Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “LIFE WRITING”
SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES THROUGH TECHNOLOGY Holocaust Education in the Digital Age Workshop Life Writing Cluster, SLLC, CACSSS Organised by Dr Claire O’Reilly, Co-Convenor Life Writing Cluster, CASiLAC In this innovative, interdisciplinary seminar, two leading scholars from Munich and Nottingham and experts in digital Holocaust education will deliver a workshop in UCC. Open to all and free of charge, this seminar …
IABA (International Auto/Biography Association) World Conference 2024 in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature, University of Iceland Reykjavik, 12-15 June 2024 Call for papers Fragmented Lives The IABA World Conference 2024 will be held at the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature 12-15 June 2024. The theme of …
On 29 June, Professor Emeritus Árpád Szakolczai (Sociology, UCC) addressed the SLLC Life Writing Cluster on the subject of “Biography as a way of understanding (the social life of an age).” The Life Writing Research Cluster, which looks at all and any connections between the lived life / life experience / bios and acts of inscription or recording. In this …
31 May 2023 Lecture by Dr. Sean Williams: “The Afterlife of a Death: Johann Winckelmann’s Murder, since 8 June 1768”
Understanding the Past to (re-)Inform the Future: The role of NS-Resistance yesterday and its Relevance today February 23, 2023 Dora Allman Lecture Room, University College Cork The 22nd of February 2023, marking the 80th anniversary of Sophie Scholl’s death, was the decisive starting point for this symposium, organised by Dr Claire O’Reilly, Department of German, entitled ‘Understanding the Past …
Technologies of the Self: New Departures in Self-Inscription is an international, interdisciplinary conference that addresses new media, film, the avant-garde and new theoretical approaches to autobiography post-Lejeune. Conference organisers: Patrick Crowley (French, UCC), Kerstin Fest (German, UCC), Rachel MagShamhráin (German, UCC), Laura Rascaroli (Italian, UCC) Conference website: http://www.ucc.ie/en/german/events/selfinscription/
In the first of a series of practitioner-led Life-Writing discussions, Irish Novelist and Screenwriter John Banville discusses his work on and with other people’s lives, including in his novels Copernicus and Kepler, and his fictional treatment of Anthony Blunt in Untouchable. The online event takes place today Thursday 18 Febraury at 4pm. His prolific output has often taken the bare raw material of “real” lives and subjected it to …
Launch of new research cluster on ‘Life Writing’ Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) Thursday 5 November 2020, 4-6 pm MS Teams Contact Rachel MagShamhráin, r.magshamhrain@ucc.ie, to attend We invite colleagues and students interested in the broad field of Life Writing to join us for the launch of a new research cluster within the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages …
