[ecrea] CFP: Life Writing and Intimate Publics

> Call for Papers: The 7th Biennial International 
> Auto/Biography Association Conference
>
> University of Sussex ? 29 June­2 July 2010
>
> Conference Topic: Life Writing and Intimate Publics
>
> The Centre for Life History and Life Writing 
> Research and the International Auto/Biography 
> Association invite scholars and life writers to 
> attend the 7th IABA conference, at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England.
>
> Late modernity has spot-lit intimate relations. 
> Families, feelings and love lives have been 
> opened to public politics through pressures of 
> globalisation, digitisation, the mass media and 
> social movements such as feminism. At the same 
> time, traditional citizenships of public rights 
> and responsibilities find new definition through 
> trauma, consumption, identity and care. As 
> boundaries between ?public? and ?private? 
> multiply, new constituencies of belonging and 
> claim are convened, from Fathers for Justice to 
> flood survivors to Facebook. This conference 
> begins from Lauren Berlant?s term ?intimate 
> public? to explore these new constituencies in 
> relation to life writing and life storying 
> across media, discipline and profession.
>
> Life writing and life story construct intimate 
> publics in autobiographies, biographies, 
> diaries, oral histories, blogs, reality 
> television, photography, letters, life 
> histories, documentaries, graphic memoirs, 
> quilts, exhibitions, mobile phone texts. They 
> have also been crucial agents in constructing 
> counter-publics. We welcome papers dealing with 
> the following questions, and others which may be 
> related to the conference theme:
>
> How do life writings construct citizenship, 
> civic relations and/or counter-publics? How is 
> life history used in non-governmental public 
> actions and activisms? And how have governmental 
> organisations used life history and life writing?
>
> What intimacies are facilitated by life writings and life stories?
>
> How does life writing relate to life story, life history and oral history?
>
> How has life writing and life story participated 
> in care contexts such as parenting, social work, 
> health, education? What discourses of risk, 
> claim, vulnerability, rights and 
> responsibilities are revealed in life writings and their uses?
>
> What engagements do/should life writing and life 
> history have with therapeutic cultures?
>
> How does the economy of life story production 
> and consumption relate to the construction of 
> intimate publics and who are its consumers and producers?
>
> In what ways can we compare ethical codes for 
> life writing, oral history and life history? How 
> do these manage the nature of intimate publics?
>
> How do life writing and life history contribute 
> to public and private archives and to public history/heritage?
>
> How does life writing construct or obstruct 
> cross-cultural or cross-linguistic relationships?
>
> As we understand more about the work of life 
> writing, how is life writing making us work?
>
> What relationships persist between life writing 
> as aesthetic and as social act?
>
> Because our primary concern will be stimulating 
> and sustaining conversation between conference 
> participants, papers should be limited to 
> fifteen minutes in length. This will ensure time 
> in all sessions for questions and discussion. 
> Panels on a single topic and submitted together 
> are welcome. (Panels and sessions will have 
> three presenters.) Panels and individual papers 
> may be conducted or delivered in the language of 
> the participant?s choice ­let us know well in 
> advance so we may make all necessary 
> arrangements. All participants should inform the 
> organizers about media requirements ­DVD, 
> internet, visual projection, audio, and so on.
>
> Abstracts for papers should be @300 words long. 
> There should be an abstract for each paper in a 
> panel presentation. The deadline for abstracts 
> will be 1 September, 2009. Though e-mail is 
> preferred, abstracts can be submitted by mail or 
> fax to the following numbers and addresses.
>
> IABA Conference Call for Papers ? c/o The Centre 
> for Life History and Life Writing Research ?
> Centre for Continuing Education ? University of 
> Sussex ? Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QQ, England
> e-mail: (m.jolly /at/ sussex.ac.uk) ? fax: 01273 877534
>
>
> Dr. Anna Poletti
> Lecturer in English
> School of Humanities & Social Sciences
> Charles Sturt University
> Locked Bag 678
> Wagga Wagga NSW 2678
>
> e: (apoletti /at/ csu.edu.au)
> ph: + 61 2 6933 2478
> fax: +61 2 6933 2792

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