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News and Announcements Call for Papers: JHB The Journal of Historical
Biography is not soliciting further submissions at present. Journal: Life Writing  Life
Writing is a fresh initiative in the scholarly
exploration of biography and autobiography. The journal has three
sections: Academic Articles, Reflections and Reviews. We invite authors
to submit articles that consider any aspect of the contemporary
meanings of life narrative. We are particularly interested in work that
aims to incorporate interdisciplinary perspectives. Editors:
Mary Besemeres and Maureen Perkins, Curtin University of Technology,
Australia. For more information, please visit http://www.informaworld.com/lifewriting. Center for Research in Biography  The
Center for Research in Biography (Zentrum für Biographik,
ZetBi) was founded in 2004 as an academic network focused on
theoretical and practical issues in biographical writing. It brings
together some 20 junior researchers from various fields who are engaged
in the practical work of writing biographies as well as in developing a
systematic theory of biography. The network includes members from
Germany, Austria, Finland, and Israel who are committed to cultivating
an international and interdisciplinary discourse on the theory of
biography.Although biography has always been a fundamental tool of literature, culture, media and gender studies, as well as history, psychology and the social sciences, there has been relatively little interdisciplinary exchange on the methodological and theoretical foundations of biography. Therefore, the Center for Research in Biography aims to unite and systematize the different theoretical perspectives of these diverse fields. The Center for Research in Biography examines the theoretical foundations of biography for its heuristic relevance in the humanities. We are currently focused on three topics of contemporary relevance: (1) questions of the construction of identity, (2) performative as well as anthropological dimensions of human behavior, and (3) the significance of the biographical genre in the processes of memory and history. Working on biographies ourselves, we contextualize these theoretical implications within our individual practices. To this end, the network meets twice a year for workshops dealing with relevant issues of biography, e.g. Memory and Commemoration, Narrative Strategies, Film and Biography. Center for Research in Biography Publication List For more information please visit our (German) website at www.zentrum-fuer-biographik.de or contact Levke Harders, Department of History, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin as well as Department of History, University of Bielefeld, at levke.harders@geschichte.hu-berlin.de. The JHB will publish announcements and notices that are relevant to its readers. Please send calls for papers; notices of conferences, awards, or new publications; and other items of interest to the e-mail address listed on our Contact page. |
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Journal
of Historical Biography ISSN: 1911-8538
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Journal of Historical Biography is produced by the History Department
at University of the Fraser Valley, BC, Canada.
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