Reading Group on Autoethnography

29.04.2025, 3-5pm
LUCA Alexianenplein 1, Ghent (room to be confirmed) + online through https://taat.live/agora/autoethnography

In this reading group we’ll explore autoethnography both as method and practice, focusing on how personal narrative, memory, and positionally can disrupt and expand traditional research paradigms. Our hybrid reading room is designed for collective reading, reflection and conversation at the intersections of autoethnography, embodied and artistic research practices. 

Drawing from the texts ‘For multispecies autoethnography' by Kathryn Gillespie and ‘I swear I hated it, and therefore I drew it’ by Letizia Bonanno, we will think through autoethnography as process and product, drawing and other embodied research practices, the potential of personal stories to reveal how we know. 

Whether you're curious, experienced, or somewhere in between, we hope you'll join us in thinking and feeling through the potential of personal and collective storytelling in research.

The session will be hosted by artist-researcher Dieuwke Raymaekers. Please confirm your attendence before wednesday April 23 by mailing at dieuwke.raymaekers@lacambre.be

Texts: 

(to read in preparation, pdf via email)
Gillespie, K., 'For multispecies autoethnography', Nature and Space, 2022, Vol. 5(4)
- page 2101-2102 (until "A multispecies autoethnographic illustration”)
- page 2106-end (from "Excavating anthropocentrism")

(to read together in the session)
Bonanno, L. (2019). ‘I swear I hated it, and therefore I drew it’, entanglements, 2(2):39-55
https://entanglementsjournal.wordpress.com/i-swear-i-hated-it/