Tuesday 29 April 2025 (1st week of Hilary Term) 

In the Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford 

11am-5pm, followed by a 5.30pm evening lecture and drinks reception 

Register for the study day here, and for the evening lecture here. 

This joint study day between the Centre for Fashion Curation (London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London) and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing interrogates the overlap between material culture and life writing, from memoir and biography to the care, collection and interpretation of objects. 

The full programme for the day, including abstracts and bios, is available here.

Featured speakers: 

Dr Kate Kennedy, Weinrebe Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 

Eleri Lynn, Chief Curator for Historic Royal Palaces 

Dr Emily Cockayne, Associate Professor of Cultural History, University of East Anglia 

Dr Sophie Oliver, Senior Lecturer in Modernism, University of Liverpool  

Dr Alice Little, Researcher in music and the history of collecting 

Judith Clark, Professor of Fashion and Museology, University of the Arts London 

Dr Christine Checinska, Senior Curator, Africa and Diaspora: Textiles and Fashion, V&A 

Claire Wilcox, Professor in Fashion Curation, University of the Arts London and Visiting Scholar, OCLW 

Dr Georgia Haseldine, Senior Curator, V&A East Storehouse  

Evening lecture: Alexandra Pringle, former editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury Publishing, in conversation with Claire Wilcox