You are warmly invited to the
International Conference on Biography in Britain and Germany, Comparing Theories and Practices.
14-16 June 2017
Venues:
London Notre Dame – The London Global Gateway
University of Notre Dame, 1-4 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG
and the Goethe Institut, London
50 Princes Gate Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH
In collaboration with
QMUL, Centre of Anglo-German Cultural Relations
Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, University of Cologne
Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, Wien
Goethe Institut, London
(host institution) University of Notre Dame – The London Global Gateway
This conference, the first in a series organized by The Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary University of London, The Morphomata Institute for Advanced Study in the University of Cologne and the Ludwig Boltzmann Centre for Biographical Research in Vienna, will focus predominantly on 19th and 20th century examples of biographical writing with reflections on practices in, and resonances of, this genre. Some of the questions that will need to be addressed on a comparative basis refer to the cult of biography, the pitfalls of “hero and hero-worship” (Carlyle) and its ambiguous impact on the culture of biography, individualism and biography, practices of writing biographies in Britain and Germany and their cultural status.
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The full PROGRAMME can be viewed here:
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/cagcr/docs/BiographyConferencePoster.pdf
The Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/cagcr/
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