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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 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