Conferences
| 11-13 July 2011 | Life Writing and Human Rights: Genres of Testimony |
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| The stories we tell about our lives and the lives of those around us leave footprints across history. That history can be of personal, familial or of widespread political and public importance. Whether public or private, the telling of and the listening to life narratives is a concern of increasing importance across a range of disciplines, professions and practices. | |
| More information: | Link to the conference page |
| Date: | 11th - 13th July 2011 |
| Venue: | Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston University |
| 6-8 July 2009 | Performing Lives Three Day International Conference |
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| The conference invites analysis and debate on the relationship between life histories and the ways in which they are embodied and enacted in performance, across a range of cultures and a variety of media: drama, dance, film, TV and video. | |
| Vanessa Redgrave will be opening the conference at the Rose Theatre and talking about the many roles she has played on stage and screen that have been based on real people. Corin Redgrave will also be appearing at the Rose in De Profundis, his performance of the extraordinary letter Oscar Wilde wrote from prison to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. This will be one of a number of live and recorded performances we have programmed to run alongside a fine array of panels and papers. | |
| More information: | Link to the conference page |
| Date: | 6th - 8th July 2009 |
| Venue: | Penrhyn Road campus and Rose Theatre, Kingston |
| 4-6 July 2007 | The Spirit of the Age: Debating the Past, Present and Future of Life Writing Three Day International Conference |
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| The first of CLN's planned series of biennial conference featured papers on Marginal Lives and Historical Revision; Writing Lives; Witness and Survivor Writings; Writing the Self; Writing the Lives of Artists; Writing Science Lives; Fake Memoir; Political Lives; Writing Literary Lives; Short Lives and Obituary. | |
| In addition, the conference heard plenary and keynote speakers who are well-known practioners: Claire Tomalin; Neal Ascherson; Victoria Glendinning; Hilary Spurling; David Kynaston; Blake Morrison; Rachel Cusk; Hanif Kureishi; Kathryn Hughes and the Rt Hon David Blunkett, MP. | |
| Date: | Date: 4th - 6th July 2007 |
| Venue: | Kingston Hill campus, Kingston University |
