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Call for Contributions
Writing Lives: an interdisciplinary symposium on 
the uses of biography Friday 25 May 2012

Jointly hosted by the Department of Film and 
Television Studies and the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
DEADLINE:  Monday 23 April 2012
This symposium will explore the methodological, 
ethical and intellectual implications of using 
biographical material in scholarly practice.
'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.
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:
boundaries of history and narrative, boundaries 
of truth and fiction, boundaries of form and meaning.
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.
Contributions are particularly welcome in the following areas:
*         biographical fiction/non-fiction

*         the 'biopic' in film or television

*         biography in/and digital culture

*         auto-biography

*         biography as history/narrative

*         Research methodologies related to biography

Please send an abstract (max 200 words), and a 
brief biographical (!) note to 
hannah.andrews at warwick.ac.uk <mailto:hannah.andrews at warwick.ac.uk> by MONDAY
23 APRIL 2012.  Be sure to specify the type of contribution you wish to make.
Applicants will be informed by Friday 27 April.

Dr Hannah Andrews
University of Warwick

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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.

Hope some of you may join us!

Best wishes

Fiona

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Limited Offer on FutureEverything Conference

FutureEverything is an award-winning festival and 
conference based in Manchester.

We'd like to bring your attention to the upcoming 
conference events running in Manchester between 
17-18 May and the special offer, which has just been announced.

The FutureEverything 2012 Conference 
<http://futureeverything.org/speakers>http://futureeverything.org/speakers 
(and associated workshop events) brings together 
around 500 delegates from across the creative 
industries, new technologies, innovation, arts, public sector and academia.

FutureEverything was recently rated by the 
Guardian as one of the top ten international 
ideas festivals, alongside TEDx, 99% and South by South West.

The FutureEverything 2012 Conference looks at the 
next lurch into the unknown brought about by a 
new participatory culture that is changing our 
world. We see profound changes in the digital and 
creative sector, as well as in society at large. 
The conference presents the people who are 
changing our world and the future-thinkers who 
enable us to see the possibilities of such connectivity.

Conference topics include:
    * Participatory Media
    * Arab Spring
    * Future Cities
    * Mass Observation
    * London 2012 Data Art

Three of our keynote speakers (Carlo Ratti, Rohan 
Gunatillake and Cesar A. Hidalgo) are from Wired 
Magazine's The Smart List 2012: 50 People Who 
Will Change The World. Additional speakers 
include Icelandic MP and former Wikileaks 
spokesperson Birgitta Jonsdottir, Bilal Randeree 
(Al Jazeera), Juliana Rotich (Ushahidi), Bill 
Thompson, William Heath (Mydex), Adrian Woolard 
(BBC), Juha van't Zelfde, Moritz Stefaner and more to be announced.

FutureEverything 2012 also hosts the launch of 
the £4M Creative Exchange 
(<http://thecreativeexchange.org>http://thecreativeexchange.org) 
Knowledge Hub funded by AHRC, and a celebration 
of the 75th anniversary of the Mass Observation 
Movement and the UN International Year of 
Co-operatives - presented with a unique 
contemporary twist by artists and designers working in these new media.

Visit the website for further details: 
<http://futureeverything.org/conference>http://futureeverything.org/conference.

The Festival also features a packed programme of art and music events.

Special Offer (until 01/04/12)
We have created a special offer of 20% off the 
current Advanced Rate 2 Day Conference Ticket. 
With this exclusive rate, the price is reduced from £180 to £144.

If you'd like to take advantage of this limited 
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Tickets can be purchased via this link, please 
select the Advanced Rate 2 Day Conference Ticket 
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Conference Bursaries
FutureEverything is pleased to announce that a 
limited number 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 <http://bit.ly/febursary>http://bit.ly/febursary.

If you have any further queries do not hesitate to get in touch.

Best Wishes,

FutureEverything
39 Edge Street
Manchester
M4 1HW
info at futureeverything.org
www.futureeverything.org

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a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Volume 25, Number 2 
is now available in print or online through Project MUSE! Inside you will find:

“Introduction: The Work of Life Writing” by Clare Brant and Alison Wood

“Genetic Studies of Life Writing” by Philippe Lejeune

“Life Writing in the Family” by Jeremy D. Popkin

“‘Unlike actors, politicians or eminent military 
men’: The Meaning of Hard Work in Working Class Autobiography” by Claire Lynch

“Ecobiographical Negotiations in Richard K. 
Nelson’s The Island Within” by Micha Edlich

“The Ethnographic Work of Cross-Cultural Memoir” by Mary Besemeres

“Heroes and Hostages” by Olivia Sagan

“Then and Now: Comparing the Soviet and 
Post-Soviet Experience in Latvian Autobiographies” by M rti Kapr ns

“The Making of Mr. Gray’s Anatomy: Biography of a 
Medical Textbook” by Ruth Richardson

“Lives in Institutions” by Kathryn Hughes

Conference Report by Clare Brant and Max Saunders

Reviews

Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in 
Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women’s Writing. By Laura 
Laffrado (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2009). Reviewed by Rebecca Harrison

Representation and Resistance: South Asian and 
African Women’s Texts at Home and in the 
Diaspora. By Jaspal Kaur Singh (Calgary: U of 
Calgary P, 2008). Reviewed by Anastasia Christou

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).

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 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 
<http://abstudies.web.unc.edu/>http://abstudies.web.unc.edu/ 
for additional information.

Sincerely,

Jenn Williamson, Managing Editor

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies

Department of English & Comparative Literature

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

<http://abstudies.web.unc.edu/>http://abstudies.web.unc.edu/

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