Email: writinglife2013@um.edu.mt Website: https://www.um.edu.mt/events/writinglife2013 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/292097414242784/ Twitter: @writinglife2013 Writing Life International Postgraduate Symposium Palm Suite, Intercontinental Hotel, St. Julian’s, Malta 22–23 March 2013 Organised by The Department of English University of Malta Sponsored by The Strickland Foundation Friday 22 March 8.30 – Welcome Coffee & Registration 9.00 – Welcome Address by Prof. Ivan Callus (University of Malta) 9.10 – Address by Mr Victor Aquilina (CEO of The Strickland Foundation) 9.20 – Keynote Address: Dr Stefan Herbrechter (Coventry University) – Lifewriting Chair: Giuliana Fenech 10.20 – Coffee Break 10.50 – Panels 1 & 2 Panel 1 – Writing Life Reflectively (10.50 – 12.20) Chair: Elsa Fiott Daria Gosek (Jagiellonian University, Poland) – Writing the Life. H.-F. Amiel and his Journal Intime Xymena Synak-Pskit (University of Gdansk, Poland) – Masochism: Melancholia at-a-Loss, Life-at-a-Loss Marko Stamenkovic (University of Ghent, Belgium) – Writing (One’s Own) Death Panel 2 – Writing Life for/through the Screen (10.50 – 12.20) Chair: Anna Camilleri Annie Nissen (Lancaster University, UK) – Julie’s Recipe for Writing Life in Julie & Julia (2009) Mirjana Batinid (University of Primorska, Slovenia) – Life in the Other Place Monika Maslowska (University of Malta) – Writing for the Screen: Learning How to Portray the Lives of Others by Living Deeply and Observing Closely from the Shadows of a Screenplay 12.20 – Break for Lunch 13.30 – Panels 3 & 4 Panel 3 – Writing Other Life (13.30 – 15.00) Chair: Stefanie Cilia Claudia Cremonesi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) – Writing about Dogs, Why Not? Flush, the Biography of Elizabeth Barrett’s Cocker Spaniel Melvin Chen (Cardiff University, UK) – An Axe for the Frozen Sea: Estrin's Magic Agential Realism, Insect Thigmotaxis, and the Problem with Kafka Charmaine Tanti (University of Malta) – Everything We Are: Reading the Human through the Vampire Panel 4 – Written Life Remediated (13.30 – 15.00) Chair: Giuliana Barbaro-Sant Catherine Han (Cardiff University, UK) – How to Be a (Victorian) Domestic Goddess: Charlotte Brontë’s Entangled Life and Art in Contemporary Jane Eyre Screen Adaptations Claire Ellul (University of Malta) – Remediating Life: The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes Sara Eriksson (University of Stockholm, Sweden) – The Addressee of the Diary: The Impact of Publicity upon Representations of the Self 15.00 – Keynote Address: Prof. Carola Hilmes (University of Frankfurt am Main) – Reflections on the Inventory Self in Texts by Gertrude Stein and Uwe Johnson Chair: Katrin Dautel 16.00 – Coffee Break 16.30 – Panels 5 & 6 Panel 5 – Writing Life Bodily (16.30 – 18.00) Chair: James Farrugia Aaron Aquilina (University of Malta) – Writing Afterlife: The Exhibitionism of the Dead Marija Grech (Cardiff University, UK) – Reading and Writing the Book of Life: Charles Darwin and the Human Genome Project Katrin Dautel (University of Malta) – Playground of Gender: Cross-Dressing and Self-Mutilation as Negation of Gender Identities in Tanja Dückers’s Novel Spielzone Panel 6 – Nineteenth-Century Ways of Writing Life (16.30 – 18.00) Chair: Irene Scicluna Argun Abrek Canbolat (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) – Life-Affirming Writing in Nietzsche’s Works Maura Dunst (Cardiff University, UK) – ‘Because she could not tell the truth’: Creative Control and Autobiographical Autonomy in New Woman Fiction Rebecca Hutcheon (University of Bristol, UK) – Mapping the City: the problems of mimesis in George Gissing's The Nether World 18.00 – End 20.00 – Optional Conference Dinner Saturday 23 March 9.30 – Welcome Coffee & Registration 10.00 – Keynote Address: Prof. Manuela Rossini (University of Bern) – Re-Stitching Lives: Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and Jean-Luc Nancy’s L’intrus Chair: Janice Sant 11.00 – Coffee Break 11.30 – Panels 7 & 8 Panel 7 – Writing Life After Life (11.30 – 13.00) Chair: Katryna Storace Daniela Brockdorff (University of Malta) – Writing Death: Jim Crace’s Being Dead Andrew Engwall (University of Malta) – Melville’s Elegy ‘Shiloh’: Writing the Divided Life Stefanie Cilia (University of Malta) – Writing Archaeology, Writing Life: Seamus Heaney’s ‘Bog’ Poems Panel 8 – Writing Life Transgressively (11.30 – 13.00) Chair: Elsa Fiott Jeffrey Micallef (University of Malta) – Condemned Life in Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead Viktoria Grivina (Karazin Kharkov National University, Ukraine) – A Single Injection of Radioactive Past Times: Cut-up Theory of William S. Burroughs Maria Theuma (University of Malta) – ‘I got 99 problems but a b**** ain’t one’: Confession, Reality and Story in Rap Music 13.00 – Break for Lunch 14.00 – Panels 9 & 10 Panel 9 – (Re-)Writing Life (and Death) in Contemporary Narrative (14.00 – 15.30) Chair: Rachelle Gauci Corinne Vella (University of Malta) – Mr Baverstock, Nicola Barker and My Ideologies Conrad Aquilina (Durham University, UK) – ‘If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending’: Revisionism, Representation and the Re-Written Life James Farrugia (University of Malta) – Life and Nothing (To Be Frightened Of) Panel 10 – Writing Life Beyond Limits (14.00 – 15.30) Chair: Leanne Borg Caleb Sivyer (Cardiff University, UK) – Visualising Queer Life in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve: Cinema, Scopophilia, and the Sutured Subject Aysegul Salamis Sentug (Independent Scholar) – New Forms of Fiction in the Modern Age: Does Meta-Fiction Pose Any Special Problems for Philosophical Theories of Fiction? Janice Sant (Cardiff University, UK) – In Absentia: Fictional Testimony in Hélène Cixous’s The Day I Wasn’t There 15.30 – Coffee Break 16.00 – Panels 11 & 12 Panel 11 – Aesthetic Autobiography (16.00 – 17.30) Chair: Andrew Engwall Katryna Storace (University of Malta) – Writing For Her Life: Virginia Woolf and Autobiographical Memory in ‘A Sketch of the Past’ Aykun Ozgen (Sabanci University, Turkey) – Writing Life Writerly: Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul as an Aesthetic Autobiography Mohsen Jabbari (University of Tehran, Iran) – The Fact, the Truth, and the Real: Elizabeth Bishop and Confessional Poetry Panel 12 – Writing Ephemeral Life (16.00 – 17.30) Chair: Aaron Aquilina Omar Basalamah (King Abdulaziz University, Saudia Arabia) – Writng Characters: Textual (De)Construction of Identities in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Naomi Kruger (Lancaster University, UK) – ‘Storyless Spaces’: Contemporary Dementia Fiction and the Difficulty of Narrative Irene Scicluna (University of Malta) – In Sickness and In Health; Till Death Do Us Part: Art, Disease and Posthumanism 17.30 – Closing Address & Thanks – Dr James Corby, Ms Giuliana Fenech and the Writing Life Team 18.00 – End of Symposium 18.30 onwards – Optional Post-Conference Drinks and Discussion