Life History and Biographical Research Network

Themes in the conference

• What is our purpose in representing lives? Is it for some instrumental or greater good? How is this to be done and on what and whose terms?
• Is there, or should there be, a poetry in our work and writing, alongside the science? Is there an aesthetic/poetic as well as moral responsibility to represent the spirit by which lives may have been lived, in all their complexity, and a need we to beware of reductionism?
• What is the nature of our science?