Events coming up

The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing promotes a lively cross-disciplinary dialogue on all aspects of life-writing through a busy programme of events including lectures, performances, panel discussions, conferences, seminars, and workshops, most of which are free and open to all.

To see what's coming up browse the events listings below. For regular notifications about our events, sign-up to our newsletter.

Many of our events are recorded - click through to listings under Past Events to watch or listen to these recordings. Recordings of events that have taken place since 2020 are also available on our YouTube channel. Additional recordings from the years before 2020 can be found in the Wolfson College recordings archive, and listed on Oxford University's podcasts page.

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Past events

Professor Katharina Galor, 'Friendship Across Borders: Writing Lives in the Shadow of Conflict'

05 May

The Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices Seminar

Writing Queer Lives, from Biography to Anthology: Peter Parker in Conversation with Dr Eleri Anona Watson

28 April

Global Majority & Underrepresented Writers' Programme Lecture

Masterclass: Isle McElroy, 'Stealing, Borrowing, and Letting Go: Using Real Life in Fiction'

03 March

Global Majority & Underrepresented Writers' Programme, Friends of OCLW, and OCLW Life-Writing Research Network Event

Simon Horobin, 'Writing the Oxford lives of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis'

27 February

Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop

Professor Nicholas Royle, 'Life-Writing and the New Fantastic: Possibilities and Pleasures for Life-Writers and Readers'

10 February

Public Lecture

Narrating Lives, from Photograph to Photographer: 'Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm'

10 February

Jewish Women's Voices Seminar

Georgina Ferry, 'Lives under the microscope: scientific obituaries dissected'

06 February

Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop

Saeed Taji Farouky, 'How Can We Creatively Document Life in a Time of Genocide?'

03 February

Global Majority & Underrepresented Writers' Programme Lecture

Professor Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Professor Jane Shaw

24 January

Babcock Lecture

Weinrebe Lecture: '"The Silver Book": Olivia Laing in Conversation with Charlie Lee-Potter'

10 December 2025

Research Network Event: What I'm Working On, and Why it's Life-Writing

08 December 2025

Jewish Women's Voices Seminar: '"The Third Reich of Dreams": Amanda Rubin-Lewis and Devorah Baum in Conversation'

25 November 2025

Audio Archive

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