Autofiction? Prose poem? Fiction? Memoir? Longform essay? Meditations? Sally Bayley will be exploring her original and poignant quartet, with Eleanora Maio who is visiting Oxford from Italy where Sally B is published as a novelist and is a bestseller oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/sally-ba…

The Goddess, the Deity and the Cyborg explores the ways women artists have confronted fertility, nature, spirit, and female mystical powers,
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Together with several others, I shall be discussing the questions these works raise
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Arts Week: a feast of events!
I'm holding A Living Almanac workshop with Steve Willey on May 8 - or 18 Floréal, if you're a French revolutionary. But the date could go by any other name and still be spring , in this Year of the Snake.
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Angelica Kauffman was the toast of her day, a founding artist of the Royal academy of Arts in London. But is she a foremother of feminism? A pioneer of women's art? A forerunner of Louise Bourgeois and Paula Rego? the question is a bit complicated...

asc.ox.ac.uk/event/ASL24 This is the link for the lecture!

Poet, theorist, novelist, Dionne Brand is giving the second lecture in the series Atlantic Slavery and its Aftermaths. Her title promises a vision of possibilities - Salvage: Readings From the Wreck.
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With The Library of Absence Conrad Shawcross takes his cue from whirling galaxies and a l960s Dansette player! He is joining a wonderful lineage of voyagers through optical consciousness and media illusionists,mailings.artlogic.net/readonline/cc0…

The brutal collective punishment in #Gaza must end.

🔴 Indiscriminate attacks must stop now.

🔴 Forcible displacement must stop now.

🔴 Assaults on healthcare must stop now.

🔴 Restrictions on aid and the siege must stop now.

🔴 It all #MustStopNow !

Threshold is a piece about love, a love between siblings so strong that one twin chooses to die rather than live without the other - but, as this is a myth, there is a dream solution vortic.art/exhibitions/le…

Stories in Transit. Ways of Telling. 3-15 November 2023, curated by Marina Warner with Hannah Machover.

Can stories make things happen? Do stories make a difference? Yes and no. For good and ill. To be discussed... yorkshirefestivalofstory.com/event/in-conve…

Does time seem to rush by? Or does it hang heavy ? making your own almanac can give the days, the seasons, the years new meaning - come and try it! yorkshirefestivalofstory.com/event/a-living…

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There is a story of maths, popularly dominated by a lone heroic discoverer, as in bio-pics. There are also mathematical aspects to patterning words and plotting stories, arising from internal interdependent structures.

Pattern-making, pattern-discerning - do maths and aesthetics interact? maths.ox.ac.uk/node/65359

The rich, funny, rueful tradition in the Islamic world of illustrating animal fables was a delectable surprise to me to me when I began looking online at manuscripts of Kalilah wa Dimnah, the stories of two jackals ...Thanks to the Public Domain Review publicdomainreview.org/essay/travelli…

The British Library collects for readers here and farther afield. Come and hear about some recent acquistions -Jane Austen to Andrea Levy - using funds generously given by readers over the years.
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After the war my father persuaded some old chums who happened to own and run WHSmiths to let him open a bookshop in Cairo - my earliest memories are of it burning down in the l952 Revolution. Are books innocent? merl.reading.ac.uk/event/archives…

Washerwomen! They were the hubs of the past, the sources and conduits of stories and insider knowledge. Carolina Mazzolari remembers and praises their work in a fierce, lyrical piece : myartguides.com/exhibitions/ve…

in his trilogy, Into Their Labours, JOhn Berger fearlessly gives voice to others, to working men and women in the Jura and migrant labourers in 'Troy' . I was delighted to be invited by Leo Robson to think again about Berger, such a charismatic figure . onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678705/2…