[Dino] CFP closing 30 Nov: IABA Conference, Europe in Life-Writing, Tallinn May 2011

[Kirsti Salmi-Niklander]

IABA Europe 2011
Trajectories of (Be)longing: Europe in Life-Writing
Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia, May 18-20 2011

Organizers: Tallinn University, Estonian Literary Museum



The conference seeks to explore the ways in which Europe has been  
envisioned in life-writing within Europe itself and beyond, along  
diverse lines of affiliation and contestation, looking at questions of  
Europe in historical and contemporary, national and transnational  
perspectives across a wide variety of life writing modes and  
practices. Capitalizing on interdisciplinarity, the conference  
welcomes contributions from different fields of humanities and social  
sciences.



Possible questions to explore include, but are not limited to:



Would it be possible and/or productive to talk about specifically  
European modes and practices of life writing? What are the temporal  
dynamics of these modes and practices, in particular with respect to  
major historical ruptures and transformations of Europe as a concept  
and as a geographical, political, social and cultural entity?


How are, one the one hand, different modes of auto/biographical  
self-inquiry structured around a sense of belonging to or longing for  
Europe and, on the other, around contestation, rejection and  
transgression of such modes of identification? What is the  
interrelationship of Europeanness and post- and trans-nationalism and  
cosmopolitanism?


How does Europe gain a (in)visibility in life writing in relation to  
issues of migration, displacement, diaspora and travel? What are the  
intersections with coloniality, and postcoloniality?

What are the spatial mappings and “sites of story-telling” of Europe  
in life writing and how does such “life-mapping” construct, confirm,  
contradict, and erase borders within and in relation to Europe? How  
does digital space engage with and re-negotiate surpass other kinds of  
spatial configurations in/of Europe?

Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: November 30, 2010
Notification of acceptance: December 20, 2010

Please submit your abstracts (max 300 words) and short CV online using  
the abstract submission form.

Please e-mail panel proposals (description of max 200 words and titles  
of papers & presenters included in the panel) to the following  
address: IabaEurope2011 at ehi.ee.



In case of inquiries please contact Leena Kurvet-Käosaar,  
IabaEurope2011 at ehi.ee.