Fw: H-ASIA: CFP panel on Women's Biography, 2014 Berkshire Conference Roundtable

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP panel on Women's Biography, 2014 Berkshire Conference
Roundtable


> H-ASIA
> December 5, 2012
>
> Call for papers for panel "Biography as a Conflict Zone: Borders,
> Encounters and the Meaning of Memory in the Writing of Women's Lives",
> Berkshire Conference 2014, Toronto, May 22-25, 2014
> DEADLINE DECEDMBER 15, 2012
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> Ed, note: As Professor Salerno has cast wide the geographical net
> in this call, I am sending it out to H-ASIA and related lists. The
> conference will be the 16th "Big Berks" in the spring of 2014. I
> know some Asianists whose work might well fit into this rubric.
> FFC
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> Call for Panelists 2014 Berkshire Conference Roundtable on Women's
> Biography
>
> Call for Papers Date: 2012-12-15 (in 10 days)
> Date Submitted: 2012-12-03
> Announcement ID: 199231
>
> Call for Panelists 2014 Berkshire Conference Roundtable on Women's
> Biography. I am putting together a Berks Roundtable (4-6 participants)
> titled: "Biography as a Conflict Zone: Borders, Encounters and the Meaning
> of Memory in the Writing of Women's Lives". My own work centers on a
> white, 19th century New England woman, but I would like to craft the panel
> as broadly as possible to explore the complexities of writing women's
> biography across time, geography, race and discipline.
>
> Biography-writing has always had the best potential to cross the
> academic/public border, though far more for European and American subjects
> than any other. Biographies of writers often blur the disciplinary line
> between historians and literary scholars. The expansion of the historical
> discipline into social and women's history greatly expanded the number and
> types of biographies that could be written, but biographies of women still
> tended to focus on "wife of", "daughter of" or "mother of" biographies
> until fairly recently. As we begin to write about women "on their own
> terms", we raise highly problematic questions about what those terms are
> and how we connect women's lives (often lived at the borders of world
> events) to the issues still central in the discipline. Source issues also
> still play a critical role in limiting the types of women, times and
> places we can write about in traditional ways. Finally, women's lives long
> revolved around biological time more than politically structured time,
> raising interesting questions about biographical structure and the meaning
> of memory.
>
> If you are interested in joining this roundtable, please contact Beth
> Salerno at bsalerno@anselm.edu with a brief description of your work by
> December 15. Description should include time period, geographic location,
> a description of your biographical subject and focus, plus a 1 page CV).
>
> Beth Salerno
> Associate Professor of History
> Saint Anselm College
> 100 Saint Anselm Dr.
> Manchester, NH 03102
> 603 641-7049
> Email: bsalerno@anselm.edu
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