CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
22 April 2022 (Friday)
8.30-9.15 Registration (Institute of English Studies – IES, hall, ground floor)
9.15-9.25 Opening (main
university building, first floor, Aula Leopoldina – AL)*
9.25-10.25 Plenary lecture 1 (AL)* [Chair: Vanessa Guignery]
Irene Kacandes (Dartmouth College, USA), “Paramemoir Revisited”
10.30-11.00 Coffee
break (IES - room 215)
11.00-12.30 Parallel sessions 1 & 2
Parallel session 1 (IES – room 207) [Chair: Vanessa Guignery]
Maria Antonietta Struzziero (Independent Scholar, Italy): “Writing the Self Between Hunting Ghosts and Hurting Bodies in Hilary Mantel’s Giving up the Ghost and Maggie O’Farrell’s I Am, I Am, I Am”
Kateřina Valentová (University of Lleida, Spain): “Metaphor & Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives: Catalogue Baby (2021) by Myriam Steinberg and Hairless (2020) by Tereza Drahoňovská”
Paweł Wojtas (University of Warsaw, Poland): “Disability Life-Writing and Autotextuality in J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy”
Parallel session 2 (IES – room 208)* [Chair: Dominika Ferens]
Hannah Van Hove (writer and researcher, Brussels, Belgium): “An Incidental Inventory of Breakdowns: on Experimental Women’s Writing, Archives and Labour”
Tomasz Basiuk (University of Warsaw, Poland): “Plunder. Menachem Kaiser’s Quest for Family Heirloom”
Dagmara Drewniak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland): “Expressing the Self Through Silence – Connie T. Braun’s Silentium and Other Reflections on Memory, Sorrow, Place and the Sacred”
12.30-13.30 Lunch (IES - room 215)
13.30-15.00 Parallel sessions 3 & 4
Parallel session 3 (IES – room 207) [Chair: Lech Zdunkiewicz]
Dominika Ferens (University of Wrocław, Poland): “Incorporated Cities: Formal and Social Fragmentation in D. J. Waldie’s Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir”
Martina Horakova (Masaryk University, Czech Republic): “Between Life Writing and Nature Writing: Australian Landscape and Eco-Memoir”
Martha Swift (University of Oxford, United Kingdom): “‘Hold your story lightly’: Reading the Relations Between Reader, Writer, and Character in Ruth Ozeki’s Autofictions”
Parallel session 4 (IES – room 208)* [Chair: Jarosław Hetman]
Grzegorz Maziarczyk (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland): “In Things We Trust: Auction Catalogue as Life Writing”
Zuzana Fonioková (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic): “The Present and the Past Self in Innovative Life Writing: Second-Person Narration in Mary Karr’s Cherry”
Wojciech Drąg (University of Wrocław, Poland): “The Self, the Database and Digital Biography: David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein”
15.15-16.15 Plenary lecture 2 (IES – room 208)* [Chair: Wojciech Drąg]
David Clark (NSCAD University in Halifax, Canada): “Biography from the Outside: 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein and The End (Death in Seven Colors)”
16.15-16.45 Coffee break (IES - room 215)
16.45-18.15 Session 5 (IES – room 208)* [Chair: Paweł Wojtas]
Helen Bain (King’s College London, United Kingdom): “Sylvia Plath and the Missing Foie Gras: How Subject, Author and Reader Collide to Create ‘Realness’ in Biofiction”
Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak (University of Wrocław, Poland): “Queering Auto/biographical Comics: Experimental Representations of Sexual Trauma in Maria Stoian’s Take It as a Compliment”
Kim Schoof (Open University in the Netherlands): “The Renegotiation of Narrative Optimism: Throwing New Light on the Literary Experimentation in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me with Berlant and Moten”
19.00-21.00 Dinner (main university building, ground floor, Klub
Uniwersytecki –
KU)
23 April 2022 (Saturday)
10.00-11.00 Plenary lecture 3 (IES, room 208)* [Chair: Wojciech Drąg]
Teresa Bruś (University of Wrocław, Poland), “Cells of Energy: The Book, the Camera, and the Concept of Dust in Experimental Life Writing by Patti Smith”
11.15-13.15 Session 6 (IES, room 208)* [Chair: Vanessa Guignery]
Héloïse Lecomte (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France): “The Stamp of Loss: Impressions of Grief in Karen Green’s Bough Down (2013)
Cédric Courtois (University of Lille, France): “
: Staging Chaotic Coming of
Age in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir"
Jarosław Hetman (Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toruń, Poland): “Life as a Form of Art in Paul Auster’s Works”
Joseph Darlington (Futureworks Media School, Manchester, United Kingdom): “From the Ashes: Life Writing in the Aftermath of House Fires in Daniela Cascella’s Singed (2017) and Steve Hanson and Richard Barrett’s The Acts (2018)”
13.15-14.15 Lunch (IES, room 215)
14.15-16.15 Online session 1 (IES, room 208)* [Chair: Wojciech Drąg]
Laura De La Parra Fernández (University of Salamanca, Spain): “The Lyric Essay as Life Writing: Negotiating Neoliberal Femininity”
Urszula Gołębiowska (University of Zielona Góra, Poland): “Episodic, Emotional, Associative – a Life Narrative in Mavis Gallant’s Linnet Muir Cycle”
Lola Serraf (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Spain/France): “On the Use of Social Media in Holocaust Life-Writing: ‘emotional pedagogy’ in Eva.Stories (2019)”
Ángela Rivera-Izquierdo (University of Granada, Spain): “Experimental Life-Writing in Caleb Klaces’s Fatherhood: Towards a Patricentric Écriture Masculine”
Krystian Piotrowski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland), “The Many Lives of Anna Kavan: An Exercise in ‘Affectography’”
16.15-16.45 Coffee break (IES, room 215)
16.45-18.30 Online session 2 (IES,
room 208)* [Chair: Vanessa Guignery]
Maïté Snauwaert (University of Alberta, Canada): “Mourning Memoirs as Experimental Life-Writing: Joan Wickersham’s The Suicide Index and Anne Carson’s Nox”
Hiba Moussa (Lebanese University, Lebanon): “The Auto/biographical Tact in Constructing the Dead Mother’s Voice”
Honorata Sroka (University of Warsaw, Poland): “Experimental Biography of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson”
Eva C. Karpinski (York University, Canada) and Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak (University of Wrocław, Poland): “Malleable Embodiment: Experimental Body-Writing in Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength and Wanda Hagedorn’s Twarz, Brzuch, Głowa [Face, Belly, Head]”
18.30-18.45 Closing remarks (IES, room 208)
19.00+ An informal pub outing
24 April 2022 (Sunday)
10.00-12.30 A guided tour of Wrocław (meeting at IES)
* – event to be broadcast via Zoom - to receive the zoom link, please fill the form: https://forms.gle/CK4zYrpy8vLWnXUDA
Venues
IES – Institute of English Studies (Kuznicza 21-22)
AL – Aula Leopoldina (Plac Uniwersytecki 1)
KU – Klub Uniwersytecki (Plac Uniwersytecki 1)
All the conference venues are within 250 metres from one another.