Biography Beyond Borders

From Brian Jay Jones

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BIOGRAPHY BEYOND BORDERS

COLLOQUIUM ON AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN BIOGRAPHY

NOVEMBER 5 2016

In collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Oxford, housed at Wolfson College and directed by Professor Dame Hermione Lee, BIO will host a Colloquium on American and European Biography, to be held on Saturday, November 5 2016.

With the aim of promoting conversations about similarities and differences and exploring the question of whether we can push the boundaries of biography, we have arranged four roundtable discussions under these rubrics:

BIOGRAPHIES OF LITTLE-KNOWN AND WELL-KNOWN SUBJECTS

WRITING ABOUT CELEBRITIES

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

AUTHORIZED AND NON-AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY

Our lunchtime keynote speaker will be the 2014 BIO Plutarch Award Best Biography winner, Hermione Lee. The Colloquium will conclude with a reception at Wolfson College. Accommodation in Oxford can be arranged at the Best Western Linton Lodge.

Prior to the Colloquium, on Friday evening, November 4, a distinguished American biographer will deliver a lecture at the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s College London (directed by Professor Max Saunders). A reception will follow.

For those who are interested, a BIO group will be spending Thursday night, November 3, at a Victorian Bed and Breakfast in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, run by Harold Brown, a former staff member in the Royal household. Harold will offer a guided trip to Vida Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst Castle (with its famous gardens) and Winston Churchill’s home, Chartwell, and provide a formal tea and dinner and breakfast. Book early because there are limited spaces available.

If you are interested in being part of this exciting collaboration between OCLW and BIO (either as a participant on a panel or as a member of the group), please contact either Deirdre David (ddavid@temple.edu) or Will Swift (drwswift@gmail.com).

Costs

(1) Conference Fee (includes lunch and reception at Wolfson College, Oxford, and reception at King’s College, London): $150

(2) Accommodation at the Best Western Linton Lodge: $125 to $150 per night.

(3) Tunbridge Wells Victorian Bed and Breakfast (http://www.thevictorianbandb.com/): formal tea, dinner, and lodging: $145 for the night (includes formal tea and breakfast) and $45 for the special dinner. For guests who want to share a room, it is $90 for the night.

Internet links for information:

Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College, London:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/lifewriting/index.aspx

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/oclw

Hermione Lee website:  http://www.hermionelee.com/

Sissinghurst Castle and gardens: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle-garden

Chartwell:  http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/chartwell

Regards,

Brian Jay Jones, President

Biographers International Organization

IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING International Auto/Biography Association

sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/iaba/home

IABA Student and New Scholar Network (SNS) http://iabasns.dudaone.com/; on Facebook: facebook.com/IABASNS

Craig Howes, list manager craighow@hawaii.edu, biograph@hawaii.edu Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa On Facebook: facebook.com/CBRHawaii

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