Name: Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Events this person is hosting:
Tuesday 21 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)
Speaking in Absence: Letters in the Digital Age
Date: 21 June 2016, 8:30 - 21:30 (Tuesday, 9th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker
s:
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)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Weston Lecture Theatre (evening events at Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College)
Organisers:
Michaela Crawley (University of Oxford),
Helen Brown (University of Oxford),
Olivia Thompson (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute (Balliol College, Oxford),
Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford),
TORCH (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
Colloquium: 'Imagining Madness'
Date: 30 April 2019, 13:30 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 1st week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker
s:
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)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Writing Queer Lives
Date: 11 February 2020, 13:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Dr Jane Traies
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
Ellmann’s Joyce: A Biography
Date: 25 February 2020, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Zachary Leader
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Book Launch: Lives of Houses
Date: 9 March 2020, 18:00 - 19:30 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
s:
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford),
Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford),
Jenny Uglow,
Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator))
Venue Details: The Chancellor’s Hall
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Andy Warhol Hated Campbell’s Soup… and other lies of the master
Date: 10 March 2020, 13:15 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Blake Gopnik
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Royal Biography
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 13 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00 (Friday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
s:
Catriona Seth (University of Oxford),
Jane Ridley,
Tor Rem,
Hannah Yelin
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Monday 16 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)
Maternity, Life Writing, Fiction
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 16 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00 (Monday, 9th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
s:
Dr Merve Emre (Faculty of English, University of Oxford),
Dr Sarah Moss (University of Warwick),
Sarah Knott (Associate Professor of History Indiana University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 20 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)
Benjamin Zephaniah
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 20 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00 (Friday, 9th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
s:
Benjamin Zephaniah,
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Malachi McIntosh
Venue Details: Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Saturday 28 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)
Lives of Houses
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 28 March 2020, 12:00 - 13:30 (Saturday, 10th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
s:
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)
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
Unheard Music: talks and discussion
Date: 23 April 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Robert Brewer Young,
Matthew Sheeran
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Sally Bayley in conversation with Eleonora Maio
Date: 30 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Eleonora Maio (University of Palermo),
Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Book Launch: The Song of the Whole Wide World
Date: 30 April 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Dr Tamarin Norwood (Oxford Centre for Life Writing)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Creation in the Life and Art of Berta Rosenbaum Golahny
Date: 7 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Dr Emily Kopley (McGill University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and online via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Laura Marcus Workshop: Autobiographical Fiction and the 1950s Telepathy Wave
Date: 10 May 2024, 10:30 - 12:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Marina Mackay (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: "The 'Real' Yentl: The Letters of Esther Kreitman"
Date: 21 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Online Research Network: Catherine Coldstream and Dr Felicity James
Date: 29 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Dr Catherine Coldstream,
Dr Felicity James (University of Leicester)
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Laura Marcus Workshop: 'Nuts and Bolts: searches and discoveries in Life-Writing'
Date: 31 May 2024, 10:30 - 12:30 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Thinking about Women and the Holocaust
Date: 11 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Zoë Waxman (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Wednesday 19 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)
Sir Stephen Hough in Conversation
Date: 19 June 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Sir Stephen Hough,
Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Venue: Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/holywell-music-room-0
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Events this person is organising:
Tuesday 10 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
‘Fame and Fortune: On Writing a New Life of Tchaikovsky’.
Date: 10 November 2015, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker
:
Philip Bullock
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Life-Writing Event - Ruth Scurr: "John Aubrey"
Date: 10 May 2016, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker
:
Ruth Scurr
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 29 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Workshop: 'Writing Madness'
Date: 29 November 2018, 9:30 - 11:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker
:
Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
Colloquium: 'Imagining Madness'
Date: 30 April 2019, 13:30 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 1st week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker
s:
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)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Thursday 10 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Death in Venice
Date: 10 October 2019, 17:00 - 19:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker
s:
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)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator))
Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
Claudio Santoro: 100 Years
Date: 14 October 2019, 17:30 - 19:00 (Monday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker
s:
Alessandro Santoro (EMESP (São Paulo)),
Gabriella Di Laccio,
Dr Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho (King's College London)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Olivia Laing In Conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 5 November 2019, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker
s:
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford),
Olivia Laing
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Olivia Laing In Conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 5 November 2019, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker
s:
Olivia Laing,
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Life-Writing Surgery with Sally Bayley and Tony Gray
Date: 19 November 2019, 13:15 - 16:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker
s:
Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall),
Tony Gray
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
The Weinrebe Lectures in Life-Writing: Lucasta Miller
Date: 19 November 2019, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker
:
Lucasta Miller
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
The Biographer and the Wife
Date: 2 December 2019, 17:30 - 19:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker
s:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Dr Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford),
Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Haldane Room
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Writing Queer Lives
Date: 11 February 2020, 13:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Dr Jane Traies
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
Ellmann’s Joyce: A Biography
Date: 25 February 2020, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Zachary Leader
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Book Launch: Lives of Houses
Date: 9 March 2020, 18:00 - 19:30 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
s:
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford),
Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford),
Jenny Uglow,
Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator))
Venue Details: The Chancellor’s Hall
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Andy Warhol Hated Campbell’s Soup… and other lies of the master
Date: 10 March 2020, 13:15 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Blake Gopnik
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Royal Biography
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 13 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00 (Friday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
s:
Catriona Seth (University of Oxford),
Jane Ridley,
Tor Rem,
Hannah Yelin
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Monday 16 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)
Maternity, Life Writing, Fiction
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 16 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00 (Monday, 9th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
s:
Dr Merve Emre (Faculty of English, University of Oxford),
Dr Sarah Moss (University of Warwick),
Sarah Knott (Associate Professor of History Indiana University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 20 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)
Benjamin Zephaniah
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 20 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00 (Friday, 9th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
s:
Benjamin Zephaniah,
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Malachi McIntosh
Venue Details: Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Saturday 28 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)
Lives of Houses
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 28 March 2020, 12:00 - 13:30 (Saturday, 10th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
s:
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)
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
Day Colloquium: Writing Jewish Women's Lives
Date: 17 October 2023, 10:00 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
The Gentlewoman from Reedham: Re-encountering Margaret Paston through her Letters, in the 21st century
Date: 24 October 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
:
Professor Diane Watt (University of Surrey)
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
'Thou wast not born for death': Keats and the Living Art of Writing Literary Lives
Date: 24 October 2023, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
:
Lucasta Miller
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Workshop on Publishing Non-Fiction
Date: 31 October 2023, 13:30 - 20:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
Various Speakers
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Weinrebe Lecture: Blake Morrison in conversation with Hermione Lee: Two Sisters and the Art of Life-Writing
Date: 31 October 2023, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
:
Blake Morrison
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Writing Jewish Women's Lives: Literary Salon 1
Date: 7 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
:
Rebecca Abrams
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
'I so shaped out my walk': Charles Dickens's perambulatory patterns
Date: 14 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
:
Dr Helena Kelly
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
OCLW Research Network Seminar 3: Rewriting Women's Lives
Date: 15 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
s:
Rebecca Donner,
Dr. Pragya Agarwal
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Brigitta Olubas on Shirley Hazzard
Date: 17 November 2023, 17:30 - 19:00 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
:
Professor Brigitta Olubas (University of New South Wales)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Writing Jewish Women's Lives with Natasha Walter: Literary Salon 2
Date: 21 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
s:
Rebecca Abrams,
Natasha Walter
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Clare Carlisle on George Eliot, Kierkegaard, and Life Writing
Date: 21 November 2023, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
:
Professor Clare Carlisle
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 5 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)
The Legacies of Nelson Mandela: Ten Years On
Date: 5 December 2023, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
s:
Elleke Boehmer,
Tinashe Mushakavanhu,
Jonny Steinberg,
Maxim Bolt
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 1
Date: 22 January 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 23 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
Beyond Music series: Dame Imogen Cooper in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy
Date: 23 January 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Dame Imogen Cooper,
Dr Kate Kennedy
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: Meriel Schindler in conversation with Rebecca Abrams
Date: 30 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Rebecca Abrams,
Muriel Schindler
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
Laura Marcus Workshop: Datafied Lives: Life-Writing, Publishing, and the Archive in the Digital Age
Date: 2 February 2024, 10:30 - 12:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Sarah Ogilvie (Oxford),
Adam Guy (Oxford),
Kate Kennedy (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 2
Date: 5 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
Various Speakers
Organisers:
TORCH (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: Losing the Dead and Other Writerly Intimacies
Date: 13 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Lisa Appignanesi,
Devorah Baum
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
Weinrebe Lecture: Michael Ignatieff on Life-Writing, in conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 15 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Professor Hermione Lee,
Michael Ignatieff (Rector, Central European University)
Venue Details: Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG02
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 3
Date: 19 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organisers:
TORCH (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
Sarah Ogilvie on The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Date: 20 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Dr Sarah Ogilvie,
Professor Hermione Lee
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
OCLW Research Network Seminar 4: Writing Believable Characters
Date: 21 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Michael Meyer,
Ada Ferrer (New York University)
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
Laura Marcus Workshop: Life-Writing and the Internet
Date: 23 February 2024, 10:30 - 12:30 (Friday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Charles Pidgeon (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
BOOK LAUNCH: A DIRTY, FILTHY BOOK: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century by Michael Meyer
Date: 27 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Michael Meyer
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 4
Date: 4 March 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organisers:
TORCH (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 5 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Triggering Biography: Race, Gender, Politics, Disabilities
Date: 5 March 2024, 15:00 - 16:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Clare Coss,
Denise Lynn,
Victoria Phillips
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Seventy-five: a global promise of peace dignity education work for every body
Date: 5 March 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Blanche Cook
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 12 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)
Writing Jewish Women's Lives Colloquium
Date: 12 March 2024, 10:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
Unheard Music: talks and discussion
Date: 23 April 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Robert Brewer Young,
Matthew Sheeran
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Sally Bayley in conversation with Eleonora Maio
Date: 30 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Eleonora Maio (University of Palermo),
Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Book Launch: The Song of the Whole Wide World
Date: 30 April 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Dr Tamarin Norwood (Oxford Centre for Life Writing)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Creation in the Life and Art of Berta Rosenbaum Golahny
Date: 7 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Dr Emily Kopley (McGill University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and online via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Laura Marcus Workshop: Autobiographical Fiction and the 1950s Telepathy Wave
Date: 10 May 2024, 10:30 - 12:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Marina Mackay (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: "The 'Real' Yentl: The Letters of Esther Kreitman"
Date: 21 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Online Research Network: Catherine Coldstream and Dr Felicity James
Date: 29 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Dr Catherine Coldstream,
Dr Felicity James (University of Leicester)
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Laura Marcus Workshop: 'Nuts and Bolts: searches and discoveries in Life-Writing'
Date: 31 May 2024, 10:30 - 12:30 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Thinking about Women and the Holocaust
Date: 11 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Zoë Waxman (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Wednesday 19 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)
Sir Stephen Hough in Conversation
Date: 19 June 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Sir Stephen Hough,
Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Venue: Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/holywell-music-room-0
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
