18th Auto/Biography Summer Conference: Documenting Reality
University of Leicester
July 9-11, 2009

Featuring the Phil Salmon Memorial Lecture, by Brian Roberts, UCLAN
"Mirror, Mirror . . . ? Auto/Biography and the Photographic Image"

Speakers include:
Melissa Dearey (Hull), "Best Friends, Boyfriends, Family, and Wargasm: Documenting women's radicalisation in political prisoner auto/biography"

Anna Lyon (Sussex), "The Life of Lily Clifford: a 'sensational' reconstruction"

Madalina Akli (Texas), "When photography encounters literature: Metonomy, metaphore and life writing"

Antje Bednarek (Aberdeen), "'See the person, not the Tory': Young Scottish Conservatives' narratives of marginalisation"

Raphael Cummins (Sussex), "Defining Declarative Living"

Ruth Bridgens (Bath), "Reality or absence: a secret childhood illness"

Jane Lancaster (Brown), "Misleading realities: The heroine of New York"

Kay Inckle (Trinity-Dublin), "Scarred for Life: Women's self-journeys through stigmatised embodiment"

Rosemary Phillips (Southampton), "The Reality of social Exclusion"

Irinaa Isaakyan (Edinburgh): "Narrating one's own journeys and turning points"

Gayle Letherby (Plymouth), "Documents of (travel) life or its not just trainspotting"

Mona Livoholts (Mid-Sweden), "The Snow Angel and other imprints. An untimely novella"

Sue Lovell (Griffith), "Ekphrasis and reverse ekphrasis as a mode of an analysis in biographical writing"

Sybil Myserson (University College London), "A new diary Dec 08 - 09"

Andrew Sparkes and Gareth Owen (Exeter), "Performing bodies and the dynamics of pride and shame"

Brian Rappert (Exeter), "Making what is abstract matter: secrecy, disclosure restrictions and autoethnographic writing strategies"

Chrissie Rogers (Brunel), "Hope as a mechanism in emotional survival: documenting miscarriage"

Bethany Simmonds (Chichester), "Diaries and realities"

Pablo Cortes (Malaga), "Families and Schools: A special relationship between interest and passivity"

Catherine Lamont-Robinson (Southampton), "Shared Journeys:Discussion/workshop"

Rebecca Pardo (Barcelona), "Egologies: Family images, memory, empathy, art and post-modernity"

Ian Bryant (Southampton), "The strategically placed individual and moral authority: a case of biographical interpretation of the life of Abraham Lincoln"

Ricardo Fernandez Romero (St Andrews), "Photography and autobiography; the case of Ramón Gómez de la Serna's _Automoribundia_ (1948)"

For more information and a complete conference program, contact
Gill Clarke
School of Education
University of Southampton
Southampton S017 1BJ
UK
gmc@soton.ac.uk