Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 17:30 - Public Lecture: Dr Lucy Burns, 'Writing Abortion: Reflections on Larger than an Orange'
  Dr Lucy Burns (Liverpool John Moores University)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 11:00 - Public Seminar: Professor Pragya Agarwal and Professor Diane Watt, 'Why Medieval Women's Lives Are Still Relevant'
  Diane Watt (Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Surrey), Pragya Agarwal

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 11:00 - Study Day: 'Multiple Identities: Telling Life Stories Through Objects'
  Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford), Eleri Lynn (Chief Curator for Historic Royal Palaces), Dr Emily Cockayne (University of East Anglia), Dr Sophie Oliver (University of Liverpool), Dr Alice Little, Prof Judith Clark (University of the Arts London), Dr Christine Checinska (V&A), Dr Georgia Haseldine (V&A East Storehouse), Prof Claire Wilcox (University of the Arts, London / Oxford Centre for Life-Writing)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 14:00 - Jewish Women's Voices Seminar: Daisy Abboudi, ‘Tales of Jewish Sudan’
  Daisy Abboudi (Tales of Jewish Sudan), Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies)
  Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices

Friday 31 October 2025

• 14:30 - Feminist Thinking Seminar Series: Dr Geraldine Fela, ‘Blood Politics: Nurses and Australia’s AIDS crisis’
  Dr Geraldine Fela (Macquarie University)

Friday 13 September 2024

• 12:00 - Prof Goutham Rao, 'Writing for Wellness' Workshop
  Prof Goutham Rao (Case Western Reserve University)

Sunday 29 September 2024

• 15:00 - Dr Kate Kennedy, 'Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound’
  Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator)), Natalie Clein (Cellist), Cheryl Francis-Hoad (Composer)

Thursday 3 October 2024

• 02:00 - Jen Sookfong Lee and Sasha Colby, 'Write Local/Think National'
  Jen Sookfong Lee, Prof Sasha Colby (Simon Fraser University)
  Oxford Centre for Life-Writing / Simon Fraser University Graduate Liberal Studies Jim Babcock Lecture Series in Writing

Saturday 5 October 2024

• 18:00 - Academic Writing: Margaret MacMillan in conversation with Kate Kennedy
  Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Life-Writing / Simon Fraser University Graduate Liberal Studies Jim Babcock Lecture Series in Writing

Tuesday 8 October 2024

• 14:00 - Dr Dana Mills, 'Dissenting Against War and Colonialism in Writing and in Action'
  Dr Dana Mills (+972 Magazine)
  Writing Jewish Women's Lives

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 14:00 - Ian Hembrow, 'Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees’ Book Launch
  Ian Hembrow

Saturday 19 October 2024

• 18:00 - Non-Fiction Writing: Michael Ignatieff in Conversation with Hermione Lee
  Michael Ignatieff (Rector, Central European University), Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Life-Writing / Simon Fraser University Graduate Liberal Studies Jim Babcock Lecture Series in Writing

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 17:30 - Gwyneth Lewis, 'Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling'
  Gwyneth Lewis

Saturday 26 October 2024

• 18:00 - Fiction Writing: Elleke Boehmer in Conversation with Kate Kennedy
  Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Life-Writing / Simon Fraser University Graduate Liberal Studies Jim Babcock Lecture Series in Writing

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 13:30 - 'Birth, Birthing and Death: Practices of Writing at the Edges of Life' Symposium
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 14:00 - Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs, 'Radical Women of the Jewish East End'
  Professor Nadia Valman (Queen Mary, University of London), Dr Vivi Lachs (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Writing Jewish Women's Lives

Tuesday 14 January 2025

• 17:30 - Book Launch: Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere
  Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford), Dr Charne Lavery (University of Pretoria), Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford), Professor Elizabeth Leane (College of Arts, Law and Education), Dr Joanna Price (Liverpool John Moores University), Dr Elizabeth Lewis Williams (University of East Anglia)

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 17:30 - Public Lecture: Tom Lee, The Bullet
  Dr Tom Lee (Goldsmiths, University of London), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)

Friday 7 February 2025

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop: 'Judith Shakespeare: Her Story' with Professor Laurie Maguire
  Laurie Maguire (University of Oxford), Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
  Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 14:00 - Masterclass: Khaled Alesmael, ‘Rooted in Words: Writing in Your Mother Tongue While in Exile’
  Khaled Alesmael (Author, journalist, film maker)
• 17:30 - Public Lecture: Khaled Alesmael, 'The Power of Representation: Why Syrian Queer Stories Matter in a Global Context'
  Khaled Alesmael (Author, journalist, film maker), Mneera Saud (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 17:30 - Weinrebe Lecture: Richard Ovenden in Conversation with Hermione Lee
  Richard Ovenden, OBE (Professorial Fellow and Bodley's Librarian), Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
• 17:30 - Weinrebe Lecture: Richard Ovenden in Conversation with Hermione Lee
  Richard Ovenden, OBE (Professorial Fellow and Bodley's Librarian), Hermione Lee (Biographer)
  Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 14:00 - Masterclass: Dr Lucy Burns, 'Writing Shame: Navel Gazing, Subversion, and Subterfuge'
  Dr Lucy Burns (Liverpool John Moores University)
• 17:30 - Public Lecture: Dr Lucy Burns, 'Writing Abortion: Reflections on Larger than an Orange'
  Dr Lucy Burns (Liverpool John Moores University)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 11:00 - Public Seminar: Professor Pragya Agarwal and Professor Diane Watt, 'Why Medieval Women's Lives Are Still Relevant'
  Diane Watt (Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Surrey), Pragya Agarwal
• 14:00 - Panel event: Telling Middle Eastern Lives
  Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University), Professor Marilyn Booth (Al Saud Professor, Magdalen College), Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut)

Friday 7 March 2025

• 17:30 - Public Lecture: Ann Wroe, 'Catching Souls'. In Conversation with Dr Victoria Phillips
  Dr Ann Wroe (The Economist), Victoria Phillips

Thursday 27 March 2025

• 17:30 - Public Lecture: The House of Doors—Tan Twan Eng in Conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy
  Tan Twan Eng, Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 17:30 - Public Lecture: 'Family Romance, John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers': Jean Strouse in Conversation with Hermione Lee
  Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford), Jean Strouse
• 17:30 - Public Lecture: Family Romance, John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers: Jean Strouse in Conversation with Hermione Lee
  Registration will close at 10:30 on 13 May 2025
  Professor Hermione Lee, Jean Strouse
  Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

Friday 16 May 2025

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop: Professor Josephine McDonagh, 'The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Child Migrants'
  Prof Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago)
  Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops

Monday 19 May 2025

• 17:30 - Public Lecture: Edmund de Waal in Conversation with Hermione Lee
  Edmund de Waal, Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 14:00 - Jewish Women's Voices Seminar: Daisy Abboudi, ‘Tales of Jewish Sudan’
  Daisy Abboudi (Tales of Jewish Sudan), Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies)
  Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 14:00 - Touching Photographs/Prompting Postmemories: A Conversation with Scholar Marianne Hirsch and Artist Sara Davidmann
  Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University)
  Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 17:30 - Public Lecture: Professor Ava Chin, ‘The Elastic Heart: Writing an Epic Family Memoir’
  Professor Ava Chin (CUNY)

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)

Friday 31 October 2025

• 14:30 - Feminist Thinking Seminar Series: Dr Geraldine Fela, ‘Blood Politics: Nurses and Australia’s AIDS crisis’
  Dr Geraldine Fela (Macquarie University)

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