7th International Auto/Biography Association Conference
14/07/2010
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Dr Deborah Schultz recently presented a paper at the 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) conference held at the University of Sussex from 28 June to 1 July 2010. The main topic of the conference this year was ‘Life Writing and Intimate Publics’.
The IABA aims are to broaden the world vision of auto/biographers, scholars and readers, to deepen the cross-cultural understanding of self, identity and experience, and to carry on global dialogues on life writing.
The conference was widely attended with some 350 international delegates attending up to ten parallel sessions at a time. Dr Schultz’s presentation on ‘Visual Lives: The public and private spaces of photographs in the Arnold Daghani collection’ explored the intrinsic dual art/document nature of photography and the medium’s mobility of meaning, particularly where combined with written text. Examples discussed in her paper demonstrated the ways in which the photograph can often begin as an intimate private image only to be transformed into a public site of history, or into elements in constructed or partial biography. Photographs form the starting point for the viewer’s understanding of wider issues of memory, representation, history and politics.
Dr Schultz’s presentation was made possible by a grant from the Faculty Research and Development Committee at the University.
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