Oxford Centre for Life Writing - Oxford Talks

Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Events this person is hosting:

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), 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)

Events this person is organising:

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)

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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)