symposium_life-work_programme.pdf
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… 15:00 Maaike Meijer, In the Eye of the Storm: F. Harmsen van Beek and Jagtlust 15:30 Coffee Part 2: …As In Life 15:50 Lies Wesseling, Realigning Family and Nation: Life Writing by Transnational Adoptees 16:20 Codruţa Pohrib, Nostalgia and Online Identity in Post-Communist Romania 16:50 Leni van Goidsenhoven, Donna Williams: Looking for ‘the Place in the Middle’ at Jessica Kingsley Publishers 17:20 Aagje Swinnen, Participatory Art Programs For People With Dementia 17:50 Closing Remarks … peer-reviewed journals such as The Lion and the Unicorn, Children’s Literature in Education, Children’s Literature Quarterly, International Research in Children’s Literature, Neo-Victorian Studies, Arcadia, etc. Codruţa Pohrib Nostalgia and Online Identity in Post-Communist Romania Since the 2000s an alternative engagement with the communist past has emerged across media in Romania in the shape of a generational discourse, which negotiates a post- communist generational identity for individuals growing up in the 1970s-1980s. My talk focuses on the online memory practices of this self-dubbed ‘latchkey generation’ by investigating an emerging life writing genre – the Facebook generatiography (cf. Bohnenkamp 2009, 2011; Weingerten 2013) – and its reliance on the archiving of communist memorabilia …