CALL FOR PAPERS BIOGRAPHY IN THE 20TH CENTURY
The Research and Information Centre Memorial (St Petersburg),
the European University in St Petersburg, the
Franco-Russian Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences (Moscow),
the International Memorial Society
and the General Consulate of the Republic of Poland in St Pe-tersburg
are pleased to announce the 8th International Biographic Readings The Right to a Name: Biography in the 20th Century in Memory of Veniamin Iofe.
The Readings will take place on 20-22 April 2010 at the European University in St Peters-burg. A scholarly seminar during the Readings will bring together historians, sociologists, phi-losophers, ethnologists, anthropologists, psychologists, scholars of literature and culture, psy-chologists, writers, directors, journalists and museum specialists who work in the field of 20th century biography.
The main topics of the 8th Readings are:
- Contemporary biographical research: new approaches and opportunities, new means of describ-ing and presenting biographies;
- The problem of sources: the reliability of sources, the interpretation of life events;
- Biography and myth: omissions and stigmatisation in biographies; that which does not make it into biography; the interpretation of biography;
- Posthumous biography: death and biography, biography and memory; disappearance as a bio-graphical fact, forced disappearances;
- The study of autobiography;
- The presentation of biography
And other topics
Paper proposals *in Russian* should be submitted before 1 March 2010 to Tatiana Kosi-nova ( Данный адрес e-mail защищен от спам-ботов, Вам необходимо включить Javascript для его просмотра. ) and Irina Flige( Данный адрес e-mail защищен от спам-ботов, Вам необходимо включить Javascript для его просмотра. ) and consist of a short paper abstract of no more than 2000 signs and a short CV (main data of the speaker, institution, status, degree, contact details) of no more than 200 signs. The official language of the Readings is Russian. Papers must not exceed 20 minutes. Each paper is followed by 20 minutes of discussion.
Conference papers will be published in a separate volume, scheduled to appear in April 2011. All papers must be presented by the author. The abstracts will not be included in the col-lection.
