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Turning Personal: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Date: 16-17 September 2009
Venue: University of Manchester, UK
Keynote Speakers
Carol Smart (Morgan Centre, University of Manchester) "Hauntings:
Living with other people's lives"
Tia DeNora (University of Exeter) "Musical Selves in Musical Spaces"
Ann Phoenix (Institute of Education) TBC
About the conference
Turning Personal will provide a forum for the discussion of how social
research can incorporate more complex and multi-layered accounts of
personal lives into academic writings and analyses. It has been argued
that we now have a sociology without real people and the same may be
said of some sister disciplines and although there have always been
threads of work which re-imagine the personal (eg biographical work)
there is more to be done and said about capturing some of the more
detailed aspects of personal lives, as well as theorising personal
life more cogently.
Abstracts and conference themes
Abstracts are invited from postgraduates, researchers and established
scholars alike and papers may focus on empirical studies or
theoretical research. We welcome abstracts for papers, symposia or
posters. The list of topics below is to stimulate ideas and is not
prescriptive or exhaustive. We will organise papers into clusters
which will run in parallel sessions.
Personal lives in public spaces
Emotions and emotional spaces
Escape(s) from intimacy
Relationships/ Relationality/ Connectedness
Virtual lives and second lives
Impersonal lives
Writing/researching/theorising the personal
Submission of abstracts
Deadline for abstracts is 1 April 2009.
Please send your completed abstract submission form to:
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Abstract submission forms available on the conference website.
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/events/2009/turning-personal/
Registration
Registration for the conference will open after the call for abstracts
has closed. There will be standard and concessionary fees and we will
confirm these when registration opens.
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