NewsletterTurning Personal: An Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Manchester, UK
September 16-17, 2009
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:
victoria.higham@manchester.ac.uk.
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.
