Novelist, essayist, poet and translator Ulrike Draesner talks about life writing on forced migration, and reads from her novel Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt (Never try this at home (2014)) at the 2017 IABA Conference. Click here to listen to the podcast.
June
2017
How I was forced to write a novel on forced migration and forced the novel to migrate
- Event time: 15.15-16.30
- Venue: Edmond J.Safra Lecture Theatre, King's College London (Strand)
June
2017
Remediation, Repurposing, and Preservation: Networked Archives of Digital Lives
- Event time: 11.30-12.30
- Venue: The Great Hall, King's College London (Strand Campus)
Dr Laurie McNeill (University of British Columbia) talks about modern digital lives as a keynote to the 2017 IABA Conference. Click here to listen to the podcast of Dr McNeill’s keynote lecture.
June
2017
New Algorithms of the Soul: Internet Celebrity Memoirs and the Programmed Life
- Event time: 11.30-12.30
- Venue: The Great Hall, King's College London (Strand Campus)
Professor John David Zuern (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa) delivers a keynote on the ‘programmed life’ at the 2017 IABA Conference investigating ‘Life Writing, Europe and New Media’. Listen to the podcast of his talk here.
Power and Politics of Mundane Memories: Tracing, templating and transforming everyday life
- Event time: 13.00-20.00
- Venue: King's College London, Strand Campus, Small Committee Room (http://tinyurl.com/z48e9r7)
- Book tickets: http://mundanememories.eventbrite.co.uk?s=74211970
Personal and collective memory-making are usually studied on large scales that bridge rather extensive temporal distances, at least in human time. What is overlooked are the kinds of ordinary phenomena mundane memories are made of. The routines of keeping and recurring records, taking notes and planning the proximate future as
Careering: reflexivity, play and a life in media
- Event time: 19.30 - 21.30
- Venue: The Great Hall, King's College London (Strand Campus)
- Book tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pat-kane-life-online-to-day-and-to-morrow-tickets-28884926593
Pat Kane will give a talk at the ‘Life Online To-day and To-Morrow’ series on the 7th of November at 7.30 pm at King’s College London (Strand Campus). ‘In my 30-year commercial media career, and since graduating with an English degree (focussing on Film/TV studies and Literary Theory) in 1985, I
Reclaiming Conversation in a Digital Age
- Event time: 18:30
- Venue: FWB B5, Franklin-Wilkins Building - King's College London Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH
- Book tickets: https://reclaiming-conversation-in-a-digital-age.eventbrite.co.uk
After the phenomenal success of Professor Sherry Turkle’s TED talk, King’s College London is delighted to host an event with Professor Turkle on the topic of Reclaiming Conversation in a Digital Age. Professor Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science,
Joanna Zylinska on The Liberation of the I/Eye: Nonhuman Vision
- Event time: 18:30
- Venue: S-2.08, King's College London, Strand Campus
- Book tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-liberation-of-the-ieye-nonhuman-vision-tickets-21675806922
The term ‘nonhuman vision’ may evoke images of CCTV cameras, Google Street View, satellites and drones – that is, processes of perception in which the very act of seeing is performed by a nonhuman agent. The term may also bring up visual acts where the human is still part of
January
2016
Dr Laurence Scott, author of The Four-Dimensional Human (2015) in Conversation – REVISED DATE & LOCATION
- Event time: 18:30
- Venue: K2.31, JKTL Nash Lecture Theatre, King's College London, Strand Campus
Missed this event? Listen here: https://www.ego-media.org/audio/
Curating Future Memories in a Digital Era
- Event time: 18:30
- Venue: Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29), King's College London, Strand Campus
- Book tickets: https://curating-future-memories-in-a-digital-era.eventbrite.co.uk
With Annette Markham, Professor of Information Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark and Affiliate Professor of Digital Ethics in the School of Communication at Loyola University in Chicago. Missed this event? Listen here: https://www.ego-media.org/audio/
November
2015
Will Self in Conversation
- Event time: 18:45
- Venue: Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29), King's College London, Strand Campus
Missed this event? Listen here: https://www.ego-media.org/audio/