Registration is now open for:
Writing the lives of people and things, AD 500-1700: an interdisciplinary
conference.
1-2 March 2012
Chawton House Library, Hampshire
Hosted by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of
Southampton Key-note speaker: Charles Nicholl, author of The Lodger:
Shakespeare on Silver Street and The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher
Marlowe.
Biography has particular relevance in contemporary interdisciplinary
scholarship as it encompasses every field of human experience. As a result,
scholars are becoming increasingly interested in using individual lives (of
people and objects) to elucidate the past. In the fields of archaeology and
anthropology, too, object biography has been a growing area of theoretical
research in the past thirty years. With this in mind, this two-day
conference will bring together postgraduates and early-career researchers
from across disciplines to discuss their varied approaches to biographical
research, focussing on people and things from the medieval and early modern
periods.
For more information and to register please visit the conference website:
www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/news/conferences/2011_12/writing_lives_conference.html
Best wishes,
Gemma Watson and Robert Smith
Conference Organisers
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