Lives & Letters Mailing: July & August 2017
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to another Lives & Letters Mailing. This month’s mailing contains information about:
1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
– The Published Website
– New Curiosity! Who writes a letter: Umquaka to Kitty, 11 July 1886
– From the Weekly Blog: More on Scribbling
– From the Weekly Blog: Wills
– From the Weekly Blog: Lovely Letters
2. Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017, Linz, Austria, 6-7 November: Call for Papers
3. [FQS] Newsletter July 2017
4. Call for abstracts: Historical Sociology sessions at ISA Toronto 2018
5. The Limits of Life Writing–Life Writing, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2017 Now Available
6. The ghost of the author and the author of the ghost
7. Final places: CNR Narrative Research by Distance Learning, Associate Postgraduate Certificate, 2017-2018
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1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
There are five new items of project news we would like to share:
The Published Website
We hourly expect to be given access to the beta-test version of the front-end of the published WWW website. Once we are sure that everything works satisfactorily, and various information from the Edinburgh website is transferred, it will all go live.
New Curiosity! Who writes a letter: Umquaka to Kitty, 11 July 1886
Who writes a letter may seem self-evident, but it is not always so simple and can sometimes be quite curious. This Curiosity concerns a long letter addressed to Kitty Forbes (the middle of the three Forbes daughters) from Umquaka (Kitty’s former nursemaid, still working for the Forbes family) who cannot read or write. To read more, please visit the Curiosity: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/curiosities/who-writes-a-letter/
From the Weekly Blog: More on Scribbling
On a grim note, scribbling has been in the news recently regarding scraps of scribbled-on paper and notebooks found among the remaining traces of some IS members killed near the Tigris river and reported on the BBC News app. This post considers some examples. To read more, please visit the blog: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/end-of-news-mags-more-on-scribbling/
From the Weekly Blog: Wills
A digital archive of Wills is presently available via the British Government’s website, including those dating back to 1858. In considering the letterness of wills, this post also the legal implications of Wills. To read more, please visit the blog: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/where-theres-a-will-theres-a-way/
From the Weekly Blog: Lovely Letters
This post concerns the ‘One Million Lovely Letters’ project (OMLL), which writes ‘lovely letters’ to people who request these via the project’s website and email address. Discussion also explores some interesting questions pertaining to the ‘realness’ of these letters. To read more, please visit the blog: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/lovely-letters/
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2. Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017, Linz, Austria, 6-7 November: Call for Papers
Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017
https://sites.google.com/view/bd2017/home
Dear Colleagues,
Following the inaugural conference held in Amsterdam in 2015 (BD2015
http://www.biographynet.nl/biographical-data-in-a-digital-world/), this year’s BD2017 aims to continue the discussion on the multidisciplinary investigation of biographical data.
Over two days, this conference will bring together international researchers of diverse backgrounds and experiences to facilitate knowledge exchange and innovation.
We invite short abstracts to be presented at the conference. A call for full papers that will be peer reviewed will follow after the Conference.
For details see the Conference Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/bd2017/home
For questions please contact the Organisation Committee at:
*BD2017@oeaw.ac.at* <BD2017@oeaw.ac.at>
Sincerely,
Serge ter Braake
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3. [FQS] Newsletter July 2017
Dear All,
Today I would like to draw your attention to the following news:
A) Articles, published in FQS in July 2017
B) Conferences and Workshops
C) Links
D) Open Access News
Enjoy reading!
Katja Mruck
This newsletter is sent to 19.912 registered readers.
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A) ARTICLES, PUBLISHED IN FQS IN JULY 2017
Iben Charlotte Aamann (Denmark): “Oh! Iben’s Here Now, So We Better Behave Properly” — The Production of Class as Morality in Research Encounters
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-18.3.2752
Ben Barry (Canada): Enclothed Knowledge: The Fashion Show as a Method of Dissemination in Arts-Informed Research
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-18.3.2837
Marianne Daher, David Carre, Andrea Jaramillo, Himmbler Olivares, Alemka Tomicic (Chile): Experience and Meaning in Qualitative Research: A Conceptual Review and a Methodological Device Proposal
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-18.3.2696
Carolina Ferrante (Argentina), Jimena Silva (Chile): “A Lame Person Is the One Who Has Balls”: Motor Disability, Adaptive Sports, and Hegemonic Masculinity in Buenos Aires
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-18.3.2442
Marita Haas, Sabine T. Koeszegi (Austria): Play the Game. The Construction of Gender and Professional Behavior in Organizations: A Frame Analysis http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-18.3.2587
York Kautt (Germany): Grounded Theory as a Methodology and Method of Analyzing Visual Communication
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-18.3.2859
Mariana Loreta Magallanes Udovicich, Agustín Zanotti (Argentina): Multiplatform Ethnographic Analysis: Internet Immersions and Field Challenges
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-18.3.2645
Jayne Pitard (Australia): A Journey to the Centre of Self: Positioning the Researcher in Autoethnography
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-18.3.2764
Karen Ross (USA): Making Empowering Choices: How Methodology Matters for Empowering Research Participants
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-18.3.2791
B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
29 August-1 September, Manchester, UK
12th Annual International Ethnography Symposium “Politics and Ethnography in an Age of Uncertainty”
http://www.confercare.manchester.ac.uk/events/ethnography/
29 August-1 September, Athens, Greece
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association “(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities”
http://www.esa13thconference.eu
30 August-1 September, Berlin, Germany
DCH2017: International Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage
http://dch2017.net/
31 August-2 September, Vienna, Austria
2nd international Conference “Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies”
https://nmciconference.wordpress.com/programme/
7-10 September, Athens, Greece
8th Tensions of Europe Conference “Borders and Technology”
http://8toe2017.phs.uoa.gr/
11-14 September, Taipei, Taiwan
1st RC33 Regional Conference on Social Science Methodology
http://survey.sinica.edu.tw/rc33-taipei/
14-16 September, Augsburg, Germany
Autumn School “Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD)”
https://tinyurl.com/jwuhhee
21-23 September, Bamberg, Germany
4th Annual BAGSS Conference “Challenges for Diverse Societies”, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bagss/abc/
26-29 September, Mainz, Germany
Session “Varieties of Qualitative Perspectives in Social Network Analysis” of the 3rd European Conference on Social Networks
https://tinyurl.com/nyyobtm
11-12 October, Singapur
QUAL360 APAC Conference
http://apac.qual360.com/
17-19 October, Quebec, Canada
Qualitative Health Research Conference
http://tinyurl.com/jhue3w4
19-21 October, Alpbach, Austria
International Conference Eating Disorders Alpbach 2017 “Anorexia & Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Adipositas / Obesity”
http://www.netzwerk-essstoerungen.at/kongress17/
6-10 February 2018, Leuven, Belgium
2nd European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry “Nomadic Inquiry”
http://www.ecqi2018.be
20-22 September 2018 Berlin, Germany
7th Qualitative Research on Mental Health
http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?e=[UNIQID]&u=64a3a86e9726c40055dd7f803&id=e27000d14e
C) LINKS
Dilly Fung: A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education
https://tinyurl.com/ya8953df
D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS
See http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items for more open-access news.
Open Access to The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) Infrastructures
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-facility/open-access
openaccess.nl: Dutch National Website Providing Information for Academics About the Advantages of Open Access to Publicly Financed Research Lands
http://openaccess.nl/en
—> Texts/Media
Austrian Science Fund (FWF): Publication Cost Data 2016
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.810596
Austrian Science Fund (FWF): Open Access Compliance Monitoring 2016
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.811924
Austrian Science Fund (FWF): Open Research Data (ORD) Pilot Report
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.803234
—> Journals/Newsletter
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
Digital Classics Online, 3(1)
http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/dco/issue/view/3490
ephemera. Theory and Politics in Organizations, 17(2)
http://www.ephemerajournal.org/issue/social-productivity-anonymity
First Monday, 22(7)
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/560
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(3)
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/89
Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2017
http://jah.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/jah/index.php/jah/issue/view/23
Social Studies, 13(4)
https://journals.muni.cz/socialni_studia/issue/view/536/showToc
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FQS – Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/
English / German / Spanish
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4. Call for abstracts: Historical Sociology sessions at ISA Toronto 2018
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY (RC 56) RESEARCH NETWORK
Please note that abstract submission is now open for the ISA World Congress next year. Abstracts must be submitted by 30 September 2017 through the ISA conference website.
The historical sociology sessions include the following topics:
- Comparative and Historical Sociology of Women’s Careers
- Confucius’ Trap
- Figurational Dynamics, Changing Power Balances, and Organisational Formation
- Historical Trends, Future Anticipations
- Historical and Comparative Sociology of Examinations
- History Makers: Leaders, Rulers, Roles, Systems.
- Radicalisation and the Rise of the Outsiders
- Warfare, Distance and Civilizing Processes
We look forward to seeing you in Toronto!
Paddy
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Paddy Dolan
Senior Lecturer
School of Languages, Law & Social Sciences
Dublin Institute of Technology | Room RD 105
DIT Grangegorman | Dublin 7 | Ireland
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5. The Limits of Life Writing–Life Writing, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2017 Now Available
Life Writing, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
The Limits of Life Writing
This new issue contains the following articles:
Editorial
The Limits of Life Writing
David McCooey http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8122-4863
Pages: 277-280 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1338910
Articles
Joe Sacco’s Australian Story
Gillian Whitlock
Pages: 283-295 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1328732
Malala Yousafzai, Life Narrative and the Collaborative Archive
Kate Douglas
Pages: 297-311 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1328299
Remembering Violence in Alice Pung’s Her Father’s Daughter: The Postmemoir and Diasporisation
Anne Brewster
Pages: 313-325 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1328298
Witnessing Moral Compromise: ‘Privilege’, Judgement and Holocaust Testimony
Adam Brown
Pages: 327-339 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1328271
‘A Thing May Happen and be a Total Lie’: Artifice and Trauma in Tim O’Brien’s Magical Realist Life Writing
Jo Langdon
Pages: 341-355 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1328300
Forms of Resistance: Uses of Memoir, Theory, and Fiction in Trans Life Writing
Juliet Jacques
Pages: 357-370 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1328301
Confessional Poetry and the Materialisation of an Autobiographical Self
Maria Takolander
Pages: 371-383 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1337502
Reflection
I Guess What You Say is True
Oliver Driscoll
Pages: 387-400 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1328270
Reviews
Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women’s Authorship
Sonja Boon
Pages: 403-407 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1200936
Navigating Loss in Women’s Contemporary Memoir
Katrin Den Elzen
Pages: 409-412 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1194797
The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff Volume 1: I Am the Most Interesting Book of All and Volume 2: Lust for Glory
Charles Reeve
Pages: 413-417 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1244465
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IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING
International Auto/Biography Association
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/
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6. The ghost of the author and the author of the ghost
n.19 – 5/2018 The ghost of the author and the author of the ghost
edited by Ana María González Luna and Paolo Caponi
His (or her) death was pronounced as early as 1968. Then, without surprising us that much, he (or she) resurrected and is now, no need to say, more alive than ever before. Changed a bit, perhaps, here and there, and made smaller, possibly, in our imagination. What do we mean when we speak of an “author”, today? Time, and the slow but inexorable leak of documents and voices from the publishers’ archives has revealed, and, very likely, will go on revealing, a conception of the author as a little less perfect than the one we have grown up with. Shakespeare and Ungaretti appear in the same anthologies, but we could not think of two authors more distant as regard to cooperation, revision, and the market. And not only the world of the authors is haunted by the ghosts – we have ghost of translators, cartoonists, and even film directors, all people that sweated for years in the dark to have their works signed by others. That is the point: to what extent can we sign a work that, in fact, is not properly ours? What’s left of a text when its author is also a ghost? The phantasmal structures that hide behind a book nowadays also call into question the modality of commercial production of the literary text: it is undeniable that there are literary genres or sub-genres than more easily than others find themselves “possessed” by spirits that one would prefer not to see. The esthetic artifact (the book) is also an object with a precise commercial value – a successful saga, when is definitely established, must go on, as James Bond teaches, because the reasons of the market always end up prevailing over any other consideration.
Number 19 of Other Modernities wants to trigger a debate around the contemporary conception of the author, generally intended, his/her features, his/her role in the contemporary free market economy. Besides the production and collection of interviews that are likely to be, in this case, particularly revealing, we welcome proposals centered around:
- The ghostwriter figure
- Other ghosts of other figures differently and variously involved in the editorial process
- The author’s role in contemporary societies based on free market economy;
- The author’s role in other societies founded on different economic principles
- The literary text as an object and its assemblage
- Ghostwriters and literary genres
- Publishers and their dependence on literary manual labourers
Such indications are not, however, intended to limit the range of proposals investigating the theme.
To this purpose, the editorial board has established the following deadlines. Authors should send in their proposals in the form of a 10 (min.) – 20 (max.) line abstract with a brief bio-bibliography to amonline@unimi.it.
The deadline for the submission of the papers is 10th September 2017.
The issue will be published by late May 2018.
We also welcome book reviews and interviews to authors and scholars who investigate the aforementioned topics. Contributors are free to contact the editors to discuss and clarify the objectives of their proposals, with a view to making the issue as homogeneous as possible also from a methodological point of view. The editors can be contacted via the Editorial Secretary (amonline@unimi.it).
Contact Info:
Altre Modernità, Università degli Studi di Milano – Italia
Contact Email: amonline@unimi.it
URL: http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/issue/view/1064/showToc
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IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING
International Auto/Biography Association
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/
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7. Final places: CNR Narrative Research by Distance Learning, Associate Postgraduate Certificate, 2017-2018
A few places are still available on this programme.
CNR Graduate Programme, 2017-18
The Postgraduate Associate Certificate programme in Narrative Research at the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, is a unique interdisciplinary programme, drawing on social sciences and the humanities to provide graduate-level education in narrative theories and methods. The programme gives students experience in the application of narrative concepts and analysis to particular fields. In addition, the programme develops more general skills of review, criticism, and team and individual research, all within the context of narrative research.
The Associate Certificate can be taken singly or in combination, alongside other UEL Masters’ level modules. The module is suitable for participants from many disciplinary backgrounds. Participants take it as part of Masters programmes, as part of PhD training, as skills development for research in applied and community settings, and in order to expand their methodological range as academic researchers.
Narrative Research: September 2017-January 2018. Distance learning, onsite/ online tutorials, group meetings/skypes, 30 UK Masters credits
This module provides students with an overview of the range of narrative research methodologies. Beginning with an exploration of the meaning of narrative, the module outlines Labovian methods, biographical methods and context-oriented methods. It then considers key media of narrative research: oral narratives; written narratives (including autobiographies and letters); visual narratives; digital narratives; process or activity narratives; and multimodal narratives.
Through a range of theoretical perspectives, we shall be attempting to address a number of questions; for instance: How do people come to see themselves as narrators, and as subjects about whom a story can be told? What roles do audience, story media, history, memory and ideology play in people’s accounts of their lives? How do class, ethnicity, gender and other social characteristics shape the stories people tell? What do we look for when we hear and analyze accounts of people’s lives? What kinds of effects, at different levels, do stories have?
Teaching team: Corinne Squire, Molly Andrews, Cigdem Esin, Aura Lounasmaa.
Application deadline: July 1, 2017
For administrative details, please email Eda Sefik, e.sefik@uel.ac.uk
For academic information, please email Corinne Squire, c.squire@uel.ac.uk
See also https://www.uel.ac.uk/Postgraduate/Courses/Associate-PGCert-Narrative-Research-via-Dist-Learning
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Last updated: 28 July 2017
