammitti (School of
History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh).
Proposals of around 300 words, together with a
brief biography (maximum of 100 words), should be
submitted to Emily Stammitti (E.J.Stammitti at sms.ed.ac.uk), copied to Lesley Orr
(lesley.orr at ed.ac.uk) by 1 May 2012.
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6. Letters between Mothers and Daughters, c1200
to the present, Monash Centre, Prato, mid April 2013
We are organizing a small symposium in mid April,
2013 at the Monash Centre in Prato to explore
continuities and changes in the correspondence
between mothers and daughters over this extended
period. We wish to investigate the ways in which
mother-daughter relationships were mediated
through correspondence in different periods. We
are interested primarily in the changing
possibilities opened up in, and through, letters
between mothers and daughters over time. In
addition to the letters produced in actual
familial relationships, we also welcome papers
discussing the letters between religious and spiritual mothers and daughters.
Please send abstracts of about 500 words by 30 June to:
Barbara Caine
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia
barbara.caine at sydney.edu.au
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7. The Expatriate Archive Centre, The Hague, the Netherlands
Life writing is a key theme in the lives of
expatriates. Living abroad for a longer period of
time, expatriates often use letters, diaries and
other forms of writing to maintain relations with
their former social network and to deal with
their situation as foreigners in between cultures.
We would like to draw your attention to the
*Expatriate Archive Centre*, which aims to
promote the social history of expatriate life.
Founded in 2008, the EAC now holds about 55
archives in which you can find letters, blogs,
diaries and memoirs, photographs, drawings and
films from families living or having lived an
expatriate life somewhere in the world since the early twentieth century.
The sources gathered by the EAC, either written
or translated into English, are made available as
electronic documents and offer unique
possibilities to study expatriate's experiences
from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines
into themes such as expatriate's observations and
representations of other cultures; practices of
communication; constructions of 'home';
expatriate's dealings with feelings like
loneliness; women's roles in making a family life abroad etc.
Scholars interested in expatriate's life writings
are invited to contact the Expatriate Archive
Centre in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Website: xpatarchive.com
E-mail: welcome at xpatarchive.com
Twitter: twitter.com/xpatarchive
Facebook: facebook.com/xpatarchive
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8. Life Writing Matters in Europe, eds. Marijke
Huisman, Anneke Ribberink, Monica Soeting &
Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag
(www.winter-verlag-hd.de)
ISBN: 978-3-8253-5963-8. Price: 42 Euro
Both the practice and study of life writing
flourish worldwide, especially since the fall of
the Berlin Wall in 1989. This major watershed in
the history of Europe has generated intensive
memory work through life writing, in the former
satellite states of the Soviet Union and far beyond.
Highlighting auto/biographical practices in
western and eastern, old and new or future parts
of Europe, the essays in this volume discuss the
construction of individual, cultural and
political identities within a changing landscape
from the late eighteenth century until the present.
*Life Writing Matters in Europe* contains a
selection of reworked papers presented at the
international conference 'Life Writing in Europe'
(2009) that was the starting point for the network IABA Europe
(http://www.iaba-europe.eu)
Table of Contents
Marijke Huisman - Introduction: Life Writing
Matters in Europe; Catherine Viollet - European
French-Language Life Writing in the Late
Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; Elena
Gretchanaia - Cultural Models: Russian
Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century
Francophone Life Writing; Marijke Huisman -
Translation Politics: Foreign Autobiographies on
the Nineteenth Century Dutch Book Market; Pawe
Rodak - Past, Present, and Future of
Autobiography Competitions and Archives in
Poland; Christian Moser - Museums of the Self:
Autobiographic Memory and the Cultural Practice
of Collecting; Sabine Kim - Voices and
Inscriptions: Making Sense(s) in Autobiography;
Nataliya Rodigina & Tatiana Saburova - Changing
Identity Formations in Nineteenth-Century Russian
Intellectuals? Autobiographies; Gunnthorunn
Gudmundsdottir - A Writer's Life: The Modernist
Group and Questions of Identity in
Autobiographical Writing; Esra Almas - Self and
The City. Locus of Identity in Orhan Pamuk's *Istanbul:
Memories and the City*;
Anna Izabela Cicho -Construction of Identity and
the Role of Autobiography in V.S. Naipaul's Work;
Barbara Henkes - Letter-Writing and the Construction of a Transnational
Family: A Private Correspondence between the
Netherlands and Germany, 1920-1949; Eva Rovers -
A Dutch Collector with a German Heart: The
Regional Aspect of Life Writing in the Case of
Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939); Lisbeth
Larsson - Uses of Biography: The Swedish Version;
Mineke Bosch - Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, But If They Do...
Reflections on Gender and Biography;
Anneke Ribberink - Margaret Thatcher and Gro
Harlem Brundtland: Two Women Prime Ministers from
the Spectre of a Comparative Biography; Martins
Kaprans - Constructing Generational Identity in Post-Communist
Autobiographies: the Case of Latvia;
Leena Kurvet-Käosaar - An Anthology of Lives: Jaan Kross's *Kallid
Kaasteelised* and Estonian Memorial Culture;
Ioana Luca - Post-Communist Life Writing and Memory Maps
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9. Announcing Words & Silences, the official
journal of the International Oral History
Association http :/ / wordsandsilences . org /
Acceptance of Articles for the next issue starts
on 1 April 2012; submissions close 30 May 2012
Words & Silences invites oral historians from a
diverse range of disciplines to submit academic
and professional work representing salient
research and or practice from their respective
regions of the world. This latest issue builds on
the success of our inaugural 2011 launch of Words
& Silences online, aiming to broaden our audience
and continue to highlight quality academic and
professional oral history work from all corners of the world.
Words & Silences is an electronic bilingual
publication in English and Spanish and includes the following subsections:
- Double blind peer reviewed academic articles (up to 5,000 words)
- Community/professional field based project reports (up to 3,000 words)
- Book/exhibition/online reviews (up to1,000
words) Accompanying images, film excerpts, audio
recordings and URL links are welcome.
The main theme for this issue is 'Collaboration.'
Organisation and Submission Details
For preparation of manuscripts and materials,
please visit our section For Authors in the journal website:
http://www.iohanet.org/journal/guidelines . html
Deadline for completed manuscripts: 30 May 2012.
Papers should follow the Author Guidelines, as
specified and be submitted online to
http://wordsandsilences.org/index.php/ws/information/authors
Acceptance notifications are sent to authors by 15 July 2012.
Final revised papers are due by 1 August 2012.
Submission inquiries should be directed to the co-editors.
Juan José Gutiérrez (Spanish) -
juan_gutierrez at iohanet.org Helen Klaebe (English) - h.klaebe at iohanet.org
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10. Journal Special Issues:
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 25.2 - The Work of Life Writing!
Biography 34.1 (2011) - Life Writing as Intimate Publics
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 25.2 - The Work of
Life Writing! is available in print or on-line
through Project MUSE. Inside you will find:
'Introduction: The Work of Life Writing' by Clare
Brant and Alison Wood 'Genetic Studies of Life
Writing' by Philippe Lejeune 'Life Writing in the
Family' by Jeremy D. Popkin '"Unlike actors,
politicians or eminent military men": The Meaning
of Hard Work in Working Class Autobiography', by
Claire Lynch 'Ecobiographical Negotiations in
Richard K. Nelson's The Island Within' by Micha
Edlich 'The Ethnographic Work of Cross-Cultural
Memoir' by Mary Besemeres 'Heroes and Hostages'
by Olivia Sagan 'Then and Now: Comparing the
Soviet and Post-Soviet Experience in Latvian
Autobiographies' by Martins Kaprans 'The Making
of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Biography of a Medical
Textbook' by Ruth Richardson 'Lives in
Institutions' by Kathryn Hughes Conference Report
by Clare Brant and Max Saunders
Reviews
Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S.
Women's Writing. By Laura Laffrado (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2009).
Reviewed by Rebecca Harrison
Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts
at Home and in the Diaspora. By Jaspal Kaur Singh (Calgary: U of
Calgary P, 2008). Reviewed by Anastasia Christou
It's not too late to subscribe! If you send in your payment today,
we'll rush you a copies of Volume 25, Issues 1 & 2. Individual
subscriptions are only $25 per year ($35 non-US).
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies is a forum for interdisciplinary
scholarship and criticism along the broadest spectrum of life writing,
and we emphasize work that deals with diverse ethnic and national
topics. Please visit us at http://abstudies.web.unc.edu/ for
additional information.
Sincerely,
Jenn Williamson, Managing Editor
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
Department of English & Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://abstudies.web.unc.edu/
Biography 34.1 (2011) Special Issue: Life Writing as Intimate Publics
Editor's Introduction
Introduction: Life Writing as Intimate Publics
pp. v-xi Margaretta Jolly
Articles
The Present of Intimacy: My Very Public Private Life
pp. 1-10
Vesna Goldsworthy
The Public, the Private, and the Intimate: Richard Sennett's and
Lauren Berlant's Cultural Criticism in Dialogue
pp. 11-24
Gabriele Linke
Intimate Economies: PostSecret and the Affect of Confession
pp. 25-36
Anna Poletti
'Suffused by Feeling and Affect': The Intimate Public of Personal
Mommy Blogging
pp. 37-55
Aimée Morrison
Diasporic Disclosures: Social Networking, Neda, and the 2009 Iranian
Presidential Elections
pp. 56-69
Nima Naghibi
Communism: Intimate Publics
pp. 70-82
Ioana Luca
Taking Intimate Publics to China: Yang Jiang and the Unfinished
Business of Sentiment
pp. 83-95
Jesse Field
'I'd Like My Life Back': Corporate Personhood and the BP Oil Disaster
pp. 96-107
Laura E. Lyons
Who Do You Think You Are?: Intimate Pasts Made Public
pp. 108-118
Claire Lynch
Writing Biodigital Life: Personal Genomes and Digital Media
pp. 119-131
Kate O'Riordan
Tell-Tale Heart: Organ Donation and Transplanted Subjectivities
pp. 132-140
Susan M. Stabile
Recent Trends in Using Life Stories for Social and Political Activism
pp. 141-179
Helga Lénárt-Cheng, Darija Walker
Life Writing and Intimate Publics: A Conversation with Lauren Berlant
pp. 180-187
Lauren Berlant, Jay Prosser
Reviewed Elsewhere
pp. 188-248
Contributors
pp. 249-251
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