EARLY MODERN LIVES
BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF THE RENAISSANCE AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
A conference organised by the
Renaissance Research Group,
Middlesex University
June 27th-28th 2002.
Main Speakers: Elaine Beilin, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Frances Harris,
Peter Holland, Michael Hunter, Sarah Hutton, Lisa Jardine, Lois
Potter, Alan Stewart, Blair Worden.
'Early Modern Lives' will examine the practice and theory of
biographical writing in and about the Renaissance and Seventeenth
Century. By bringing together those currently engaged in writing and
studying biographies of the Early Modern period, the conference aims
to discuss the relationship between life-writing and our
understanding of literature and cultural history.
The main focus of this conference will be literary biography, but the
scope of the conference will extend to historical biography,
scientific and philosophical biography, and fictional biography.
Topics to be covered will include women's lives, animal lives, the
life of the mind, life-writing and subjectivity, the
auto/biographical self. There will also be a session dedicated to the
life of Shakespeare.
Venue:-
Goodenough College,
Mecklenburgh Square,
London WC1N 2AB.
Conference fee: £60 (£45 pounds students)
Overnight accommodation (B&B) will be available at the William
Goodenough Club, across the square from the conference rooms. The
rates will be £100 single, £50 pounds sharing.
For further information and bookings, visit the conference website
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/events/conference.htm#june
or contact
Conference Bookings,
c/o Humanities office,
School of Arts,
Middlesex University,
White Hart Lane,
London N17 8HR
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Dr Sarah Hutton
Reader in Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Studies,
Middlesex University,
School of Arts,
White Hart Lane,
London N17 8HR
Tel: (+44) 020 8362 5394
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