Past Events
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)
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
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.
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
IABA Europe 2017: Life Writing, Europe, and New Media
- Event time: 7th June to 9th June 2017
- Venue: King's College London
- Book tickets: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/lifewriting/IABA-2017/Registration.aspx
The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s College London and the European Research Council-funded ‘Ego-Media’ project are delighted to be hosting the International AutoBiography Association (IABA) Europe Conference in London from 7th to 9th June 2017. The conference will highlight digital and new media. Changes in technologies of information and communication
May
2017
Diaryfest
- Event time: 09.30
- Venue: Council Room (K2.29), King’s Building, Strand Campus
- Book tickets: diaryfest.eventbrite.co.uk
Programme available here: Diaryfest-programme Hosted by the Centre for Life-Writing Research Eminent biographers, critics, writers and film-makers will talk about different aspects of diaries, on subjects ranging from Pepys to refugees. Free event, but booking essential: diaryfest.eventbrite.co.uk
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
January
2017
The Celebrity Interview: History, Aesthetics, Method
- Event time: 17:30-19:00
- Venue: The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford
- Book tickets: http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/celebrity-interview-history-aesthetics-method
Come and join us in Oxford to hear Ego-Media researcher Rebecca Roach talk about her work on interviews! The second in a new series of Oxford Centre for Life Writing events focusing on the intersections of life-writing and celebrity, this discussion panel is dedicated to the genre of the celebrity
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
October
2016
Moving past present: digitally reanimating the Gaiety Girls
- Event time: 19:00-20:30
- Venue: Anatomy Museum (6th Floor) King's Building Strand Campus, King's College London
- Book tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moving-past-present-digitally-reanimating-the-gaiety-girls-tickets-27431303768
First appearing in the 1890s, George Edwardes’ musical comedies quickly became the toast of fashionable London. Performed at the Gaiety, once located across the road from the King’s Strand campus, plays like The Shop Girl combined comic songs, lavish costumes and spectacular dances, trading on the allure of the theatre’s glamorous dancing corps of ‘Gaiety Girls’ even as they betrayed anxiety over women’s growing
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,
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/
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/
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/
September
2015
PUBLIC ROUND TABLE: VOICES AND ETHICS
- Event time: 6:30-8:00 PM
- Venue: Anatomy Lecture Theatre, 6th floor, Strand Campus
- Book tickets: https://identitiesonline.eventbrite.co.uk
The Ego Media Research Group and the Centre for Life-Writing Research warmly invite you to two PUBLIC ROUND TABLES with distinguished international speakers discussing hot topics in digital research and online practices. Part of the Life Online Today & Tomorrow series VOICES AND ETHICS – including life writing and
September
2015
PUBLIC ROUND TABLE: IDENTITIES ONLINE
- Event time: 6:00-7:30 PM
- Venue: Anatomy Lecture Theatre, 6th floor, Strand Campus
- Book tickets: https://voicesandethics.eventbrite.co.uk
The Ego Media Research Group and the Centre for Life-Writing Research warmly invite you to two PUBLIC ROUND TABLES with distinguished international speakers discussing hot topics in digital research and online practices. Part of the Life Online Today & Tomorrow series IDENTITIES ONLINE – including writing pain; feminism; gender
Revolution 2.0? A critical review of new media in the ‘Arab Spring’
- Event time: 18:30 - 20:00
- Venue: King's College London / Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI)
- Book tickets: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revolution-20-a-critical-review-of-new-media-in-the-arab-spring-tickets-16912470655
A lecture with James Harkin. This talk is the first in the series ‘Life Online To-Day and To-Morrow’, supported by the ERC-funded ‘Ego-Media’ project, and the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s College London. It will be chaired by Professor Max Saunders, Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute.