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‘Life-writing and the far south: rhythm, disruption, and sensory extremes’ (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
In their co-edited Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere (2024), and other work since, Elleke Boehmer and Katherine Collins consider the challenges of life-writing in the face of environmental and technological instability. In this workshop we will discuss how different rhythms, temporalities, and forms of unpredictability shape the ways lives are written and imagined in the icy environments of Antarctica, a setting of faltering communication, volatile weather, disrupted circadian cycles, and extreme sensory experience.
Date:
21 November 2025, 11:30
Venue:
Seminar Room 10.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Speakers:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Organiser:
Charles Pidgeon (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/laura-marcus-life-writing-workshop-elleke-boehmer-katherine-collins
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Charles Pidgeon
