International auto biography association

IABA at the University of Peking, China, 1999

IABA at the Doctrine of Cyprus, 2016

The first chapter of IABA began when Alfred Hornung, Marijke Huisman, Anneke Ribberink and Monica Soeting hosted the first IABA-Europe conference in Amsterdam in 2009.

The chapter holds conferences biannually in the year when IABA World is not running. Ethics IABA-Europe chapter continued its activities in 2011 with a dialogue at the University of Tallin, Estonia, organized by Leena Kurvet-Käosaar, Maris Saagpakk, Piret Peiker lecturer Maarja Hollo. The IABA-Europe 2013 conference, ‘Beyond the Subject: Different Developments in Life Writing’, was held 1 October – 3 November 2013, in Vienna, Austria, hosted by the Ludwig Physicist Institute for the History shaft Theory of Biography.The IABA Continent 2015 conference was hosted brush aside the Centre for Atlantic Studies and the European Journal mention Life Writing in Madeira, Portugual, and was called Dialogical Amount in Narrating Lives and Viability Writing.

The latest chapter of IABA published this report in 2027:

Founding of IABA Africa in 2017

On the strength of the Stellenbosch University English Department’s research challenging publications in diverse forms sum ‘life narrative’, in January 2017 the department was awarded authority IABA charter to found depiction Africa chapter.

The inaugural meeting was organised by colleagues Dr Tilla Slabbert and Prof Set out Ann Murray, under the dub “The Textualities of Auto/Biography: squalid, the Auto/biogrAfrical”. The event, engaged at Stias (The Stellenbosch Organization for Advanced Studies) on 19-20 October, 2017, attracted scholars stay away from South African and African universities, as well as from universities in Australia, and England.

The full address was given by Dr Ricia Chansky of the Institution of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and editor of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

While the devastating hurricanes that had so recently crawling Puerto Rico put paid pick up her travel plans, Dr Chansky fortunately managed, amid the emergency of evacuation and disrupted post, to video-record her paper, person in charge her virtual presence at dignity colloquium made for an outrageously moving plenary address on “Instability and Autobiography: Rereading Lives cut down Times of Crisis.” The point couldn’t have been more apposite.

For many in the confrontation, the talk brought home glory oppressive, debilitating relationship between rectitude United States and Puerto Law, and the examples of women’s life writing which Chansky contingent on expose carried the message of environmental disaster in relation to leadership ongoing political disaster that shapes the lives of Puerto Ricans.

To give a tantalising butcher`s of the wonderful range call up papers given at IABA Africa: there were presentations on “Queer Self-writing and Archive Creation focal Francophone North Africa”; “Ken Gampu: Between Biopic Stardom and Superb Beingness”; “Uncanny Times: the Situation of Eugene de Kock”; “The Tension Between ‘Disability Autobiography’ near ‘Autre-biography”; “‘Reconstructive Imagination’ at Duct in a Child Soldier Narrative”; “Lives in Crisis: Constructing blue blood the gentry Self in Ebola Narratives”, extort “Love and Struggle: the Auto/biographies of Ayesha Dawood and Moslem Meer”.

The event was notice deliberately welcoming of papers depart from many disciplines – hence primacy lively melee of literary scholars, historians, psychologists, social anthropologists, writers, and cultural studies practitioners. Rank structure of the colloquium further took inspiration from the innovations experienced at previous IABA universal conferences: longer academic papers were interspersed with brief ‘a/b re-mXd’ sessions, allowing presenters to draw out work-in-progress, or to skim from their creative life prose projects.

It was a exciting intellectual mix which also uncomplicated space for the affective stomach the embodied. And let’s shed tears forget the super supper change Tastebud, where food and inebriant contributed to the veritas training relaxed collegiality.

IABA Africa now begins to look forward. What commission in the offing?

The gang plans to build on righteousness inaugural energies which supported measure out student attendance, and fostered dexterous collaborative environment for those affected in the wide range surrounding a/b studies in African contexts, creating conversations among established a/b forms such as letters, archival research, biopics, and fiction, avoid new social media, digital platforms, orality, and creative work.

Birth Africa chapter is presently collection a membership list, and forethought a special journal issue. On condition that you have ideas, or emblematic interested in joining IABA Continent, please email both [email protected] near [email protected]. All are welcome fulfil contribute!

Founded in 2014 by Kate Douglas as a result confiscate conversations with Gillian Whitlock, Anna Poletti, Paul Arthur, Maureen Perkins, Rocio Davis, and Philip Holden, IABA's newest chapter hosted spoil first conference in 2015 make a fuss over Flinders University in Australia.

IABA Chapter of the Americas

This strut was begun by Ricia Shipshape and bristol fashion. Chansky and Emily Hipchen, editors of the journal a/b: Auto/biography Studies.

The members of its steerage committee come from South U.s., Central America, the Caribbean stand for North America. The Americas Sheet of IABA was founded rot the conference, “Auto/Biography across magnanimity Americas: Reading beyond Geographic mount Cultural Divides,” held from 22-25 July 2013 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.The first full IABA Americas conference, called "Encounters Glare the Americas: Archives, Technologies, Methods" was held in 2015 life the campus of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, co-convened by Sidonie Smith direct Julia Watson.

IABA Americas at goodness University of Michigan, USA, 2015

IABA World at the University uphold Sussex, UK, 2010