The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

Life-Writing and Female Celebrity, 4 Nov 2017 Keynote: Patricia Duncker

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'

Chaired by Sandra Mayer, with Mary Luckhurst, Oline Eaton and Hannah Yelin. Chaired by Sandra Mayer, with Mary Luckhurst - Staging Lives: Celebrity Actresses Playing Real-Life Celebrities, Oline Eaton - God Bless Jackie - The Only Thing that Can Make Us Forget the Bomb and Hannah Yelin - Celebrity Performativity and Cultural Value: Reading Grace Jones' I'll Never Write my Memoirs

This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015. This set of two lectures on 'Politics and Conflicts' were delivered as part of panel 2b. Chair: Rhea Sookdeosingh, St Cross College, Oxford. Speakers: Helen Mathers, The Open University, ‘Self-Censorship: Josephine Butler's Attitudes to Biography and Autobiography' and Stephenie Woolterton, Independent Scholar, ‘”I shall burn all…”: The mysterious link between Elizabeth Williams and Lady Hester Stanhope'.

This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015. Chair: Luisa Calè, Birkbeck, University of London, Speaker: Kate Newey, University of Exeter, ‘Self-Censorship and Getting Lost: Fanny Kemble and Constance Beerbohm in the Archives'.

This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015. This set of three lectures on ‘Expressing the Private Self ', were delivered as part of Panel 3a. Speakers: Kathryn Gleadle, Mansfield College, Oxford ‘‘‘Ducky Darlings” and Rotten Eggs: Subversion and Silence in the Juvenile Diaries of Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen', Rhea Sookdeosingh, St Cross College, Oxford ‘Anorexia Nervosa and Women's Life-Writing in Nineteenth Century Britain' Lucy Ella Hawkins: University of Surrey ‘The Unpublished Diaries of Mary Seton Watts: Struggles, Subtexts and Silences'. The chair was Lorraine Paterson, Wolfson College, Oxford.

This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015. This set of three lectures on ‘Silencing Poetic Voices', were delivered as part of panel 1b. The talks were; Elaine Bailey, University of Ottawa ‘“Within the Heart that You So Quiet Deem”: Recovering the Outspoken Matilda Betham', Jordan Lavers, The University of Western Australia ‘Re-Assessing the Epistolary Network of “Sappho der Romantik”: Feminist Archival Approaches to Letters by the Romantic Poet Karoline von Gunderrode', Mary Breen, University College, Cork ‘“The Trifling Adventures of a gay life”: The Hidden World of Mary Tighe 1772 – 1810'.

This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015. This set of three lectures on ‘Representation, Reputation and Manipulation', were delivered as part of Panel 1a. The speakers were (in order) Chair: Susan Civale. Speakers: Catherine Delafield, Sonia De Loreto and Baptiste Moniez.

Keynote lecture at the Silence in the Archives conference, held at Wolfson College on 7th November 2015.The speaker is Karen Hunt, University of Keele (LWA). Chaired by Kathryn Gleadle, Mansfield College, Oxford.

Keynote talk for the Silence in the Archives conference, held at Wolfson College on 7th November 2015, with Janet Todd, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015. This set of three lectures on ‘Rewriting the Self', were delivered as part of Panel 3b. The speakers were (in order) Chair: Alexis Wolf, Speakers: Susan Civale: Canterbury Christ Church University, ‘”Beyond the Power of Utterance”: Reading the Linguistic Gaps in Mary Robinson's Memoirs (1801)', Elizabeth Denlinger, New York Public Library, ‘Horrid Mysteries of Cl Cl 26: A Tale of Mothers and Daughters' and Ceylan Kosker, University of Aberystwyth ‘A Woman's [Failed] Quest For Her Own Story: Violet Fane's Fragmentary Memoirs'.

This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015. This set of three lectures on ‘Memoir and Mortality', were delivered as part of Panel 4a. The speakers were (in order) Wendy Jones, Birkbeck, University of London, ‘Silent as the Grave: The Life-Writing and Letters of Mrs Anna Margaret Birkbeck', Sophie Coulombeau, Cardiff University, ‘Nata Nupta Obit: Hester Thrale Piozzi's Post-Mortem' and Joetta Harty, Robert Gordon University, ‘A Father's Mother's Memoir: The Notebooks of Charlotte Williams'.

This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015. This set of three lectures on ‘Documenting Displacement', were delivered as part of Panel 4b. The speakers were (in order) Molly Mann, St John's University, New York, ‘Captive Voices: Olive Oatman and Susannah Willard Johnson', Carrie Crockett, University of Leicester, ‘Gender in the Russo-Asian Borderlands: The Women of Sakhalin Island' and Lorraine Paterson, Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford, ‘Archival Traces of the Exilic Experience: A Vietnamese Woman in 1890's Algeria'. Chair: David Miller.

President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, renowned politician, diplomat, and former President of Latvia (1999-2007), talks autobiographically about her life and career. This is an unusual opportunity to hear the personal account of a leading participant in the relationship between European institutions and the Baltic States during a time of transition in the region.