The 11th International Conference of Autoethnography will take place from Sunday 21st to Tuesday 23rd of July 2024 online (via zoom) and in person at The Engineer’s House, Clifton Village, Bristol, UK. We welcome traditional academic read papers, as well as installations, dance, music, poetry, films, messy text, collaborations and multimedia presentations around this year’s theme of Murmurations.
The prompt behind our use of this metaphor comes from Elyse Pineau’s closing reflections at the 2023 Annual Conference. During a “round up” of presentations, Elyse drew on her participation in Jamie Barnes’ workshop where she was provoked to think about “bodies”, “bodies becoming”, “what is a body to do?”, and how bodies shape the landscape.
Closing the conference, Elyse offered two generative metaphors to direct our attention to how we might think about conferences. The first of these was”Murmuration” which we have now taken as our conference theme. To listen again to Elyse’s insights please select the following YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tU4z1kCD3I&t=41s.
You are welcome to create and submit your own panel with colleagues, or select one to join. This year we once again invite presentations to our “poetics please” (in person only) session around the conference theme of murmurations. If you wish to be included in this session please add “poetics please” at the top of your abstract when you submit. Poems should be no longer than 3min and we request you not use power point.
This year we once again invite presentations to our “poetics please” (in person only) session around the conference theme of murmurations. If you wish to be included in this session please add “poetics please” at the top of your abstract when you submit. Poems should be no longer than 3min and we request you not use power point.
Should you wish to discuss your ideas or if would like some advice to help guide you as you prepare and plan, please contact Tim Buescher using the following contact:
timbuescher1975@gmail.com.
Keynotes
Autoethnography in the “Thin Places”
Christopher N. Poulos, Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina
Sociable Solitude: exploring some alternative ways of being and moving with others
Gayle Letherby
Submissions
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- The word limit is up to 200 words, (reviewers will stop reading at 200)
- We review on a rolling basis allowing authors to receive notification regarding their submission within two weeks of submission.
- If accepted your contribution will be scheduled into the draft programme and information will be available on the ‘sneak preview’ page of this website.
- We cannot provide you with the content of your abstract so please save a copy. Last year several people asked us “can you send me my abstract”
- When registering please add your first and last names as you would like them to appear on the programme, last year a considerable amount of time was taken up with request to “change my name”.
- If you have failed to received notification from the conference committee within two weeks of submitting your abstract please contact conference administrator
- If your abstract is accepted, and you intend to present a film or pre-recorded submission, we require you to either send an Mp4. file, or a link to YouTube/Vimeo before the 1st June 2024.
- Live presentations, papers of all kinds are welcome.
- Last year two delegates sent us their presentations at 2am on the day of their presentation at the conference. This is unfair to all volunteers helping run the event and we want to avoid this type of stress. We have also found powerpoint presentations frequently break the flow of a session and can often introduce delays during the sessions when a delegate has not submitted their presentation for pre-loading, or due to incompatibility issues, or when they fail to load, or if are issues with security. With these issues in mind might we ask if you intend for your work to be punished as “journal article / paper” or “text article” (written publications) there is little need to use powerpoint at this conference. Please consider reading or performing you work.
- Further advice on what is expected at ICAE. How should I present my work at the ICAE conference? There is (fortunately) not an unequivocal answer to this. We encourage you to present your work in a manner that communicates with the audience, in a form you feel comfortable with. We want this to be an inspiring experience for you and the audience. The ICAE is not an “ordinary research conference” where the aim is to present research findings in a scientific IMRAD structure. Thus, power point presentations with bullet points might not be the best way to share your work. We encourage you to find other ways of presenting – for example reading, performing, photo or film. Feel free – just remember to stick to the time frame
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To submit your abstract or artist statement, please go here, https://boomerang-project.org.uk/workshops/, and complete the form (which includes your name, contact details & affiliation) at the bottom of the page. If you are unsure about how to describe your work or experience problems submitting the form, please contact the conference administrator jessie@boomerang-project.org.uk.
