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In 1999, Zhao Baisheng created the International Auto/biography Association (IABA) at the First International Auto/Biography Conference at Peking University, attended by delegates from Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America.

IABA's stated aims at the time were to broaden the world vision of auto/biographers, scholars and readers, to deepen the cross-cultural understanding of self, identity and experience, and to carry on global dialogues on life writing. An organizing committee was formed in Beijing. After the conference, Craig Howes, director of the Center for Biographical Research at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, set up a listserv for IABA.

Since 1999, IABA and its four continental chapters have held 25 international conferences in Asia, Americas, Australia, Europe and Africa.

Susanna Egan, Gabriele Helms and Shirley Neuman organized the second IABA conferen IABA (International Auto/Biography Association) World ... NOZO