Dear Colleagues, There will be a conference on literary biography at Yale October 13-14, 2005. The address for the basic information is: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Summary.htm. Although the conference is free, we are requiring registration to help us plan for space. The program is as follows: Thursday, October 13 - Beinecke Library 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Registration sign-in 3:15 - 5:00 p.m. Panel 1: Literary Biography & the Harlem Renaissance * <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#boyd>Valerie Boyd * <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#thompson>Joseph Thompson * <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#davis>Thadious Davis 5:15 p.m. Keynote Address by<http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#middlebrook> Diane Middlebrook "The Imperative of Narrative in Literary Biography 6:15 p.m. Conference Reception Friday, October 14 - Beinecke Library 9:00 - 10:45 a.m. Panel 2: Works in Progress * <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#hammer>Langdon Hammer * <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#leavell>Linda Leavell * <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#redman>Tim Redman 10:45 - 11:15 a.m. Coffee Break 11:15 - 12:45 p.m. Panel 3: Women & Modernism * <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#wineapple>Brenda Wineapple * <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#heuving>Jeanne Heuving * <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#kellner>Bruce Kellner 3:15 - 4:30 p.m. Breakout Working Groups - Mandatory sign-up required, space is limited. Group 1: <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#bernard>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. Group 2: <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#schenkar>Joan Schenkar: 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 Group 3: <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#bair>Deirdre Bair: Conflicting Sources Confronting contradictory documentation and accounts in biographical research and determining which truth is true. Group 4: <http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/biographyconf/Conference%20Panelists.htm#young>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. Hope to see you there, Pat Willis Patricia C. Willis, Ph.D. Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University 121 Wall Street P.O. Box 208240 New Haven CT 06520-8240 Tel. 203-432-2962 Fax. 203-432-2027 Email: [log in to unmask] Home Page: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblhome.html
