The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College. A world-leading centre for the research and practice of life-writing. Join us for events, classes, & more.

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Next week: Join award-winning author Professor Alison Light, who will discuss her latest memoir 'Red, Red, Robin: My Long Goodbye to Home' with Dr Kate Kennedy.
📅 17 Nov | 🕠 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege & online
🔗 https://t.co/nk4xYfREOB

[Kate Kennedy @DrKKennedy]

Celebrating 15 years of @OxLifeWriting and thinking about the role of biography in the next 15. How to tell real stories in a world increasingly filled with artificial ones. @WolfsonCollege @UniofOxford

#Biography #Storytelling #DigitalAge #ArtificialIntelligence #Oxford

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Can writing be both experimental and personal?

Evie Sutcliffe, Lochie Springett, and Dr Julia Dallaway will be discussing the experimental ways in which modernist writers approached life-writing.

📅 20 Nov | 🕠 11:30–13:30
📍 @engfac
🔗 Register: https://t.co/BAE4WSEw8F

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From punk scenes to experimental film: in our Jewish Women's Voices Seminar, Dr Rachel Garfield explores Jewish women’s artistic responses to punk in the 1970s and 1980s.
Free & Open to All.
📅 1 Dec | 14:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
@OCHJSnews

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

What does a literary agent actually do? When should you approach one?
Join literary agent Emma Paterson for a practical masterclass on finding representation, preparing your work and building a writing career.
24 Nov | 17:30 | Online
Register: https://t.co/76KGlybwTd
@engfac

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

What kinds of writing emerge when we move between history ‘proper’ and memoir? Join Professor Alison Light as she discusses her new memoir 'Red, Red, Robin' with Dr Kate Kennedy.
📅 17 Nov | 🕠 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege & online
🔗 https://t.co/nk4xYfREOB

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

Tomorrow: celebrate 15 years of OCLW with the FREE launch of Anita Brookner: Art & Life, by founding Director Hermione Lee.
Friends & Patrons are invited to a private anniversary reception.
Become a Friend/Patron & Register: https://t.co/KJZbKcQEE8
3 Nov | 17:30 📍@WolfsonCollege

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

What impact did punk have on Jewish women artists?
Dr Rachel Garfield explores the work of Jewish women whose art emerged from the punk ethos of the 1970s and 1980s.
📅 1 Dec | 14:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
Free & Open to all
@OCHJSnews
Register: https://t.co/EJWb8hfS9c

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

Next Week: How can rigorous research bring historical writing to life?

Join Dr Victoria Phillips and Dr Max Ferrer in the first Life-Writing Research Network session of the term.

📅 5 Nov | 🕠 17:30
📍 Online via Zoom
🔗 Register: https://t.co/pTkKxp593O

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

The Life-Writing Research Network is back! Come together with writers and researchers from across disciplines and the globe to exchange ideas, develop their writing, and discover new ways of approaching the craft.

Registration and more information: https://t.co/YzdKXTF8ba

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

Can we retain our attachment to the past without nostalgia or disavowal? Professor Alison Light discusses ‘radical nostalgia’, memory and memoir in Red, Red, Robin with Dr Kate Kennedy. @engfac
📅 17 Nov | 🕠 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
🔗 Register: https://t.co/hQEPCmiL5W

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

Last chance to register for this Friday's Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop! Prof Peter Boxall will be in conversation with Prof Dame Hermione Lee about the relationship between art and life.

📅 30 Oct | 🕠 11:30–13:30
📍 @engfac
🔗 Register: https://t.co/16zG5NJzsL

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

How to prepare your work to submit to an agent?
In this masterclass, Emma Paterson, literary agent to Bernardine Evaristo, Shon Faye and others, will share practical advice.
For Global Majority & underrepresented writers.
24 Nov | Zoom
Register: https://t.co/76KGlybwTd @engfac

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

Punk is often remembered as a boys’ story. But women were at its centre.
Dr Rachel Garfield asks what punk offered Jewish women artists and how it shaped their work.
📅 1 Dec | 14:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
Free & Open to All
@OCHJSnews
Registration: https://t.co/EJWb8hfS9c

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

OCLW turns 15!
Join us on 3 Nov @WolfsonCollege for the FREE launch of Hermione Lee's 'Anita Brookner: Art & Life'. Become a Friend/Patron to attend a private reception celebrating 15 years of OCLW.
Become a Friend/Patron: https://t.co/aEesRzxMxK
Register: https://t.co/j97XOamYA8

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

Join award-winning literary and cultural historian Alison Light for the launch of 'Red, Red, Robin', in conversation with Kate Kennedy. A conversation about memoir, memory and history. @engfac
📅 17 Nov | 🕠 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
🔗 Register: https://t.co/hQEPCmiL5W

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

Join Dr Victoria Phillips and Dr Max Ferrer, renowned writers and experts in historical research methods, in a discussion about bringing archives to life.

@engfac
@OxfordHistory

📅 5 Nov | 🕠 17:30
📍 Online via Zoom
🔗 Register: https://t.co/bJOf7b7t7p

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Tonight: join Professor Lara Feigel in conversation with Professor David Dwan. They’ll discuss 'Custody: The Secret History of Mothers', custody battles, life-writing, motherhood and care. @engfac
📅 Today | 🕠 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege
🔗 Register: https://t.co/83a6ygT9rx

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

What does a literary agent actually do? And when should you approach one?
Join Emma Paterson, Director of Aitken Alexander Associates and agent to Bernardine Evaristo, Mona Chalabi and others, for a practical masterclass.
24 Nov | 17:30 | Online
Register: https://t.co/76KGlybwTd

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

Tomorrow: How can we write against cultural erasure? Samantha Ellis joins Dr Aviva Dautch to discuss language, family history and the disappearing culture of Iraqi Jews.
Tomorrow | 14:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
🔗 Register: https://t.co/EHw0mzmbT0
@OCHJSnews @OxfordHistory