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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" color="#212121"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Locating Lives: The Inaugural Conference for the IABA Asia-Pacific Chapter.</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"><b>1</b></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="-1" color="black"><b><sup>st</sup></b></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"><b>-4</b></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="-1" color="black"><b><sup>th</sup></b></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"><b> December
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" color="#212121"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">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).</font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" color="#212121"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">Keynote speakers: </font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" color="#212121"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">Professor Craig Howes (The University of Hawai’i, Manoa) and </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"><br>
Professor Gillian Whitlock (The University of Queensland). </font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" color="#212121"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">*We will also have two life writing practitioners as keynote speakers (TBA) and further panellists to announce.</font></font></div>
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IABA Asia-Pacific emerges from the central disciplinary association for auto/biography scholars—</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"><b>The International Auto/Biography Association (IABA)</b></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">. 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.</font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" color="#212121"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">The focus of our inaugural conference is </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"><b>“Locating Lives in the Asia-Pacific-Australian Region”</b></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">.
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? </font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" color="#212121"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">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.</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"><br>
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Possible topics for papers include (but are not limited to):</font></font></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Reading memoirs, autobiographies, biographies and diaries (for instance)</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">The interstices of nonfiction and fictions</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Reading popular lives and/or celebrity</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Non-fictional creative practice in the Australia, Asia, and Pacific regions</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Auto/biographical visual arts</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Graphic memoir</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Filmic lives (for instance, documentary or biopics) </font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Working with archives</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Social media and everyday lives</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Pedagogy/teaching lives</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Methodologies, process, creative practice</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Language and translation</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Trauma/difficult lives; trigger warnings</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Memory</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Globalisation</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Cultural identities and life writing</font></span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Practical and/or ethical issues emerging from scholarship</font></span></font></li></ol>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" color="#212121"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">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 </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"><b>30
May</b></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black"><b> 2015 (please note this is a revised deadline).</b></font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif" color="#212121"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" color="black">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: </font><a href="http://iabaasiapacific.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>http://iabaasiapacific.wordpress.com</b></font></a></font></div>
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Any questions and abstracts should be directed to </font><a href="mailto:Iaba.AsiaPacific@flinders.edu.au" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Iaba.AsiaPacific@flinders.edu.au</font></a></font></div>
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