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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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Anne Sebba and Dr Kate Kennedy discuss the women’s orchestra of Auschwitz-Birkenau, exploring how music supported survival and how these stories are preserved in life-writing.
📅 9 June | ⏰ 14:00–15:30
📍 The Buttery, Wolfson College & Online
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Birdwatching as life-writing: Amy Tan and Professor Andrew Gosler explore observation, attention, and the rhythms of nature. @engfac @WolfsonCollege
📅 10 June | ⏰ 17:30–19:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
Register: https://t.co/l1HvLivNFP
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TOMORROW: For many theorists, autobiography assumes a self that can be known. Jackie Kay explores what happens when identity is unknown, uncertain, or multiple in conversation with Hermione Lee. @engfac @TORCHOxford
📅 29 May | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege
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"Patrons and Donors who support the Centre give writers the confidence and the skills to use their own voices to tell their stories"— Tan Twan Eng
The Dorset Foundation will match all gifts to OCLW—doubling your impact. Support our 15th Anniversary Appeal: https://t.co/78nOSm2ySJ
Hermione Lee and I, about to launch into some exhilarating conversation about *Southern Imagining* and *Ice Shock*. What an immense privilege to face questions from a master interlocutor who had read the books in such depth. @OxLifeWriting @engfac @WolfsonCollege
Elleke Boehmer and Hermione Lee discuss ‘Ice Shock’ and ‘Southern Lives’.
What does it mean to write the lives of the women who survived Auschwitz by playing music for the SS? Anne Sebba reflects on this question in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy. @OxfordHistory @engfac
📅 9 June | ⏰ 14:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
https://t.co/QWhboKU87c
Join us TOMORROW for the launch of @ellekeboehmer’s Ice Shock and Southern Imagining with Professor Dame Hermione Lee. @engfac @TORCHOxford
📅 TOMORROW, 26 May | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online
Free & open to all. Register: https://t.co/OkJFw0R5tH
What can the unruliness of the natural world teach us about writing the self? Amy Tan and Professor Andrew Gosler discuss attention, grief, and memoir in The Backyard Bird Chronicles. @engfac @WolfsonCollege
10 June | 17:30–19:00
📍 @WolfsonCollege
https://t.co/l1HvLivNFP
@ellekeboehmer will discuss ‘Ice Shock’ this Tuesday at @WolfsonCollege. Register here: https://t.co/WCJvRKgNFK
Join us next year: https://t.co/Kwa0HmdlLb
Scenes from our annual writing retreat
Chloe Dalton discusses the opening of ‘Raising Hare’ with Charlie Lee-Potter
How do we imagine distant lives and environments? @ellekeboehmer and Professor Dame Hermione Lee explore this in conversation about Ice Shock and Southern Imagining. @engfac @TORCHOxford
📅 26 May | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege
Free & open to all. Sign up: https://t.co/OkJFw0R5tH
A few weeks ago: doing the morning coffee run, Tuscan style - keeping our writers fuelled on our #writing retreat in glorious #Anghiari. @AvivaDautch, @OxLifeWriting, @WritingOxford #OCLW
Scenes from our annual writing retreat
Room with a view! Hard not to be inspired to write here! @AvivaDautch, @WritingOxford, @OxLifeWriting #OCLW
Evening discussions - Sarah Ogilvie on her work on The Dictionary People, the forgotten and eccentric voices who helped shape the Oxford English Dictionary. @AvivaDautch, @WritingOxford, @OxLifeWriting. #OCLW
Spotted - in Naples airport, apparently!!! - @cellojohnston @OxLifeWriting @HoZ_Books @BloomsburyBooks #OCLW
TOMORROW: Chloe Dalton and Charlie Lee-Potter explore how careful attention to wild animals and landscapes shapes life-writing. How might we write the lives of others—human and nonhuman? @engfac
📅 22 May | ⏰ 17:30–18:45
📍@WolfsonCollege
Register: https://t.co/zlmvdlvCzN
For many theorists, autobiography assumes a self that can be known. But how do you write a self that is unknown, uncertain, or multiple? Jackie Kay explores such questions in conversation with Hermione Lee. @engfac
📅 29 May | ⏰ 17:30
📍 @WolfsonCollege
https://t.co/IM0EpjDAz4
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