Panel Sessions

We welcome papers that broadly consider aspects of life narrative in this region. Possible themes include: 

· Life narrative texts from or about the Asia-Pacific region

· Confucian Culture and Life Writing

· Life Writing of migration, displacement, and asylum seeking

· Regional life writing and local cultures

· Creative/life writing in the Asia-Pacific

· Hybrid cultures and life writing

· Life writing and digital media; social media

· Archives, history, and memory

· Family and personal histories

· Methods for working with life narrative

· Life writing and the politics of language and translation

· Affect and the representation of emotions in life narratives