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'Dear Diary': New Approaches to an Established Genre Conference

'Dear Diary': New Approaches to an Established Genre Conference

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'Dear Diary': New Approaches to an Established Genre Conference
University of Sussex, November 22-23, 2001

An interdisciplinary conference, organised by the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, is to take place on Thursday November 22nd and Friday November 23rd 2001.

· Conference fee: £30/£20 for students and unwaged.
Conference fee includes buffet lunches, conference dinner on Thursday 22nd November and teas/coffees.
Deadline for applications is Friday 9th November.

· Please make cheques payable to 'The University of Sussex'. Let us know if you need a receipt.

· If you would like information about accommodation in Brighton please contact Chana Moshenska (c.moshenska@sussex.ac.uk or tel: 01273 678837). Please allow plenty of time for this because reasonably priced accommodation can be difficult to find in Brighton. Chana will have details of bed and breakfast accommodation in the £30 to £60 per night range, plus cheaper backpacker-style places.

· Travel arrangements:
Train: Brighton is 1 hour from London by train from Victoria or King's Cross Thameslink stations. The nearest train station to the University of Sussex is Falmer, 8 minutes by train from Brighton.
By car: The University of Sussex is on the A27 between Brighton and Lewes.
Airports: Gatwick airport is 40 minutes drive from the university.

For more details of the conference please see our website: www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/cgjs

Contact:
c.moshenska@sussex.ac.uk
Tel.: 01273 678837 (Chana Moshenska)

Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9QN

Programme:

Thursday 22nd November


9.00-10.00 Registration + Coffee

10.00-10.30 Welcome - Professor Edward Timms (Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex), Dorothy Sheridan (Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex)

10.30-12.30 Session 1:
Suzanne L. Bunkers (Minnesota State University), Whose Diary is it anyway? Issues of Agency, Authority, Ownership.
Pat Pinsent (University of Surrey Roehampton), The Functions of Diary Passages within the Narratives of a Selection of Recent Children's Fiction.

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.30 Session 2:
Judy Nolte Temple (University of Arizona), Editing Emily: What is an 'Ordinary' Diarist?
Joyce Thomson (St. Mary's University, Nova Scotia), "From henceforth you must hold all my secrets": Clandestine diaries and the ethnical limits of social history.

15:30-16.00 Tea

16.00-18.00 Session 3:
Christoph Knoch, ANNE FRANK-Fonds, Basel, Switzerland and Chana Moshenska (University of Sussex), Anne Frank and the use of diaries as resources for Holocaust Education.
Edward Timms (University of Sussex), "Diaries in the night": Theodor Haecker and Victor Klemperer.
Zaia Alexander (UCLA), Beyond Babel: Translating the Holocaust at Century's End.

19.00 Conference Dinner

Friday 23rd November

9.00-10.30 Session 4:

Bert Gordon (Mills College, Oakland CA), A Commonplace Book from May 1968: Typical of the Genre? Or Atypical?
Richard Toye (University of Manchester), Twentieth Century British Political Diaries.

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.30 Session 5:
Murray Pratt (University of Technology, Sydney), The Diary of Neaud's Body.
Deborah Schultz (University of Sussex), Visual and Verbal Diaries of Continuity.

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.00 Session 6:
Philippe Lejeune (Paris), Keeping a diary on the Internet [To be delivered in French.]
Francoise Simonet (Paris), Les jeux entre journal et correspondance dans le Journal de Catherine Pozzi.*

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-17.30 Session 7:
Jackie Blackwell (Queenspark Books, Brighton), Diaries as a teaching resource in primary schools.
Sari Hosie (University of Melbourne), Teaching Journal Writing in Tertiary Settings: Gender and Other Politics.

Academics as Diarists - Forum for Exchange and Discussion
All speakers and conference participants are welcome to take part in this open exchange which will be chaired by Dorothy Sheridan of Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex.

17.30 End of Conference