Doctoral Talks on Campus | Adventures in Biography: Lectures by Adam Sisman – “Living with My Subject”
Doctoral Talks on Campus | Adventures in Biography: Lectures by Adam Sisman - "Living with My Subject"
13
Mar
The Doctoral Talk: “Living with My Subject”, by award-winning writer and biographer Adam Sisman, will take place on 13 March, from 7 – 8 PM, at the Don Bosco Auditorium.
ABOUT THE TALK:
In this wide-ranging lecture, the biographer and academic Adam Sisman examines the proposition that only those who knew their subjects personally can write an adequate biography. He draws on his own experience of writing about such varied subjects as the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, the spy writer John le Carré, and the writer of the first modern biography (of Dr Johnson), James Boswell.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
ADAM SISMAN
Adam Sisman is the author of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, winner of the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the biographer of John Le Carré, A. J. P. Taylor, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and Asa Briggs. “Mr. Sisman has an ideal biographical style: inquisitive and open, serious yet not severe,” Dwight Garner wrote of his life of Hugh Trevor-Roper in the New York Times: “I’d read him on anyone.” Among Sisman’s other works is The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking. He has also edited or co-edited three volumes of letters. Sisman is based in Bristol, England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews.
DETAILS:
Date: Friday, 13 March 2026
Time: 19:00 – 20:00 (GMT+8, Macau time)
Location: Don Bosco Auditorium, USJ Ilha Verde Campus
Language: English
Organised by: USJ Doctoral School
General Coordinator: Professor Adérito Fernandes-Marcos
Associate Coordinator: Dr. António Maneira
Contact: doctoral@usj.edu.mo
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