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Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

University of Oxford

https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/events

Events this person is hosting:

Friday 12 September 2025

17:30 - Public Lecture: 'On Life-Writing (Part I): Elleke Boehmer and Kate Kennedy in Conversation'
Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 October 2025

Thursday 16 October 2025

17:00 - Book Launch: Yosef Wosk, 'New Life Joke Shop: Travels and Observations'
Prof Yosef Wosk (Simon Fraser University)

Monday 20 October 2025

17:30 - Public Lecture: ‘On Life-Writing (Part II): Hermione Lee and Kate Kennedy in Conversation’
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Tuesday 28 October 2025

17:00 - Public Lecture: Lucy Hughes-Hallett, 'The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham'
Lucy Hughes-Hallet, Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

14:00 - Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: Susan Kahn, 'Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel'
Please note the change in venue. This event will now be held in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
Prof Susan Kahn (Harvard)
Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices
17:00 - Public Lecture: '"Ellmann’s Joyce": Zachary Leader in Conversation with Hermione Lee'
Zachary Leader, Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 November 2025

14:00 - Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: 'The Third Reich of Dreams': Amanda Rubin-Lewis and Devorah Baum in Conversation
Dr Devorah Baum (University of Southampton), Amanda Rubin-Lewis (Director)
Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices

Saturday 24 January 2026

18:00 - Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Professor Jane Shaw
Online only
Jeanette Winterson CBE, OBE, FRSL (University of Manchester), Professor Jane Shaw (University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing / Simon Fraser University Graduate Liberal Studies Jim Babcock Lecture Series in Writing

Tuesday 3 February 2026

17:30 - Saeed Taji Farouky, How Can We Creatively Document Life in a Time of Genocide?
Saeed Taji Farouky (Filmmaker; Radical Film School)
Global Majority and Underrepresented Writers Programme

Tuesday 10 February 2026

Tuesday 3 March 2026

17:30 - Masterclass: Isle McElroy, 'Stealing, Borrowing, and Letting Go: Using Real Life in Fiction'
Online only. Registration will close at 17:00 on 24/02/2026.
TBA
Global Majority and Underrepresented Writers Programme

Events this person is organising:

Friday 12 September 2025

17:30 - Public Lecture: 'On Life-Writing (Part I): Elleke Boehmer and Kate Kennedy in Conversation'
Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 October 2025

Thursday 16 October 2025

17:00 - Book Launch: Yosef Wosk, 'New Life Joke Shop: Travels and Observations'
Prof Yosef Wosk (Simon Fraser University)

Monday 20 October 2025

17:30 - Public Lecture: ‘On Life-Writing (Part II): Hermione Lee and Kate Kennedy in Conversation’
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Tuesday 28 October 2025

17:00 - Public Lecture: Lucy Hughes-Hallett, 'The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham'
Lucy Hughes-Hallet, Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

14:00 - Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: Susan Kahn, 'Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel'
Please note the change in venue. This event will now be held in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
Prof Susan Kahn (Harvard)
Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices

Tuesday 25 November 2025

14:00 - Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: 'The Third Reich of Dreams': Amanda Rubin-Lewis and Devorah Baum in Conversation
Dr Devorah Baum (University of Southampton), Amanda Rubin-Lewis (Director)
Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices

Saturday 24 January 2026

18:00 - Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Professor Jane Shaw
Online only
Jeanette Winterson CBE, OBE, FRSL (University of Manchester), Professor Jane Shaw (University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing / Simon Fraser University Graduate Liberal Studies Jim Babcock Lecture Series in Writing

Tuesday 10 February 2026

17:30 - Public Lecture: Professor Nicholas Royle, 'Life-Writing and the New Fantastic: Possibilities and Pleasures for Life-Writers and Readers'
Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex)