2025 ISAN CFP, 2026 IAANI Forum, etc.
Tony Adams
Call for Submissions
2025 ISAN
February 28-March 2, 2025 (online)
The 2025 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN) will provide scholars and practitioners of all experience levels an opportunity to present their autoethnographic and personal narrative projects and to participate in dialogue and sociability with scholars from a variety of disciplines.
The Symposium will occur via Zoom. February 28 will feature sessions in Polish, Spanish, and Japanese; March 1-2 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. The deadline to submit a proposal is August 15, 2024.
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Call for Nominations
2025 IAANI Awards
We now invite nominations for the following 2025 awards:
Outstanding Article
Outstanding Book Chapter
Early Career Award
Bochner and Ellis Resonance Award
Goodall and Trujillo “It’s a Way of Life” Award in Narrative Ethnography
For more information about these awards, including how to submit a nomination, visit www.iaani.org/awards. Award submissions are due August 15, 2024.
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Save the Date
2026 IAANI Forum
January 2-5, 2026 (in-person)
Given the success of the January 2024 IAANI Forum, we will return to the Dolphin Beach Resort in 2026 for another IAANI Forum. We will share more information about this event in March 2025.
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2024 ISAN
The 2024 ISAN featured more than 100 prerecorded presentations of autoethnographic and narrative research. The Symposium also featured one keynote address, five workshops, and 15 spotlight sessions. More than 330 people registered for the symposium, and we had participants affiliated with more than 25 countries. You can find the final linked program and recordings of several sessions at www.iaani.org/2024isan
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The Qualitative Report Virtual Workshop
Autoethnographic Storytelling in Qualitative Research
with Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm (Eastern Standard Time)
This workshop will focus on autoethnographic storytelling in qualitative research. Ellis and Bochner will emphasize autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. They will discuss writing and reading personal narratives about lived experience along with reflexively including the researchers’ first-person voice and their interactions with participants in ethnographic projects. The workshop will be of interest to both novice and advanced students, researchers, and practitioners seeking to integrate autoethnographic storytelling into their research, teaching, and everyday life. Click here for more information.
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Upcoming Events
International Conference of Autoethnography
July 21-23, 2024 (in-person + online)
Qualitative Research Summer Intensive
July 22-26 and July 31-August 2, 2024 (online)
September 25-27, 2024 (in-person)
European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
January 7-10, 2025 (in-person)
The Qualitative Report Annual Conference
March 5-6, 2025 (in-person) and March 27-28, 2025 (online)
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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 Research Articles from the last two issues of the journal.
Volume 5, Issue 1 (January 2024)
Methodologically Whirling: An Arts-Based Approach to Autoethnography, SHEMINE GULAMHUSEIN
Living in a Material World: An Actor-Network Theory of Autoethnography, ROBERT C. MIZZI AND JORDAN LAIDLAW
A Scot an’ a Sassenach scrieve aboot leid: A three-pairt Scotoethnography (A Scot and an English Person Write about Language: A Scotoethnography in Three Parts), ALEC GRANT AND SUSAN YOUNG
The Elephant in My Head: A Layered Account on Managing Courtesy Stigma, RIKKI A. ROSCOE
Religious Transitions of Faith: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Sexual Abuse, Shame, and Identity (re)Formation within Mormonism, JOSH BIRD
Queering Edgework: An Autoethnographic Account of Cruising for Sex, JACOB W. RICHARDSON
The Day I Got My Period at the Museum: No Access to Menstrual Products Means No Freedom, SAKINA JANGBAR
From Familiarity to Fragility: An Autoethnographic Exploration of an Italian City, JOSHUA GARLAND
Volume 5, Issue 2 (April 2024)
The Autoethnography of a Teacher Educator: Between Storytelling and Loss, CHRISTOPHER AU
Lured Home, and Back Again: How Fanship, Fandom, and Nostalgia Led a Third Culture Kid to Middle-earth, JUSTIN B. HOPKINS
Captain Sisko and Me: Reflections of a Fatherless Daughter, BERNADETTE MARIE CALAFELL
Outside Looking In: An Autoethnography of One Woman’s Experience of Visual Impairment, JERI KAYLOR LORANZAN
Journey to LD Proud to Be, DAVE WHITE JR.
Complex Diagnosis, Complex Scholarship: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Being an Academic whilst Mothering a Child with Significant (Dis)abilities, CAMILLE SUTTON-BROWN
Writing the Everyday Breaking Body, JONATHAN WYATT
Frozen Bodies: A Visual Autoethnography of Deep Field Antarctic Glaciology, ELIZABETH CASE
Becoming a Leader: Going with the Flow, JAMES WHITEHEAD