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| Thursday, October 13 - Beinecke Library |
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2:00 - 3:00 p.m. |
Registration sign-in and coffee
and tea welcoming reception |
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3:15 - 5:00 p.m. |
Panel 1: Literary Biography & the Harlem Renaissance |
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5:15 p.m. |
Keynote Address by Diane
Middlebrook
"The Imperative of Narrative in Literary Biography
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6:15 p.m. |
Conference Reception |
| Friday, October 14 - Yale Center for British Art |
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8:30 - 9:00 a.m. |
Coffee and pastries and sign-in |
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9:00 - 10:45 a.m. |
Panel 2: Works in Progress |
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10:45 - 11:15 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
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11:15 - 12:45 p.m. |
Panel 3: Women & Modernism |
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3:15 - 4:30 p.m. |
Breakout Working Groups - Beinecke Library
Mandatory
sign-up required, space is limited.
Breakout Sessions
are now full |
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Group 1: Emily
Bernard: Editing
Writers’ Correspondence
Navigating
the landscape of literary correspondence and the uncertainties
of editing writers’ letters, including questions of context,
writers’ relationships, and the position of their letters
in their body of literary work.
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Group 2: Joan
Schenkar: Outsider Art: From the Margin to the
Center
Tracking the life and work of the marginalized using varieties
of evidence, fugitive material, and the biographers' dirtiest
little secret: disliking their subjects
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Group 3: Deirdre
Bair: Conflicting Sources
Confronting
contradictory documentation and accounts in biographical research
and determining which truth is true.
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Group 4: Timothy
Young: Highlights from the Beinecke
Collections
A short tour of some of the library’s rich resources
for biographical and critical study of literary figures of the
Modernist period.
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