Tuesday 21 June 2016

• 08:30 - Speaking in Absence: Letters in the Digital Age
  Professor Howard Hotson (University of Oxford), Dr Robert McNamee (University of Oxford), Dr Alison Pearn (University of Cambridge), Miranda Lewis (University of Oxford, History Faculty), Dr Daniel Starza Smith (University of Oxford), Mike Webb (Bodleian Libraries), Rupert Mann (Oxford University Press), Dr Philip Beeley (University of Oxford), Kieron Smith (Blackwell's Digital Department), Professor Christopher Ricks (Boston University), Jacqueline Norton (OUP Academic)

Tuesday 30 April 2019

• 13:30 - Colloquium: 'Imagining Madness'
  Jane Garnett (Wadham College, Oxford), Kate Kennedy (Wolfson College, Oxford), John Hopkins (Homerton College), Penelope Cave (Wolfson College, Oxford), Neil Armstrong (ISCA, Oxford), Heather Clark (University of Huddersfield)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 13:00 - Writing Queer Lives
  Dr Jane Traies

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 17:30 - Ellmann’s Joyce: A Biography
  Zachary Leader

Monday 9 March 2020

• 18:00 - Book Launch: Lives of Houses
  Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Jenny Uglow, Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator))

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 13:15 - Andy Warhol Hated Campbell’s Soup… and other lies of the master
  Blake Gopnik

Friday 13 March 2020

• 17:30 - Royal Biography
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Catriona Seth (University of Oxford), Jane Ridley, Tor Rem, Hannah Yelin

Monday 16 March 2020

• 17:30 - Maternity, Life Writing, Fiction
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Merve Emre (Faculty of English, University of Oxford), Dr Sarah Moss (University of Warwick), Sarah Knott (Associate Professor of History Indiana University)

Friday 20 March 2020

• 17:30 - Benjamin Zephaniah
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Benjamin Zephaniah, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Malachi McIntosh

Saturday 28 March 2020

• 12:00 - Lives of Houses
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford), Professor Roy Foster (Hertford college, University of Oxford), Professor Alexandra Harris (University of Birmingham), Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 17:30 - Unheard Music: talks and discussion
  Robert Brewer Young, Matthew Sheeran

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 11:00 - Sally Bayley in conversation with Eleonora Maio
  Eleonora Maio (University of Palermo), Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall)
• 17:30 - Book Launch: The Song of the Whole Wide World
  Dr Tamarin Norwood (Oxford Centre for Life Writing)

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 14:00 - Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Creation in the Life and Art of Berta Rosenbaum Golahny
  Dr Emily Kopley (McGill University)

Friday 10 May 2024

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Workshop: Autobiographical Fiction and the 1950s Telepathy Wave
  Professor Marina Mackay (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 14:00 - Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: "The 'Real' Yentl: The Letters of Esther Kreitman"
  Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies)

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 14:00 - Online Research Network: Catherine Coldstream and Dr Felicity James
  Dr Catherine Coldstream, Dr Felicity James (University of Leicester)

Friday 31 May 2024

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Workshop: 'Nuts and Bolts: searches and discoveries in Life-Writing'
  TBA

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 14:00 - Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Thinking about Women and the Holocaust
  Professor Zoë Waxman (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 June 2024

• 17:30 - Sir Stephen Hough in Conversation
  Sir Stephen Hough, Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)

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

Tuesday 22 October 2024

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

Friday 1 November 2024

• 10:30 - Professor Santanu Das, 'E.M.Forster and Mohammed El Adl: leads, clues and muddles'
  Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
  Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 11:00 - Life-Writing Research Skills: Life-Writing with Government and On-Line Databases
  Victoria Phillips
  Life-Writing Research Skills

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)

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

Tuesday 10 November 2015

• 17:30 - ‘Fame and Fortune: On Writing a New Life of Tchaikovsky’.
  Philip Bullock

Tuesday 10 May 2016

• 17:00 - Life-Writing Event - Ruth Scurr: "John Aubrey"
  Ruth Scurr

Thursday 29 November 2018

• 09:30 - Workshop: 'Writing Madness'
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 30 April 2019

• 13:30 - Colloquium: 'Imagining Madness'
  Jane Garnett (Wadham College, Oxford), Kate Kennedy (Wolfson College, Oxford), John Hopkins (Homerton College), Penelope Cave (Wolfson College, Oxford), Neil Armstrong (ISCA, Oxford), Heather Clark (University of Huddersfield)

Thursday 10 October 2019

• 17:00 - Death in Venice
  Mark Padmore, Colin Matthews, Prof Henry Bacon (University of Helsinki), Dr Raymond Ockenden (Wadham College), Dr John Hopkins (Homerton College), Dr Bretton Brown, Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator)), Professor Philip Bullock (Director, TORCH)

Monday 14 October 2019

• 17:30 - Claudio Santoro: 100 Years
  Alessandro Santoro (EMESP (São Paulo)), Gabriella Di Laccio, Dr Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho (King's College London)

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 17:30 - Olivia Laing In Conversation with Hermione Lee
  Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford), Olivia Laing
• 17:30 - Olivia Laing In Conversation with Hermione Lee
  Olivia Laing, Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 13:15 - Life-Writing Surgery with Sally Bayley and Tony Gray
  Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall), Tony Gray
• 17:30 - The Weinrebe Lectures in Life-Writing: Lucasta Miller
  Lucasta Miller

Monday 2 December 2019

• 17:30 - The Biographer and the Wife
  Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 13:00 - Writing Queer Lives
  Dr Jane Traies

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 17:30 - Ellmann’s Joyce: A Biography
  Zachary Leader

Monday 9 March 2020

• 18:00 - Book Launch: Lives of Houses
  Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Jenny Uglow, Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator))

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 13:15 - Andy Warhol Hated Campbell’s Soup… and other lies of the master
  Blake Gopnik

Friday 13 March 2020

• 17:30 - Royal Biography
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Catriona Seth (University of Oxford), Jane Ridley, Tor Rem, Hannah Yelin

Monday 16 March 2020

• 17:30 - Maternity, Life Writing, Fiction
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Merve Emre (Faculty of English, University of Oxford), Dr Sarah Moss (University of Warwick), Sarah Knott (Associate Professor of History Indiana University)

Friday 20 March 2020

• 17:30 - Benjamin Zephaniah
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Benjamin Zephaniah, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Malachi McIntosh

Saturday 28 March 2020

• 12:00 - Lives of Houses
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford), Professor Roy Foster (Hertford college, University of Oxford), Professor Alexandra Harris (University of Birmingham), Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 10:00 - Day Colloquium: Writing Jewish Women's Lives
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 14:00 - The Gentlewoman from Reedham: Re-encountering Margaret Paston through her Letters, in the 21st century
  Professor Diane Watt (University of Surrey)
• 17:30 - 'Thou wast not born for death': Keats and the Living Art of Writing Literary Lives
  Lucasta Miller

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 13:30 - Workshop on Publishing Non-Fiction
  Various Speakers
• 17:30 - Weinrebe Lecture: Blake Morrison in conversation with Hermione Lee: Two Sisters and the Art of Life-Writing
  Blake Morrison

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 14:00 - Writing Jewish Women's Lives: Literary Salon 1
  Rebecca Abrams

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 14:00 - 'I so shaped out my walk': Charles Dickens's perambulatory patterns
  Dr Helena Kelly

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 14:00 - OCLW Research Network Seminar 3: Rewriting Women's Lives
  Rebecca Donner, Dr. Pragya Agarwal

Friday 17 November 2023

• 17:30 - Brigitta Olubas on Shirley Hazzard
  Professor Brigitta Olubas (University of New South Wales)

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 14:00 - Writing Jewish Women's Lives with Natasha Walter: Literary Salon 2
  Rebecca Abrams, Natasha Walter
• 17:30 - Clare Carlisle on George Eliot, Kierkegaard, and Life Writing
  Professor Clare Carlisle

Tuesday 5 December 2023

• 17:30 - The Legacies of Nelson Mandela: Ten Years On
  Elleke Boehmer, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Jonny Steinberg, Maxim Bolt

Monday 22 January 2024

• 17:30 - Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 1
  Various Speakers
  Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 17:30 - Beyond Music series: Dame Imogen Cooper in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy
  Dame Imogen Cooper, Dr Kate Kennedy

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 14:00 - Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: Meriel Schindler in conversation with Rebecca Abrams
  Rebecca Abrams, Muriel Schindler
  Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar Series

Friday 2 February 2024

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Workshop: Datafied Lives: Life-Writing, Publishing, and the Archive in the Digital Age
  Sarah Ogilvie (Oxford), Adam Guy (Oxford), Kate Kennedy (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Laura Marcus Workshop

Monday 5 February 2024

• 17:30 - Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 2
  Various Speakers
  Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 14:00 - Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: Losing the Dead and Other Writerly Intimacies
  Lisa Appignanesi, Devorah Baum
  Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar Series

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 17:30 - Weinrebe Lecture: Michael Ignatieff on Life-Writing, in conversation with Hermione Lee
  Please note: this event does takes place in London, not in Oxford.
  Professor Hermione Lee, Michael Ignatieff (Rector, Central European University)

Monday 19 February 2024

• 17:30 - Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 3
  Various Speakers
  Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 17:30 - Sarah Ogilvie on The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
  Dr Sarah Ogilvie, Professor Hermione Lee

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 14:00 - OCLW Research Network Seminar 4: Writing Believable Characters
  Michael Meyer, Ada Ferrer (New York University)
  OCLW Research Network Seminars

Friday 23 February 2024

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Workshop: Life-Writing and the Internet
  Charles Pidgeon (University of Oxford)
  Laura Marcus Workshop

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 17:30 - BOOK LAUNCH: A DIRTY, FILTHY BOOK: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century by Michael Meyer
  Michael Meyer

Monday 4 March 2024

• 17:30 - Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 4
  Various Speakers
  Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 15:00 - Triggering Biography: Race, Gender, Politics, Disabilities
  Clare Coss, Denise Lynn, Victoria Phillips
• 17:30 - Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Seventy-five: a global promise of peace dignity education work for every body
  Blanche Cook

Tuesday 12 March 2024

• 10:00 - Writing Jewish Women's Lives Colloquium
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 17:30 - Unheard Music: talks and discussion
  Robert Brewer Young, Matthew Sheeran

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 11:00 - Sally Bayley in conversation with Eleonora Maio
  Eleonora Maio (University of Palermo), Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall)
• 17:30 - Book Launch: The Song of the Whole Wide World
  Dr Tamarin Norwood (Oxford Centre for Life Writing)

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 14:00 - Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Creation in the Life and Art of Berta Rosenbaum Golahny
  Dr Emily Kopley (McGill University)

Friday 10 May 2024

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Workshop: Autobiographical Fiction and the 1950s Telepathy Wave
  Professor Marina Mackay (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 May 2024

• 17:15 - Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group (Trinity Term 2024, Session 2)
  Please find the readings here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1sISUD-m3pChCXdl4I8mcnT_tm3hwgL1a
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 14:00 - Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: "The 'Real' Yentl: The Letters of Esther Kreitman"
  Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies)

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 17:15 - Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group (Trinity Term 2024, Session 3)
  Please find the readings here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1sISUD-m3pChCXdl4I8mcnT_tm3hwgL1a
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 14:00 - Online Research Network: Catherine Coldstream and Dr Felicity James
  Dr Catherine Coldstream, Dr Felicity James (University of Leicester)

Friday 31 May 2024

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Workshop: 'Nuts and Bolts: searches and discoveries in Life-Writing'
  TBA

Monday 10 June 2024

• 17:15 - Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group: Reading with Sally Bayley
  Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall)

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 14:00 - Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Thinking about Women and the Holocaust
  Professor Zoë Waxman (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 June 2024

• 17:30 - Sir Stephen Hough in Conversation
  Sir Stephen Hough, Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)

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

Friday 1 November 2024

• 10:30 - Professor Santanu Das, 'E.M.Forster and Mohammed El Adl: leads, clues and muddles'
  Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
  Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 11:00 - Life-Writing Research Skills: Life-Writing with Government and On-Line Databases
  Victoria Phillips
  Life-Writing Research Skills

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 25 February 2025

• 14:00 - Masterclass: Dr Lucy Burns, 'Writing Shame: Navel Gazing, Subversion, and Subterfuge'
  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