Symposium LIFE-WORK: Alternative Forms of Life Writing, on 17 November

On Thursday 8 December the British novelist A.S. Byatt will be awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her contribution to life writing. To mark the occasion, the Centre for Gender and Diversity of Maastricht University and the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation are hosting a symposium on alternative forms of life writing on Thursday 17 November, 13.00-18.00. Location: Spiegelzaal, Soiron building, GG80-82 (first floor).

Biographies and autobiographies are more popular than ever. Biopics and biographical television series draw masses of viewers while even scholarly biographical tomes such as Maaike Meijer’s biography of the poet M. Vasalis (2011) become unexpected bestsellers. But writing and re-writing our lives’ stories, by ourselves and by others, is a process that also takes place in many other forms than the traditional biography or biopic. And even within these forms many unorthodox approaches are gaining currency. In this symposium we will highlight a number of the new and unexpected forms that life writing is taking in the 21st century. We investigate the challenges posed to such life-work by the arts and the new media, but also explore the opportunities they offer for re-inventing ourselves.

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