"Hiding Lives: Belonging, Fitting in And Keeping Secrets"
Brazil Jul 11-14, 2018
Call for Papers
Secret Lives: Hiding, Revealing, Belonging
The International Auto/Biography Association
Biennial World Conference: July 11-14, 2018
Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Co-conveners: Suely Quintana, Alberto Tibaji (Alberto Ferreira da Rocha Junior), Sergio Barcellos
The co-conveners of the 2018 International Auto/Biography Association global conference invite submissions for the biennial meeting on “Secret Lives: Hiding, Revealing, Belonging.” This conference will delve into questions of how lives become concealed by theorizing the ways in which we choose to keep secret and reveal our lives; how nonauthorial others shape life stories; imposed and sanctioned silencings; the passage of time as an erasure of lives; and the relationships between hiding, being hidden, revealing, and ideas of belonging. Papers may explore multiple lines of inquiry related to diverse genres, modes, or disciplines that place auto/biographical subjects in conversation with what is shown and what is hidden.
Potential subjects include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
§ Lies, tricks, hoaxes
§ Visibility and erasure, voice and silencing
§ Passing, closeting, hiding, secreting, revealing
§ Prisoners, the missing, the disappeared, human rights
§ Citizenship, migrations, diasporas, refugees
§ Postcolonial, decolonial, decolonizing lives
§ Regulating or deregulating lives
§ Belonging in/as fundamentalism, radicalism
§ Public lives, ethics, media, mediation
§ Finding, remembering, memorializing lives
§ Memory, collective memory, testimony, testimonio
§ Collecting, translating, editing, anthologizing, curating lives
§ Families, archives, genealogy, genetics
§ Relationality, intersubjectivity, communal lives
§ Constructing, deconstructing gender
§ Embodied representations, traces of the body Belonging in/as methodology, practice, genre, mode, discipline
§ Teaching secret lives
Please submit a 250 to 300 word abstract and a brief biographical statement by August 30, 2017. Please note that the conference language is English. Inquiries are welcome. For more information, contact the conference co-conveners, Suely Quintana, Alberto Tibaji, and Sergio Barcellos at iababrazil2018@gmail.com.
Decisions will be made until Sept 30, 2017.
Please be aware that space is limited.
The International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) is an interdisciplinary international group founded in 1999 to create a way for researchers and cultural producers in the field of biography, autobiography and life writing to share their work. Since 2000, members of IABA have held an international conference every two years in locations that have included China, Canada, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Cyprus. IABA has several chapters that work in concert with the biannual IABA World conference and hold their own events: IABA Europe, IABA Americas, and IABA Asia-Pacific. IABA’s Student and New Scholar (SNS) Network provides opportunities for graduate students and emerging scholars to discuss issues connected to the study of life writing.
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Registration fees
ATTENTION: Deadline for registration is January 31st, 2018.
Registration fees include lunch all four days and are as follows:
§ Standard fee: U$300,00 per person (from Dec. 1rst 2017 to January 31st 2018)
§ Early-bird fee: U$250,00 per person (cut off end of November 30 2017)
§ Student fee: U$140,00 per person
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