See below for our 2023/24 seminars and events.
Click on each event for more details and booking information.
Our next upcoming events and seminar:
With art historian Dr Alexandra Loske and artist Brece Honeycutt. On the occasion of International Colour Day. Hosted by the German Colour Association (Deutsches Farbenzentrum).
Past events:
Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 4-6pm, Fulton A, University of Sussex: The Great Diary Project. A CLHLWR-English Colloquium event. Why do people keep diaries? Who should read them? Discover the amazing The Great Diary Project, with director Dr Polly North. Share yours?
Wednesday, 6 December 2023, 3-5pm, Silverstone Building 302, University of Sussex: Making Something from Nothing: A CLHLWR-Doctoral workshop Can we develop research about absence? Discover the beauty of negative findings, lost opportunities, impossible selves, unlived experience.
Tuesday, 10 October 2023, 4pm-6pm, University of Sussex: University histories, class histories, oral histories
How can oral history be used to explore the history of universities and the communities and places around them? Share ideas and try it out!
Tuesday, 10 October 2023, 1-2pm: Children's life writing: A CLHLWR-CIRCY collaborative lunch-time meeting: faculty only.
Tue 17 October 2023, 4pm-5.30, University of Sussex: Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research OPEN HOUSE
Welcoming general meeting to share your research questions and projects; methodological interests in life writing, oral history, life history, documentary, auto/biography, portraiture, biomythography, obituary, ecobiography, testimony, object lives, the digital everyday, Mass Observation and more.
Thursday, 19 October 2023, 7pm, The Folklore Rooms, Brighton: Forgotten Female Pioneers: A Curious Histories Special Double Bill.