[Bilimsel Haber] Conference Program - The Rise of Autobiographical Writing since 1750

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*Controlling time and shaping the self
The Rise of Autobiographical Writing since 1750

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*Location:* 	Netherlands
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An international conference will be held in Rotterdam on the development
of autobiographical writing in relation to changes in the perception and
control of time, historical reflection, and the influence of publishing
and commercialization. Different forms of autobiographical writing will
be looked at: diaries, letters, auto/biographies. The program is
interdisciplinary and contains lectures and workshops by acknowledged
cultural and art historians, historiographers, book historians, and
literay critics. The conference is organized at the Faculty of History
and Arts of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, all sessions will be held
in the Pelgrimfathers Church (Aelbrechtskolk 30, see
www.pelgrimvaderskerk.nl).

The conference fee is 40 Euro or 15 euro per day, including drinks and
lunches. Registration by transfer to ABN-AMRO bank account 44.66.07.460
of the Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen UvA, Amsterdam, with mention
of `Controlling time; WBS C.2023.0011'.

Definitive Program:

15 June 2006

9.00 Registration.

9.45 Welcome by Dick Douwes, Dean of the Faculty of History and Arts of
the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

9.50 Arianne Baggerman (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Introduction.

10.00 Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge): Historicizing the Self.

10. 45 Coffee, tea.

11.00 Workshops.

(1) Chair: Helen Wilcox (University of Groningen).

# Celeste Brusati (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Time and Presence
in Dutch Still Life Painting.
# Marilyn Himmesoete (University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot): Writing and
Measuring Time. Nineteenth-century French Teen­agers Dia­ries.
# Ellen Grabowsky (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Forty Years of Daily
Writing. Introspection and Religion in the Diary of Willem de Clercq
(1804-1844).

(2) Chair: Hans Renders (University of Groningen/Biografie Instituut).

# Jeroen Blaak (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Autobiographies of Self
Made Men and Women in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Centu­ry.
# Pieter Stokvis (Open Universiteit of the Netherlands): Changing
Self-Portraits and Partner Profiles in Matrimonial Advertisements from
1825 until 1925.
# Ofer Nur (University of California, Los Angeles): Can there be a
Collective Egodocument? Self-writing and the Kibbutz as a Collective
Experience.

(3) Chair: Solange Leibovici (University of Amsterdam).

# Wim Denslagen (University of Utrecht): The Dual Meaning of Authenticity.
# Eveline Koolhaas (University of Amsterdam): Behind the Mask of
Gentility. Physiognomic Approaches in Eighteenth-Century Portraiture.
# Lisa Kuitert (University of Amsterdam): Knowing the Writer, by Portrait:
The Influence of Photography on Authors and Authorship in the Nineteenth
Century.

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Session Time consciousness

Chair: Rudolf Dekker (Erasmus University Rotterdam).

# Ann Jensen Adams (University of California, Santa Barbara): Time IN and
OF the Dutch Seventeenth-Century Por­trait.
# Philippe Lejeune (University of Paris-Nord): M.A. Jullien Jr et le
contrôle du temps.
# Richard Freadman (La Trobe University, Victoria): Time in Literary
Autobiography: the Case of David Malouf.

16.00 Coffee, tea

16.15 Marina Warner (University of Essex): Stranger Magic. Time Travel
and Other Selves.

17.00 Drinks

16 June 2006

9.30 Registration.

10.00 Dror Wahrman (Indiana University, Bloomington): The Making of the
Modern Self. Iden­tity and Culture in Eighte­enth-Century England
(provisional title).

10.45 Coffee, tea.

11.00 Session Controlling Time

(1) Chair: Maria Grever (Erasmus University Rotterdam).

# Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv University): Invisible Labor and Self-Imposed
Time-Economies: Early Modern Scholars at Work.
# Alfred Messerli (University of Zürich): Swiss Popular Almanacs
1700-1900. Construction of Time by Numbers, Text and Pictures.
# Molly MacCarthy (Wellesley College): The Diary versus the Pocket-Watch.
Understanding Time in Nineteenth-Century America.

(2) Chair: Hanco Jürgens (Radboud University Nijmegen).

# Avriel Bar-Levav (Open University Israel): Time in Nineteenth-Century
Hebrew Autobiographies.
# Davíð Ólafsson (University of St. Andrews): Diaries in the State of
Scribal Culture. The Rise of Diary Writing in Nineteenth-Century Iceland
and its Cultural Context.
# Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (University of St. Andrews): Dreams of Things
Past. Life Writing in Iceland Metastories. Memory, Recollection and
History.

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Session Ruptures

Chair: Michael Mascuch (University of California, Berkely).

# Thomas Max Safley (University of Pennsylvania): Time is Money. The
Construction and Reconstruction of Time in the Testimonies of Early
Modern Bankrupts.
# James Amelang (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid): Tracing Lives. The Spanish
Inquisition and the Act of Autobiography.
# Petra Buchholz (Freie Universität Berlin): The Second World War and
Autobio­graphy in Japan. Tales of War and the "Movement for One's Own
Story".

16.00 Coffee, tea.

16.15 Peter Fritzsche (University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham­paign­):
Writing in Difference. Drastic History and the Produc­tion of
Autobio­graphy.

17 June 2006

9.30 Registration.

10.00 Hulya Adak (Sabanci University Istanbul): Ottoman-Turkish
Encounters with Armenian(ized) Self/ves in Twentieth Century
Autobiographical Writing.

10.45 Coffee, tea.

11.00 Session Identity and Communication

(1) Chair: Gabi Jancke (Free University Berlin).

# Lotte van de Pol (Freie Universität Berlin/University of Utrecht): Diary
Writing at Courts at the End of the Eighteenth Century, the Dutch Case.
# Hugo Röling (University of Amsterdam): The Development of the Self in
Memo­ries of Childhood in the Netherlands and Flanders, 1770-1950.
# Donna Loftus (Open University, London): Middle ­Class Men and the Civic.
Histories of Self and Place in the Late Nineteenth Century.

(2) Chair: Gert-Jan Johannes (University of Utrecht).

# Roelof van Gelder (National Library, The Hague/NRC-Handelsblad):
Forgotten Mail. Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Letters in the
National Archives, London..
# Willemijn Ruberg (University of Limerick): Epistolary Education. The
Letters of an Irish Father to his Daughter, 1747-1752.
# Lucia Bergamasco (University of Orleans): Letter Writing and
Autobiography, from the Late Seventeenth Century to the Early Nineteenth
Century.

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Session Autobiography and Commerce

Chair: Arianne Baggerman (Erasmus University Rotterdam).

# Marijke Huisman (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Selling the Self:
Publishing and Marketing Autobiograp­hies in the Netherlands, 1850-1918.
# Michael Mascuch (University of California, Berkeley): The Commodity
Function of Autobiography before 1800.
# John Eakin (Indiana University, Bloomington): The Economy of Narrative
Identity.

15.30 Coffee, tea, drinks.

	Organisation dr. Arianne Baggerman and dr. Rudolf Dekker, Faculty of
History and Arts, Erasmus University Rotterdam, POB 1738 NL 3000 DR
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Information r.dekker at fhk.eur.nl


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