For the current 2023/24 CLHLWR Seminar Series click here.

For the 2022/23 CLHLWR Seminar Series click here.

For the 2021/22 CLHLWR Seminar Series click here.

For the 2020/21 CLHLWR Seminar Series click here.

For the 2019/20 CLHLWR Seminar Series click here.

For the 2018/19 CLHLWR Seminar Series click here.

For the 2017/18 CLHLWR Seminar Series click here.

For the 2016/17 CLHLWR Seminar Series click here.

For our archive of earlier CLHLWR Seminar Series click here (2007-2015/16).

For further information about the seminar series please contact:

Alexandra Loske
a.loske@sussex.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE CLHLWR SEMINAR SERIES

Do you want to present your work on life writing, oral history, life narrative?

The Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research at the University of Sussex invites proposals from researchers, doctoral students and early career scholars who wish to present their work either in the CLHLWR seminar series or in a reading group for work-in-progress. We encourage participation from across schools, institutions and disciplines, and welcome proposals on the (non-exhaustive) list of themes below:

• Life history, oral history, life writing and life narrative as historical sources
• The creative arts of life narrative (autobiography, biography, memoir, diaries, letters, blogs, photography, documentary …)
• Philosophical approaches to the life story (post-humanism; the ethics of care…)
• New uses of life narrative in education or training
• Community projects and development through life story work
• Life narrative at the intersection of individual and social
• Reminiscence work, memory, ageing
• Regeneration and advocacy (trauma, conflict, post-conflict)
• Digital lives (arts, psychologies, genealogies, technologies)
• Public history (museums, archives, street-lives)
• Life narrative and the law (copyright, censorship, ethics, inheritance, human rights)
• The Mass-Observation Archive as resource and CLHLWR associate

If you would like to present, please send a word document containing:

• An abstract (300 words) for a 20 minute presentation
• A brief biography (including name, degree, year and research interests)
• 5 keywords reflecting the main themes of your presentation
• Your contact details

Thank you!

Alexandra Loske
a.loske@sussex.ac.uk