Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research

2023/24 Seminar Series

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:

Friday 26th July 2024, 6:30pm, St Michael and All Angels Church, Brighton: Mary Gartside - pioneering colour theorist and abstract artist. Illustrated talk by Dr Alexandra Loske, CLHLWR. 

Past events:

Saturday, 6 July 2024, 10-11.30am, British Library, London: On the fence? Conversations about impartiality with the Connected Histories of the BBC oral history projectHosted by the Oral History Society in partnership with National Life Stories at the British Library.

A day of reflection, listening, conversation and participation. Sharing our experiences of impartiality as guideline, ideal or restriction, in oral history practice. With  Margaretta Jolly, Aasiya Lodhi and Kate Murphy

Thursday, 21 March 2024, 7-8.30pm GMT, online, free: Shades of HERstory: Exploring Women’s Influence on Colour Through History.

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).

Monday, 12 February 2024, 4pm-5.30, University of Sussex: Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research OPEN HOUSE. 

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.

Thursday 5 October 2023, 5.30-6.30pm, Jubilee Library, Brighton: Pigments of the Imagination: Colour books through the ages. 

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. 

Monday, 13 November 2023, 2pm, Silverstone Building, University of Sussex: Algorithmic Autobiographies (and fictions):  An SHL-CLHLWR workshop.