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Creator: Heger, Tamara; Baier, Verena

Title: Workshop Report: Narrated Lives, Remembered Selves

Subtitle: Emerging Research in Life Writing Studies

DOI: 10.15457/frictions/0013

Description

The Regensburg American Studies doctoral researchers Verena Baier and Tamara Heger report on the online workshop Narrated Lives, Remembered Selves that was held in May 2021. They reflect on how contributions from early career researchers and encounters with seminal scholars from the field of life writing studies are positioned in relation to the spatial, transnational and global turns in cultural studies and area studies. They also consider how life writing studies might embrace a shift towards collaborative, multidisciplinary approaches evident in the presentations that covered a wide range of themes and geographies, from activist movements, including BLM and #MeToo, through issues of identities, trauma and illness, to posthumanism and environmental questions. The event’s findings inspire reflections on methodological aspects, including how to work with the diverse mediality of life writing and how to account for multiple temporalities and global-local entanglements.

Date of publication: 2021-09-02

URL: https://frictions.europeamerica.de/current-debates-baier-heger-workshop-report-narrated-lives-remembered-selves/

Subjects: Migration, Tamara Heger, Verena Baier, Workshop Report, autobiography, biography, crisis, diaspora, life writing, literature, self, space, transnational

Section: Current Debates

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