Friday, February 5, 2016
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14.00 h Arrival, Registration, Coffee and Tea in the Main Lobby
15.00 h Welcome Address: Michael MAYER (Akademie für Politische Bildung); Volker DEPKAT (University of Regensburg)
15.15 h Introduction and Opening Keynote (Chair: Volker DEPKAT)
The Challenges of Biography (Leonard CASSUTO, Fordham University)
16.30 h Break
17.00 h Writing American Biographies for a German Audience (Chair: Klaus SCHWABE, RWTH Aachen)
Why Write Another Biography of Woodrow Wilson? (Manfred BERG, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg)
Malcolm X. Writing a German Biography of an African American Icon (Britta WALDSCHMIDT-NELSON, German Historical Institute Washington)
18.30 h Dinner
20.00 h Evening Keynote: Life Writing between Fact and Fiction
(Julia WATSON, Ohio State University)
Saturday, February 6, 2016
8.15 h Breakfast
9.00 h Workshops on Current Research
10.30 h Coffee and Tea Break
11.00 h Leadership and (Auto)Biography (Chair: Andreas ETGES, LMU Munich)
Religious (Auto)Biographical Narratives. Christian Leaders in 19th and 20th Century America (Stefanie COCHÉ, University of Cologne)
Presidential Autobiographies – And Why They Are Usually Boring (Michael DREYER, Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
12.30 h Lunch
15.00 h Transnational (Auto)Biography (Chair: Jessica GIENOW-HECHT, FU Berlin)
The Transatlantic Career of Paul Lazarsfeld. On Biography as Transnational History (Jan LOGEMANN, Georg August University Göttingen)
Moves: Writing the Life of Wilbert Olinde, Jr. (Christoph RIBBAT, University of Paderborn)
16.30 h Coffee and Tea Break
17.00 h American (Auto)Biographical Entanglements with die Middle East (Chair: Marcus GRÄSER, Johannes Kepler University Linz)
The Man Who Would Be King. Josiah Harlan’s Wanderings in Afghanistan and Their Interpretations – Then and Now (Christopher SCHLIEPHAKE, University of Augsburg)
“A Great Way to Come to Terms with Life Here”. Self-Reflection and Civil Military Relationships in U.S. Milblogs (Frank USBECK, Technical University Dresden)
18.30 h Dinner
Sunday, February 7, 2016
8.15 h Breakfast
9.00 h Female (Auto)Biographical Self-Fashioning (Chair: Anke ORTLEPP, University of Kassel)
The Sowing of (S)Words: Southern Women’s Autobiographical Cultural Histories at the Fin-de-Siècle (Julia NITZ, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
An Exemplary Life. The Autobiographical Self-Fashioning of Margaret Mead (Thilo NEIDHÖFER, Johannes Kepler University Linz)
10.30 h Coffee and Tea Break
10.45 h New Forms of Life Writing (Chair: Jasper TRAUTSCH, University of Regensburg)
The Role of Autobiographical Documentary Films in Processing a Problematic National Past. Dealing with Family History and Slavery from a White Perspective (Tanja SEIDER, Ben Gurion University, Beersheva, Israel / TU Berlin)
Poetry as Relational Auto/Biography of Family, Race, and Nation (Nassim BALESTRINI, Karl Franzens University Graz)
12.00 h Lunch & Departure