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Journal für Psychologie Call for Papers

The Critical Potential of Language Journal für Psychologie Special Issue Call for Papers. Spawned by the linguistic turn, and in psychology specifically by the narrative turn associated with the names of Theodor Sarbin and Jerome Bruner, language became the central focus in many areas of the social sciences. The special issue of the German Journal [...]

AutoBiography Summer Conference 2010 (7/8-10/2010) UK

XIXth Auto/Biography Summer Conference Program 8 to 10 July 2010 * University of Leicester “Legacies” Thursday, 8 July 2010 * 6:30 – 7:37:30 pm “Auto/biographical reflections on personal and other legacies: Much more than money” The Phil Salmon Memorial Lecture by Gayle Letherby, University of Plymouth Friday, 9 July 2010 * 9:00 – 9:50 “Reflections [...]

NEW TITLE: STORYTELLING BY CHRISTIAN SALMON

NEW TITLE: STORYTELLING Bewitching the Modern Mind By CHRISTIAN SALMON Published 22nd March 2010 —————————– EVENTS: 8 April, 1pm at the RSA, London: ‘Storytelling: How narratives shape our reality, ideas and behaviour’. For more information and book your free place: http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events/storytelling-how-narratives-shape-our -reality,-ideas-and-behaviour <http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events/storytelling-how-narratives-shape-ou r-reality,-ideas-and-behaviour>   8 April, 6.30pm at the ICA, London: ‘Making Believe’, with [...]

Transgressive (Auto)Biography as Genre and Method (10/28/2010) Czech Republic

Living Between the Lines: Transgressive (Auto)Biography as Genre and Method Location: Czech Republic <http://www.h-net.org/announce/geography.cgi?geography=Czech%20Republic> Conference Date:2010-10-28 Date Submitted: 2010-03-24 Announcement ID: 175117 This conference, open to scholars, authors, and non-specialists alike, aims to promote the study of transgressive (auto)biography by investigating the transformations and cross-continental influences that have proven central to the development of (auto)biographies [...]

Deadline Extension *CALL FOR PAPERS* The Biographical Narrative in 21st Century Film and Television Postgraduate Seminar Series

*CALL FOR PAPERS* DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED UNTIL 14TH APRIL 2010 The Biographical Narrative in 21st Century Film and Television POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES THURSDAY 27TH MAY & THURSDAY 3RD JUNE 2010 This seminar series welcomes proposals for papers from postgraduate students that consider the biographical narrative, the ‘Biopic’, in cinema and television of the last [...]

Storytelling, Memories and Identity Constructions (4/20/2010; 7/28-8/2/2010) Mexico

The Enkidu Summer Conference 2010: Storytelling, Memories and Identity Constructions México City, 28 July – 2, Augst 2010 Deadline for paper proposal submissions: 20. April, 2010 Conference Languages: English, Castilian, German, French and Nahuatl Languages for presentation: English, Castilian Conference Homepage: http://enkidumagazine.com/chics/esc.htm The primary focus for the 6th edition of this inclusive and interdisciplinary annual [...]

EXTREME UNDERSTANDING

Years after 9/11 are we any closer to knowing what makes a radical? In the wake of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, US public officials seemed to have no idea how many of the 1.3 billion Muslims across the world supported the bombing.  The result was the largest most comprehensive study of its kind.   [...]

Small-guage storytelling: The amateur fiction film – CFP

Small-Gauge Storytelling: The Amateur Fiction Film A One-Day Symposium University of Liverpool, Wednesday the 9th of June 2010 This one-day event, hosted by the University of Liverpool, invites papers exploring issues around the many meeting points between amateur cinema and fictional film practice. For around fifty years, roughly between the 1930s and the 1980s, cine-clubs [...]

Landscapes of the Self (6/15/2010; 11/24-26/2010) Portugal

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LANDSCAPES OF THE SELF Identity, discourse, representation VENUE: UNIVERSITY OF EVORA – PORTUGAL DATE – 24-26 November 2010 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS – TO BE ANNOUNCED The Centre for the Study of Letters and the research team of the project ‘Landscapes of the self’ invite scholars, theorists, researchers, and practitioners of autobiography in all media [...]

To Think is to Experiment Research Day 29 April-Call for Papers

To think is tO ExperimeNt Research Event The Centre for Narrative Research is organising the ninth annual Research Day for graduate students on Thursday, April 29nd, 2010 at Docklands Campus, University of East London. Over the last eight years, this has been an exciting event with participants from all over the UK and Europe and [...]