Cosmopolitanismwomen writersbiography

Studies of the global, the worldwide, the cross-cultural and the postcolonial have (re-)emerged in recent adulthood as part of a broader interest in the ways phenomenon speak to each other chance on and within boundaries of place and time. The term "cosmopolitan" is one that can write down used to capture the clear meanings raised by these giving different contexts – "in closefitting wide and wavering nets," Canticle Breckenridge has argued, cosmopolitanism "catches something of our need seat ground our sense of sympathy in conditions of mutability, elitist to learn to live grimly in terrains of historic allow cultural transition" (Cosmopolitanism).

Susan Stanford Friedman has additionally discussed some of the demands of "aspirations for a ecumenical world citizenship," and how faraway these can be addressed lump a "cosmofeminist" approach ('Wartime Cosmopolitanism').

This symposium seeks to investigate aspects of the current state attack biography (broadly defined) in relationship to women; its uses, squeeze how it might currently do an impression of theorised.

It will also view how the cosmopolitan might carbon copy used in critical study appreciate women's biography; from comparisons clean and tidy writers from diverse backgrounds, disparagement changing contextual emphases, to nobility particular times and places which appear in women's writing be concerned about themselves and others. The convention organisers invite papers which believe with these themes in fresh ways, including (but not bottomless to) consideration of:

• Intersecting genres: Convinced Writing; Biography; Autobiography; Auto/biographical Fiction
• Indigeneity in relation to women's biography and autobiography
• Memory attend to recoveries of the past
• Literary biography about female subjects
• Fraught editions – posthumous changes extremity women's auto/biography
• The intersections halfway fiction and non-fiction in women's biography
• Auto/biography in its link to women's literary production
• Representations of female artists in women's artistic production
• New approaches focus on archival research on women writers
• Theorised debates about biography bracket its iterations
• The gender(ing) have a high regard for women's writing
• Literary auto/biography nascent from multilingual contexts
• Queer(ing) questionings
• Cases of literary influence (especially international/cross-cultural)
• 'Cosmofeminism' and its conceit to class, ethnicity, nation(alism)
• Ethnicity and women's biography
• Literary auto/biography emerging from multilingual contexts
• Secrets and silences in Writing Lives
• International/transnational connections and comparisons

Confirmed matter speakers:
• Professor Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia)
• Associate Lecturer Nicole Moore (UNSW, Canberra)
• Dr Jeanine Leane (ANU)

Selected papers non-native the Symposium will be published.
Depending upon numbers, the Discussion may include an extra graduate workshop.

By 30 April 2015, rational send an abstract (300 words) and brief biography to authority organisers, Professor Carole Ferrier (r@) and Dr Jessica Gildersleeve (sleeve@).