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Introduction to ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities & this project:
Naomi Segal and Nina Kancewicz-Hoffman
Keynote 1 History: Claudia Ulbrich
Self- Narratives: Transcultural and transdisciplinary perspectives
Plenary Panel 1 Modes of 1st-person writing
Ralph Houlbrooke: English autobiography c. 1500 – c. 1640
Baiba Bela-Krūmiṇa:
Ethnography of a textual representation: suspicious 1st-person writing
Michael Sheringham: The Stuff of lives: autobiography and the archive
Jens Lohfert Jørgensen: Autobiographic Fullness
Keynote 2 Literature: Marie Darrieussecq
Reading and misunderstandings: the fiction monologue
Plenary Panel 2 Theories of 1st-person writing
Tuulikki Kurki: Who is the narrating ‘I’ in ethnography?
Brian Hurwitz: Composing the case: eyes of the naturalist, novelist and memoirist
Max Saunders: Varieties of the autobiographical
Plenary Panel 3 The lives of others
Alexander Kiossev: The mystic double of the Communist poet
Ene Kõresaar: The symbolic universe of WWII: Estonian veterans‘ life-stories
Philip Rieder: Self and medical practice in the 18c: Louis Odier (1748-1817)
Arianne Baggerman: Practices of autobiographical writing in the long 19c
Break-out 1
Breast cancer narratives: Maria Vaccarella
Hospital stories: Angela Woods, Ilaria Cover, Franziska Gygax
Psychoanalysis: Susie Christensen, Ana Tomljenovic, Anne-Marie Picard
Workshop on 1st-person history texts led by François-Joseph Ruggiu
Break-out 2
Diaries: Heidi MacDonald, Maria Ng, Izabella Badiu, Biljana Oklopcic
The holocaust: Anne Freadman, Rubén Peinado Abarrio, Anna Maria Lorusso, Julia Vassilieva
The pain of others: Katie Jones, Katrien Horemans, Harriet Hulme, Emma Sweeney
Workshop on 1st-person literary texts led by Naomi Segal
Keynote 3 Medical humanities: Rita Charon
Self-Telling Writing in Clinical Settings, or the Body Never Lies
Plenary Panel 4 Bodies and souls
Yuri Zaretsky: Pain and healing in first-person narrative historically speaking
Amy Shuman: Available narratives, dominant narratives and personal narratives
Emma Bond: Narrating multiple selves: the "double" first person in the work of Giorgio Pressburger
Cheryl Moskowitz: An ‘I’ for an ‘I’
Keynote 4 Ethnography: Nigel Rapport
Between individual human being and humankind: the problem of generalization in science and in society
Break-out 3
Disguises: Anda Bukvic, Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, Lada Čale Feldman, Simão Valente
Men’s lives: Timothy Ashplant, Anne Heimo, Aslihan Aksoy Sheridan, Anastasiya Ilchanka
Women’s bodies: Nausica Zaballos, Sarah Berry, Andrea Milanko, Laura Kounine
Workshop on 1st-person medical humanities texts led by Petter Aaslestad
Break-out 4
Fathers & children: Louise Hardwick, Jean Owen, Octavian Saiu, Jelena Sesnic
Alternatives: Maciej Maryl, Marina Grishakova, Nathalie Wourm, Rosamund Davies
Writing the self: Sam Ferguson, Maja Zorica, Erika Fűlőp, Kjersti Bale
Workshop on 1st-person ethnography texts led by Kristin Kuutma
Closing plenary Future plans
