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Musical Abstracts

Research behind... Understanding Misunderstanding

A podcast about a song about the parallels of fake news today and satire in the 18th Century based on research by Prof Abigail Williams at the University of Oxford
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

The Women who 'Meant to Do It': George Eliot and Celebrity Performance

Life-Writing and Female Celebrity, 4 Nov 2017 Keynote: Patricia Duncker
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

Life-writing and female celebrity - Panel 1

Women's Lives and Celebrity in the 18th Century (chair: Anna Senkiw) Ruth Scobie - Pre-Truth Media and the Female Imposter: The Case of ‘Elizabeth Harriet Grieve’
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

Life-Writing and Female Celebrity, 4 Nov 2017 Panel 2: Female Celebrity Performance across Media and Genres

Chaired by Sandra Mayer, with Mary Luckhurst, Oline Eaton and Hannah Yelin.
Great Writers Inspire at Home
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'Art and Attunement', by Professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia and Southern Denmark

In this talk Rita Felski reported at new research on how we engage with works of art across a broad range (including cat videos) and considered the puzzling question of why we are drawn by some pieces of music, art and literature, and not by others.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Rachel Seiffert speaks to Catherine Gilbert

Novelist Rachel Seiffert talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about the ritual of memory and the possibilities of fiction as a response to a difficult past.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Lyndsey Stonebridge speaks to Rita Phillips

Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia, talks to Rita Phillips about literary humanitarianism and the ethics of empathy.
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.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions

Book at Lunchtime held on 8th November 2017.
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.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Poetry and Life-Writing: Panel-led Workshop 1

Bringing together experts working at the intersection of literature, human rights, foreign policy and peace initiatives, this workshop explored the role of poetry and life-writing in post-war healing.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Aminatta Forna speaks to Catherine Gilbert

Aminatta Forna OBE, author of The Devil that Danced on the Water, talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about silence, narrative and resilience in Sierra Leone.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Philippe Sands speaks to Kate McLoughlin

Philippe Sands, QC, international human rights lawyer and author of East West Street, talks to Kate McLoughlin about the law-court as a place of commemoration and what he came to understand outside the city of Lviv.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Memoir and Memory: Aminatta Forna in Conversation with Elleke Boehmer

Launch event for the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series. Aminatta Forna, OBE (novelist and memoirist, Lannan Visiting Professor of Poetics at Georgetown University) in conversation with Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, Oxford).
The Future of Science Symposium

The Future of Publishing

A talk that focuses on promoting and championing scientific literature.
Musical Abstracts

Understanding Misunderstanding

A song about the parallels of fake news today and satire in the 18th Century based on research by Prof Abigail Williams at the University of Oxford
Great Writers Inspire at Home

Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland on writing and community

Writers Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how their writing relates to their identities.
Great Writers Inspire at Home

M. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of history

M. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development.
Great Writers Inspire at Home

Editors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing

Profs Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein speak about the genesis of their new Cambridge History project, Dr Gail Low discusses the networks and institutions of Caribbean-British writing.
Great Writers Inspire at Home

Aminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of Love

Aminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity.

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