INSTITUTE OF LITHUANIAN LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE
GENDER STUDIES CENTER OF VILNIUS UNIVERSITY
THE LAST VOLUMES OF THE COLLECTION: TRAJECTORIES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
6-8 October, 2010
Wednesday, 6 October, 2010 Chair: Renata Šribar
8:45- 9:15 Registration (Mažoji Aula) 2:30 – 3:00 Dalia Kaladinskienė
(Vilnius University)
Plenary session 1 “Voluptous Metaphysics of Greimas:
(Auto)Erotic Semiosis of Subject in
Chair: Solveiga Daugirdaitė Correspondance of A. J.Greimas and
Aleksandra Kašubienė”
9:15 – 9:30 Opening
Dalia Leinartė, 3:00 – 3:30 Christina Parnell (Universität Erfurt)
Director of Vilnius University Gender “Lithuania, Europe and Shambala: 'Third
Studies Centre spaces' in Jurga Ivanauskaite's
Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Director of Autobiographical Prose”
Institute of Lithuanian Literature and
Folklore 4:00 -4: 30 Solveiga Daugirdaitė
(Institute of Lithuanian Literature and
9:30 – 10:30 Dalia Leinartė Folklore, Vilnius)
(Vilnius University) “Private and Professional Life in
“Conducting interviews in the Post-Soviet Autobiographies of Soviet and Emigree
Space: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women” Lithuanian Women Writers”
10:30-11:30 Sidonie Smith 4:30 – 5:00 Milda Danytė
(University of Michigan) “‟America‟s Exhibit (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
A‟: Hillary Rodham Clinton‟s Living History “Autobiography as Obsession: the
and the Genres of Political Authenticity” Autobiographical Fragments of Julija
Putvytė-Daniliauskienė”
Session 1: Frameworks for Auto/Biography
Thursday, 7 October, 2010 (Room 239)
Chair: Milda Danytė
Plenary session 2
12:00-12:30 Arvydas Pacevičius
(Vilnius University) Chair: Natalija Arlauskaitė
“Lithuanian Egodocuments and
Autobiographical Writings: Concept and 9:30-10:30 Deirdre Heddon (Glasgow University)
New Trends in Research” “Between One and an Other: The Publics
and Privates of Auto/Biographical
12:30 -1:00 Renata Šribar Performance”
(Ljubljana Graduate School of the
Humanities) 10:30-11:30 Susan Ingram (York University, Canada)
“Feminist/Queer Nonconformed “Veruschka: The Spaces, Places and Limits
Subjectivation and the Production of of Post-Cold War European Self-
Knowledge and Agency” Representation”
1:00 – 1:30 Jurga Katkuvienė Session 2: Auto/Biographies Visually
(Vilnius University)
“The Novelistic Autobiography: Does Chair: Kirsi Tuohela
graphē Eliminate bio?”
12:00-12:30 Jekaterina Lavrinec
(Vilnius Gediminas Technical University)
“The Autobiographical Bodies of Twin
Brothers Gataveckas”
Conference “The last volumes of the collection: Trajectories of autobiographical writing” is supported by Research
Council of Lithuania
INSTITUTE OF LITHUANIAN LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE
GENDER STUDIES CENTER OF VILNIUS UNIVERSITY
THE LAST VOLUMES OF THE COLLECTION: TRAJECTORIES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
6-8 October, 2010
12:30-1:00 Olga Roginskaya 11:00–11:30 Charles Nunley (Middlebury College)
(Higher School of Economics, Moscow) “Autobiographical Journalism in Occupied
“Trajectories of The Autobiographical: from France (1940-1944): The Case of Robert
Writing to Performance?” Desnos”
1:00-1:30 Natalija Arlauskaitė (Vilnius University) Chair: Loreta Jakonytė
“Patchworked Auto/Biographical Subject:
„Porto of My Childhood‟ ” (Manoel de 12:00 -12:30 Rima Bertašavičiūtė
Oliveira, 2001)” (Vilnius University)
“Parulskis on Parulskis: Conversing with
Chair: Jekaterina Lavrinec the Author of the Author”
3:30-4:00 Paulette Delios 12:30-1:00 Audronė Raškauskienė
(Independent researcher, Australia) (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
“Collected Selves: Between “Composing the Self in Ann Radcliffe‟s
Autobiographies and Cabinets of (1764-1823) and Mary Wollstonecraft‟s
Curiosities” (1759-1797) Autobiographical Writing”
4:00-4:30 Inga Vidugirytė Chair: Dalia Leinartė
(Vilnius University)
“Autobiographical Writing and Geography: 2:00-2:30 Anna Kuismin (Makkonen)
Letters of Nikolai Gogol” (University of Helsinki)
“Written by himself: autobiography
5:00-5:30 Victoria Bridges Moussaron from below”
(l'Université de Lille III/Université
de Paris X) 2:30-3:00 Rima Pociūtė
“Rethinking the Temporality of (Independent researcher, Lithuania)
Autobiography as a Pilgrimage in Writing: A “Autobiographical Frame: from Situated
Missionary‟s Correspondence (1886–1906)” Talking to CV Writing Situations”
5:30-6:00 Kirsi Tuohela Chair: Anna Kuismin
(University of Turku)
“Who is Maria in Maria Åkerblom‟s 3:30-4:00 Maciej Reda (Warsaw University)
Autobiography? Reflections about the “Literary Aspects of .K. Chesterton‟s
Subject in Autobiography” Autobiography”
Friday, 8 October, 2010 (Room 239) 4:00-4:30 Rasa Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė
(Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
Session 3: Auto/Biographical Identity “Identity‟s Construction in Kaunas
Women‟s Life Histories”
Chair: Audronė Raškauskienė
4:30–5:00 Gayle R. Nunley
10:00-10:30 Irena Ragaišienė (University of Vermont)
(Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, “Autobiography, Tourism, and National
Lithuania) Identity in Emilia Pardo Bazán's European
“Sylvia Plath‟s Autobiographical Selves in Memoirs”
her Journals and Letters Home”
5:00 Closing discussion
10:30-11:00 Ramutė Rachlevičiūtė
(Vilnius Academy of Art) Chairs: Solveiga Daugirdaitė,
“Reflections of Fate and Creation in Elvyra Natalija Arlauskaitė
Kairiūkštytė‟s Engravings and The Diary”
Conference “The last volumes of the collection: Trajectories of autobiographical writing” is supported by Research
Council of Lithuania