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LLC Life-Writing Colloquium 2020

Weds 19 February 2020, 12:30-18:00, Project Room, 50 George Square. A one-day life-writing colloquium including a James Tait Black Biography Readers’ Discussion, research-in-progress presentations, and work-in-progress readings, with a visiting talk linked to the English Literature Seminar.

Schedule

12:30-13.20    James Tait Black Prize in Biography 2020: Readers’ Discussion (JTB Co-ordinators June Laurenson, Alice Rae and others)

13:30-14:30    Doctoral Research Panel on Biofiction

  • Alan Goodson: ‘Biofiction: Definitions and Distinctions – the Case of Henry James’
  • Nicole Chen: ‘The New Biography’ and Biofiction: A Study on Generic Narrative Characteristics

14:30-15:00 Tea/Coffee

Work in Progress Readings

15:00-15:30    Simon Cooke: ‘Childhood Reading’, from Gathering Gifts

15:30-16.15    Allyson Stack: ‘Writing from Life’, from All That Is Left Unsaid  

16:30-18:00   English Literature Seminar: Prof. Alison Light: “Technologies of the Self?”: Diaries and Life-writing (including my own)’ [talk cancelled; to be re-scheduled]

 

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