8 June 2023
Programme
(All times are British Summer Time [GMT+1])
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9.45am: Introductions: Lucia Boldrini (CCL, Goldsmiths) & Natasha Bell (Goldsmiths)
10.00-11.30am: Panel 1 (Chair: Laura Cernat, KU Leuven, Belgium)
Clare Harvey (Coventry University): ‘Co-authoring with forgotten voices: using remix writing to explore the problematised boundary between historical “truth” and fiction’
Helen Pleasance (York St John University): ‘At the Threshold: the uncanny meeting point of the short story and family memoir’
Keren Poliah (University of Salford): ‘Method Writing and Biofiction’
Break (20 mins)
11.50am-1.20pm: Panel 2 (Chair: Jon Paul Roberts, Liverpool John Moores University)
Amie Corry (Goldsmiths): A reading from Public Feelings, a work-in-progress
Michelle Ryan (Université d’Angers, France): ‘Autofiction/Autopathography and the Short Story Cycle’
Melissa Wan (University of Leeds): ‘Indecent Exposures: revealing our selves in auto-fiction/-ethnography’
Break (40 mins)
2.00-3.00pm: Keynote (Chair: Natasha Bell, Goldsmiths)
Jarred McGinnis: ‘Alchemizing the self for fiction’
Break (10 mins)
3.10-4.40pm: Panel 3 (Chair: Virginia Rademacher, Babson College, Boston)
Franchesca Liauw: ‘Postmemory and The Pretenders’
Karen Packwood (Nottingham): ‘Landscapes of Belonging: Representing Post-abuse Identity Reclamation’
Jon Paul Roberts (Liverpool John Moores University): A reading of ‘On Blue’ from For You, Home is a Cemetery, a work-in-progress
Break (20 mins)
5.00-6.00pm: Panel 4 (Chair: Anna Borgarello, Columbia University)
Kimberly Campanello (University of Leeds): ‘Autofiction’s Essential Material’
James Davis (Lancaster University): ‘“Let us Imagine a Scholar”: Paris: A Poem, A Misreading’
6.00-6.30pm: Closing & general discussion
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