[Discussion] ETHNIC LIFE WRITING AND HISTORIES - 5th MESEA Conference

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5th MESEA Conference
The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas
May 18-20, 2006, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Call for Papers

Speakers:

Myriam Chancy,          Writer and independent scholar
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim    University of California, Santa Barbara
Jeremy D. Popkin        University of Kentucky
Joan-Pau Rubiés         London School of Economics and Political Science


ETHNIC LIFE WRITING AND HISTORIES

We invite paper abstracts and complete panel proposals on all aspects of ethnic
life writing and histories in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

We encourage interdisciplinary perspectives that highlight the intersections
between life writing, history, sociology, and culture. Topics may include, but
are not limited to: theoretical intersections between auto/biography and
history; expanding the concepts of auto/biography and histories; theory as
auto/biography; auto/ethnography as auto/biography; autobiographies and
biographies; the cultural work of life writing texts; testimonio; genres of life
writing in ethnic contexts; travel and travel writing: writing selves, writing
histories; life writing as historical inscription; family memoirs; narrative
perspectives in history and auto/biography; questions of ethics in life writing;
autobiography, history and law; concepts of nationhood and history through life
writing; voices in history, historical voices; alternative histories;
auto/biographies by/about historians; creating cultural and/or collective memory
through life writing; visualizing auto/biographies and histories; the media and
virtuality: film as auto/biography and history; the Internet and blogs as forms
of life writing; theater studies and autoperformance; hearing and speaking:
aural and oral auto/biography and histories; the sociologies and economics of
auto/biography and histories; different worlds, different auto/biographies,
different histories  globalization and its (dis)contents.


Three hard copies of 300-word abstracts or full panel proposals (that include a
description of the panel and specific abstracts) as well as an electronic copy
must be submitted to MESEA's Program Director, Yiorgos Kalogeras, Department of
English, Aristotle University, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece (kalogera@enl.auth.gr)
by November 15, 2005.

At this conference, MESEA is inaugurating its Young Scholars Research Awards.
For more information: http://www.mesea.org