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

Fabric and Patterns, Work by Izzy Coyle. Textile Design BA (Hons). Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London

Multiple Identities: telling life stories through objects - study day

29 April 2025
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Public Lecture: The House of Doors-Tan Twan Eng in Conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy

27 March 2025
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Jewish Women's Voices Seminar: Jessica Jacobs, 'Obsession & Awareness as Pathways to Poetry'

11 March 2025
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Research Network Skills Seminar: Dr Victoria Phillips, 'The Case of the Rockefeller and Ford Archives: The Archivists as the Key to Our Castle'

11 March 2025
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Public Lecture: Dr Ann Wroe, 'Catching Souls'

07 March 2025
Telling Middle Eastern Lives

Panel Event: Telling Middle Eastern Lives

04 March 2025
Christine De Pisan and Queen Isabeau

Seminar: Why Medieval Women's Lives Are Still Relevant

04 March 2025
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Public Lecture: Professor Susan Neiman in Conversation with Professor Mary Fulbrook

02 March 2025
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Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop: Professor Colin Jones, 'Personal Lives and Political History: the letters of the Duchesse d'Elbeuf, hostile witness to the French Revolution'

28 February 2025
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Public Lecture: Dr Lucy Burns, 'Writing Abortion: Reflections on "Larger than an Orange"'

25 February 2025
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Writing Masterclass: Dr Lucy Burns, 'Writing Shame: Navel Gazing, Subversion, and Subterfuge'

25 February 2025
Richard Ovenden

Weinrebe Lecture: Richard Ovenden in Conversation with Hermione Lee

18 February 2025

Audio Archive

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