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), 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: Olivia Thompson (University of Oxford), Helen Brown (University of Oxford), Michaela Crawley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Oxford Centre for Life Writing, TORCH (University of Oxford), Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford), Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute (Balliol College, Oxford)

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

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