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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Elleke Boehmer speaks to Kate McLoughlin

Elleke Boehmer talks to Kate McLoughlin about her most recent novel, The Shouting in the Dark, the language of reconciliation in South Africa, and the creative potential for the work of both fiction and literary criticism.
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Late Victorian into Modern

Book at Lunchtime, Late Victorian into Modern
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Conflict and Community: Panel-led Workshop 2

Mobilising the wide-ranging expertise of the speakers, this workshop explored questions of narrative, community and the special commemorative needs that arise in the wake of civil war and terrorism.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: Arcadia

A Book at Lunchtime discussion of Iain Pears' interactive novel Arcadia
Tolkien at Oxford

The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy

60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Fiction and Other Minds

Peter Garratt (Durham): ‘Mind Bloat and The Lifted Veil’ Helen Small (English/Oxford): 'On the Verification of Mental Experience'. Chaired by Ben Morgan.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy

60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Callaloo Literary Lecture and Reading by Fred d'Aguiar

Fred reads fiction and poems about his childhood in Guyana, remembering his father, and slavery
Teaching to Transgress

Fiction of Development: Narrative, Representation and Authoritative Knowledge

Charlotte De Val presents her Master's thesis entitled 'Fiction of Development: Narrative, Representation and Authoritative Knowledge.'
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Alison Light on 'Common People'

The author discusses her new book, exploring the interplay between fiction and history, the redefinition of the common, and family history
Mansfield College

Thinking with Stories: Listening in to Women’s Voices

The fourth in our lecture series for Trinity Term 2014, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Professor Marina Warner, CBE -- Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and writer of fiction, criticism and cultural history.
Changing Character of War

Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us About War

Professor Christopher Coker looks at the presentation of war in fiction, focussing in particular on the different character types commonly portrayed.
Alumni Weekend

Writing Contemporary Fiction: From Inspiration to Publication

James Benmore (Kellogg), Samantha Shannon (St Anne's) and Sam Thompson (St Anne's) talk about their work as writers. Chaired by Dr Clare Morgan (Kellogg), author and Director of the Master of Studies in Creative Writing.
Valentine's Day at Oxford

Love and Sex in Victorian Fiction

Victorian fiction is commonly thought of as treating love sentimentally and lacking all reference to sex. In this talk drawing on material from a book he is writing, Dr David Grylls, Fellow of Kellogg College, will contest such a view.
Interviews on Great Writers

Oriental Tales and Their Influence

Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's translation into French from Arabic of the 'Alf Layla wa-Layla' as the first two volumes of 'Les Mille et Une Nuit' in the first decade of eighteenth century.
Wolfson College Podcasts

"Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture

Historian Stella Tillyard delivers the fourth Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing and Portraiture. The talk is introduced by College President Hermione Lee.
First World War: New Perspectives

Popular fiction in World War One

An argument for a more nuanced assessment of the popular literature consumed by the wider public during the First World War.
Great Writers Inspire

Julian Thompson on Wilkie Collins

Dr. Julian Thompson considers how Wilkie Collins's fiction was pioneering across a variety of genres, including detective fiction and gothic thrillers.
Wolfson College Podcasts

"Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation

The first Weinrebe lecture in life-writing was given by Michèle Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. The lecture is introduced by Professor Hermione Lee.
Wolfson College Podcasts

Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction

The award-winning author and memoirist Candia McWilliam attests to the edifying power of fiction and biography in the third lecture in the Weinrebe series from the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing.

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