Open AccessIntroduction to "Beyond the Subject. New Developments in Life Writing."
Author(s) -
Tobias Heinrich,
Monica Soeting
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
european journal of life writing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2211-243X
DOI - 10.5463/ejlw.3.134
Subject(s) - life writing , subject (documents) , bridging (networking) , biography , history , public life , section (typography) , media studies , library science , classics , sociology , literature , art history , computer science , political science , art , law , computer network , politics , operating system
Following two successful conferences in Amsterdam in 2009 and in Tallinn in 2011, the third IABA Europe biennial conference, held from 31 October to 3 November 2013 in Vienna and hosted by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography, was entitled “Beyond the Subject. New Developments in Life Writing” and aimed at bridging the gap between historical forms of life writing and the most recent medial transformations in the genre of life writing, like personal websites, blogs and social networks as new spaces in the autobiographical public sphere. At the same time, the conference focused on auto/biographical practices that consciously undermine the traditional Western concept of the subject and develop alternative models of life writing. After the conference, participants were invited to submit articles based on their papers presented at the 2013 IA BA Europe conference, to be published in the European Journal of Life Writing. In this section of the journal you will find samples of the different topics that were addressed during the conference. This article was submitted on September 1st, 2014, and published on November 3rd, 2014.