My co-author Julia Watson and I had the opportunity to meet and engage with colleagues and graduate students interested in studies in life writing throughout our tour of Central Europe. We learned about their large collaborative projects, their networks, and their individual scholarly projects. We continue to appreciate their generosity and their willingness to share with us the questions that motivate them as they retrieve and mine texts of life writing of all kinds.
Colloquium on “Witness or False Witness?”, Department of American Studies, University of Graz, November 9, 2017.
Lecture, “Getting a Digital Life: Self-Presentation Online,” for Doctoral Academy Day 2017 at the University of Graz in Graz, Austria, November 10, 2017.
Workshop on Life Writing, for Network for Biographical Research, hosted at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria, November 16, 2017.
Lecture, “The Archive of Those Who Write Themselves: What and Where Are the Issues?”, Gender Studies Department of the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, November 21, 2017.
Keynote Lecture, “The Archive of Those Who Write Themselves: What and Where Are the Issues?”, at the Conference on “Convention and Revolution: Life writing by women in the 1800s and 1900s,” organized by the Women’s Archive team, a Division of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, November 30, 2017.
Workshop on Life Writing for faculty and graduate students at the Conference on “Convention and Revolution: Life writing by women in the 1800s and 1900s,” organized by the Women’s Archive team, a Division of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, December 1, 2017.
W.E.B. De Bois Lecture, “So Auto-Graphic! Scenes of Reading in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Ellen Forney’s Marbles,” American Studies Department, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, December 6, 2017.