David Veltman, Daniel Meister and Hans Renders Biography Across the Digitized Globe: Essays in Honour of Hans Renders

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr David Veltman, Dr Daniel Meister and Professor Hans Renders chat with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Biography Across the Digitized Globe: Essays in Honour of Hans Renders.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• David and Daniel edited this collection of essays to honour Hans’s pioneering role in the field of biography.
• Diverse perspectives on how digital sources and global connections are reshaping how we share life stories.
• Why biography remains a vital, evolving genre despite deliberate disinformation and an Orwellian subversion of truthfulness in politics and public conversation.
• Why is it vital to consider biographical traditions from around the world.
• Diverse perspectives on how digital sources and global connections are reshaping how we share life stories.
• The value of a biography lies not in its adherence to a single, monolithic ‘truth’, but in its ability to offer an authentic, authoritative and empathetic exploration of a human life.
• Biography’s future given the emergence of AI.