Conference Office
Sitzungsraum des Dekanats / Conference Room of the Dean’s Office
Philosophicum
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Office Hours
Friday thru Saturday (June 1-2)
08:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Contact
E-mail: dgfa2012@uni-mainz.de
Fon: +49 6131 39-27201
Keynote lectures
31 May 2012 – Opening LectureSidonie Smith (University of Michigan), "'America's Exhibit A': Hillary Rodham Clinton's Living History and the Genres of Authenticity"
1June 2012 – Plenary Lecture
Thomas Bender (New York University): "Intellectual Biography and the Matrix of Creativity"
1 June 2012 – Plenary Lecture
Birgit Däwes (JGU Mainz): "What happens when the vanishing race doesn't vanish?': Scenes of Native North American Historio/Biography"
1 June 2012 – Reading
Siri Hustvedt
2 June 2012 – Plenary Lecture
Craig Howes (University of Hawai’i): "Slow Lives – Micro-Traditions in American Biography and Autobiography"
3 June 2012 – Plenary Lecture
Siri Hustvedt, "Borderlands: First, Second, and Third Person Adventures in Crossing Disciplines"
For more detailed information on the lectures' venues and topics, go to Conference Program.
