2026 IAANI Forum, IAANI Awards, 2026 ISAN

[Tony Adams]

2026 IAANI Forum

2-5 January 2026 (in-person)

Registration is now open!

The 2026 IAANI Forum will bring together scholars, storytellers, artists, and activists who use autoethnography to explore lived experiences and the connections among self, others, and society. We welcome innovative contributions that center marginalized voices, promote justice, and encourage critical dialogue across disciplines and communities.

The forum will be in-person at the Safety Harbor Resort & Spa in Safety Harbor, Florida; there will not be an online component.

Capacity will be limited to 120 participants.

For more information about the 2026 IAANI Forum, visit iaani.org/2026forum

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2026 IAANI Awards
Nominations are due by 15 July 2025.

The International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry (IAANI) invites nominations for the following awards to be given at the 2026 International Symposium of Autoethnography and Narrative (6-8 March 2026).

This year, nominations will be accepted for awards in seven categories:
• Outstanding Book
• Outstanding Edited Book
• Outstanding Audio and/or Visual Project
• Outstanding Thesis (Masters)
• Outstanding Dissertation (Doctoral)
• Goodall and Trujillo “It’s a Way of Life” Award in Narrative Ethnography
• Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award

Nominations for all awards are due by 15 July 2025. An author cannot have more than two nominations across all award categories.

For more information about these awards, including how to submit a nomination, visit iaani.org/awards or click this link: https://forms.gle/ucKDqZw3MvXxxvSo7

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Call for Proposals
2026 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN)
6 March – 8 March 2026 (online)

The 2026 ISAN will provide scholars and practitioners of all experience levels an opportunity to present their autoethnographic and personal narrative projects and to socialize with scholars across a variety of disciplines.

The symposium will occur via Zoom on 6 MARCH – 8 MARCH 2026. 6 March will feature sessions in Polish, Spanish, Japanese, German, and Portuguese; 7-8 March will feature sessions in English. Eastern Standard Time (EST) will be used for all symposium activities.

We now welcome proposals for individual projects and live discussion panels. For more information about the symposium including how to submit a proposal, visit www.iaani.org/2026isan.

The deadline to submit a proposal is 15 August 2025.

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The Journal of Autoethnography welcomes submissions of original manuscripts and book reviews. For more information about how to submit a manuscript, visit the journal's website and the submission guidelines. Below are the articles from the last two issues of the journal.

Volume 6, Issue 1 (January 2025)

https://online.ucpress.edu/joae/issue/6/1
(Currently a free issue!)

• The Eulogy as Spiritual Autoethnography, Carolyn Ellis
  
• The Grave, Devika Chawla
  
• The Mayhill Project, Jessica Smartt Gullion
  
• Between the One Who Remembers and the One Who Forgets: Acknowledgement in Caring for a Parent with Dementia, Arthur P. Bochner
  
• An Autoethnographic Reflection of a Female Psychotherapist with Mentally Challenged Siblings, An-Hua Yeh
  
• Being B(l)ack in the Trenches: Navigating Fear and Intuitions as a Black Researcher Exploring Archives in the South, Clarice O. Thomas
  
• An Immigrant Teacher’s Politic Account of Revising their Becoming as an Outsider, Dave Yan
  
• Parenting a Neurodiverse Child during the Elementary School Years: A Parent’s Autoethnography, Susan A. Comerford
  

Volume 6, Issue 2 (April 2025)

https://online.ucpress.edu/joae/issue/6/2

• Supporting Laurie: An Autoethnographic Story of Recovering from Intimate Partner Violence, Barbara J. Jago
  
• Fighting at Papaya King: Hot Dogs, the Holocaust, and Intergenerational Trauma, Elizabeth Eilender
  
• “I Learned that from You”: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Masculinities, Identity, Passing, Fathers, and the Trouble with Returning Home, Dan Strasser
  
• The Diagnosis, Joe Cleary 
  
• A Journey through Reproductive Loss and Autoethnography: The Importance of a Guide through the Uncharted Territory, Caroline Lafarge and Kitrina Douglas
  
• An Autoethnographic Journey of How I Almost Died from Postpartum Depression, Kylie Campbell-Clarke
  
• An Affective Topology of the Landscapes of Prison: An Autoethnographic Journey Through One Prison Sentence and Many Spaces, Lucy Campbell
  
• It Has Been Handled: Hoping for Transformation in the Neoliberal University Setting, Alyssa Hasegawa Smith
  
• Re-turning “Yoga Vibes”: A Lively Affair of Diffractive Auto/ethnography, Elizabeth McKibben 
  
• Transitioning to Tertiary: A Collaborative Autoethnography Exploring the Transition from a Teacher Identity to an Academic Identity, Nadia Mead and Miriam Ham
  

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UPCOMING EVENTS
International Conference of Autoethnography
13-15 July 2025 (in-person + online)

Qualitative Research Summer Intensive
21-25 July 2025 (online) and 30 July-1 August 2025 (online)

Critical Autoethnography Conference
1-3 October 2025 (in-person)

World Conference on Qualitative Research
20-22 January 2026 (in-person) and 2-5 February 2026 (online)

International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN)
6-8 March 2026 (online)