International auto/biography association conference

IABA (International Auto/Biography Association) World Conference 2024

in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature, University of Iceland

Reykjavik, 12-15 June 2024

Call for papers

Fragmented Lives

The IABA World Conference 2024 will be held at the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature 12-15 June 2024.

The theme of the conference is ‘Fragmented Lives.’ We invite proposals for individual papers or panels of 3-4 papers as well as round-table suggestions on that theme.

The world is fragmented in different ways in our times, due to wealth disparity, migration, and the continuing climate catastrophe.

The digital revolution means that lives are now lived online as well as off – where fragmented identities and selves are played out.

The IABA World Conference will be held at the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature.

The IABA World Conference will be held at the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature.

The Sixth Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Chapter of The Americas Conference will be held in Cape May, New Jersey, June

It has a free listserv that informs its members about upcoming conferences, publications and other events connected to the study of autobiography, life writing.

The International Autobiography Association (IABA) Europe Conference will take place at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, between the 23 rd and 26 th.

International Auto/Biography Association conference 26thth Sept (online conference).

The recent pandemic can also be said to have fragmented our sense of time. This in turn shapes life writing and self-expression. As Eva Karpinski has argued ‘the auto