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Next Week: How can rigorous research bring historical writing to life? Join Dr Victoria Phillips and Dr Max Ferrer in the first Life-Writing Research Network session of the term. 📅 5 Nov | 🕠 17:30 📍 Online via Zoom 🔗 Register: buff.ly/7IAeZ6K

The Life-Writing Research Network is back! Come together with writers and researchers from across disciplines and the globe to exchange ideas, develop their writing, and discover new ways of approaching the craft. Registration and more information: buff.ly/6THrEpK

Can we retain our attachment to the past without nostalgia or disavowal? Professor Alison Light discusses ‘radical nostalgia’, memory and memoir in Red, Red, Robin with Dr Kate Kennedy. @engfac 📅 17 Nov | 🕠 17:30 📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online 🔗 Register: buff.ly/6p3n5jX

Last chance to register for this Friday's Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop! Prof Peter Boxall will be in conversation with Prof Dame Hermione Lee about the relationship between art and life. 📅 30 Oct | 🕠 11:30–13:30 📍 @engfac 🔗 Register: buff.ly/9eNxZWZ

How to prepare your work to submit to an agent? In this masterclass, Emma Paterson, literary agent to Bernardine Evaristo, Shon Faye and others, will share practical advice. For Global Majority & underrepresented writers. 24 Nov | Zoom Register: buff.ly/sQ9QVwT @engfac

Punk is often remembered as a boys’ story. But women were at its centre. Dr Rachel Garfield asks what punk offered Jewish women artists and how it shaped their work. 📅 1 Dec | 14:00 📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online Free & Open to All @OCHJSnews Registration: buff.ly/JMmh0Vp

OCLW turns 15! Join us on 3 Nov @WolfsonCollege for the FREE launch of Hermione Lee's 'Anita Brookner: Art & Life'. Become a Friend/Patron to attend a private reception celebrating 15 years of OCLW. Become a Friend/Patron: buff.ly/3ZS4LlA Register: buff.ly/9z8HGSD

Join award-winning literary and cultural historian Alison Light for the launch of 'Red, Red, Robin', in conversation with Kate Kennedy. A conversation about memoir, memory and history. @engfac 📅 17 Nov | 🕠 17:30 📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online 🔗 Register: buff.ly/6p3n5jX

Join Dr Victoria Phillips and Dr Max Ferrer, renowned writers and experts in historical research methods, in a discussion about bringing archives to life. @engfac @OxfordHistory 📅 5 Nov | 🕠 17:30 📍 Online via Zoom 🔗 Register: buff.ly/O3BoWOP

Tonight: join Professor Lara Feigel in conversation with Professor David Dwan. They’ll discuss 'Custody: The Secret History of Mothers', custody battles, life-writing, motherhood and care. @engfac 📅 Today | 🕠 17:30 📍 @WolfsonCollege 🔗 Register: buff.ly/eqZkMln

What does a literary agent actually do? And when should you approach one? Join Emma Paterson, Director of Aitken Alexander Associates and agent to Bernardine Evaristo, Mona Chalabi and others, for a practical masterclass. 24 Nov | 17:30 | Online Register: buff.ly/sQ9QVwT

Tomorrow: How can we write against cultural erasure? Samantha Ellis joins Dr Aviva Dautch to discuss language, family history and the disappearing culture of Iraqi Jews. Tomorrow | 14:00 📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online 🔗 Register: oclw.site.ox.ac.uk/event/wri… @OCHJSnews @OxfordHistory

What did punk offer Jewish women? Dr Rachel Garfield considers why Jewish female artists were drawn to punk, how punk shaped their work, & how their Jewishness might appear as an undercurrent in their work 1 Dec | 14:00 📍@WolfsonCollege & Online Register: surl.lt/atnlfw

Can we ever separate a writer’s life from their work? Hear Prof Peter Boxall in conversation with Prof Dame Hermione Lee in the first Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop of the new academic year. 📅 30 Oct | 🕠 11:30–13:30 📍 @engfac 🔗 Register: buff.ly/9eNxZWZ

On Tuesday: How can you write against cultural erasure? Samantha Ellis discusses'Chopping Onions on My Heart', her exploration of language, family history and the disappearing culture of Iraqi Jews. 27 Oct | 14:00 📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online 🔗 Register: buff.ly/VqIbf6p

Join us for the launch of Hermione Lee's 'Anita Brookner: Art & Life' Hermione Lee, OCLW’s founding Director, discusses her new biography, Brookner’s life, work and the practice of biography with @DrKKennedy. 3 Nov | 17:30 📍@WolfsonCollege Register: oclw.site.ox.ac.uk/event/ani…

What can a memoir do that other forms of historical narrative can’t? Professor Alison Light explores these questions and more in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy. @engfac 📅 17 Nov | 🕠 17:30 📍 @WolfsonCollege & Online 🔗 Register: buff.ly/6p3n5jX

Next week: join Lara Feigel and David Dwan (@engfac) to discuss 'Custody: The Secret History of Mothers' and what the writing of women’s lives can reveal about custody, motherhood and care. 📅 20 Oct | 🕠 17:30 📍 @WolfsonCollege 🔗 Register: buff.ly/eqZkMln

How do you get your work noticed? Emma Paterson will discuss visibility, recognition and the relationships that can help writers build a career. For Global Majority & underrepresented writers. 24 Nov | 17:30 | Online Register: buff.ly/sQ9QVwT @engfac

Prof Santanu Das writes that the Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops are 'one of the cornerstones of the literary community in Oxford', where scholars and writers 'think together, advise and support each other'. Help secure their future: buff.ly/VGoQUdu