Twelfth International Conference of Autoethnography will take place online (via zoom) and in person at The Engineer’s House, Clifton Village, Bristol, UK.
Workshops Sunday 13th March
Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th July 2025

Conference theme
“Breathing Spaces”
We all breathe. We have this in common with each other—and with the flora and fauna of planet Earth. We may take our breath for granted—for a time. Yet breath, the act of breathing, is far from assured. We exist in atmosphere that is precarious, environments that have been violated, cities that are congested, societies driven toward inequality and division, and workplaces that threaten health and morale.
ICAE2025 offers breathing space; an invitation to story, perform, challenge, theorise, resist or reimagine spaces, relationships, and new ways of being in/for the human and more-than-human world.
Keynotes
In person
Tony Adams, Bradley University, USA

Many of our community will recognise Tony Adams as founding co-editor of the Journal of Autoethnography (University of California Press) and from his co-editorship of the Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives book series (Routledge), along with the Handbook of Autoethnography.
Away from his editorial work much of Tony’s research focuses on sexual diversity and queer concerns such as stigma, social support, and self-disclosure. In his first book, Narrating the Closet (Routledge), he identified struggles with disclosing same-gender attraction—often referred to as “coming out (of the closet).” He described experiences of sexuality before, during, and after coming out, as well as demonstrated how the coming out process never ends as every new audience makes for a new time to disclose one’s desires. In subsequent projects, he has focused on forgiveness and sexuality by investigating how queer folks live with others who have committed and continue to commit homophobic and transphobic slights. Over the past decade Tony has prioritized building the interdisciplinary and international infrastructure for autoethnography. Underlying all of his work is a commitment to identifying injustices, challenging harmful norms, and improving relationships.
Djenane Ramalho-de-Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
I am a clinical pharmacist and a qualitative researcher. I am grateful for what qualitative research has done to advance my practice as an educator in a college of pharmacy. I am a professor in the Department of Social Pharmacy at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and the founder of the Centro de Estudos em Atenção Farmacêutica.
Abstract submission is now open,