Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Celebrity

Sportsmen and Pop-Stars: The Genre of Biography in the Modern Literature

Young Czech literary scholar Klára Soukupová (Charles University, Prague) will speak about the profound changes of the genre of biography in contemporary Europe and trace in how far they reflect the changes of attitude to human life in modern society.

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The series is organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague. The Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages is part of the Humanities Research Centers.

The series is supported by the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague.

All the lectures and discussions will be in English.

Event detail

Event start
1. 3. 2018 17:30 - 19:00
Venue
nám. Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1 (Charles University, Faculty of Arts, room n. 319)
Organizing Institution
Department of Scandinavian Studies, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages
Event type
Lecture