‘To Bring Them into Dialog’: A Conversation about Life Narrative and the Digital

This conversation, which originally formed part of the two-day workshop-and-conference “Life Narrative and the Digital 2023” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, brings together historians, literary and auto/biography scholars, and digital humanists to address the intersections of life-narrative scholarship and digital humanities. They offer different disciplinary perspectives on the possibilities and challenges posed by the increasing prevalence of digital tools and methods in auto/biographical research and practice and jointly explore the following questions: How will digital technologies and methods shape the future of auto/biography studies as a field? How can theoretical concepts from traditional life-narrative research enrich the field of digital humanities? How can the divide between traditional and digital humanities be overcome? Pointing out opportunities as well as problem areas, the exchange opens up new pathways towards a fruitful, critical, and, ultimately, mutually enriching disciplinary dialogue between life-narrative research ad digital humanities.