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

• 14:00 - Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: Vera Fine-Grodzinski, ‘Peggy Guggenheim: American Heiress, Feminist, and Champion of Modernist Art’
  Dr Vera Fine-Grodzinski (Oxford Centre for Life-Writing)
  Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices
• 17:30 - Public Lecture: ‘Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara: Vona Groarke and Kate Kennedy in Conversation’
  Prof Vona Groarke (Ireland Professor of Poetry), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)

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

• 11:00 - Workshop: Counter-Narratives, Illness, and Life-Writing
  Dr Astrid Joutseno (University of Turku), Professor Hanna Meretoja (University of Turku), Professor Hanna Meretoja (York University, Toronto), Dr Danielle Spencer (Columbia University), Professor Angela Woods (Durham University), Dr Tamarin Norwood (Oxford Centre for Life Writing)
• 17:30 - Public Lecture: Santanu Das, ‘The Maritime Closet: Queer Lives Before the Mast’
  Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)

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'
  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

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

• 14:00 - Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: Vera Fine-Grodzinski, ‘Peggy Guggenheim: American Heiress, Feminist, and Champion of Modernist Art’
  Dr Vera Fine-Grodzinski (Oxford Centre for Life-Writing)
  Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices
• 17:30 - Public Lecture: ‘Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara: Vona Groarke and Kate Kennedy in Conversation’
  Prof Vona Groarke (Ireland Professor of Poetry), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)

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

• 11:00 - Workshop: Counter-Narratives, Illness, and Life-Writing
  Dr Astrid Joutseno (University of Turku), Professor Hanna Meretoja (University of Turku), Professor Hanna Meretoja (York University, Toronto), Dr Danielle Spencer (Columbia University), Professor Angela Woods (Durham University), Dr Tamarin Norwood (Oxford Centre for Life Writing)
• 17:30 - Public Lecture: Santanu Das, ‘The Maritime Closet: Queer Lives Before the Mast’
  Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)

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'
  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