The student conference "Je est un(e) auteur - Autobiographical Writing and Autofiction" is approaching! Over the course of two days, from August 8 to 9, a total of 14 speakers from various disciplines will give lectures that deal with the conference topic in different ways.
The aim of the student conference is to give young people in all phases of their studies before starting their Doctorate an opportunity to try out academic work, exchange ideas and learn from each other in a low-threshold manner and independently of university performance requirements.
We look forward to welcoming everyone who wants to be part of the conference on these two days and contribute their own criticism, ideas and thoughts to the broadest and most diverse exploration of the conference topic!
We expressly welcome not only students of philology, but also students of other subjects!
Invitation to a reading:
As part of the conference, the writer Yannic Han Biao Federer will read from his new book Für immer seh ich dich wieder on Friday, August 8, at 6:30 p.m. in the Renaissancesaal in the Ledenhof (Am Ledenhof 3-5, 49074 Osnabrück).
All interested parties are invited to the reading, admission is free.
For registration, but also for questions and concerns, please contact us at: junges-symposium@uni-osnabrueck.de
We would be very pleased about your participation!
With kind regards from the students
"Young SympOSium" - Klara Kuhl, Levi Berger, Samara Budde and Vincent Jakubowski
Conference program:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2025
09.00 a.m. | Introduction organizing team
Memory, identity and narratives
Chair of the discussion: Vincent Jakubowski (Osnabrück)
09.20 a.m. | LECTURE 2: Florian Ellrichmann (Dortmund)
Remembering, telling, writing: Historiography in the field of tension between memory, subjectivity and narration
10.00 a.m. | LECTURE 3: Ainhoa Rano (Osnabrück)
Two Languages, Two Selves: Autobiographical Memory in Bilingual Writers
10.40 a.m. | LECTURE 4: Eduardo Tataranu (Salamanca, Spain)
"I don't know a language for my body." Language as a central medium for locating non-binary identities in autofiction using the example of Blutbuch (2022) by Kim de l'Horizon
11.20 a.m. | Coffee break
Authors' self-staging and reflection on authorship
Chair of the discussion: Klara Juhl
11.40 a.m. | LECTURE 5: Elisabeth Renger (Berlin)
On the possibility and reality of autobiographical speech in poetry using the example of May Ayim's poems
12.20 p.m. | Lunch break in the canteen
13.20 hrs | LECTURE 6: Hannah Horn (Vienna)
Authenticity and authorial staging in Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius
14.00 hrs | LECTURE 7: Lena Friedrichs (Osnabrück)
"I am not the heroine" - The deconstructive ego design in Annie Ernaux's autofictional writing
2.40 p.m. | LECTURE 8: Stefanie Kopbauer (Cologne)
Telling oneself. The Frankfurt Poetics Lecture by Judith Hermann between auto(r)fiction and autobiography
15.20 hrs | coffee break
The individual and society in autobiographical texts
Discussion leader: Samara Budde (Osnabrück)
15.40 hrs | LECTURE 9: Leonie Puchbauer (Paderborn)
The borderline case of 'pseudo-autobiography'. The (self-)representation of Manuela Sáenz as 'heroína' in Manuela. Una novela (1991) by Luis Zúñiga
16.20 hrs | LECTURE 10: Mia Konietzny (Bonn / St. Andrews)
Literary self-reference is at the same time literary self-reflection: Mala apokalypsa (1979) by Tadeusz Konwicki
17.00 hrs | LECTURE 11: Levi Berger (Osnabrück)
Social analysis in autosociobiographies between individual and structure
17.40 hrs | End of the lectures/move to the Renaissance Hall
19.00 hrs | Reading in the Renaissancesaal Yannic Han Biao Federer
I'll see you again forever (2025)
Moderation: Vincent Jakubowski (Osnabrück)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 09, 2025
Eco- and cyber-feminism
Discussion moderator: Levi Berger (Osnabrück)
09.00 a.m. | LECTURE 12: Klara Juhl (Osnabrück)
Nature Writing - Authentic nature writing or egocentric sensibilities?
09.40 a.m. | LECTURE 13: Emma Vullbrock (Osnabrück)
"I am a virtual girl" - Destabilization of the subject through autobiographical practices of virtual influencers
10.20 a.m. | LECTURE 14: Alica Jarošová (Würzburg)
Female subjectivity between ecofeminism and associative autobiographyautobiography of the 1970s: Verena Stefan' s Häutungen (1975) and Karin Struck's Klassenliebe (1973) in comparison
11.00 a.m. | Coffee break
Feminist epistemology
Discussion leader: Klara Juhl (Osnabrück)
11.10 a.m. | LECTURE 15: Samara Budde (Osnabrück)
Autobiographical writing and autofiction as a way out of epistemic injustice
11.50 a.m. | End of the public conference
