Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research

2022/23 Seminar Series

See below for our 2022/23 seminars and events.
Click on each event for more details and booking information.

Upcoming events:

Saturday, 24 June 2023: Boyz 2 Men. Brighton Book festival headline event, which will be exploring transitions from boyhood to manhood.

Wednesday 7 June 2023: The Oral History of Art History at Sussex: Launch, celebration and opening of the archive. With Flora Dennis (Project director), Alexandra Loske (interviewer to the project), Hope Wolf (interpreter/commentator).

Past events:


Monday 27 March 2023: CLHLWR OPEN HOUSEA welcoming general meeting to share your research questions and projects. 

Sunday 19 March 2023: Lives in Colour: Pioneering Women in Colour History. An online talk by Dr Alexandra Loske for ICA-Belgium, on the occasion of International Colour Day and Women's History Month. 

Friday 24 March 2023: Trade Union Travellings: Your Next Life Writing Challenge. Oral historical, biographical and creative approaches to life in and alongside Trade Unions in Britain. Jonathan Moss, Rosalind Eyben, Christian Høgsbjerg, Nathalie Thomlinson, Jo Pawlik, Sundari Anitha, with Brighton Centre for Memory, Narrative, Histories

Wed 19th October 2022: Connected Histories of the BBCLaunch of this six year oral history project at BBC Broadcasting House

Monday 5th September and Monday 19th Sept 2022: Participatory workshop aiming to co-design Standards for Digital Interventions in Holocaust Memory and Education, with Viki Walden https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/digital-holocaust-memory-and-education-recommendations