Panel 3
Resource ID
12650
Access
Open
Contributed by
Keywords
OCLW
Country
United Kingdom
Named person(s)
Sylvia Mieszkowski, Katherine Collins
Date
17 March 18
Credit
Sandra Mayer, Philip Bullock
Caption
Transnational Lives and Cosmopolitan Biographies, 17 March 2018
Panel 3: Lives Across Time and Space (chair: Philip Bullock)
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Vienna): ‘The Cosmopolitan Wife: Isabel Burton's Ghostwriting of The Life as Creative Self-Othering’
Katherine Collins (Oxford): ‘Old Colonials and Europhiles: Identity and Contemporary Transnational Narratives’
Notes
This one-day conference will examine the relationship between life-writing, transnationalism and language-led research. Key questions to be explored include: the representation of cosmopolitan identities; the transnational circulation of fame; and the tangled relationship between creativity, migration, and exile.
Convened by Philip Bullock and Sandra Mayer in collaboration with the "Writing 1900” research network.