Events Archive
2021
‘These Barbed Wire Barriers: Antonio Gramsci and the Schucht Sisters’ by Jenifer Nicholson.
BSA Auto/Biography Study Group Monograph Launch on 4 February 2021. LISTEN HERE
'The Broken Chain' by Christine Lewis (Edgehill University)
Auto/Biography Study Group Seminar on 7 January 2021.
2020
Auto/Biography and Community Programme and Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference on 4 December 2020 (online).
Keynote: Julie Parsons.
Lockdown Moments: Doing Auto/Biography by Yvonne Anderson (Mind of My Own) and Carly Stewart (Bournemouth University)
Auto/Biography Study Group Seminar on 5 November 2020.
On Auto/Biography in Sociology
Auto/Biography Study Group Reading Group on 1 October 2020. Discussion about Stanley, L. (1993) On Auto/Biography in Sociology. Sociology, 27(1): 41-52.
2019
Childhood Programme and Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (18-20 July 2019) at Wolfson College, Oxford, UK.
Keynote: Andrew Sparkes.
2018
The Family Programme and Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (19-21 July 2018) at Wolfson College, Oxford, UK.
Keynote: Dennis Smith.
Past and Present Lives Programme and Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (7 December 2018) at Friends House, London, UK.
Keynote: Josie Abbott
2017
Gender and Auto/Biography Programme and Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (19-21 July 2017) at Dartington Hall, Devon, UK.
Keynote: Agneta Rahikainen
Public and Private Lives Programme and Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (8 December 2017) at Friends House, London, UK.
Keynote: Maria Tamboukou.
2016
Auto/Biography and the Presentation of the Self Programme and Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (15-17 July 2016) at Wolfson College, Oxford, UK.
Keynote: David Morgan.
Auto/Biographical Methodologies Programme and Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (16 December 2016) at Friends House, London, UK.
Keynote: Andrew Sparkes.
2015
Formal and Informal Education: Lives, Works and Relationships Programme and Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (16-18 July 2015) at Dartington Hall, Devon, UK.
Keynote: Yvonne Anderson.
Examining Questions of Coercion and Consent in the Analysis of Lives Programme
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (18 December 2015) at the British Library Conference Centre, London, UK
2014
People and Places Programme and Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (11-13 July 2014) at Wolfson College, Oxford, UK.
Keynote: Aidan Seery.
Lives in Conflict Programme Programme and Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (12 December 2014) at the British Library Conference Centre, London, UK
2013
Picturing the Self and Identity: Images of Auto/Biography Programme
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (11-13 July 2013) at La Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain.
Keynote: Rebeca Pardo.
Epiphanies Programme
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (20 December 2013) at the British Library Conference Centre, London, UK
2012
Heroes, Villains and Fools Programme Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (12-14 July 2012) at University of Reading, Reading, UK.
Keynote: Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes.
Fragments of Auto/Biography Programme Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (14 December 2012) at the British Library Conference Centre, London, UK
2011
Hidden Lives Programme
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (7-9 July 2011) at University of Reading, Reading, UK.
Keynote: Melissa Dearey.
Celebrity Programme
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (16 December 2011) at the British Library Conference Centre, London, UK.
Keynote: Gayle Letherby.
2010
Legacies Programme
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (8-10 July 2010) at University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Keynote: Gayle Letherby.
Feminism and Lives Programme
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (14 December 2010) at the British Library Conference Centre, London, UK
2009
Documenting Realities
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (9-11 July 2009) at University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Dress and Undress Programme Abstracts
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (15 December 2009) at the British Library Conference Centre, London, UK
2008
Secrets, Gaps and Absences in Auto/Biography
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (10-12 July 2008) at University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Keeping Up Appearances: Auto/Biography and Dress
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (18 December 2008) at the Institute of Education, London, UK
2007
Empathy in Auto/Biography
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (12-14 July 2007) at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Disordered Lives: Problems in the Life Course
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (18 December 2007)
2006
Auto/Biographies and Documenting Lives
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (13-15 July 2006) at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Food and Lives
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference
2005
Auto/Biographies and Defining Identities
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (July, 2005) at the University of London, London, UK
Lives and Times and Auto/Biography
Auto/Biography Study Group Christmas Conference (16 December 2005) at the Institute of Education, London, UK
2004
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (July, 2004) at University College Chichester, Chichester, UK
Art, Literature and Auto/Biography
Auto/Biography Study Group One Day Conference (26 March 2004) at the Institute of Education, London, UK
2002
Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference (19-21 July 2002) at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK