生命敘事：自我表述、醫學敘事與文化記憶
高雄醫學大學人文社會科學院主辦
人文社會科學院跨文化研究中心協辦
研討會時間：2017年9月29日、30日
生命敘事是一個文類，也是學術研究領域的一種評論方式；生命敘事常與歷史、文學和紀錄文獻有關，其次文類更包括回憶錄、日記、自述、書信、口述歷史、見證記事與電影。生命敘事近年來已是人文學中最受注目的研究主題之一，此一敘事研究涉及個人或集體的身分認同、文化調適、遷徙經驗、離散與傷痛記憶和敘事者與自身的對話。生命敘事反映自我與社會的關連和文化層面的影響，書信和日記更可能透露個人與集體過去的軌跡。總而言之，生命敘事的研究不僅可以重新檢視人類的價值，和反思人們的記憶與情感，在心理學的領域裡，生命敘事更有療癒的效果，此一方法不僅可以催化自我認知，還能協助敘事者重新面對不願回顧的過去。
2017年「生命敘事」國際研討會將由高雄醫學大學人文社會科學院和跨文化研究中心主辦，歡迎國內外有興趣專家學者投稿，請於2016年9月15日以前提供論文摘要，中文500字或英文150字以內，寄至ichunwang316@gmail.com。
- 生命敘事研討會相關子題如下：
戰爭、殖民與生命敘事
疾病與生命敘事
生命敘事與文化記憶
族群之生命敘事
生命敘事與情感表達
生命敘事與口述歷史
生命敘事與教學
生命敘事與主體論述
書寫自我與他者
醫療敘事
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2017 International Conference on Life Writing:
Self-Representation, Medical Narrative and Cultural Memory
Co-Sponsored by the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences
and the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, at Kaohsiung Medical University
September 29-30, 2017
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 immediate effects of personal letters and journals disclose the past of individuals and collectives. Research on life writing discovers human values and they address issues on memories, affect, and cultural aspects of identity formation. In the field of psychological sciences, life writing also serves as “scriptotherapy,” that is, the healing power of self-narrative which helps to foster not just self-awareness; it helps traumatized subjects confront the unspeakable past. In philosophy and literature, the examination of one’s life is important, for instance the platonic Socrates urging that the unexamined life is not worth living, Descartes’ idea that I think therefore I am, the exploration of self in Montaigne, the existentialist exploration of self and existence in Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus and others, the examination of self in the soliloquies of Shakespeare as in Hamlet, the sense of self in the discourses of education and human rights in Montaigne, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu and others. Nietzsche questions the traditional sense of self and morality and provokes further debates on that, so that our lives have no one story and that truths are constructed. Feminist philosophers, such as De Beauvoir and Elaine Showalter, challenge the kind of life-writing that men have constructed and try to introduce gender to the debate. The sense of life and the idea of writing are contested. Writing the self or subject has private and public dimension in art, philosophy, medicine and life of people.
The 2017 International Conference on Life Writing 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. We welcome papers and abstracts in English with a focus on life writing in the Eastern or Western world. For individual proposals, please submit a one-page, double-spaced abstract in English before September 10; for panels, please send presenters’ names and abstracts together before September 15, 2016. For submissions and queries, please contact organizing committee at ichunwang316@gmail.com
Suggested but not limited domains include the following:
Film biography
War, colony and life writing
Life writing and illness
Reading the self and private life
Life writing and ethnic memory
Oral history
Medical narrative
Letters and censorship
Life writing in transcultural context
Politics of life writing
Emotion and self-narration
Subjectivity and Imagining the Self
Writing the self and Others
(Re)appropriation of life-writing in popular culture
Collective history and the individual
Life writing as subjective narratives
Teaching Life Narratives