The two-day conference puts the focus on biographical and auto-biographical narratives and writings and ways of implementing such texts in the EFL classroom. The conference aims to bring together authors, illustrators, storytellers, teachers, researchers and teacher educators from all educational levels. We would like to present a unique blend of theory of practice through paper presentations, workshops, lectures and storytelling.

Conference topics
For the presentations and workshops we would like to encourage contributions based on biographical / autobiographical texts particularly from the following fields:

- Fiction of migration, culture and identity
- Adventure / crime stories
- Coming of age stories
- Historical fiction

Regarding the form of the texts, we are open to narratives across the media (novels, plays, poetry, picturebooks, graphic novels and comics, film, tv series, audiobooks and audioplays) and hope for an interesting mix.

Individual paper sessions are 45 minutes long, with 30 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Workshops are 90 minutes long and are expected to involve the participants in activities. The conference language is English.

Venue and time: September 3 and 4, 2020 at the PHZH in Zurich

Due date for abstracts: January 20, 2020

We kindly ask you to submit an abstract (up to 300 words and a short biography of 80 words, in a Word document) to the following email address: phzh.englisch@clutterphzh.ch

Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2020

Organising committee: Nikola Mayer, Michael Prusse, Regula Fuchs, Laura Loder-Büchel

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