XVIIth Auto/Biography Summer Conference
Secrets, Gaps and Absences in Auto/Biography
University of Leicester

10-12 July 200

Speakers include: Maria Tamboukou, Andrew Sparkes, Gayle Letherby, Maggie McFadden, Michael Erben & Hilary Dickinson, Brian Roberts.

A small number of residential places are still available.

Dr Gill Clarke MBE
Biography and EducationResearchGroup
School of Education
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
Email: gmc@soton.ac.uk
Tel.  + 44 (0) 2380 592977
Fax. + 44 (0) 2380 593556

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
 
 XVIIth Auto/Biography Summer Conference ~ 10-12 July 2008
Secrets, Gaps and Absences in Auto/Biography
University of Leicester
 
 Thursday 10July
 Registration in New Hall 4.30 to 5.30
 Afternoon tea/coffee and biscuits 4.30 to 5.30
 
The Phil Salmon Memorial Lecture will be given by
 Dr Maria Tamboukou
Co-director Centre for Narrative Research
University of East London
on the topic:         
 Visual silences, nomadic narratives
 6.30 to 7.30pm
(Chair: Michael Erben)
 Quenby Suite
 
 Dinner 8 to 9pm
 Bar and Social
 
Friday 11th July
Full English Breakfast 8.00 to 9.00

Quenby Suite
New Hall Senior Common Room (SCR)
Conference Papers 9.00 to 9.50
Nostalgia as secret and redemption in childrens literature
Hilary Dickinson & Michael Erben
(Chair: Gill Clarke)
Childrens experiences of a school-based obesity intervention project
Maggie Boniface
(Chair: Kay Inckle)

Conference Papers 9.55 to 10.45
Someone elses child a personal view of adoption
Josie Abbott
(Chair: Catherine Lamont-Robinson)
Narrative gaps: autobiography, embodiment and memory loss
Carly Stewart
(Chair: Susan England)

Morning coffee/tea and biscuits 10.45 to 11.00

Quenby Suite
New Hall Senior Common Room (SCR)
Conference Papers 11.00 to 11.50
Hidden stories: missing brothers, immigrants and emigres
Ruth Brigdens
(Chair: Maggie McFadden)
Out on a limb? Embodying, naming (and celebrating) the abject in academic culture
Kay Inckle
(Chair: Andrew Sparkes)

Conference Papers 11.55 to 12.45
Mosaics of memory: ellipses and gaps in life narratives of torture
Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes
(Chair: David Morgan)
Reflections on the ways in which identities are constructed and reconstructed
Irene Selway
(Chair: Michael Erben)

Finger buffet lunch 12.45 to 2.00 New Hall Dining Room

Friday 11th July

Quenby Suite
New Hall Senior Common Room (SCR)
Conference Papers 2.00 to 2.50
Do you want to know a secret?: Auto/Biography and Simmel on secrecy and self-revelation
Brian Roberts
(Chair: Gayle Letherby)
A walk on the heath thinking about gaps, secrets and absences
Sybil Myerson
(Chair: Bethany Morgan)

Conference Papers 2.55 to 3.45
Bartram Hiles: A life imagined
Ann Roberts
(Chair: Gill Clarke)
We just didnt talk about her: Secrets in family life
Anna Lyon
(Chair: Josie Abbott)
 
 Afternoon tea/coffee and cake 3.45 to 4.10      
 
Quenby Suite
New Hall Senior Common Room (SCR)
Conference Papers 4.10 to 5.00
On the performative writing of lives: Reflections on reactions to a provocative work
Andrew C Sparkes
(Chair: Michael Erben)
Parents reflections on their childs journey to weight gain a staccatoed narrative of redefinition
Suzie Groves
(Chair: Gaby Weiner)

Quenby Suite
Publishing Opportunities in Auto/Biography with Clio Publishing ~ 5.00 to 5.20
Susan England ~ Clio Publishing
  
Bar 7.30
5 course Conference Dinner with wine ~ 8 to 9pm
Bar and social
 
Saturday 12th July
Full English Breakfast 8.00 to 9.00

 Quenby Suite
New Hall Senior Common Room (SCR)
Conference Papers 9.00 to 9.50
Telling their story: trying to get it write/right
 Jess Moriarty
(Chair: Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes)
The fear of death in the defended subject: exploring the emotional experience of the midlife transition
Bethany Morgan
(Chair: Maggie Boniface)

Conference Papers 9.55 to 10.45
Boundaries, secrets, and the reflexive turn:  transatlantic interwar activists and the shadow narrative
Maggie McFadden
(Chair: Irene Selway)
Dead loss
Zoarker & Jane Ackroyd
(Chair: Jess Moriarty)
 
Morning coffee/tea and biscuits 10.45 to 11.00

 Quenby Suite
New Hall Senior Common Room (SCR)
Conference Papers 11.00 to 11.50
Bringing out each others colours: Discussion and workshop
Catherine Lamont-Robinson
(Chair: Zoarker)
Cousins under the skin Robert Henriques and the troubled voice of an Anglo/Jewish writer
Susan England
(Chair: Brett Smith)

Conference Papers 11.55 to 12.45
Some Grimm reflections on mothers and daughters: a fairy tale for our times
Gayle Letherby
(Chair: Carly Stewart)
Secrets and lies: achieving British citizenship in the 1950s
Gaby Weiner
(Chair: Ruth Brigdens)

Finger buffet lunch and Departure 12.45 to 1.30
New Hall Dining Room

Please Note: the programme may be subject to change

Power point will be available but delegates must bring their own lap-top computers. As technical support is NOT available delegates, should it be applicable, are advised to bring OHTs as an OHP projector will be available in each meeting room.