ICAE10 2023 Information

10th Anniversary of the International Conference of Autoethnography

Online Pre Conference workshops: Sunday 16th July https://boomerang-project.org.uk/workshops-2/

Conference Dates: Monday 17th & Tuesday 18th July online and in person

On this page we provide information on 1. Conference theme, 2. Keynotes 3. Pre conference workshop, 4. How to participate, 5. Lifetime contribution award, 6. Inspiration

1. Final Programme

2. KEYNOTES

Keynote Abstract: Activism, artfulness and autoethnography: is commensurability between the qualitative and the post qualitative possible?

This presentation will offer a mapping of autoethnography as a sensing of what it might be and, more importantly, what it can do. This mapping will consider the ways in which autoethnography has shifted, moved with, moved from and continues to move in relation to the encounters with the energies and forces of post qualitative theorising in action that have emerged in recent years. Close observation through a post qualitative lens might suggest that autoethnographic practices need to be scrutinised, claiming perhaps that its traditions, orthodoxies and practices are incommensurate with the ontological dispositions and theoretical orientations that these new and emergent ways of thinking and acting offer. In the light of these emergent new approaches, it must be asked if autoethnography, as a valued mode of inquiry with a long and hugely productive history, needs to examine its practices and to make changes in response to the theoretical and ontological movements and directions that post qualitative inquiry is generating. By acknowledging and engaging in post qualitative practices and ways of doing, perhaps it is time for suggesting that autoethnography must ensure that it does not limit its practice concerns to the self making proclivities of the autopoietic, to engaging with the narrow identifications and subjectivities of the neurotypical and to the individualising tendencies of the no more than simply human. By drawing attention to St. Pierre’s post qualitative engagements with ‘ontologies of immanence’, Manning’s use of the intuitive potential of ‘artfulness’ to activate the future and Madison’s call for ‘acts of activism’ in inquiry, the rhetoric of this presentation will be driven by the assertion that working with the simply human may no longer be enough if autoethnography is to continue to hold its important position in qualitative inquiry. Working speculatively and experimentally with concept making as event/full practice and using writing less as representation and more as immanent doing, this presentation will be animate in encouraging new and different ways of thinking in action for all autoethnographers to consider as possibly constitutive of their future practices.

Keynote Abstract: Having a laugh: Autoethnography, laughter and the queer potential of public hilarity Stacy Holman Jones & Daniel X. Harris

Judith Butler’s 2019 talk Out of breath: Laughing and crying at the body’s limit explores how the body does different work through speaking and gesturing than it does when laughing and crying. Butler offers that laughter causes the body to “break apart and it shows itself breaking,” offering a collective and individual chance to “depart from a sense of the ordinary.” Autoethnography too seeks to show how bodies—and hearts, minds, and relationships—can break apart, break out and break open. Laughter also moves us out of a singular focus on the or a self. Through laughter, we can be ‘beside ourselves’, caught up in the collective contagion of public hilarity.  In this talk, we use autoethnography to explore the queer potential of the laughing body “as it breaks apart in public, as it breaks open new political potential” (Butler). Through a series of vignettes, jokes, and stories, we invite you to immerse yourselves with us in the power of laughter as affect, a collective restorative reverberation in the face of ongoing global hysteria, loss, fragmentation and fear. 

3. PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

4. HOW TO PARTICIPATE THE CONFERENCE ONLINE

5. HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN PERSON

In-person delegates fee includes:

• Access to all online and in person sessions
• Complimentary parking and covered bike store onsite 
• Access to a beautiful gardens and outdoor spaces both for take meals and breaks as well as potentially to present/perform.
• Breakfast snack, Cooked Lunch and unlimited refreshments which can be taken in the garden or dining rooms
• Quiet areas outside of the conference suite for informal gatherings, conversations, to chill and take refreshments or prepare
• The venue has both air conditioning and windows that open
• Engineers House is a ten minute walk to Clifton Village,

6. LIFETIME CONTRIBTUTION AWARD

If you would like to register for the conference or submit an abstract please use the main navigation tools at the top of the page.

For further information contact Jessie Ip jessie@boomerang-project.org.uk

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Looking for inspiration

If you have never attending our conference we invite you to gain a feeling for the diverse types of presentation, performances and contributions, via our YouTube conference page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWNYTUbli3wRLda7ZmbpqOQ/videos below we share links to some of your previous Keynotes. You will also find information on last years “highlights” page http://boomerang-project.org.uk/meet-presenters/ Should you have questions or queries please contact our conference administrator Jessie Ip at Jessie@sofiacentre.org.uk

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