Lives & Letters Mailing: October 2018
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to another Lives & Letters Mailing. This month’s mailing contains information about:
1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
– From the blog: The immediacy of events
– From the blog: The racialising process and the shadow state
– From the blog: Crime in South Africa, 2017/18
– From the blog: On turns and differences
2. The Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical–Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 35.3 (Autumn 2020) (4/30/2019)
3. IABA Europe Conference 2019 Knowing the Self: Auto/Biographical Narratives and the History of Knowledge (1/28/2019; 6/19-21/2019) MADRID (SPAIN)
4. A Book by a List Member–Truthful Fictions, edited by Michael Lackey
5. [FQS] 19(3) online
6. Life Writing, Volume 15, Issue 4, December 2018 is now available
7. Call for Chapter Contributions about Diary Writing as a Quasi-literary Genre (11/1/2018)
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1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
There are four new items of project news we would like to share:
From the blog: The immediacy of events
Letters can be displaced from attention by the immediacy of events, which can develop a relentless pattern of needing to be done at particular points as a consequence. Registering as a kind of background to three such events, in South Africa, enquiries and investigations about state capture, the topic of last week‘s blog have continued. A related book focuses on the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality in the Eastern Cape: How To Steal a City: The Battle For Nelson Mandela Bay (2017, Jonathan Ball Publishers). Its bottom line is that the practices involved having become ordinary administrative and business life. To read more, please visit the blog: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/the-immediacy-of-events/
From the blog: The racialising process and the shadow state
Ivor Chipkin and Mark Swilling’s new book, Shadow State: The Politics of State Capture, has recently been published by Wits Press. It codifies and extends the analysis in their influential 2017 report, Betrayal of the Promise. The blog connects arguments and findings from this book with those concerning the racialising process. To read more, please go visit the blog: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/the-racialising-process-and-the-shadow-state/
From the blog: Crime in South Africa, 2017/18
The Victims of Crime Survey 2017/18, released by Statistics South Africa on 11 October 2018, has found that crime has increased in the last year, despite a pattern of overall reduction over the last five years. To read more about the results and a discussion, please visit the blog at: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/crime-in-south-africa-2017-18/
From the blog: On turns and differences
How best to promote the long-term survival of interconnected interdisciplinary approaches and ways of working that focus on ‘lives’ and ‘the subject’ or ‘self’? Currently life writing, narrative enquiry and auto/biographical studies run on parallel lines, and there has been perhaps surprisingly little debate about boundary issues and the differences and also the overlaps. To read more, please visit the blog: http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/on-turns-and-differences/
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2. The Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical–Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 35.3 (Autumn 2020) (4/30/2019)
CFP: Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 35.3 (Autumn 2020)
The Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical
Guest Editors: Fiona Moolla (University of the Western Cape), and Sally Ann Murray and Tilla Slabbert (Stellenbosch University)
Following the founding colloquium of the IABA Africa chapter in October 2017, this special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies will both explore and provisionally consolidate examples of contemporary scholarship on the varied forms of ‘auto/biogrAfrical’ life storying that emerge from (and in relation to) African contexts.
Some questions this issue may consider:
- How do life narratives from (or about) Africa mediate the tensions of politics, history, and self within individual lives and in public contexts?
- What narrative and conceptual tropes, techniques, and traditions are emergent (and established) in contemporary life stories from Africa?
- What shifts in textuality, expressive form, and re-mediation of ‘the auto/biogrAfrical’ occur within and across generations of African imaginaries, in respect of race, class, gender, orientation, and other identity categories?
- What modes of scholarship are needed in order to address changing understandings and practices of autobiographical multimodality in African texts and contexts?
We invite contributions that expand disciplinary approaches to auto/biographical studies from and in relation to African texts, contexts, possibilities, and provocations. Relevant here are: theories and practices of life narrative in postcolonial, decolonial, and diaspora studies; migrant and refugee studies; digital studies; new media and communications; visual studies and art history; performance studies; disability studies; gender and sexuality studies, war and conflict studies, childhood and youth studies, and innovative autoethnographic studies.
Possible topics could include:
- autobiographical coming-of-age in exile/in Africa and the African diaspora, including digital diasporas
- intergenerational and intercultural conflict
- sexuality, orientation, LGBTQIA, trans life stories, queering a/b
- domesticating publics and publicizing domesticity
- prison writing and life narratives of institutional confinement
- the relational narration of animal life stories, posthumanism, and eco-auto/biography
- memory, official/vernacular archives, and ephemera (stories, images, material artifacts)
- accounts by/of displaced children and child soldiers
- autobiographical subgenres such as patriography, matriography, ecography, autogynography, gastrography, autography, autoethnography, autopsychography, alterbiography, autophylography
- blogs and #hashtag cultures, and experimental life writing
- testimony, witness, trauma, resilience, and re-storying the lives of refugees and migrants
- challenges of method, and pedagogy, in relation to auto/biographical texts
Submissions must be 6,000 – 8,000 words long, including citations following Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition. Please submit the full essay anonymized, accompanied by a cover sheet with your name, contact details and a brief biography. Authors should also provide a short abstract of not more than 100 words and four keywords. All essays submitted for the special issue, but not selected, may be considered for publication in other issues of a/b. The journal supports the inclusion of both black & white and colour images. Images with captions must be submitted in a separate file as 300 dpi (or higher) tif files. The author must secure proof of copyright permission to reprint images.
Submissions are due 30 April 2019. Please email your essays to all the co-editors: Fiona Moolla fmoolla@uwc.ac.za, Sally Ann Murray samurray@sun.ac.za and Tilla Slabbert mslabbert@sun.ac.za
Editors’ Biographical Statements
Associate Professor Fiona Moolla is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She is the author of Reading Nuruddin Farah (James Currey, 2014), and is working on struggle life writing told through the prism of love.
Professor Sally Ann Murray is Chair of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has published academic autoethnographies and is the recipient of literary awards for poetry and fiction, most notably for the autobiographical novel Small Moving Parts (Kwela, 2009).
Dr Tilla Slabbert is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Stellenbosch University. She co-authored the biography of the musician David Kramer (Tafelberg, 2011).
International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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3. IABA Europe Conference 2019 Knowing the Self: Auto/Biographical Narratives and the History of Knowledge (1/28/2019; 6/19-21/2019) MADRID (SPAIN)
Call for Papers—IABA Europe Conference 2019
Knowing the Self: Auto/Biographical Narratives and the History of Knowledge
June 19–21, 2019
UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID (SPAIN)
IABA Europe was founded in October 2009, with the aim of encouraging European scholars to participate in the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) by organizing biennial conferences, publishing an e-journal, and facilitating contacts via various means of communication. Following five successful conferences in Amsterdam (2009), Tallinn (2011), Vienna (2013), Funchal, Madeira (2015), and London (2017), the 2019 conference will be hosted by Complutense University, Madrid.
The sixth IABA Europe conference proposes to examine the interrelation between life writing and the history of knowledge. Insofar as all life writing is concerned with human self-understanding, it is necessarily entangled with diverse fields that produce knowledge about humans, whether the narration aims at rendering a seemingly given knowledge of the self or at acquiring it, at questioning it or at staging it. Any “knowledge of the self” is inscribed in a broader history—or histories—of knowledge. Yet, to which bodies of knowledge and which theoretical languages do auto/biographical narratives refer in order to gain or communicate a specific “knowledge” of the self? Which historically and culturally diverse fields of knowledge have contributed or are contributing to shaping ideas of “the self,” and how do these fields affect the modes of production, the forms and the rhetoric of life narratives? And vice versa: Which role do auto/biographical narratives play for knowledge production and the evolution of disciplines?
While certain fields of the humanities have been widely recognized for their importance for auto/biographical self-fashioning and self-exploration, such as historical and psychoanalytic hermeneutics, the conference encourages an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between auto/biographical writing and a wide range of fields of knowledge and of disciplines. At the same time, not least in view of the rapidly growing number of “expert autobiographies,” It aims at stimulating research on the role of life writing in the development and shaping of disciplines.
On a further level, the conference aims at sparking methodological reflections on how to go about examining interrelations between life writing and the sciences or the humanities. Are connections to be described as a matter of influence, or can we identify epistemic currents that equally encompass autobiographical writing and the generation of knowledge, scientific, theoretical, or other? With which notion of knowledge do we and with which notion do the media studied operate? Especially with regard to autobiographies, this involves also the question: to what extent we are to distinguish between “subjective” autobiographical and “objective” theoretical writing—if at all. And how is the relation between autobiographical and theoretical writing negotiated by the narratives themselves? Do they confirm, subvert, blur or contest established distinctions between scientific facts, evidence-based knowledge and theoretical writing on the one hand, and individual self-observation and personal writing on the other? What is their “poetics of knowledge”?
We welcome proposals for individual papers, full panels, workshops and round tables, which address such themes as:
the multiple interrelations between historically and culturally diverse fields and forms of knowledge and life writing, the ways in which auto/biographical texts adopt, strengthen, question, negotiate, challenge, contest, or anticipate intellectual tendencies, theoretical positions, and epistemic orders of their time;
life narratives as counter-stories: contesting legitimate knowledge;
history of academic/expert autobiographies and the interferences, repercussions, and demarcations between professional/theoretical and autobiographical writing;
history of auto/biographies of academics, thinkers, and experts, biographical approaches to the histories of science and scholarship;
the internet and the private/public self: digital narratives of testimony, blogs, intermediality;
auto/biographical writing as source of historical, social, and cultural knowledge, and as generative tool in the production of such knowledge; forms of self-inscription in academic/professional writing;
New disciplines: corpus building, enhancing empirical language and ageing research from a multidisciplinary perspective; compilations of authentic samples of language/multimodal data covering life narratives, ageing and
language issues;
the role of first-person writing in the development of disciplines, e.g. “field diaries,” auto-ethnographic and “ego-historical” accounts, scientific travelogues;
trauma/illness studies and life writing: Scriptotherapy, Medical Humanities and auto/biography: caregiving and caretaking, suffering and resilience, illness experience to explore the self, life stories for physicians to understand the patients’ clinical history;
epistemic contexts of specific auto/biographical forms, styles, and rhetoric; connections between life writing techniques and technologies of specific disciplines, between auto/biographical and scholarly discourse;
theoretical, methodological and practical interrelations between specific disciplines and life narratives;
life writing and affect: emotions, theory, practice;
knowledge and authority constructions in life writing; “knowledge communities,” questions of power and speaking positions in life writing;
experimental forms of life writing: innovative poetics of the self.
Conference languages: English and Spanish Suggested formats:
- Individual papers (abstract max. 300 words)
- Full panel (90-minutes slot, 3 participants including chair, abstract max. 900 words) – Round Table (90 minutes slot, 3/4 participants, abstract max. 900 words)
- Workshops (90 minutes slot, 3/4 participants, abstract max. 900 words)
Deadline for proposals: 28 January 2019 Notification of acceptance: 22 February
2019 Conference Fees:
PARTICIPANTS AND ATTENDEES:
EARLY BIRD 200€; AFTER MAY, 15TH: 250€
STUDENTS: EARLY BIRD 120€; AFTER MAY, 15TH: 150€
* Deadline for Late Bird registration is June, 10th.
Conference website:
https://eventos.ucm.es/26045/detail/iaba-conference-2019.-knowing-the-self_-autobiographical-narratives-and-the-history-of-knwoledge.html
(Be sure to check ‘English’ in the ‘IDIOMA’ tab on the upper-right corner of the site) Abstract submission:
(Be sure to check ‘English’ in the ‘IDIOMA’ tab on the upper-right corner of the site) Registration:
(Be sure to check ‘English’ in the ‘IDIOMA’ tab on the upper-right corner of the site)
International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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4. A Book by a List Member–Truthful Fictions, edited by Michael Lackey
Bloomsbury has just released Truthful Fictions, a new collection of interviews with some of the world’s most prominent scholars and authors of biofiction, edited by Michael Lackey, and the press has a special offer for scholars. Here is the information.
In this new collection of interviews, some of America’s most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical ‘truth’ this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual works.
These interviews do more than just define an innovative genre of contemporary fiction. They provide a precise way of understanding the complicated relationship and pregnant tensions between contextualized thinking and historical representation, interdisciplinary studies and ‘truth’ production, and fictional reality and factual constructions. By focusing on classical and contemporary debates regarding the nature of the historical novel, this volume charts the forces that gave birth to a new incarnation of this genre.
Biofiction Special Offer from Bloomsbury Academic!
Buy both Truthful Fictions and Conversations with Biographical Novelists or each individually on www.bloomsbury.com and receive 35% off both books! Offer available October 18 – December 31, 2018
Conversations with Biographical Novelists * 9781501341458 * $32.95 $21.00
Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists * 9781623568252 * $29.95 $19.00
International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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5. [FQS] 19(3) online
Dear All,
we would like to inform you that FQS 19(3) is available online (see http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/62 for the current issue and http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for former issues). Besides a collection of single contributions as well as articles belonging to FQS Reviews, FQS 19(3) provides a thematic section on “Research Ethics in Qualitative Research.” All in all, 69 authors from 11 countries contributed to FQS 19(3).
- FQS 19(3)
- Conferences and Workshops
- Links
- Open Access News
Enjoy reading!
Katja Mruck & Florian Muhle
Ps: FQS is an open-access journal, so all articles are available free of charge. This newsletter is sent to 20.226 registered readers.
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1. FQS 19(3)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/62
—> Thematic Section: Research Ethics in Qualitative Research
Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada), Hella von Unger (Germany): Current Perspectives on Research Ethics in Qualitative Research
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3155
Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): A Transactional Approach to Research Ethics
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3061
Dvora Yanow (Netherlands), Peregrine Schwartz-Shea (USA): Framing “Deception” and “Covertness” in Research: Do Milgram, Humphreys, and Zimbardo Justify Regulating Social Science Research Ethics?
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3102
Monique Antoinette Guishard, Alexis Halkovic, Anne Galletta, Peiwei Li (USA): Toward Epistemological Ethics: Centering Communities and Social Justice in Qualitative Research
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3145
Alan Santinele Martino, Ann Fudge Schormans (Canada): When Good Intentions Backfire: University Research Ethics Review and the Intimate Lives of People Labeled with Intellectual Disabilities
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3090
Valerie Webber, Fern Brunger (Canada): Assessing Risk to Researchers: Using the Case of Sexuality Research to Inform Research Ethics Board Guidelines
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3062
Elisabeth Reitinger, Barbara Pichler, Barbara Egger, Bente Knoll, Birgit Hofleitner, Petra Plunger, Gert Dressel, Katharina Heimerl (Austria): Research With People With Dementia — Ethical Reflections on Qualitative Research Praxis on Mobility in Public Space
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3152
Bree Akesson (Canada), David A. “Tony” Hoffman (USA), Samia El Joueidi, Dena Badawi (Canada): “So the World Will Know Our Story”: Ethical Reflections on Research with Families Displaced by War
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3087
Cordula Dittmer, Daniel F. Lorenz (Germany): Research in the Context of Vulnerability and Extreme Suffering — Ethical Issues of Social Science Disaster Research
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3116
Sarah Fichtner, Hoa Mai Tran (Germany): Ethical Ambivalences in Research With Children Living in Accommodation Centers for Refugees
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3150
Adrianna Danuta Surmiak (Poland): Confidentiality in Qualitative Research Involving Vulnerable Participants: Researchers’ Perspectives
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3099
Holger Knothe (Germany): Fragile Confidentiality. Ethical Challenges in Research on Holocaust Education
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3114
Irini Siouti (Germany): Research Ethics in Biographical Research: Challenges in the Field of Political Participation
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3141
Thirusha Naidu (South Africa), Neil Prose (USA): Re-Envisioning Member Checking and Communicating Results as Accountability Practice in Qualitative Research: A South African Community-Based Organization Example
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3153
Caroline Meier zu Biesen (Germany): Research About the Pharmaceutical Industry: Ethical Positioning in a Powerful Network
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3139
Nicolas Legewie, Anne Nassauer (Germany): YouTube, Google, Facebook: 21st Century Online Video Research and Research Ethics
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3130
Maximilian Krug, Svenja Heuser (Germany): Ethics in the Field: Research Practice in Audio-Visual Studies
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3103
Florian Esser, Miriam Sitter (Germany): Ethical Symmetry in Participative Research with Children
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3120
Katharina Miko-Schefzig, Cornelia Reiter (Germany): Participatory Organization Research in the Context of the Police: Ethical Research with Vulnerable Groups Using the Example of Detention Centers
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3142
Jessica Nina Lester, Allison Daniel Anders (USA): Engaging Ethics in Postcritical Ethnography: Troubling Transparency, Trustworthiness, and Advocacy
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3060
Amber Gazso, Katherine Bischoping (Canada): Feminist Reflections on the Relation of Emotions to Ethics: A Case Study of Two Awkward Interviewing Moments
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3118
Will Carl van den Hoonaard (Canada): Autobiographical Notes from Inside the Ethics Regime: Some Thoughts on How Researchers in the Social Sciences Can Own Ethics
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3024
Hella von Unger (Germany): Ethical Reflexivity in Research on Forced Migration — Lessons Learned From a Sociological Study With Student Researchers
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3151
—> Single Contributions
Fabio Balli (Canada): Game Jams to Co-Create Respiratory Health Games Prototypes as Participatory Research Methodology
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.2734
Oliver Dimbath, Michael Ernst-Heidenreich, Matthias Roche (Germany): The Practice and Theory of Theoretical Sampling. Methodological Considerations on the Progression of Sampling Decisions
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.2810
João Leite Ferreira Neto (Brazil): Michel Foucault and Qualitative Research in Human and Social Sciences
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3070
Theresa Lempp, Mandy Gloeckner, Nora Krzywinski, Nadine Fischer, Hannah Zimmermann, Katharina Tampe (Germany): The Relevance of Gender in a University: Access to the Field as a Methodological Challenge and Source of Information
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.2906
Claudia Lenz, Peter Schroeder (Norway): “Places That Can Make Us Grow” — Empirical Reconstructions of how Meaning is Created in the Context of the Opening of Two Norwegian Memorial Sites
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.2778
Joseph Levitan (Canada), Julia Mahfouz, Deborah L. Schussler (USA): Pragmatic Identity Analysis as a Qualitative Interview Technique
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3032
Sarah MacKenzie-Dawson (USA): Intimate Uncertainties: A Mother Returns to Poetic Inquiry
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.2661
Phillip Allen Olt, Eric D Teman (USA): A Duoethnographic Exploration of Persistent Technological Failures in Synchronous Online Education
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3039
Janani Umamaheswar (USA): Studying Homeless and Incarcerated Persons: A Comparative Account of Doing Field Research With Hard-to-Reach Populations
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3053
Matthias Voelcker, Alexander Bruns (Germany): Digital Self-Presentation: The Subjective Meaning of Selfies for Adolescents and Young Adults
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.2873
—>FQS Reviews
Dirk vom Lehn (UK): Review: Thomas S. Eberle (Ed.) (2017). Fotografie und Gesellschaft. Phaenomenologische und wissenssoziologische Perspektiven [Photography and Society: Approach from Phenomenological Perspectives and the Sociology of Knowledge]
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3144
Craig Whisker (New Zealand): Review: Adele E. Clarke, Carrie Friese & Rachel S. Washburn (2018). Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.3.3138
2. CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
3-4 October, Singapore
Qualitative360 APAC
http://apac.qual360.com
4-5 October, Potsdam, Germany
PINA Conference, Potsdam Research Institute for Early Learning & Educational Action Conference
http://pina-research.de/
11-13 October, Augsburg, Germany
Autumn School “Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse”
https://tinyurl.com/ybx7of4q
17 October, Lisboa, Portugal
Digital Tools Day
https://wcqr.info/digital-tools-day/
17-19 October, Lisboa, Portugal
3rd World Conference on Qualitative Research
http://www.wcqr.info
22-28 October, everywhere
International Open Access Week
http://openaccessweek.org/
21-23 November, Aarhus, Denmark
Nordisco 2018: 5th Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction
http://conferences.au.dk/nordisco2018/
4-7 Dezember, Hanoi, Vietnam
Konferenz InterAsian Connections VI
https://tinyurl.com/ycd87swr
5-8 December, Brussels, Belgium
Conference “Global Interdependencies. What’s New in the Human Society of Individuals? The Political and Academic Relevance of Norbert Elias’s Work Today”
http://norberteliasfoundation.nl/blog/?p=1208
13-14 December, Hamburg, Germany
Opening Conference “Participatory Memory Practices: Connectivities, Empowerment, and Recognition of Cultural Heritages in Mediatized Memory Ecologies”
https://www.poem.uni-hamburg.de/en/opening-conference.html
4-5 January 2019, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA
Symposium Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry: Reflecting on the Legacy of Carolyn Ellis and Art Bochner
https://tinyurl.com/y84smrwa
16-18 January 2019, Fort-Lauderdale, FL, USA
TQR 10th Annual Conference “Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research”
https://www.tqr2019.com/
12-14 February 2019, Jyvaeskylae, Finland
Conference “Ethnography With a Twist”
https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/ethnotwist
13-15 February 2019, Edinburgh, UK
European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI 2019)
https://kuleuvencongres.be/ecqi2019
14-15 February 2019, Cracow, Poland
European Sociological Association Sexuality Research Network (23) Midterm Conference “Sociological Explorations of Sexuality in Europe: Bodies, Practices, and Resistance in Troubled Times”
http://www.esa-rn23-sexuality.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp
22-24 May, Stockholm, Sweden
International Conference “Languages, Nations, Cultures” (LNC2019)
https://tinyurl.com/y7rur5gr
6-8 June 2019, Navarra, Spain
The Society for the Study of Narrative Annual Conference
http://narrative.georgetown.edu/conferences/
20-23 June 2019, Berlin, Germany
International Conference for Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy 2019 “A Binocular View on Psychotherapeutic Interaction”
https://www.iccap-2019-ipu-berlin.de/
2-5 July 2019, Mannheim, Germany
The 2019 Conference of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (IIEMCA)
http://www.iiemca19.org/
3. LINKS
Global Social Change Research Project: Free Resources for Evaluation and Social Research Methods
https://sites.google.com/site/gsocialchange/home
Launch of The Stacks: subject repository for American studies, Anglophone literatures & cultures, Australian & New Zealand studies, British & Irish studies, Canadian studies and English, including all sub-fields such as cultural studies, English language teaching, gender studies, geography, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, medieval studies, political science, postcolonial studies and social sciences …
https://thestacks.libaac.de/?locale-attribute=en
Paywall. The Business of Scholarship: Documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science
https://paywallthemovie.com/
Paul Longley, James Cheshire, Alex Singleton (Eds.): Consumer Data Research
https://tinyurl.com/y9ssh8xh
Juan Felipe Espinosa Cristia: Organizing Technological Innovation of Medical Devices Companies: An Empirical Study of Two Midland Venture Companies. Thesis, University of Leicester, UK
http://hdl.handle.net/2381/28706
4. OPEN ACCESS NEWS
See http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items for more open-access news.
Science Europe announced the “launch of cOAlition S, an initiative to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality”
https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft signs up as a Sustainable Funder of the Directory of Open Access Journals
https://blog.doaj.org/2018/06/11/deutsche-forschungsgemeinschaft-signs-up-as-a-sustainable-funder/
—> Texts
Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication (UCOLASC), University of California: Declaration of Rights and Principles to Transform Scholarly Communication
https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/committees/ucolasc/scholcommprinciples-20180425.pdf
Claire Fraser, Geoff Hill, Helen Snaith, Jade Taffs: Monitoring Sector Progress Towards Compliance with Funder Open Access Policies
http://re.ukri.org/documents/2018/research-england-open-access-report-pdf/
Elisabeth Heinemann, Andrea Bertino, Francesca Di Donato, Aysa Ekanger, Elena Giglia, Barbara Jedraszko, Michael Kaiser, Lisa Matthias, Alessia Smaniotto: OPERAS (Open Access in the European Research Area through Scholarly Communication) Advocacy White Paper
https://zenodo.org/record/1324036#.W69gafmYQ2x
Danny Kingsley: Compliance is not the Whole Story. Comment on the Research England Report
https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2074
Marcel Knoechelmann: Reasoning and Interest: Clustering Open Access
https://www.lepublikateur.de/2018/06/04/reasoning-interest-open-access/
Oxford Brookes University: Summary of the Teachmeet “New Universities and the 3 R’s: Repositories, REF, and RDM”
https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/3rsteachmeet/summary
Rufus Pollock: The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age
https://openrevolution.net/media/open-revolution.pdf
Richard Poynder: The OA Interviews: Taylor & Francis’ Deborah Kahn discusses Dove Medical Press
https://poynder.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-oa-interviews-taylor-francis.html
Richard Poynder: The OA Interviews: Virginia Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian at UCLA
https://poynder.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-oa-interviews-virginia-steel-norman.html
Camilla Smith: Q&A About the Cancellation of the Agreement with Elsevier Commencing 1 July (in Sweden)
https://tinyurl.com/yafzd6jq
Jon Tennant: Foundations for Open Scholarship Strategy Development: First formal release
https://open-scholarship-strategy.github.io/site/
Leyla Williams: Spotlight on the OASPA Board: Pete Binfield
https://oaspa.org/spotlight-on-the-oaspa-board-pete-binfield/
—> Journals/Newsletter
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
First Monday, 23(9)
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/607
IRRODL. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(4)
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/94
On_Culture: The Open Journal in the Study of Culture, 5
https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-5/
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FQS – Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/
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6. Life Writing, Volume 15, Issue 4, December 2018 is now available
Life Writing, Volume 15, Issue 4, December 2018 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
This new issue contains the following articles:
Articles
From Autobiographical Act to Autobiography
Arnaud Schmitt
Pages: 469-486 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2018.1478598
TED Talks as Life Writing: Online and Offline Activism
Ana Belén Martínez García
Pages: 487-503 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1405317
Life Writing, Cultural Memory, and Historical Mediation in Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor was Divine
Pei-chen Liao
Pages: 505-521 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2018.1446666
As-told-to life writing: a topic for scholarship
Sandra Lindemann
Pages: 523-535 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1289807
Tuqan and Dayan: Palestinian and Israeli Women between Romance and Tragedy
Mohammed Hamdan
Pages: 537-559 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1416530
Narrative Empathy in Dr. Goonam’s Coolie Doctor and Zubeida Jaffer’s Our Generation
Felicity Hand
Pages: 561-576 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2018.1426969
Essays
The Enigma of Arrival
George Kouvaros
Pages: 579-590 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1276792
The Biographer’s ‘Keeper’ (When the Estate is With You): Writing the Biography of Thea Astley
Karen Lamb
Pages: 591-596 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2018.1470893
Hope Street: From Voice to Agency for Care-Leavers in Higher Education
Jacqueline Z. Wilson, Philip Mendes & Frank Golding
Pages: 597-609 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2018.1427420
Reviews
“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?” Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
F. K. Clementi
Pages: 613-615 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1234343
Writing Life: Early Twentieth-Century Autobiographies of the Artist-Hero
Alexander McKee
Pages: 617-620 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1331420
Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin
Alex Belsey
Pages: 621-624 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1339345
Voicing Voluntary Childlessness: Narratives of Non-Mothering in French
Shirley Jordan
Pages: 625-628 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1330647
Auto/Biography in the Americas: Relational Lives
Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni
Pages: 629-631 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1357418
Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing: Exploring the Self in the Learning Process
Daniel Vuillermin
Pages: 633-636 | DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2017.1357106
International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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7. Call for Chapter Contributions about Diary Writing as a Quasi-literary Genre (11/1/2018)
Call for Chapter Contributions about Diary Writing as a Quasi-literary Genre
Book Title: The Diary as Literature Through the Lens of Multiculturalism in America
Editor: Angela Hooks, PhD
Purpose: This book focuses on diary writing as a quasi-literary genre that includes autobiography, biography, memoir, correspondence, travel literature, and more. The book will examine the diarist’s text because it speaks the truth of the appearance of things. The diarist’s account is imaginative writing, social and political history. Diary writing includes events that add up to a story with meaning, a theme, and style. Diary writing is creating “real” fictions of one’s self. For the diarist, the diary becomes a transnational space in which an intersection of cultures, languages, and peoples help the diarist understand self and the world they live in.
Joan Didion says in her essay “On Keeping a Notebook,” that writing in a notebook gets us “closer to the truth” about “how it felt to me” and to remember what it was to be.”
Through the lens of the diary, this book will discuss how diarists, writers, and poets reflect on multiculturalism and intercultural relations. Subjects and themes include identity, language, race, class, culture, gender, religion, sexuality, and nationality of American minorities who use the diary to help them find their own expressive language, explore their identity, and understand themselves, their intimate relationships, and the world around them. Since the diary is an autobiographical text the book will include the study of autobiography, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
For bell hooks, “autobiographical writing was a way for her to evoke the particular experience of growing up southern and black in segregated communities. It was a way to recapture the richness of southern black culture. The need to remember and hold to the legacy of that experience …”
Alice Dunbar-Nelson prefaced her unpublished novel “Confessions of a Lazy Woman” with: A diary is a serious thing; not to be undertaken lightly or to be spoken of in anything but a whisper. If kept in the right spirit, it means a record of things both seen and unseen, all recorded in strictly conscientious fashion? It means, too, that one must crystallize one’s secret thoughts and longings and desires into written words, thereby giving speech to hitherto inarticulaye [sic] voices.
Themes and ideas that could be examined in each chapter include:
- Socioeconomic and political matters in which the diarist lives in companionship with others or in a community, rather than in isolation?
- Diaries that give voice to the identity of the diarist or illustrate a hidden identity. The diary as a confessional through the lens of Foucault: confessions turn both on what can be openly spoken about and what is forbidden to name.
- Diary writing that reflects the shadow self; the women’s voice is unique, different from another woman’s voice and does not conform to the images society creates for them; “a necessary stage in the psychic journey leading to recovery and the restoration of well-being.”
- Cultural authenticity in fictional diaries such as Maya’s Notebook, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and The Golden Notebook.
- The role of the diary as autobiography, a writer’s workshop, a companion, and as a creative space.
- Reading other people’s diaries that have passed from “hand to hand, generation to generation” because the content and purpose are based on terrible urgency or fragments of a life.
- Silence in the diary that causes a discrepancy between diary entries and the diarist’s actual life, and when the diarist is incapable of giving a complete picture of what she has gone through.
- The pages of diaries, journals, and notebooks that illustrate the strength, the resilience, and the resourcefulness of the American black male and female voices including their struggles and their constraints, and their victories and their joys.
- What is private and what is public when it comes to publishing a found diary?
- The legacy of diary keeping in families.
After the book has been conceptualized (after abstracts have been submitted) and proposal completed, I will send to the publisher. I do have an interested academic independent publisher who specializes in the social sciences and humanities.
Book Contribution Deadlines:
Submit a 500-word abstract with the title due on or before November 1, 2018, to angelarhooks@gmail.com
Receive a Notification for Acceptance on November 15, 2018
Submit book chapters, (5,000 words) on December 15, 2015
Revisions of final edited due on January 30, 2019
All authors will be asked to undertake peer reviews of colleagues’ chapters.
Please contact me if you have questions. I look forward to hearing from you.
Angela (angelarhooks@gmail.com)
Contact Info: Angela Hooks, Ph.D., Editor
Contact Email: angelarhooks@gmail.com
URL: https://angelahooks.com/latest-news-happenings/
International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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Last updated: 26 October 2018
