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MoVIES, New Approaches to Filming Lives

On November 18, 2018

MoVIES – Au-delà du Biopic, nouvelles approches des vies filmées
Troisième colloque international de la Biography Society
Maison de la Recherche – Aix-Marseille Université
29, avenue Robert Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence, France
17-18-19 octobre 2019

PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER
13:00 Accueil
14:00 Ouverture

15:00-17:30 PANEL 1 Au-delà du biopic, réflexions sur le renouvellement d’un genre
Modérateur : Joanny MOULIN

15:00-15:30 Gilles MENEGALDO – Extending and Blurring Boundaries: Intermediality, Genre Hybridity and Irony in Some « Experimental » Contemporary Biopics

15:30-16:00 Vincent ZEIS – Le biopic Warner des années 1950 aux années 2010 : de The FBI Story à J. Edgar

16:00-16:30 Philippe MORICE – Ma Créature, c’est moi ? Dimension biographique dans le cinéma de Clint Eastwood

16:30-17:00 Francesca MANZARI – « Lou Andréas-Salomé de Cordula Kablitz-Post : Contre le destin »

17:00-17:30 Taïna TUHKUNEN – Sliced-up Lives and Other Iconoclastic and Experimental Techniques in Contemporary Biopics

17:00-17:30 Discussion
18:00-19:00 Conférence plénière de Josée DAYAN (à confirmer)

19:00 Réception

FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER

9:00 Café
10:00-13:30 PANEL 2 Biophotie et historiographie
Modérateur : Thierry ROCHE

10:00-10:30 Jean-Michel DURAFOUR – Je n’ai pas tué Marie Stuart

10:30-11:00 Antoine CAPET – Que veulent nous dire les « scènes inventées » du film Darkest Hour (Joe Wright, 2017) ?

11:00-11:30 Indranil CHAKRABARTY – Constructing a Biopic Narrative Based on Scant Historical Evidence

11:30-12:00 Nicole CLOAREC – Singular and collective voices in Against the Law (Fergus O’Brien, BBC, 2017) and An Englishman in New York (Richard Laxton, ITV, 2009)

12:00-12:30 Discussion

13:00-15:00 Déjeuner

14:30-17:00 PANEL 3 Le biopic au féminin
Modérateur : Taïna TUHKUNEN

15:00-15:30 Catherine CLINTON – Ladies Sing the Blues: Black Women’s Representations in Biopics

15:30-16:00 Laurence HUSSON – « Raden Ajeng Kartini : princesse, féministe, héroïne nationale indonésienne et star de cinéma »

16:00-16:30 Laura GUIDOBALDI – Dans l’alcôve du Risorgimento. Politique et séduction : l’incroyable destin de Virginia Oldoini, comtesse de Castiglione

16:30-17:00 Claudia CONTI – Sorelle Mai de Marco Bellocchio

17:00-17:30 Discussion

14:00-16:30 PANEL 4 Variations autour des figures de héros
Modérateur : Yannick GOUCHAN

15:00-15:30 Justin S. WADLOW – Sound and vision : Todd Haynes et la vie des saints

15:30-16:00 Colette COLLOMP – La vie de Saint François d’Assise au cinéma

16:00-16:30 Alain HERTAY – Larry Karaszewski et Scott Alexander, duo de scénaristes spécialisés dans l’écriture de biopics

16:30-17:00 Anne-Marie PAQUET DEYRIS – Representational strategies of heroic villains: Biopics of R. Nixon & D. Cheney

17:30-18:00 Jean BAFFIE – Figures royales vs héros issus du peuple dans le cinéma thaïlandais
18:00-18:30 Discussion
20:00 Dîner

SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER

9:00 Café
10:00-12:30 PANEL 5 Portraits et représentations historiques
Modérateur : Phuong Ngoc (Jade) NGUYEN

10:00-10:30 Yannick GOUCHAN – Portraits de poètes dans le film biographique

10:30-11:00 Pichaiwat SAENGPRAPAN – Le rôle des chansons dans Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

11:00-11:30 Audrey DOUSSOT – Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm – from writing mortals to legendary characters

11:30-12:00 Jean-Marc RIVIÈRE – Les Médicis. Maîtres de Florence, ou la ressemblance (télévisuelle) par contact

12:00-12:30 Discussion

10:00-12:30 PANEL 6 La dimension politique du biopic
Modérateur : Patrick Di MASCIO

10:00-10:30 Delphine LETORT – Militant Biopic: the Making of a Hero

10:30-11:00 Stefano MAGNI – Réflexions sur la valeur politique de quelques « biopics ». Deux cas italiens du XXI^e siècle

11:00-11:30 Gerardo IANDOLI – Le spectacle obscur : sur Kings of Crime de Roberto Saviano

11:30-12:00 David GOLDIE – Entering the ‘Shadowlands’, biopic as metonymic adaptation

12:00-12:30 Discussion

13:00-15:00 Déjeuner

15:00 Biography Society : Réunion du Bureau

16:00 Biography Society : Assemblée générale

AMU Biography Society Visits SJTU Center for Life Writing

By Biostudies Society

On November 18, 2018

In Events

A delegation of the Biography Society of Aix-Marseille University (AMU) goes to China from 20 to 27 December 2018 to meet their counterparts at the Center for Life Writing (CLW) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).

At the invitation of distinguished Pr. Yang Zhengrun, Director of the CLW, & Pr. Liu Jialin, Deputy Director of Center for Life Writing & Vice Dean of School of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, & of Pr. Sun Yongbin, Dean of School of Foreign Languages at Nanjing University of Finance and Economies, Pr. Joanny Moulin (IUF, LERMA), Dr. Francesca Manzari (CIELAM) and Mr. Zhou Yinan (doctoral student, IrASIA) will participate to a workshop entitled “A Dialogue between the Biographer, the Scholar and the Reader” at the SJTU-CLW Center in Nanjing on 22 & 23 December, giving conferences on “Biography in Contemporary France” & “Reading an Always Already Written Life: Jacques Derrida’s Biography”.

On 24 December they will participate to a symposium at the Nanjing University of Information, Science & Technology, at the invitation of Pr. Li Jianbo, Master of the College of Liberal Arts, giving conferences on English Studies & Translation Studies in French universities.

On 26 December in Shanghai, they will visit Shanghai Jiao Tong University & discuss the terms of a project of research partnership with the directors of the Center for Life Writing at the School of Humanities.

Workshop:

A Dialogue Between the Biographer, the Scholar and the Reader

22-23 December 2018, Nanjing

Organizers:
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Center for Life Writing
College of Foreign Languages at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics

Workshop Description:
SJTU Center for Life Writing is to launch the life writing workshop for the purpose of promoting life writing culture and stimulating life writing practice and research. The prosperity of life writing depends on the concerted efforts of biographers, scholars and readers. Throughout the history of life writing, most of the eminent life-writing theorists are outstanding biographers concurrently. Life-writing theories are practical, while the practice of life writing is in need of theoretical guidance and readers’ response and support. Our workshop will thus extend invitation to biographers, scholars and readers in this field to exchange information, publicize research results, elicit research topics, recommend excellent works, discuss projects and coordinate writing schemes. The workshop takes the form of discussion on issues of common concern emerging in the writing, researching or reading of biography. It is open-ended in nature and we welcome scholars, biographers and readers as well as organizations and societies in the field home and and abroad to participate, give advice and make comments. Any sponsorship to our workshop is warmly welcome. For further information, please contact our center.

Speakers:

Han Shishan (former Vice President of Writer’s Association at Shanxi Province, biographer), “The Selection of the Subject and the Exploration of the Materials.”

Li Hui (former journalist on People’s Daily, Lu Xun Prize[①] winner, biographer), “Those Respectable People in Ba Jin’s Random Reflections.”[②]

Liu Jialin (Associate Master of College of Humanities, SJTU; Professor of Comparative Literature; Deputy Director of SJTUCLW), “Trans-Cultural Biography: Similarities and Dissimilarities.”

Manzari, Francesca (senior lecturer in comparative literature at AMU). “Reading an Always Already Written Life: Jacques Derrida’s Biography.”

Moulin, Joanny (Senior Professor of the Institut Universitaire de France, President of Biography Society, Professor of English Studies as AMU, biographer). “Biography in Contemporary France.”

Sun Yongbin (Master of College of Foreign Language Studies at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Professor of English). “The Modernity of Life of Johnson: What Do We Learn from James Boswell?”

Tang Xiumin (Fellow of SJTUCLW, Professor of English). “Life Writing, Life of Objects, and Life of the Disabled/Illness: ‘New’ Forms in Western Biography.”

Zhang Xinying (Professor of Chinese Literature at Fudan University, the Changjiang Scholar[③], biographer). “The Second Half of Shen Congwen’s Life and Biography of Shen Congwen.”[④]

Registration Fee: RMB 800

Contact:
Email：ncdswyylt@163.com
Tel：+86-25-86718376
Dr. Cheng Yanqiu 13451823924
Prof. Sun Yongbin 13913936562

[①] Lu Xun Literary Prize, established in 1986 and named after China’s most respected writer Lu Xun, is one of the four prestigious awards in Chinese literature.

[②] Ba Jin (1904-2005), a renowned Chinese novelist. Random Reflections, published after the widely known Cultural Revolution, is an in-depth confession which explores the author’s own inner world and expresses his profound sorrow for what he did during that period. Ba Jin is hence regarded as “the conscience” of the twentieth-century Chinese Literature.

[③] The Changjiang Scholar Program: the highest academic award issued to an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.

[④] Shen Congwen (1902-1988), a singular Chinese novelist. He was highly acclaimed as a novelist before 1949, the year when PRC was founded, and became a researcher on ancient costumes for the rest of his life, a dropout from Chinese literature ever since. He is attractive to scholars of literature studies both in and outside China.

Vies romantiques : vies d’exception

By Biostudies Society

On October 15, 2018

In Events

On the occasion of the 2019 conference of the SAES in Aix-en-Provence on 6, 7 & 8 June 2019, the Société d’études du romantisme anglais (SERA) and the Biography Society are organizing a joint workshop.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes in Biographia Literaria that “it is peculiar to original genius to become less and less striking, in proportion to its success in improving the taste and judgment of its contemporaries”. By a singular turnstile of meaning, to say of a life that it is romantic is to say that it is a life of exception, or exactly the contrary, in so far as exception itself and the yearning for it crystallizes into a trope, reproduced ad libitum. Ex-cepire : to stand out from the crowd, sortir du lot — a romantic life is by definition devoted to genius, whose hallmark is imagination conceived of as “a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation”. Contrarily, seen from the opposite shore of the 20^th century and the deconstruction of the transcendental subject, romantic life may appear as a used-up model. And yet, Byron was Romantic precisely in this that he defined himself as antiromantic, and his Don Juan practices and ironic lightness. Keats, too, affirmed that the “poetical Character”, “distinguished from the Wordsworthian or egotistical sublime”, has “no identity”, as if it situated itself constantly outside itself, in an exceptional ecstasy. This workshop wishes to examine the lives of the Romantics, or some episodes of their lives, in so far as exception, thus understood, characterizes them.

Proposals, consisting of a title and an abstract of no less than 200 words, should be sent before 15 November 2018 to Caroline Bertonèche caroline.bertoneche@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr, Floriane Reviron floriane.reviron.piegay@univ-st-etienne.fr & Joanny Moulin joanny.moulin@univ-amu.fr.

Different Lives Conference 19-21 Sept.18 : Press release and programme

By Biostudies Society

On May 29, 2018

In Events

Please find below the following press release issued by The Biography Institute on our upcoming conference, held in Groningen, 19-21 September 2018, as well as the programme and brochure.

Different Lives: a conference on national traditions in biography.

Biography as a genre has gathered a lot of popular interest in recent years. In determining how we deal with our national past, biographies play a significant part. These accounts are not written in a vacuum; they are to be understood within a tradition – the way individuals are usually depicted within the nation. These traditions are the central focus of the conference “Different Lives: Perspectives on Biography in Public Cultures and Societies,” which will be organized by the University of Groningen’s Biography Institute from September 19 to 21, 2018.
In order to gain understanding of the national biographical traditions, it is important to invite speakers that have firsthand knowledge of these traditions. For that reason, fifteen speakers from all continents were asked to share what they consider to be their nation’s most accomplished biography. Additionally, they will be participating in roundtable discussions to thematically address controversial topics within the field of biography. How does censure affect biography in different parts of the world? Similarly, how much importance is assigned to the authorized biography? Lastly, the genre’s connection to other domains of knowledge, such as psychology, history, and media studies, will be discussed.
The keynote address will be delivered by British biographer Richard Holmes, whose books, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (1985) and This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer (2016), feature elaborate reflections on his practice as a biographer. In his lecture, Holmes will address the way the English tradition of liberal biography has influenced his own biographical research and methods. Holmes has written that empathy is a central tenet of thorough biographical research; the biographer has to be able to defend his subject’s positions at all times. In his lecture, the sustainability of this tradition will be examined.
Carl Rollyson, renowned American author of twelve biographies and three books on biography, will speak on the American tradition of presidential biography. More often than not, these biographies are labelled “authorized,” which connotes something very different from “reliable.” In the age of fake news and alternative facts, how far can biographers go in stretching the facts? This last question will also be addressed by Nigel Hamilton, biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, in the conference’s opening lecture, “Truth, Lies, and Fake Truth.”
Each speaker will address the theme “national traditions in biography” in their own way. Evgeniya Petrova will focus on biography in Russia. She reviewed over 200 texts for her research on biographies of celebrities in Russian media. In her lecture, she will demonstrate which constants she uncovered in these people’s careers, and make an argument about the contemporary media landscape in Russia. The production of biography in closed societies, such as Iran, will also be investigated. Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian will focus on cultural, religious, and social issues that determine the character of contemporary Iranian biography.
Biography in New Zealand only has a small sample size; for the most part, it is dominated by sports figures. However, a large number of critical biographies on artists, musicians, and writers have recently started to appear. Doug Munro answers the question of how the authors of these books portray New Zealand’s society. South-African researcher Lindie Koorts assumes a post-colonial perspective; according to her, the exposure of some “heroes” from the South-African past initiated a discussion that speaks volumes on South Africa’s link to apartheid.
The conference is organized by the Biography Institute, a research institute of the University of Groningen that has produced multiple significant biographies on interesting historical figures. The organization collaborated with the American Biographers International Organization and The Biography Society, a French organization of researchers in biography, led by Joanny Moulin, who will also speak at the conference. Owing to these organizations’ expansive networks, it was possible to invite a broad group of prominent researchers and biographers. The driving impulse is to remind us that biography is a truly international endeavor.

Signing up for the conference is possible on the website: www.different-lives.com. The organization can be reached by e-mail at bioconferenceboard@rug.nl.

Brochure:
(click here to download)

brochure different lives HQ def 2

Programme

September 19

12.30 – 16.00

Masterclass for young biographers, by Nigel Hamilton

16.30 – 17.30

Opening Lecture by Nigel Hamilton

‘Truth, Lies and Fake Truth. The Future of Biography.’

with word of welcome by Frans Zwarts

17.30 – 18.30

Reception

Offered by Groningen Congres Bureau

September 20

10.00 Conference Opening by Hans Renders and Joanny Moulin

10.15 – 11.15

Panel 1 chaired by David Veltman

Carl Rollyson (US)

Evgeniya Petrova (Russia)

Joanny Moulin (France)

11.30 – 12.30

Panel 2 chaired by Joanny Moulin

Elsbeth Etty (the Netherlands)

Daniel Meister (Canada)

Phuong Ngoc Nguyen (Vietnam)

12.45 – 14.00

Mystery Guest at Academy Building

14.30 – 16.00

Roundtable Discussion with John A. Farrell

Topics: political impact of biography, institutions

and status of the biographer, the

biopic, categories of biography, biography

and orality. Speakers:

Lindie Koorts (South Africa)

Doug Munro (New Zealand)

María Jesús González (Spain)

Yannick Gouchan (Italy)

Étienne Naveau (Indonesia)

16.00 – 17.00

Keynote Lecture by Richard Holmes

The Biographer’s Handshake

17.30

Drinks at Conference Venue

September 21

10.15 – 11.15

Panel 3 chaired by Madelon Franssen

Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian (Iran)

Doug Munro (Australia)

María Jesús González (Spain)

11.30 – 13.00

Roundtable Discussion with Patrick Di Mascio

Topics: biography and censorship, the critical

reception of the biography, biography and

psychology, biography and history. Speakers:

Carl Rollyson (US)

Daniel Meister (Canada)

Elsbeth Etty (the Netherlands)

Stefano Magni (Italy)

Raffaele Ruggiero (Italy)

14.00 – 14.30

Interview with the winner of Dutch Biography Prize

14.30 – 15.30

Panel 4 chaired by Nigel Hamilton

Lindie Koorts (South Africa)

Yannick Gouchan (Italy)

Étienne Naveau (Indonesia)

15.45 – 16.30

Public Discussion with Hans Renders

18.00

Conference Dinner at Humphrey’s

Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri

By Biostudies Society

On April 16, 2018

In Events, Seminar

Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri
L’Homme qui se prenait pour le roi de France
traduit de l’italien par Colette Collomp
Paris, Tallandier, 2018, 286 p.

Vendredi 27 avril 2018 de 14:00 – 16:00
Maison de la Recherche
Aix-Marseille Université
Aix-en Provence