The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
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A series of talks, workshops and conference highlights hosted by the OCLW based at Wolfson College. Life-writing encompasses everything from the complete life to the day-in-the-life, from the fictional to the factional. It embraces the lives of objects and institutions as well as the lives of individuals, families and groups. Life-writing includes autobiography, memoirs, letters, diaries, journals (written and documentary), anthropological data, oral testimony, and eye-witness accounts. It is not only a literary or historical specialism, but is relevant across the arts and sciences, and can involve philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, ethnographers and anthropologists. Wolfson College provides a natural home for...
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- The Women who 'Meant to Do It': George Eliot and Celebrity Performance
- Life-writing and female celebrity - Panel 1
- Life-Writing and Female Celebrity, 4 Nov 2017 Panel 2: Female Celebrity Performance across Media and Genres
- Politics and Conflicts, Silence in the Archives Panel 2b
- Theatre and Performance, Silence in the Archives Panel 2a
- Expressing the Private Self - Silence in the Archives conference Panel 3a
- Silencing Poetic Voices, Silence in the Archives Panel 1b
- Representation, Reputation and Manipulation - Silence in the Archives Panel 1a
- Censorship and Self-censorship: Revisiting the Belt Case in the Making of Dora Montefiore (1851-1933) Silence in the Archives Conference Keynote Address
- Male memory, female subject: the case of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft Silence in the Archives Conference Keynote Address