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The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Великобритания
Добавлен 29 май 2020
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) promotes a lively, cross-disciplinary dialogue on the full range of life-writing, including biography, memoir and social media forms, through a busy weekly programme of events, including lunch talks, performances, panel discussions, seminars and full-day workshops. The Centre is committed to outreach, collaboration, and fostering research into life-writing.
Kathy Henderson in conversation
Kathy Henderson in conversation with OCLW Co-Director Dr Kate Kennedy:
My Disappearing Uncle: How Stories Make Us
Kathy will discuss her book My Disappearing Uncle. Europe War and the Stories of a
Scattered Family. Described by Katya Adler as "Heavy with humanity as well as
meticulous historical research, Henderson‘s account brings to life the sheer
determination and thirst for life of extraordinary individuals over the ages, allowing us
to step into our future with hope, however fragile, the book explores ;...one
scattered family and two hundred years of European turmoil told through the tales
passed down by its undaunted women". Today, Kathy will talk about the way
women’s lives get pa...
My Disappearing Uncle: How Stories Make Us
Kathy will discuss her book My Disappearing Uncle. Europe War and the Stories of a
Scattered Family. Described by Katya Adler as "Heavy with humanity as well as
meticulous historical research, Henderson‘s account brings to life the sheer
determination and thirst for life of extraordinary individuals over the ages, allowing us
to step into our future with hope, however fragile, the book explores ;...one
scattered family and two hundred years of European turmoil told through the tales
passed down by its undaunted women". Today, Kathy will talk about the way
women’s lives get pa...
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Dr Sarah Bernstein
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Dr Sarah Bernstein Sarah Bernstein is a novelist and academic. Her second novel, STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won Canada's Giller Prize. She is also the author of a collection of poetry and a number of articles on literary difficulty and mid-century writing by women. She is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde.
Rebecca Abrams
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Rebecca Abrams Rebecca will speak about her recent biography of the remarkable 13th century Jewish moneylender Licoricia of WInchester: Power and Prejudice in medieval England, described by historian Simon Sebag Montefiore as & ;totally fascinating, tragic and unforgettable.' How do we reconstruct the lives of Jewish women whose existence survives chiefly in dry legal and financial records? How...
Welcome: Dr Vera Grodzinski / Dr Kate Kennedy / Professor Hermione Lee
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Dr Vera Fine-Grodzinski Vera Fine-Grodzinski completed her PhD at University College London. She is a social and cultural historian, an independent lecturer and writer with a particular interest in the Jewish presence in the world of art, film and literature. She attends conferences regularly, and her scholarly contributions have been widely published in academic journals. Amongst other art exh...
Lisa Appignanesi and Devorah Baum in conversation
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Losing the Dead, and other writerly intimacies
Clare Carlisle: George Eliot, Life-Writing and Philosophy
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Clare Carlisle: George Eliot, Life-Writing and Philosophy
Ike Anya, in conversation with Elleke Boehmer, on the subject of his new book, Small by Small,
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Ike Anya, in conversation with Elleke Boehmer, on the subject of his new book, Small by Small,
Brigitta Olubas, on her biography of Shirley Hazzard. Wolfson College, 2023
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Brigitta Olubas, on her biography of Shirley Hazzard. Wolfson College, 2023
Meriel Schindler with Rebecca Abrams
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30th January 2024: part of the Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Writing Jewish Women's Lives. Find Meriel Schindler on Instagram: meriel.schindler Find Rebecca Abrams on Twitter: rebeccaabrams2 Join OCLW on Twitter: OxLifeWriting
Dame Imogen Cooper in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy
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From 23rd January 2024: pianist Imogen Cooper talks to OCLW's Dr Kate Kennedy about 'The Hidden Power of Music'.
Blake Morrison in conversation with Hermione Lee
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The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing's Weinrebe Lecture for Michaelmas Term 2023 took place at Wolfson College on Tuesday 31st October. Blake Morrison spoke about his new memoir 'Two Sisters' and the art of life-writing.
'Thou wast not born for death': Keats and the Living Art of Writing Literary Lives
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OCLW's evening lecture on Tuesday 24th October 2023, an in conversation between Lucasta Miller and Professor Elleke Boehmer. In this talk Lucasta Miller discusses her experiences as a life-writer in the light her of her most recent book, Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph. Lucasta Miller's first book, The Bronte Myth (2001), was an influential study in metabiography. It was reiss...
Writing about Living People - Theo Jones
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From our conference on 14th January 2023, Theo Jones from the Society of Authors talks to us about copyright and the legal implications of writing about living or recently-dead people.
'You must do a lot of research', by Amit Chaudhuri
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A keynote lecture from the conference 'Is it shame or is it water: poetry and research in conversation', convened by Dr Katherine Collins, Dr Helen Mort, and Dr Mariah Whelan, at Wolfson College, Oxford. Amit Chaudhuri is Professor of Creative Writing at Ashoka University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is honorary fellow of the Modern Language Association and of Balliol ...
'The soul in paraphrase': sources of poetic language, by Carmen Bugan
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A keynote lecture from the conference 'Is it shame or is it water: poetry and research in conversation', convened by Dr Katherine Collins, Dr Helen Mort, and Dr Mariah Whelan, at Wolfson College, Oxford. Poets have the unique freedom to explore various meanings and sounds of words, to break rules, and to go further in language, where they can reveal, illuminate, invent, discover, re-imagine, de...
Sarah Lightman, ‘“I Forget That I Already Wrote It”: Repetition and Remembering in the works of[...]
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Sarah Lightman, ‘“I Forget That I Already Wrote It”: Repetition and Remembering in the works of[...]
Gerd Bayer, ‘The Unapologetic Writer: Jenny Diski, Michel Montaigne, and Marie De Gournay’
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Gerd Bayer, ‘The Unapologetic Writer: Jenny Diski, Michel Montaigne, and Marie De Gournay’
Diane Gagneret, ‘“This is a Place of Madness”: Borderline Stories in Jenny Diski’s Monkey’s Uncle’
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Diane Gagneret, ‘“This is a Place of Madness”: Borderline Stories in Jenny Diski’s Monkey’s Uncle’
Lisa Mullen, ‘“A kind of grow-your-own narrative”?: Unwriting the Cancer Memoir in Jenny Diski’s[..]
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Lisa Mullen, ‘“A kind of grow-your-own narrative”?: Unwriting the Cancer Memoir in Jenny Diski’s[..]
Ben Grant, ‘“Curled Up in the Place of Questions”: Belief and Doubt in Jenny Diski’s Then Again’
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Ben Grant, ‘“Curled Up in the Place of Questions”: Belief and Doubt in Jenny Diski’s Then Again’
Marisa Nakasone, ‘An Excess of Reality: Pain, Language, and the Modern Madwoman in Jenny Diski'[...]
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Marisa Nakasone, ‘An Excess of Reality: Pain, Language, and the Modern Madwoman in Jenny Diski'[...]
Blake Morrison, ‘ “Writer. Period.” The Unclassifiable Jenny Diski’ (Keynote)
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Blake Morrison, ‘ “Writer. Period.” The Unclassifiable Jenny Diski’ (Keynote)
Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir, ‘Narrative and Genre: Diski and Life Writing’
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Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir, ‘Narrative and Genre: Diski and Life Writing’
Joanna Price, ‘On Walking, Falling, Writing: Genre and the Feeling Body in Jenny Diski’s Memoirs’
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Joanna Price, ‘On Walking, Falling, Writing: Genre and the Feeling Body in Jenny Diski’s Memoirs’
Jenny Diski: A Celebration - Opening Remarks by Ben Grant
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Jenny Diski: A Celebration - Opening Remarks by Ben Grant
Professor Heather Clark - Sylvia Plath: an Iconic Life
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Professor Heather Clark - Sylvia Plath: an Iconic Life
Beyond Words part 1: Reflections on a workshop with the Unicorn School, Abingdon
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Beyond Words part 1: Reflections on a workshop with the Unicorn School, Abingdon