Life Storying in the 21st Century : Interdisciplinary Approaches

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F22%3A00129180" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129180 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://ceska-literatura.phil.muni.cz/konference/life-storying-in-the-21st-century-interdisciplinary-approaches" target="_blank" >https://ceska-literatura.phil.muni.cz/konference/life-storying-in-the-21st-century-interdisciplinary-approaches</a>

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Life Storying in the 21st Century : Interdisciplinary Approaches

Original language description

International and Interdisciplinary Conference organized at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. About the conference: New technologies and forms of dissemination have arguably changed the ways in which people tell their life stories. Oral history interviews are now mostly conducted with a view to being archived online, life writing in its manifold subgenres has been influenced by new platforms of communication and digital formats such as personal weblogs, social media and hyperfiction. More storytellers can now be heard in wider public arenas and their stories potentially reach larger audiences. Furthermore, the boundaries between what is ‘private’ and ‘public’ have been blurred in the shift of initially more intimate genres, such as the diary, to their contemporary online equivalents. And even where autobiographies are published in traditional book form, the impact of other discursive and medial forms on the book’s textual design becomes visible. At the same time, transformation has not only marked channels for life storying but also the very lives that are lived and told. While people of all times and ages experienced changes in their lives, these changes have perhaps never been as rapid and as all-encompassing as in the first decades of this century. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought this transformation into sharper relief, but it, too, is only the apex of more long-lasting developments that have been with us for some time now: changes at home and in the workplace; changes in social interaction; changes on a global scale in history, politics, the economy, and the ecosystem. How do contemporary personal life stories and their narrative strategies dovetail with those larger developments? What channels of communication do life storytellers use and what are their effects? What effects do changes in life-storying practices have on identity construction? This conference brings together scholars from different disciplines (oral history, auto/biography studies, sociology, linguistics, literary and cultural studies, media studies, psychology, ethnography, and others) with an interest in contemporary life storytelling in its manifold forms.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

M - Conference organization

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60205 - Literary theory

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA21-12454S" target="_blank" >GA21-12454S: Fact and Fiction in Life Stories: Life Writing and Its Narrative Strategies</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Brno

Event country

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Event starting date

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Event ending date

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Total number of attendees

18

Foreign attendee count

13

Type of event by attendee nationality

EUR - Evropská akce