All registered participants have access to the pre-recorded presentations for on-demand viewing, the workshops, the live online sessions, and other materials available during the conference.
There will be access to the presentations and a possibility for participants to ask questions a week before the conference's start.
Conference Timetable (schedule in Polish local time, UTC +1)
14:00 - 15:00
Open space for delegates to drop into and meet and greet each other
15:00 - 16:00
Plenary
Welcome to Wrocław
The Network
Introduction to conference theme
16:15 - 17:30
Group 1: Getting to know each other, using evocative objects
16:15 - 17:30
Group 2: Getting to know each other, using evocative objects
16:15 - 17:30
Group 3: Getting to know each other, using evocative objects
11:00 - 11:30
Open space for delegates to drop into and meet and greet each other
11:30 - 11:50
An eco-sensitive biographical research: epistemologies, methods, and contexts - Introduction to the theme
11:50 - 12:30
Open discussion
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 16:30
Group 1
Biographical Methods
Facilitators: Alan Bainbridge, Gaia Del Negro, Freema Elbaz-Luwisch, Rob Evans
- Freema Elbaz-Luwisch and colleagues, Lifelong learning in a different voice: women academics’ narratives of retirement
- Rob Evans, Ksu in the city: rediscovering the streets, finding solidarity and stories of joy, fear and hope in Belarus 2020
- Beata Wawrzyniak, „Into the deep end…” - Monomyth, or a story about a teacher during the pandemic
- Alan Bainbridge, A Tale of Two Grandfathers: the working- life, a deceit and a real Bobby Dazzler
13:30 - 16:30
Group 2
Creative and narrative activism
Facilitators: Laura Formenti, Hervé Breton, Silvia Luraschi
- Anna Bilon-Piórko, The interplay between agency and learning in the narratives of Polish activists
- Rebekka Mirjam Hölzle, “Illiteracy make me suffer a lot!” - An oral history of 'illiteracy', gender and forced displacement with a female asylum-seeker
- Marnina Winkler, What’s in the Box?: A Journey of Learning and Evolving through Life-Writing found in Archival Collections
13:30 - 16:30
Group 3
Ecological perspectives of meaning
Facilitators: Linden West, Malgorzata Malec Rawiński, Laura Mazzoli Smith
- Laura Mazzoli Smith, An exploration of how the ecology of a learning life can help mitigate against methodological individualism
- Małgosia Malec Rawiński, The process of dying in the light of life experiences and ecology of life from the auto/biographical perspective
- Dalila Raccagni, Spaces for native and foreign parents: when personal thoughts can become learning opportunities
- Susan Mossman Riva, Transformagrams: Designing Transformative Pedagogies for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
16:45 - 17:30
Brief plenary - feedback from groups (all delegates together)
10:00 - 11:00
Workshop 1
Inger Helen Midtgård, Berit Bareksten
Memories and dialogues within auto/biographical research. Listen and learn through poetic voices and performing in private and public life – a methodological approach (registration required) - description / registration
10:00 - 11:25
Workshop 2
Markus Stefan
The Present as a Lived Ecology: Exploring the Participatory Nature of Thinking, Knowing, and Imagination - description
11:30 - 11:50
What will we need for the future, as researchers and/or adult educators? A post-Covid sensitivity - Introduction to the theme
11:50 - 12:30
Open discussion
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 16:30
Group 1
An Ecology of Life and Learning
Facilitators: Alan Bainbridge, Gaia Del Negro, Freema Elbaz-Luwisch, Rob Evans
- Skyller Walkes, Rob Evans, Black on white. The uneasy dialogue laying bare narratives of recognition of Blackness and whiteness
- Hazel Wright, Shoring Fragments Against the Ruins: Stories of Resourcefulness in a Time of Crisis
- Gaia Del Negro, Beginning teaching Italian as a foreign language: auto/biographical reflections on knowing and self
- Antonella Cuppari, Islands of certainty in the ocean of complexity: A cooperative inquiry into the effects of the Covid19 emergency on social workers in Northern Italy
13:30 - 16:30
Group 2
Sensitive lives
Facilitators: Laura Formenti, Hervé Breton, Silvia Luraschi
- Silvia Luraschi, Going back to school: an ecological gesture of women non-traditional students
- Hervé Breton, Life narrative and Sensitive Life: What Ecology of Life Story?
- Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Amy Ward, Poetic Narratives of Navigating Patriarchy and Overcoming Impostorship to Sustain Hope During Challenging Times
13:30 - 16:30
Group 3
Interrogating Biographical Research
Facilitators: Linden West, Malgorzata Malec Rawiński, Laura Mazzoli Smith
- Ivan A. Kirchgaesser, Dark Realism: An auto/biographical enquiry into creative strategies of queer resilience
- Linden West, Stefan Alexa, Where is home? Migration, trauma and adult education: a dialogue
- Doria Daniels, Adult education as care work: narrating successful adult learning discourse in a South African prison
16:45 - 17:30
Brief plenary - feedback from groups (all delegates together)
9:00 - 12:00
Group 1
Discourses in a changing world
Facilitators: Alan Bainbridge, Gaia Del Negro, Freema Elbaz-Luwisch, Rob Evans
- Paweł Rudnicki, Piotr Zańko, Marta Gontarska, Hope calls for action. Stories of activists from Extinction Rebellion Poland
- Anna Aluffi Pentini, The servant and the care: a biography of the last century
- Togtokhmaa Zagir, Helga Dorner, Mongolian adult learning facilitators’ professional identity in biographical perspectives
- Teti Dragas, Digital Storytelling as a powerful means of transforming Higher Education Learning within the disciplines
9:00 - 12:00
Group 2
Biographic epistemologies
Facilitators: Laura Formenti, Hervé Breton, Silvia Luraschi
- Laura Formenti, The bio-logic in the bio-graphic: a systemic imagination on diversity
- Marcin Gołębniak, Be natives to each other: The biographical invention of culture and cultures in teaching cultural anthropology
- Federica De Carlo, Intercultural narrative guidance
- Helen Woodley, Kierkegaardian Struggles at the end of the Postmodern Age: Reframing Autoethnography in a Philosophical Heritage
- Peter Leyland, The Companionship of Books
9:00 - 12:00
Group 3
Dialogue, community learning and social worlds
Facilitators: Linden West, Malgorzata Malec Rawiński, Laura Mazzoli Smith
- Brigida Angeloni, The life histories of immigrants between education, work and community
- Kamila Prociów, The Human Library. Pedagogical Study of a Space for Encountering the Other
- Camilla Sanna, Patric Wallin, Students’ identity negotiations within the university ecology
- Vito Balzano, Adult education in new local welfare systems. The contribution of social pedagogy in an important Italian reality
- Darasimi Powei Oshodi, Questions of (mis)recognition in the relationship between Italian teachers and asylum seeker students
12:15 - 13:30
Closing plenary - feedback and discussing the future