Life in Biography: Observations on writing about lives

In the final Biography Workshop of 2024, historian and author Eileen Chanin will discuss the slipperiness of writing about lives: the challenges, frustrations, pleasures, and results.

 

Eileen Chanin documents lives and writes and publishes widely. She is a senior Visiting Fellow of King’s College London and a Research Associate of the Humanities Research Centre and the Australian Studies Institute at the ANU. Her book Degenerates and Perverts won the NSW Premier's History Award Australian History Prize, and she has been shortlisted for both the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Magarey Medal for Biography. Her latest title, The Strand: A Biography, will be released in February 2025. Commissioned by Manchester University Press, it is the first narrative this century of the life of London’s famous street. 

Date & time

Thu 28 Nov 2024, 11am–12.30pm

Location

Seminar room 6.71, level 6, RSSS Building AND Zoom bit.ly/BioWorkshop2022

Speakers

Dr Eileen Chanin

Event series

School/Centre

National Centre of Biography

Contacts

Dr Stephen Wilks
(02) 6125 2349

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