[ecrea] Call for papers **closing soon** Writing Obscure Lives

On 5 May 2018 Oxford Centre for Life Writing is pleased to be hosting 
this 1-day colloquium, which will bring together writers and scholars 
from across the humanities and the social sciences to explore the 
creative, critical, and methodological practices involved in the writing 
of everyday lives.

Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers or 60 minute workshops. The 
closing date for submissions is **Friday 15 December 2017**

All methods and approaches on the theme of writing obscure lives are 
welcome, historical and contemporary, personal and philosophical. We 
welcome proposals from academics and writers at all stages of their 
career. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

Testimonies and witnessing
Lives of grassroots activists
Life-writing as activism
Collaborative and community life-writing and life stories
Obscure lives in the archives
Mass Observation
Conflict, displacement, migration and refugee lives
Citizenship, national, and European identities
Everyday fictions and autofictions
Performing obscure lives
Autoethnography
Narrative inquiry
Oral histories
Ethics of researching and representing obscure lives
Lives written online
Politics and poetics of everyday curating: Instagram, blogs, vlogs
Institutional lives

More details and submission instructions: 
https://everydaymattersconferenceblog.wordpress.com


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