Tuesday 21 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Writing Queer Lives
  Dr Jane Traies

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Saturday 28 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 19 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 10 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 10 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 29 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Writing Queer Lives
  Dr Jane Traies

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Saturday 28 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 23 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 5 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 19 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

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