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The 2024 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN) will take place March 1-3, 2024 (online). Early registration ends January 15, 2024
The Symposium will again 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 across a variety of disciplines. The symposium will occur via Zoom on March 1-3, 2024. Eastern Standard Time (EST) will be used for all symposium activities.
All are welcome to attend ISAN, though they must register for the event. Early registration (November 1, 2023-January 15, 2024) will cost $75 (USD) for full-time faculty and professionals, and $50 for students, part-time faculty, guests, and independent scholars. After January 15, 2024, registration will cost $100 and $75 respectively. For more information, go to www.iaani.org/2024isan
All paid registrants will receive one-year of complimentary access to the Journal of Autoethnography. (Access will run April 1, 2024-March 31, 2025.)
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2023 ISAN Proceedings
The proceedings of the 2023 ISAN are now available. You can access the proceedings at www.iaani.org/2023isan
Thanks to Renny Cummings, Cody M. Clemens, Himanee Gupta, Christina L. Ivey, Dawne Fahey, Cassidy D. Ellis, Marlen Harrison, LaVette Burnette, Sandra Hopkins and all of the contributors for making the proceedings possible!
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Autoethnographic Storytelling in Qualitative Research
Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner
The Qualitative Report Virtual Workshop
Friday, February 9, 2024
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM 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. For more information visit https://tqr.nova.edu/autoethnographic-storytelling-in-qualitative-research-carolyn-ellis-and-arthur-bochner-february-9-2024/
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Call for Submissions: Journal of Autoethnography
The Journal of Autoethnography is entering its fifth (!) year! It has been an honor and opportunity to work with everyone on this adventure. We are especially grateful to the authors who craft such compelling work, our reviewers who graciously provide feedback, and the entire University of California Press journals team, especially Cheryl Swope, John Wentworth, and David Famiano.
If you are interested in submitting a manuscript, please read the journal submission guidelines and our introductory essays to each volume, especially “Autoethnography and the So What? Question” and “Good Autoethnography.”
We also welcome proposals for Forums. A Forum is a collection of brief, original essays focused on a particular theme related to autoethnography. A typical forum (10,000-15,000 words) will consist of an introductory essay written by the forum editor (1000-1500 words) and 5-6 short essays written by others (1500-2000 words each) around a theme. To submit a Forum proposal, send a title, brief rationale (250 words), a list of tentative contributors and their titles/affiliations, and a current CV to joae_ed...@ucpress.edu.
Finally, please encourage your library to support the journal by subscribing to it. Library subscriptions make this journal, and autoethnography more broadly, go.
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Call for Submissions: The Autoethnographer
The AutoEthnographer, an award-winning, non-profit, open-access, peer-reviewed, digital literary and arts magazine, invites you to submit your work! Our independent editorial team of international artists, performers, writers, and scholars invites unpublished, unsolicited, evocative stories – textual, audio, visual, or multimodal – crafted in conjunction with autoethnography that celebrate the intersection of personal expression and cultural inquiry. We also accept submissions that reflectively explore the teaching, learning, or performing of autoethnography with the intent to educate others or to produce content that can be utilized in educational settings. Additionally, each year we also invite thematic submissions in addition to our general submissions, and offer scholarship opportunities to students of all ages. Learn more at https://theautoethnographer.com.
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Certificate in Autoethnography
We’re assembling the third cohort of the online Certificate in Autoethnography program at Bradley University. The six-week program will begin Monday, January 22, 2024.
This non-credit course is designed for students and scholars who want to learn more about doing autoethnographic research. The course will be taught by Dr. Tony Adams, Caterpillar Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Bradley.
Upon completion of the course, learners will earn a digital badge and digital certificate with metadata that indicates they have studied the techniques to describe and analyze personal experiences and connect these experiences to cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings.
The Winter 2024 cohort launches January 22 asynchronously; the synchronous meetings are scheduled for six consecutive Mondays from 4:00-5:00pm (CST), also beginning January 22, 2024. The course is limited to 20 learners.
For more information, visit www.bradley.edu/autoethnography
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International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
May 15-18, 2024 and May 29-31, 2024
(in-person) (online)
For more information, visit www.icqi.org
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International Conference of Autoethnography
July 21-23, 2024
(online + in-person)
For more information, visit https://boomerang-project.org.uk
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Qualitative Research Summer Intensive
July 22-26 and July 31-August 2, 2024
For more information, visit https://www.researchtalk.com/QRSI2024