Cosmopolitanism/Women Writers/Biography Conference
Event Details
- Date:
- Monday, 13 July 2015 - Tuesday, 14 July 2015
- Time:
- All Day
- Room:
- 208
- Location:
- Building 39A
- UQ Location:
- General Purpose North 3 (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.communication-arts.uq.edu.au/cosmopolitanism-conference
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Professor Carole Ferrier
- Phone:
- 53146
- Email:
- s.wehi@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Communication and Arts
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia)
Associate Professor Nicole Moore (UNSW, Canberra)
Dr Jeanine Leane (ANU)
Professor Jeanette Hoorn (University of Melbourne)
Professor Gina Wisker (Brighton University)
Studies of the global, the transnational, the cross-cultural and the postcolonial have (re-)emerged in recent years as part of a broader interest in the ways we speak to each other across and within boundaries of space and time. The term “cosmopolitan” is one that can be used to capture the divergent meanings raised by these in different contexts – “in its wide and wavering nets,” Carol Breckenridge has argued, cosmopolitanism “catches something of our need to ground our sense of mutuality in conditions of mutability, and to learn to live tenaciously in terrains of historic and cultural transition” (Cosmopolitanism). Susan Stanford Friedman has also discussed some of the problems of “aspirations for a cosmopolitan world citizenship,” and how far these can be addressed by a “cosmofeminist” approach (‘Wartime Cosmopolitanism’).
This Conference seeks to investigate aspects of the current state of biography (broadly defined) in relation to women; its uses, and how it might currently be theorised. It will also consider how the cosmopolitan might be used in critical study of women’s biography; from comparisons of writers from diverse backgrounds, to changing contextual emphases, to the particular times and places which appear in women’s writing about themselves and others.
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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