This performative position statement was originally presented in person at the Autoethnography Special Interest Group (SIG) Panel at ICQI 2024 with the theme: “Qualitative Inquiry in the Present Tense: Writing a New History,” organized by Stacy Holman Jones including Durrell Callier, Marcello Diversi, Elissa Foster, and Dominique Hill, immediately after the passing of Norman K. Denzin. What followed was the 2025 ICQI online. I am revisiting this presentation with a real sense of mourning the presencing that a shared common place gives to the experience of space and the practices that socialize people in location and occasion. In some ways, I find myself mourning ICQI in a common shared location. I have not modified the text of the original presentation, and maybe that is the reason that this presentation haunts me—a year later from its in-person presentation, and immediately following ICQI 2025 online.
Bryant Keith Alexander (Wed,) studied this question.