UCI Conference: From Memoir to Autobiography: Early Modern British Self-Representation
Department: English
Date and Time: May 8, 2018 | 10:30 AM-4:00 PMEvent 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