This series is ongoing. For the current programme, please see the Auto / Bio / Fiction Series page.
The 2023-24 programme included:
Alexandra Effe, ‘Thinking (Im-)Possibilities: Probability Estimations and Cognitive Feedback Loops in Processing Autofiction’, and Natasha Bell, ‘Autofiction and the Implied Author’. 19 October 2023. Read more about the speakers and watch the video recordings.
Michael Newman, ‘From Portrait to Anti-Portrait: Facing the destruction of humanity’, and Sarah Walker, ‘Writing the self in the expanded field: autofiction as a strategy in text-based visual art’. 23 November 2023. Read more about the speakers and watch the video recordings.
Nora Goldschmidt, ‘Before Biofiction’. This event was held jointly with the Sing in Me, Muse series. 7 December 2023. Read more about the speakers and watch the video recordings.
Guido Mazzoni, ‘Like everyone else. Annie Ernaux’s The Years‘, and Carole Sweeney, ‘Writing feminist philosophy: Annie Ernaux and Simone de Beauvoir’. 11 January 2024. Read more about the speakers and watch the video recordings.
Alexandre Gefen, ‘Philosophies of Biofiction’, and Zoey Forbes, ‘”Your Fucking Struggle?”: Karl Ove Knausgård and the limits of possessive individualism’, 8 February 2024. Read more about the speakers and watch the video recordings.
Maaheen Ahmed, ‘Representations of children in autobiographical and autofictional graphic novels’, and Elisabetta Varalda, ‘Virginia Woolf’s life in images and words’. 7 March 2024. Read more about the speakers and watch the video recordings.
The series culminated in the two-day Auto / Bio / Fictional Graphic Narratives: A Symposium, on 26-27 June 2024, to reflect on the combination of life-writing, in its many forms, and comics and graphic narratives and explore how auto / bio / fictional graphic narratives and comics mobilise – and may put in tension – the visual and the verbal, the individual and the collective, the historical and the fictional, the documentary and the imagined, as well as popular culture and ‘serious’ literary fiction in constructing historical lives with varying degrees of fictionality and purposes. Click on the title to find out more and watch the recordings of the papers.
