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

Madrid Again

Madrid Again

17 November 2020
Monumental lives

Monumental lives: group presentation and performance in ancient Egypt

11 November 2020
Return by Minor Road cover image

Return by Minor Road

10 November 2020
Tom Stoppard

A living subject: the life of Tom Stoppard, by Hermione Lee

03 November 2020 to 04 November 2020
Rosalind Janssen image

Artefacts as Actors at Abydos

28 October 2020
Broken glass

Into the oppressor's mind, with Carmen Bugan

27 October 2020
Field of red poppies

Music's War Poets

15 October 2020
Arabic dialogues

Arabic Dialogues

14 October 2020
Sound waves pattern

From the stave to sounds, into words

13 October 2020
Books

A Life in Text: the Biographical Material in Constance Garnett's Translations

13 October 2020
Printing wood stamps

Authorship and Authority

25 September 2020
PEN

The Writers' Activism of PEN

18 September 2020

Audio Archive

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