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📸 Explore postmemory through family photographs with Scholar Marianne Hirsch and Artist Sara Davidmann on 3 June, 14:00–17:00 📸 Join us at The Buttery, Wolfson College & online. Register: shorturl.at/P7kCg Oxford History Oxford Art History Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Hermione Lee & Edmund de Waal – two masters of storytelling in conversation Wolfson College, Oxford on 19 May 🎟️ Free and Open to All 🔗 Register now: shorturl.at/NUdNL

What happens when a story becomes too personal, too intimate, too unsettling? Tonya Hegamin's workshop, 'Writing the Taboo' provides strategies for tackling difficult material in life-writing 📅3 June | Online 🎟️Open to all Register: shorturl.at/iJ2rD TORCH Oxford Faculty of English

🍰 Explore Jewish culinary and cultural heritage with Daisy Abboudi’s “Tales of Jewish Sudan”, a cooking demonstration, talk, and tasting on 20 May, 14:00 at The Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford and via Zoom🍰 Registration: shorturl.at/6pnH7 Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies Jewish Renaissance Oxford History

🌿📚Join OCLW for our collaboration with Arts of Place on 17 June at Uni of Birmingham as Jenny Uglow OBE, renowned for The Lunar Men, explores her upcoming book, exploring life and nature writing 📚🌿 Registration: shorturl.at/i0mTi Faculty of English TORCH Oxford

We’re delighted to announce that applications are now open for our Global Majority & Underrepresented Writers’ Programme. 8 funded places; mentorship, dedicated events, and public recognition. Apply: shorturl.at/xSOPg Faculty of English Creative Future TORCH Oxford Royal Society of Literature

🎨 Uncover the dramatic stories behind John Singer Sargent's iconic portraits with Jean Strouse and Hermione Lee 🎨 13 May, 17:30–19:15 at Wolfson College, Oxford Registration: shorturl.at/ldHuu @OxfordHistArt Oxford History Ashmolean Museum TORCH Oxford

A wonderful start to today’s study day, ‘Multiple Identities: Telling Life Stories Through Objects’ as Kate Kennedy challenges is us to ‘find the whispers’ of past lives behind objects.

Eleri Lynn, Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces , discusses the reasons for the rarity of royal Tudor clothing and wardrobe items and the significance of Historic Royal Palaces’ recent acquisition, a 16th century silk hat, known as the ‘Bristowe’ hat.

Emily Cockayne (UEA) discusses the lives of garments and shines a light on the lives of menders, whose sheer skill (hiding their material interventions) has made their art and lives invisible to us today.

Mobilising the example of Jean Rhys' house dress, Sophie Oliver (University of Liverpool) queries how material and affective analyses of the clothes of female modernist writers might support imaginative, scholarly connections between the researcher and such writers' lives and work.

Through this new initiative, we aim to encourage and empower talented writers who are underrepresented both in our community and on our bookshelves, supporting them to establish themselves as successful authors. Please share far and wide. Kate Kennedy Elleke Boehmer TORCH Oxford

📸 Explore how photographs evoke personal history and collective memory with Marianne Hirsch and Sara Davidmann on 3 June, 14:00–17:00. Register: shorturl.at/P7kCg Oxford History Oxford Art History Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies 📸

Objects as stories. Art as memory. Join celebrated artist & writer Edmund de Waal and biographer Hermione Lee for a conversation on art, memoir & history. 📅 19 May 2025 | Wolfson College, Oxford 🎟️ Free and open to all. Register now: shorturl.at/NUdNL

Some subjects feel too raw or sensitive to write about. How can writers approach these challenges? Prof Tonya Hegamin's workshop 'Writing the Taboo' explores how to tell difficult stories. 📅3 June | Online 🎟️Free Register: shorturl.at/iJ2rD Faculty of English TORCH Oxford

🍰 Explore oral histories, recipes, and family tales from Jewish Sudan in a lecture and cooking demonstration with archivist, Daisy Abboudi🍰 20 May, 14:00–16:00 at The Buttery, Wolfson College and via Zoom Registration: shorturl.at/6pnH7 Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies TORCH Oxford

🌱How can waste, wildlife & water tell stories? Find out at the More-Than-Human Story-Making Symposium, 10–11 June. Hybrid event at The Buttery & online. Registration: shorturl.at/tfzvu Wolfson College, Oxford🌱

📚🌿Discover how Gilbert White’s journals, full of wit and keen observation, laid the foundations of nature writing in Jenny Uglow’s lecture🌿📚 Join OCLW for our collaboration with Arts of Place on 17 June Uni of Birmingham. Registration: shorturl.at/i0mTi Faculty of English TORCH Oxford

Described as “Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present", don’t miss Ava Chin's lecture on her award-winning memoir, 'Mott Street' 11 June, 17:30 Wolfson College, Oxford. Register: shorturl.at/jemfL Faculty of English