Name: Dr Eleri Anona Watson
University of Oxford
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/eleri-anona-watson#:~:text=Bio%3A%20Dr%20Eleri%20Anona%20Watson,and%20English%20Literature%20at%20Oxford.

Events this person is hosting:

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Public Lecture: Dr Lucy Burns, 'Writing Abortion: Reflections on Larger than an Orange'
Date: 25 February 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker : Dr Lucy Burns (Liverpool John Moores University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Josephine Rosman (University of Oxford), Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Josephine Rosman (University of Oxford), Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 4 March 2025

Public Seminar: Professor Pragya Agarwal and Professor Diane Watt, 'Why Medieval Women's Lives Are Still Relevant'
Date: 4 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker s: Diane Watt (Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Surrey), Pragya Agarwal
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Study Day: 'Multiple Identities: Telling Life Stories Through Objects'
Date: 29 April 2025, 11:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford), Eleri Lynn (Chief Curator for Historic Royal Palaces), Dr Emily Cockayne (University of East Anglia), Dr Sophie Oliver (University of Liverpool), Dr Alice Little, Prof Judith Clark (University of the Arts London), Dr Christine Checinska (V&A), Dr Georgia Haseldine (V&A East Storehouse), Prof Claire Wilcox (University of the Arts, London / Oxford Centre for Life-Writing)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser: Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Dr Alice Little

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Jewish Women's Voices Seminar: Daisy Abboudi, ‘Tales of Jewish Sudan’
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Daisy Abboudi (Tales of Jewish Sudan), Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Events this person is organising:

Friday 13 September 2024

Prof Goutham Rao, 'Writing for Wellness' Workshop
Date: 13 September 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Goutham Rao (Case Western Reserve University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Online via Zoom only
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Sunday 29 September 2024

Dr Kate Kennedy, 'Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound’
Date: 29 September 2024, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator)), Natalie Clein (Cellist), Cheryl Francis-Hoad (Composer)
Venue Details: Wigmore Hall, London
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Thursday 3 October 2024

Jen Sookfong Lee and Sasha Colby, 'Write Local/Think National'
Date: 3 October 2024, 2:00 - 03:15
Speaker s: Jen Sookfong Lee, Prof Sasha Colby (Simon Fraser University)
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Saturday 5 October 2024

Academic Writing: Margaret MacMillan in conversation with Kate Kennedy
Date: 5 October 2024, 18:00 - 19:15
Speaker s: Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford), Alice Little (Music Faculty)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 8 October 2024

Dr Dana Mills, 'Dissenting Against War and Colonialism in Writing and in Action'
Date: 8 October 2024, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Dana Mills (+972 Magazine)
Venue: Buttery,
Venue Details: Wolfson College. Accessibility: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/venue/large-conference-and-dining-spaces/
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 15 October 2024

Ian Hembrow, 'Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees’ Book Launch
Date: 15 October 2024, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Ian Hembrow
Venue: Buttery,
Venue Details: Wolfson College and Online via Zoom. Accessibility: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/venue/large-conference-and-dining-spaces/
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Saturday 19 October 2024

Non-Fiction Writing: Michael Ignatieff in Conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 19 October 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Speaker s: Michael Ignatieff (Rector, Central European University), Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford), Alice Little (Music Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 October 2024

Gwyneth Lewis, 'Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling'
Date: 22 October 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Gwyneth Lewis
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Wolfson College. Accessibility: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/venue/large-conference-and-dining-spaces/
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Saturday 26 October 2024

Fiction Writing: Elleke Boehmer in Conversation with Kate Kennedy
Date: 26 October 2024, 18:00 - 19:15
Speaker s: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford), Alice Little (Music Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 November 2024

'Birth, Birthing and Death: Practices of Writing at the Edges of Life' Symposium
Date: 5 November 2024, 13:30 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Dr Tamarin Norwood (Oxford Centre for Life Writing)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 26 November 2024

Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs, 'Radical Women of the Jewish East End'
Date: 26 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Professor Nadia Valman (Queen Mary, University of London), Dr Vivi Lachs (Birkbeck, University of London)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 14 January 2025

Book Launch: Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere
Date: 14 January 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford), Dr Charne Lavery (University of Pretoria), Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford), Professor Elizabeth Leane (College of Arts, Law and Education), Dr Joanna Price (Liverpool John Moores University), Dr Elizabeth Lewis Williams (University of East Anglia)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 28 January 2025

Public Lecture: Tom Lee, The Bullet
Date: 28 January 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Dr Tom Lee (Goldsmiths, University of London), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Friday 7 February 2025

Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop: 'Judith Shakespeare: Her Story' with Professor Laurie Maguire
Date: 7 February 2025, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Laurie Maguire (University of Oxford), Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Masterclass: Khaled Alesmael, ‘Rooted in Words: Writing in Your Mother Tongue While in Exile’
Date: 11 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Khaled Alesmael (Author, journalist, film maker)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Public Lecture: Khaled Alesmael, 'The Power of Representation: Why Syrian Queer Stories Matter in a Global Context'
Date: 11 February 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: Khaled Alesmael (Author, journalist, film maker), Mneera Saud (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 18 February 2025

Weinrebe Lecture: Richard Ovenden in Conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Richard Ovenden, OBE (Professorial Fellow and Bodley's Librarian), Hermione Lee (Biographer)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Weinrebe Lecture: Richard Ovenden in Conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Richard Ovenden, OBE (Professorial Fellow and Bodley's Librarian), Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Masterclass: Dr Lucy Burns, 'Writing Shame: Navel Gazing, Subversion, and Subterfuge'
Date: 25 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Lucy Burns (Liverpool John Moores University)
Venue Details: Levett Room; accessibility information: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/venue/seminar-rooms/
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Public Lecture: Dr Lucy Burns, 'Writing Abortion: Reflections on Larger than an Orange'
Date: 25 February 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker : Dr Lucy Burns (Liverpool John Moores University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Josephine Rosman (University of Oxford), Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Josephine Rosman (University of Oxford), Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 4 March 2025

Public Seminar: Professor Pragya Agarwal and Professor Diane Watt, 'Why Medieval Women's Lives Are Still Relevant'
Date: 4 March 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker s: Diane Watt (Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Surrey), Pragya Agarwal
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Panel event: Telling Middle Eastern Lives
Date: 4 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University), Professor Marilyn Booth (Al Saud Professor, Magdalen College), Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut)
Venue: Buttery,
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Friday 7 March 2025

Public Lecture: Ann Wroe, 'Catching Souls'. In Conversation with Dr Victoria Phillips
Date: 7 March 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Dr Ann Wroe (The Economist), Victoria Phillips
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: And via Zoom. Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Thursday 27 March 2025

Public Lecture: The House of Doors—Tan Twan Eng in Conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy
Date: 27 March 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Tan Twan Eng, Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Public Lecture: 'Family Romance, John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers': Jean Strouse in Conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford), Jean Strouse
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Friday 16 May 2025

Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop: Professor Josephine McDonagh, 'The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Child Migrants'
Date: 16 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker : Prof Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Monday 19 May 2025

Public Lecture: Edmund de Waal in Conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Edmund de Waal, Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Jewish Women's Voices Seminar: Daisy Abboudi, ‘Tales of Jewish Sudan’
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Daisy Abboudi (Tales of Jewish Sudan), Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Touching Photographs/Prompting Postmemories: A Conversation with Scholar Marianne Hirsch and Artist Sara Davidmann
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing