THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE  - CALL FOR PAPERS The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, invites you to the Expressions of the Self: Autobiography and Its Avatars Conference to be held in Iasi on 24-26 September 2009.  Recognised since the late 18th century as a literary genre on its own, autobiography has proven to be the testing ground for a plethora of critical issues: authorship, selfhood, identity, cultural representation, the distinction between fact and fiction, memory, subjectivity, morality, intentionality, etc. In its fuzzy definitions and alternative denominations, autobiography has become increasingly prominent as a popular cultural phenomenon that…