[csaa-forum] CFP Locating Lives conference at Flinders University

[Kylie Cardell]

*Please note: Recirculating with a revised deadline for abstracts.


Locating Lives: The Inaugural Conference for the IABA Asia-Pacific Chapter.

1st-4th December 2015
Flinders University – City Campus, Adelaide, South Australia.

Conference organisers:
Associate Professor Kate Douglas (Flinders University) and Dr Kylie Cardell (Flinders University) on behalf of the Flinders University Life Narrative Research Group and in conjunction with the Flinders Inistitute for Research in the Humanities (FiRTH).

Keynote speakers:
Professor Craig Howes (The University of Hawai’i, Manoa) and
Professor Gillian Whitlock (The University of Queensland).
*We will also have two life writing practitioners as keynote speakers (TBA) and further panellists to announce.

IABA Asia-Pacific emerges from the central disciplinary association for auto/biography scholars—The International Auto/Biography Association (IABA).  IABA was founded in 1999 as a multidisciplinary network that aims to deepen the cross-cultural understanding of self, identity and experience, and to carry on global dialogues about life writing/narrative. IABA Asia-Pacific aims to foster new region-specific conversations and to encourage regional participation in the global IABA conference. Our goal is to develop scholarly networks between life narrative scholars and practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region that support the circulation and publication of high-quality life narrative theory, practice, and pedagogy.

The focus of our inaugural conference is “Locating Lives in the Asia-Pacific-Australian Region”. Our theme, broadly envisaged, seeks to explore the ways in which people in this region may represent, create, translate, mediate, interpret, record or research lives (theirs or the lives of others) for an intimate or wider public or publics. Are there distinct features of life narrative in the Australia and Asia-Pacific, and what are the common forms and preoccupations? What are the research interests of life narrative scholars in this region?
Papers proposed should focus on issues and texts arising from the region, and/or questions of what it means to be a scholar working in this part of the world.

Possible topics for papers include (but are not limited to):

     *   Reading memoirs, autobiographies, biographies and diaries (for instance)
     *   The interstices of nonfiction and fictions
     *   Reading popular lives and/or celebrity
     *   Non-fictional creative practice in the Australia, Asia, and Pacific regions
     *   Auto/biographical visual arts
     *   Graphic memoir
     *   Filmic lives (for instance, documentary or biopics)
     *   Working with archives
     *   Social media and everyday lives
     *   Pedagogy/teaching lives
     *   Methodologies, process, creative practice
     *   Language and translation
     *   Trauma/difficult lives; trigger warnings
     *   Memory
     *   Globalisation
     *   Cultural identities and life writing
     *   Practical and/or ethical issues emerging from scholarship


Abstracts should be 300 words or less and should be accompanied by a 50-word author’s bio. Panel proposals are also welcome. The deadline for abstracts is 30 May 2015 (please note this is a revised deadline).

More information on the conference, including website updates, social media presence, travel, accommodation, social events, and information about and possible postgraduate and early career bursaries, will be available soon: http://iabaasiapacific.wordpress.com<http://iabaasiapacific.wordpress.com/>

Any questions and abstracts should be directed to Iaba.AsiaPacific at flinders.edu.au<mailto:Iaba.AsiaPacific at flinders.edu.au>

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Dr Kylie Cardell
Department of English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies
Flinders University, South Australia
p. +61 8 8201 2836
w. http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/kylie.cardell

Life Narrative Research Group
http://www.flinders.edu.au/ehl/firth/focus/lifenarrative.cfm

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