Life writing is a genre and a practice of criticism (Marlene Kadar, 1992) that refers to history, literature, and documentary and includes the sub-genres of memoirs, biography, oral testimonies, diaries, epistolary works and personal narratives. The genre writing has been a favorite one for research in the humanities serving to explore identity formation and inner dialogue with the self as well as with critical transitions, such as cultural adaptation, diaspora, migration, and other traumatic experiences. Life writings are an important resource to understand individuals, communities and the cultural impacts of historical periods. The 2017 International Conference on Life Writing to be held at Kaohsiung Medical University will be co-hosted on September 29-30, 2017 by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies at Kaohsiung Medical University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Keynote Speaker

• Professor G. Thomas Couser
• Professor Emeritus of English and Founding Director, Disability Studies Program, Hofstra University
• Editorial Boards:

Sessions Include

• Ageing, War, and Philosophical Migration
• Life writing in Dramas and Classical Narratives
• Life writing and Asian Writers
• Medical Narratives and Environmental Writing
• Migrants, Disaster and Environment
• Healing and Transnational Memory
• Body and healing: Self-fashioning
• 在地生命書寫
• 跨文化書寫
• 文學與傳記：古典與現代
• 戰爭、威權與生命書寫
• 族群研究與生命書寫
• 敘事醫療