1st European Auto/Biography Association meeting in Amsterdam 29-31 October

The International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) which was founded ten year ago has so far held six biennial conferences in Asia, North America, Australia and Europe. Now a European branch of IABA has been established. The founding conference will take place at VU University in Amsterdam, 29-31 October 2009. Panels (three papers) on a single topic and submitted together are welcome. As the conference aims to stimulate discussion between conference participants, papers should not exceed 15 minutes in length. Send 300 words abstracts with a short cv to Alfred Hornung (hornung@uni-mainz.de) AND Monica Soeting (m.soeting@xs4all.nl). Deadline is 1 May, 2009.