11:30-12:30 Plenary
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson: "Women as Artists and Subjects in Visual and Performance Media"
Chair: Shirley Neuman

2:15-3:45
1a.
Thomas Couser: "Genre and Genome: DNA and Life Writing"

Sneja Gunew: "Technologies of the Self: Corporeal Affects of English"

Chair: Craig Howes

1b.
Lynn Casmier-Paz: "Naming: The Problem--Slave Narratives and the Subject of Autobiography"

Jeanne Perreault: "'Only a white man': John Louis Spivak and Georgia Chain Gang"

Chair: Timothy Dow Adams

Coffee break

9:45-11:15
4a.
Martine Delvaux: "Kissing, Seeing, Telling: Kathryn Harrison's Story of Incest"

Jill Deans: "Finding Christa and Reno Finds Her Mom: In and Against Adoption Autobiography

Chair: Julie LeBlanc

4b.
Francoise Lionnet: "'She breastfed reluctance into me': Hunger Artists in the Global Economy"

Erin Soros: "Making Tracks: Anorexia Nervosa and Heroin Addiction as Embodied Writing"

Chair: Sneja Gunew

4c.
Charlotte Townsend-Gault: "The Aboriginal Self-Portrait as Public Address System"

Joel Martineau: "Bill Reid, Autoethnography, and Conflict" 

Chair: Nancy Pagh

Coffee break

11:30- 12:30 Plenary
Philippe Lejeune: "How Diaries End"
Chair: Valerie Raoul

2:15-3:45
5a.
Joseph and Rebecca Hogan: "Intersecting Cultures, Interstitial Selves: Creating Cross-Cultural Identity"

Yuko Shibata: "Hybrid Text: Ethnography of Japanese Canadian Women"

Chair: Alfred Hornung

5b.
Julie Rak: "Doukhobor Autobiography as Witness Narrative"

Peaches Henry: "'When the Voiceless Begin to Find a Voice': Truth, Authority, and Power in Minority Autobiography"

Chair: Tom Smith

Coffee break

4:00-5:30
6a.
Nancy Wachowich: "'Getting Along": Autobiography as Adaptation to Changing Social Climates in the Arctic"

Linda Peterson: "Family Memoirs: The Autobiography of Mary Howitt as Collaborative Life Writing"

Chair: Richard Freadman

6b.
Zhao Baisheng: "Socializing the Self: The American Experience and Identity Transformation"

Gordon Pon: "Troubling Modernity and the Chinese 'Model Minority': Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior"

Chair: Bill Boelhower

6:00 Reception at the Museum of Anthropology  

8:00  IABA Meeting      

Chair: Zhao Baisheng

At the First International Conference on Auto/Biography in Beijing last year. Zhao Baisheng initiated IABA, the International Autobiography and Biography Association. After the conference, Craig Howes, editor of biography and Director of the Center for Biographical Research at the University of Hawai'i, set up a discussion list for people who have questions, notices, and discussion points about auto/biography studies. This meeting will further the discussion about IABA which originated in Beijing.

Everyone welcome!

9:45-11:15
8a.
Bina Freiwald: "Becoming and Be/Longing: Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw and My Gender Workbook"

Antje Lindenmeyer: "'I am Prince Jussuf': Else Lasker-Schüler's Autobiographical Performance"

Chair: Margaretta Jolly

8b.
Bill Boelhower: "Shifting Forms of Sovereignty: Immigrant and Ethnic Autobiographies in the Literature of the United States"

Keith Byerman: "(Re)-Centering the Self: Marginality, Nationality, and Identity in the Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois"

Chair: David Parker

Coffee break

11:30-12:30 Plenary
John Eakin: "Breaking Rules: The Consequences of Self-Narration"
Chair: Gabriele Helms

2:15-3:45
9a.
Joseph Swatski: "Autobiography as Improvisation: Listening to Charles Mingus's Beneath the Underdog"

Rick Lee: "The Living End and the Faith of Loss: Gay Male Self-Representation in the Age of AIDS"

Chair: Joanne Karpinski

9b.
Jacqueline Vansant: "Reclaiming Home and Self: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Re-Emigrés"

Leah White: "Overcoming Nazi Oppression: Charlotte Salomon, Autobiography and the Reconstruction of Self"

Chair: Marlene Kadar

Coffee break

4:00-5:30
10a.
Roger Porter: "Autobiography, Exile, Home"

Sarah Phillips Casteel: "Canada as the Site of Exile and Traumatic Memory in Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation"

Chair: Christine Wiesenthal

10b.
Jacqueline McLean: "Accessing Deep Memory: The Life and Art of Israeli Artist Mira Hermoni-Levine"

Alison Pryer: "The seeing Cure: Jo Spence's Visual Narratives"

Chair: Gillian Whitlock


Free evening

9:45-11:15
12a.
Leigh Gilmore: "Limit-Cases, Trauma, and Self-Representation"

Barbara Havercroft: "Trauma, Agency, and Identity in in Annie Ernaux's La Honte (Shame, 1997)"

Chair: Julia Watson

12b.
Masha Belenky: "Narrative of Remembrance, Narrative of Loss: The Silence of the Photographs in Georges Perec's W or Memory of Childhood"

Timothy Dow Adams: "Photography and Autobiography in Norma Cantú's Canícula"

Chair: Linda Rugg

Coffee break

11:30-12:30 Plenary
Suzanne Bunkers, Helen Buss, and Brenda Daly: "An Autocritical Conversation: Reception, Transgressive Writing, Radical Introspection, and the Practice of Writing 'Home'"
Chair: Susanna Egan

2:15-3:45 Pedagogy Roundtable

Chair: David Parker

Participants: Alfred Hornung, Margaretta Jolly,  Tom Smith