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</font><font size=4>Call for Contributions<br>
Writing Lives: an interdisciplinary symposium on the uses of biography
Friday 25 May 2012 <br><br>
Jointly hosted by the Department of Film and Television Studies and the
Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick<br>
DEADLINE: Monday 23 April 2012<br>
This symposium will explore the methodological, ethical and intellectual
implications of using biographical material in scholarly practice.<br>
'Biographical material' is defined broadly, including, for example,
historical narratives of real people, biography as fiction and
non-fiction, film/television/digital adaptations of real lives, or
research which incorporates aspects of the life stories of subjects, such
as narrative inquiry, or oral history.<br>
It will offer a space to reflect on the practical challenges and rewards
presented by using data about the lives of real people. It will
also offer room for discussion and debate on the boundaries offered by
biography:<br>
boundaries of history and narrative, boundaries of truth and fiction,
boundaries of form and meaning. <br>
Contributions can take the form of EITHER a 20 minute paper, outlining
research ideas which relate to the themes of the symposium OR a 10 minute
presentation, which discusses the ethical, methodological or scholarly
implications of using biographical data in your own research.<br>
Contributions are particularly welcome in the following areas:<br>
* biographical
fiction/non-fiction<br><br>
* the 'biopic' in film or
television<br><br>
* biography in/and
digital culture<br><br>
* auto-biography<br><br>
* biography as
history/narrative<br><br>
* Research methodologies
related to biography<br><br>
Please send an abstract (max 200 words), and a brief biographical (!)
note to hannah.andrews@warwick.ac.uk
<<a href="mailto:hannah.andrews@warwick.ac.uk" eudora="autourl">
mailto:hannah.andrews@warwick.ac.uk</a>> by MONDAY<br>
23 APRIL 2012. Be sure to specify the type of contribution you wish
to make.<br>
Applicants will be informed by Friday 27 April.<br><br>
<br>
Dr Hannah Andrews<br>
University of Warwick<br><br>
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</a>Producer, Third Row Centre
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As part of Mass Observation’s 75th anniversary celebrations we are
getting involved in an exciting conference and festival put together by
FutureEverything in Manchester between 17 and 19 May. Further details are
below including special early bird rates for delegates and a bursary
scheme for artists and change makers without institutional support.
<br><br>
Hope some of you may join us!<br><br>
Best wishes<br><br>
Fiona <br><br>
________________________________<br><br>
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<br>
Conference topics include:
<ul>
<li><b>Participatory Media</b>
<li><b>Arab Spring</b>
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presented with a unique contemporary twist by artists and designers
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Visit the website for further details:
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<br>
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We have created a special offer of 20% off the current <b>Advanced Rate 2
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<b>Conference Bursaries<br>
</b>FutureEverything is pleased to announce that a <b>limited number
</b>of Conference Bursaries are available for practicing artists,
activists and change makers without institutional support to ensure their
voices are fully represented at the Conference. (We are encountering high
demand and only a fixed number of places are available.) Apply here
<a href="http://bit.ly/febursary"><u>http://bit.ly/febursary</a></u>.<br>
<br>
If you have any further queries do not hesitate to get in touch.<br><br>
Best Wishes,<br>
<br>
FutureEverything<br>
39 Edge Street<br>
Manchester<br>
M4 1HW<br>
<u>info@futureeverything.org<br>
<a href="http://www.futureeverything.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.futureeverything.org<br><br>
</a>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br><br>
</u><i>a/b: Auto/Biography Studies</i> Volume 25, Number 2 is now
available in print or online through Project MUSE! Inside you will
find:<br><br>
“Introduction: The Work of Life Writing” by Clare Brant and Alison
Wood<br><br>
“Genetic Studies of Life Writing” by Philippe Lejeune<br><br>
“Life Writing in the Family” by Jeremy D. Popkin<br><br>
“‘Unlike actors, politicians or eminent military men’: The Meaning of
Hard Work in Working Class Autobiography” by Claire Lynch<br><br>
“Ecobiographical Negotiations in Richard K. Nelson’s <i>The Island
Within</i>” by Micha Edlich<br><br>
“The Ethnographic Work of Cross-Cultural Memoir” by Mary
Besemeres<br><br>
“Heroes and Hostages” by Olivia Sagan<br><br>
“Then and Now: Comparing the Soviet and Post-Soviet Experience in Latvian
Autobiographies” by M rti Kapr ns<br><br>
“The Making of Mr. Gray’s Anatomy: Biography of a Medical Textbook” by
Ruth Richardson<br><br>
“Lives in Institutions” by Kathryn Hughes<br><br>
Conference Report by Clare Brant and Max Saunders<br><br>
<br>
<u>Reviews<br><br>
</u><i>Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century
U.S. Women’s Writing</i>. By Laura Laffrado (Columbus: Ohio State UP,
2009). Reviewed by Rebecca Harrison<br><br>
<i>Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women’s Texts
at Home and in the Diaspora</i>. By Jaspal Kaur Singh (Calgary: U of
Calgary P, 2008). Reviewed by Anastasia Christou<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>It's not too late to subscribe! If you send in your payment today,
we'll rush you a copies of Volume 25, Issues 1 & 2. Individual
subscriptions are only $25 per year ($35 non-US).<br><br>
</b> <br><br>
<i>a/b: Auto/Biography Studies</i> is a forum for interdisciplinary
scholarship and criticism along the broadest spectrum of life writing,
and we emphasize work that deals with diverse ethnic and national topics.
Please visit us at
<a href="http://abstudies.web.unc.edu/">http://abstudies.web.unc.edu/</a>
for additional information.<br><br>
<br><br>
Sincerely,<br><br>
Jenn Williamson, Managing Editor<br><br>
<i>a/b: Auto/Biography Studies<br><br>
</i>Department of English & Comparative Literature<br><br>
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<br><br>
<a href="http://abstudies.web.unc.edu/">http://abstudies.web.unc.edu/</a>
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