Abstracts

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We invite abstracts of no more than 250 words (bibliography excluded) in English or French. Please send them to lifewritingtranslation(at)unige.ch by 16 November 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be distributed at the beginning of February 2026.

We expect 250-word abstracts that contain the following elements:

Context
Brief literature review
Theoretical framework (if relevant)
Research question(s)
Methodology
(Preliminary) results
Opening

Practitioners (who are not also researchers) can send us a 200-word abstract that gives the following information:

Short description of your job or project
Context in which you have kept a journal or diary
Approximate length of your journal
Language(s)
Format (e.g., keywords, table, or narrative)
Language(s)
Type of entries (e.g. notes on terminology or emotional content)
Focus of your presentation (e.g. customer relations, sensitive content, or emotion management)
Relevance for other practitioners