CFP: ‘Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas’ (York University, Toronto)
The International Auto/Biography Association Chapter of the Americas Conference: May 15-17, 2017 Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas A Symposium in Honour of Marlene Kadar To be held at the Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto. We invite proposals for the third biennial meeting of IABA Americas that will be held at the Centre for Feminist Research in Toronto with support from the US Fulbright Program. The conference will explore the multiple lines that gendered lives in the Americas cross, both physical borders and intangible boundaries. The conference is dedicated to the celebration of the scholarship of Marlene Kadar, a Canadian theorist and critic whose contributions have dramatically changed the field by pushing the conceptual boundaries of what constitutes life writing and expanding its interdisciplinary methods of study. The themes suggested below relate to and amplify Kadar’s research interests and are clustered around issues of […]