Seminars

All are welcome to attend; booking is not required. Refreshments served.

Seminars take place on Wednesdays in room JG2008, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus.

Spring 2012

Date	Title
22 February 2012 6-8pm	CLN: Dr. Jessica L. Malay, "Foregrounding the Heir Female in Anne Clifford's Great Books of Record"
7 March 2012 6-8pm	CLN: Professor Robert Fraser, "Reading the Evidence: A Biographer and His Sources"
14 March 2012 6-8pm	Kate O'Riordan - Reading
14 March 2012 6-8pm	The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf

Autumn 2011

Date	Title
26 October 2011 6-8pm	Dr Derek Neale (The Open University), "Guardian of memory: the novelist as life writer"
7 December 2011 6-8pm	Professor Bart Moore-Gilbert, "Indian Winter: In Search of an Unknown Father"

Spring 2011

Date	Title
9 February 2011 6-8pm	Professor Max Saunders (Kings College), "Some Versions of the Autobiographical: Autofiction, Autobiografiction, Autofabrication"
9 March 2011 6-8pm	Bernadine Evaristo, Reading and talking about her work with Q&A and wine reception
23 March 2011 4-6pm	Dr Eadaoin Agnew (Kingston University), "Between Public and Private: Lady Hariot Dufferin's Letters from India (1884-1888)'
4 May 2011 4-6pm	Professor Patricia Philippy (Kingston University), "'Upon the birth and death of his deere sonne': Material Texts and Life Writing"

Autumn 2010

Date	Title
13 October 2010	Dr Jane Jordan (Kingston), "Recovering the Life of a 'Lost' Victorian Popular Novelist: 'The Lady Who Called Herself Ouida'" Disa Mackenzie (Kingston), "Life-Writing Has Issues: An Exploration of the Reliability of the Genre in History and Looking Forward to the Digital Age"
13 October 2010	Eva Hoffman, "Switching Genres and Mixing Them Up: A Writer's Perspective"
27 October 2010	Dr Meg Jensen (Kingston), "Getting to Know Me: Negotiated Truth, Mourning and the Symptomatic Intimacies of Autobiographically-Based Fiction: JG Ballard, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Jack Kerouac, Louisa May Alcott and Me"
10 November 2010	Dr Anne Rowe (Kingston), "To Rewrite a Life: Moral Questions Haunting a Memoir" Dr Sue Hawkins (Kingston), "Little Acorns: Using Prosopography to Recreate the Lives of Victorian Nurses"

Spring 2010

Date	Title
16 February 2010	Dr Louise Aikman ,"Maxine Hong Kingston: Deconstructing the Autobiographical Voice" Heidi James (Kingston), "Authenticity and Textual Violence: The Case for Autofiction"
2 March 2010	Ole Birk Laursen (Open), "'We Only Have This Culture to Go On': Contemporary Black and Asian British Women’s Life Writing" Ola Rhodes (Kingston), "The Tribe of One: A Memoir-in-Progress"
8 March 2010	The Writing Life: Hilary Mantel, CBE in conversation with Richard Cohen This event will be held at the Rose Theatre
16 March 2010	Dr David Parker (Kingston), "A Definitive Biography?: Charles Dickens, Ellen Ternan and Michael Slater:?" Valerie Coultas (Kingston), "English and Creativity: Teachers' Stories of Classroom Talk"
13 April 2010	Belinda Webb (Kingston), "Mary Burns: A Novel-in-Progress" Jane McVeigh (Roehampton), "Telling Stories: Narrative Truth in Biography"
27 April 2010	Professor Norma Clarke (Kingston), "The Adventures of Jack Luckless: The First Memoir of Childhood?" Dr Anne Rowe (Kingston), "To Rewrite a Life: Moral Questions Haunting a Memoir"

Autumn 2009

Date	Title
19 November 2009	Life Writing: The Spirit of the Age and the State of the Art More information (PDF file, 167 KB)

Spring 2009

Date	Title
17 February 2009	Lynne Tillman: MFA Reading
24 February 2009	Paul Maliszewski: MFA Reading
4 March 2009	Cosmopolitan Lives More information (PDF file, 99 KB)
24 March 2009	Steve Erickson: MFA Reading

Autumn 2008

Date	Title
1 October 2008	Sebastian Faulks in conversation with Richard Cohen: "The Writing Life"
26 November 2008	Blake Morrison