Ringvorlesung "The Many Faces of Biography"

Sommersemester 2014

Do, 18:30-20:00h, HS C2

13.3.         Werner Huber & Julia Lajta-Novak (University of Vienna):

Introduction

 

20.3.         Birgit Däwes (University of Vienna):

“Biography on Stage: Performing Native American Lives”

 

27.3.         Ed Saunders (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, Vienna):

“Meta-Biography: Critical Approaches to Writing Lives”

 

03.4.         Clare Brant (King’s College, London):

“The Eighteenth-Century Letter as Public Auto/Biography”

 

10.4.         Caitríona Ní Dhúill (Durham University):

“Approaching the Master: Gender, Genre and (Meta)Biography, from Thomas Carlyle to Colm Tóibín”

 

08.5.         Sandra Mayer (Vienna):

                 “Literary Biography and Celebrity: Re-Evaluating Victorian Authors from the Perspective of Celebrity Studies”

 

15.5.         Claire Tomalin (London):

“The Challenges of Biography”

 

22.5.         Peter Morgan (London/Vienna):

                 “Biography and the Screenwriter”

 

05.6.         Vanessa Hannesschläger, Tobias Heinrich, Katharina Prager (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, Vienna):

                 “Virtual Biography: Life-Writing in New Media”

 

12.6.         Julia Lajta-Novak (University of Vienna):

                 “Biography to Romance: Fictionalising Nell Gwyn”

 

26.6.        Final Test