UCI Conference: From Memoir to Autobiography: Early Modern British Self-Representation

Department: English

Date and Time: May 8, 2018 | 10:30 AM-4:00 PM

Event Location: Humanities Gateway 1010

Event Details


From Memoir to Autobiography: Early Modern British Self-Representation
This conference will take place May 8 (Tuesday) from 10:30-4 in Humanities Gateway 1010, and will require registration only if you wish to take lunch.

10:30   Welcome: Georges Van Den Abbeele; Remarks: Robert Folkenflik

11:00   Martine Watson Brownley (Emory University), “English Historiography and the Development of Secular Autobiography: the Memoir. Moderator: Daniel Gross (University of California, Irvine)

12:00   Lunch (free): RSVP by Thursday, May 3

1:00     Amanda Vickery (Queen Mary, University of London), "Polymorphous Uniformity: Packaging Identity in 18th-century England". Moderator: Ian Coller (University of California, Irvine)

2:00     Fraser Easton (University of Waterloo) “Plebeianizing the Female Soldier: Radical Liberty and the Narrative of Christian Davies”. Moderator: Jayne Lewis (University of California, Irvine)

3:00     Robert Folkenflik (University of California, Irvine), “The Early Canon of British Autobiography”. Moderator: Steven J. Mailloux (Loyola Marymount University and University of California, Irvine)

Free and open to the public
Presented by UCI Early Cultures, English, History, Literary Journalism and Humanities Commons

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