Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry: Reflecting on the Legacy of Carolyn Ellis and Art Bochner


January 4-5, 2019
Dolphin Beach Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida

For more than 30 years, Art Bochner and Carolyn Ellis have championed the development and application of autoethnography, narrative inquiry, and qualitative methods. As architects of the rise of autoethnography, Ellis and Bochner have been passionate advocates of novel forms of investigating, expressing, and representing lived experience through narrative modes of writing, storytelling, and performance. As authors and editors of multiple books, book series, edited collections, articles and essays, they have shown us how to fuse the personal and the academic, the arts and the social sciences, rigor and imagination. Individually and collectively, their work has touched the lives of thousands of students and scholars across the globe. Indeed, it would be surprising to meet an autoethnographic researcher whose work has not been influenced by their scholarship.

The purpose of this symposium is to reflect on and advance the legacy of Ellis and Bochner. Open to the public, the symposium will require a $50 registration fee for each person who attends, including presenters and non-presenters.

Now we invite you to submit an extended, 500-word abstract to be considered for a full presentation at one of the sessions at the symposium. Abstracts/presentations should advance, reflect on, and/or expand perspectives on autoethnography and narrative inquiry in the spirit of Ellis's and Bochner's scholarship, including:
   - using autoethnography and narrative inquiry in ways advocated or encouraged by Bochner and/or Ellis;
   - engaging Ellis's and/or Bochner's theoretical and methodological contributions to autoethnography and narrative inquiry, as well as writing practices/conventions in the human sciences;
   - synthesizing ideas advocated by Bochner and/or Ellis with other disciplines, methods, and research topics;
   - applying literary, poetic, conversational, and/or critical modes of representation to concrete lived experiences;
   - extending Ellis's and/or Bochner's scholarship in new directions.

The symposium will be held at The Dolphin Beach Resort, 4900 Gulf Blvd., St. Pete Beach Florida. To reserve a room, guests must call the Dolphin Beach reservation department at 800-237-8916 and ask for the “Narrative and Autoethnography Group Block” listed under group code: G/NACN/2019. Room Rates: Gulf front rooms, $149.00; Poolside rooms, $129.00; Standard rooms, $109.00. Group rates are for up to 4 guests in a room and are subject to 13% tax and a $10.00 parking fee per night if you have a car. Group rates are NOT available on the internet. Only one car is allowed to be registered per room.

Please direct all inquiries to Tony Adams at tony.e.adams@gmail.com 





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