European Journal of Life Writing (Web) and English Department at Södertörn University, Stockholm
Venue: Stockholm
Time: 2-4 October, 2014
Deadline: March 1, 2014
The organisers invite papers and presentations on the following or related topics:
- Spiritual Autobiographies
- Self-representational Writing
- Online Writing of the Self
- Fictional Autobiographies
- Fake Autobiographies
- Autofiction
- Auto-ethnographies
- Autobiography in Cartoons
- Autobiography in Dance and Film
- Postcolonial Autobiography
- Celebrity Autobiographies
- Autobiography and Gender
- Indigenous Autobiography
- Autobiographies of ‚ordinary people‘
- Autobiogeography
- Therapeutic autobiography
- Autobiography in Translation
Please send your abstract and a short bio by March 1, 2014. Applications may be reviewed after the deadline until the quota for presentations is filled. We welcome papers conforming to 20 minutes oral presentation time, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. The abstract should be max 300 words and the bio max 50 words. Notification of acceptance April 1, 2014. Registration and payment of conference fee of 2750 SEK by April 15, 2014. Delegates may attend the conference without submitting any research, but registration is still necessary. Final papers by August 1, 2014. Selected papers will be published in a peer-reviewed anthology in the Södertörn University English Studies Series