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Economic Context in the Long Nineteenth Century’, a conference convened by<br />
Jonathan Paine and Diana Greenwald; ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Enlightenment’, a two-day<br />
interdisciplinary conference to examine Isaiah Berlin’s view of the Enlightenment<br />
and the presence of the Enlightenment in his work; and the sixteenth Oxford Dance<br />
Symposium: ‘The Dancer in Celebrity Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century:<br />
Reputations, Images, Portraits.’<br />
As well as generating and overseeing a busy programme of events, OCLW has been<br />
very successful in enabling independent, original research. By means of AHRC<br />
doctoral studentships and other graduate scholarships, it is developing a community<br />
of affiliated postgraduate scholars. Its thriving doctoral community includes OCLW<br />
scholars Grace Egan (Samuel Richardson’s letters), Lucinda Fenny (life-writing,<br />
war, and Polish film), Oli Hazzard (John Ashbery and English poets at Oxford),<br />
Nanette O’Brien (modernism and food writing), Christine Fouirnaies (modernism<br />
and visual culture). Our Visiting Scholar and Visiting Doctoral Student programme<br />
has brought to Wolfson new and established researchers and practitioners from<br />
around the world, including Dr Tracey Potts (Nottingham; working on clutter<br />
and procrastination) and Maria Rita Drumond Viana (Sao Paolo; Yeats’ letters). In<br />
April <strong>2014</strong>, OCLW was joined by Dr Olivia Smith as a Wellcome Trust Medical<br />
Humanities Fellow, working on the early-modern natural sciences and life-writing.<br />
In September <strong>2014</strong>, Prof Jacek Mostwin will bring his externally-funded research<br />
project on ‘Human Experience and Medicine’ to OCLW and Wolfson.<br />
2013-14 has seen OCLW’s informal membership scheme reach 1,000 participants,<br />
across and beyond academic fields, who engage with the Centre through its full<br />
programme of events and its virtual presence (the website, blog, discussion board,<br />
Twitter feed and podcasts). OCLW is keen to develop its outreach potential by<br />
establishing writing and reading groups for practising life-writers to discuss and<br />
read work-in-progress. The Centre is also establishing formal and informal links<br />
with other life-writing centres in the UK and further afield, such as the Leon<br />
Levy Center for Biography in New York and the AHRC ‘Challenges to Biography’<br />
Network.<br />
Christos Hadjiyiannis<br />
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