Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie (Web)

Time: 31 October–3 November 2013
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Deadline: 11 January 2013, Webiste

The conference would like to bridge the gap between historical forms of life writing, which have already undermined or questioned constructions of the cohesive subject, and the newest medial transformations in the genre of life writing. Alongside personal websites, blogs and social networks as new spaces in the autobiographical public sphere, increasingly the internet also offers a space for innovative forms of biographical representation. In so doing, virtual life writing goes beyond medial and narrative boundaries, in that it synthesizes image, sound and video, and develops new narrative possibilities in interaction with readers and users, that allow for pluralistic, fragmentary, non-linear conceptions of the subject beyond that of traditional conventions. … read more (Web)