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Writing Lives: The Past and Future of Biography
| Location: | New York, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2003-04-10 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2003-03-18 |
| Announcement ID: |
133091 |
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Biography has been a popular way of thinking about the past from antiquity to the present, but it has not always been pretty. For every Agricola by Tacitus, Life of Johnson by Boswell, and Jefferson by Ken Burns, there are the tawdry stories of Suetonius, the hagiographies of dictators, and gossipy "investigations" on television. Biography is the quintessential interdisciplinary field. Filmmakers, novelists, curators, poets, and journalists all join historians and literary critics under the umbrella of biography. Focusing on Charles Darwin, Sappho, and Louis Armstrong and Jazz Biography, this conference explores the phenomenon of life-writing and the nature of its audience and the commonalities and differences across disciplines. The conference will run from 12:30 to 8:30 pm at the Graduate Center in the Segal and Proshansky auditoriums.
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Professor Richard Kaye and Professor Joel Allen
Center for the Humanities
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
365 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212 817 2008
Fax: 212 817 2009
Email: krichar@hunter.cuny.edu, joelwallen@yahoo.com
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