The Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference
Chase Park Plaza
St Louis, Missouri
April 22-24, 2010
Submission deadline is February 20, 2010
I.S.E.B. invites academics, teachers, graduate students, researchers and anyone who engages biography or aspects of biography in their writing, teaching, research, or other professional endeavors in any field (not exclusively education), to submit proposals for our annual conference. Previous papers have been given by English professors, history professors,law professors, French professors, graduate students, and priests, persons from Colleges of Education and other disciplines.
Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: Collective biographies, Role of biography in the history of education, biography and fiction, general biography in any area, plot structures of biographies, biographic criticism, publishing biographies, feminist approaches to life writing, use of life narratives in classroom instruction, oral history, experimental approaches to life-writing, narrating lives, ethical issues in life writing.
ISEB promotes the scholarly study of the lives of educators and those whose lives are educative. All analytical and interpretive approaches to biographies shall be encouraged as well as the exchange of ideas between scholars of education and those from other disciplines who have an interest in the field of education through the common bond of the educational biography. By "biography” we include traditional biographical accounts as well as biographical methods which include narrative, oral history, autobiography, ethnography, auto-ethnography, self-study.
The refereed conference invites individual papers and panel discussions; other presentation formats are welcome. Generally, the conference schedule allows 30 minutes for individual papers (includes discussion time), and 60-75 minutes for panel discussions and other kinds of presentations.
Please state any time and day that you cannot present.
Proposals should be sent as attachments and include:
- A title page which includes title, name of author(s), address, telephone #, fax #, and e-mail.
- A 250-350 word abstract describing the importance of the topic, the approach taken & the need for any technology.
Send proposals by surface mail, or e-mail attachment to:
Dr. John W. Hunt
Southern Illinois University
School of Education, Department of Educational Leadership
Campus Box 1125
Edwardsville, IL. 62026
Email: johhunt@siue.edu
618-650-3953
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