Details of all research conferences which are held in conjunction with the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research can be found below.

The following research conferences were held in the past or are currently being held. For more details, please click the headings below.  

2019 Conferences

• When does biography begin? Led by Simone von Buren, Bern University of the Arts. 11 June 2019, University of Sussex campus.

2018 Conferences

• Locating Women in 'The Folk' – An interdisciplinary conference. Perspectives on women’s contributions to folk song, folklore, and cultural traditions. 9 June 2018, University of Sussex campus

2017 Conferences

• Life History and Life Writing Research: Critical and Creative Approaches: The 9th annual Brighton/Sussex Postgraduate Conference, 16 June 2017, University of Sussex campus.

2016 Conferences

• Subversive Histories - The politics of life history research: 8th annual Brighton/Sussex Postgraduate Conference, 22th June 2016. University of Brighton, Grand Parade Campus. 

2015 Conferences

• The Internationalism of Life History Research in the 21^st Century: 7th annual Brighton/Sussex Postgraduate Conference, 18th June 2015. University of Brighton, Grand Parade Campus.

2014 Conferences

• Researching Uniqueness: 6th annual Brighton/Sussex Postgraduate Conference (at The Keep), 6 June  2014
• Public and Personal Archives: Creative Negotiations, University of Sussex, 4 April 2014
• Symposium on Autobiographical Performances of Memory, University of Sussex, 21 May 2014 (details to follow)

2013 Conferences

• Hearing Her: New Feminist Oral Histories, 11 April 2013 [PDF 288.77KB]
• Hearing Her: Methods workshop, 9 April 2013 [PDF 178.53KB]
• Corporate Voices: Institutional and Organisational Oral Histories, 5-6 July 2013 [PDF 226.20KB]

2012 Conferences

• Working with Narrative, Memory and Life History: A Postgraduate and Graduate Afternoon for Sharing Projects, Skills and Job Experiences, 25 May 2012 [PDF 53.04KB]

2011 Conferences

• Emotions in History, Memory and Storytelling - Post-Graduate conference, 29 June 2011

2010 Conferences

• Life Writing and Intimate Publics - The 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference - July 2010
• Public lives, Private lives: New research accross the diciplines - a Postgraduate research conference, 2nd June 2010: 
  Conference progamme [PDF 2.57MB]
• Living Memory: Reminiscence, Oral History and Intergenerational Work - September 2010: Living memory [PDF 2.47MB]

2009 Conferences

• Memories, Narratives and Histories - Life Histories Postgraduate Conference - June 2009
• Everything Speaks: People, Places, Objects as Sites of Memory, History and Biography Event - June 2009
• Journal of Media Practice Symposium - Mediated Memories - July 2009
• Digital and BioDigital Lives Conference - July 2009

Pre-2009 Conferences

• Mass Observation as Poetry and Science : Charles Madge and his Contexts Conference - May 2000
• Researching Lives Conference - June 2006
• Life Histories/Women's Histories Conference - February 2007
• Mass Observation 70th Birthday Conference - May 2007
• Launch of Jenna Bailey's Book - Can Any Mother Help Me? - January 2008
• Remembering the Falklands War - 25th Anniversary Talk - January 2008
• The River Ouse Project: Life Stories and Meadow Restoration Conference - February 2008