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African Studies Centre

When We Speak of Nothing (book launch and discussion)

ASC seminar by Olumide Popoola and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf.
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

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.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

A Genre in Crisis: The Novel in 1940s France

Professor Ann Jefferson discusses the French novel.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Useful Frames and Dead Pasteboard

Sarah Hook looks at Victorian photographic card portraits, and charts their appearances in novels and poems from the period.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

'The Village in the Jungle' as colonial memoir: Woolf writing home

Victoria Glendinning, biographer of Leonard Woolf, offers her insights from extensive archival research into the life of Woolf in Ceylon and Britain.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

'The Village in the Jungle' Roundtable Discussion

This Roundtable Discussion offers several ways into the life and work of Leonard Woolf from the perspectives of several academics.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Sri Lankan Traditions and the Imperial Imagination: Leonard Woolf's 'The Village in the Jungle'

Novelist and academic, Chandani Lokuge, gives her keynote at the symposium. She brings Sri Lankan linguistic and cultural traditions to Woolf's The Village in the Jungle.
English Tutorials at Mansfield College

The novel in early eighteenth century England: Defoe and Haywood

This tutorial with second year students in English at Mansfield College, Oxford University, explores early attempts to define and categorise the 'new' genre of the novel.
George Eliot

George Eliot 3. Reception History

In this third and final podcast, Dr Catherine Brown discusses the popularity of George Eliot's work in the Victorian period, which led to her status as a sage and the steady accumulation of her wealth.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Athol Fugard: "Defining Moments"

Humanitas Inaugural Keynote Lecture - Athol Fugard: "Defining Moments" - in his life and work. Venue: Simpkins Lee Lecture Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Athol Fugard: Playing Fugard

Athol Fugard in conversation with award-winning South African actors Janet Suzman and John Kani. Venue: Gulbenkian Theatre, St Cross Building, Oxford.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Athol Fugard: The Playwriting Process

Athol Fugard in conversation with playwrights Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem) and Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Her Naked Skin). Venue: Simpkins Lee Lecture Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Alumni Weekend

Oxford and the Crime Novel

Best-selling crime fiction writer of Wire in the Blood Val McDermind talks about what makes Oxford city so alluring to crime fiction writers. Part of the 2009 Oxford Alumni Weekend.

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