Jenny Diski: A Celebration

8 September 2021

Recordings from the online conference, Jenny Diski: A Celebration (12-13 April 2021). This event was hosted by the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education and convened by Dr Ben Grant, Departmental Lecturer in English Literature.

This event was supported by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, the Faculty of English Language and Literature, and Kellogg College.

Welcome by Ben Grant

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fsp8fmRwqaQ

Joanna Price, ‘On Walking, Falling, Writing: Genre and the Feeling Body in Jenny Diski’s Memoirs’

https://www.youtube.com/embed/UMEWYMx8nF8

Blake Morrison, ‘ “Writer. Period.” The Unclassifiable Jenny Diski’ (Keynote speech)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/STpD6JuDMMc

Ben Grant, ‘ “Curled Up in the Place of Questions”: Belief and Doubt in Jenny Diski’s Then Again’

https://www.youtube.com/embed/RkJsRuYPbE0

Diane Gagneret, ‘ “This is a Place of Madness”: Borderline Stories in Jenny Diski’s Monkey’s Uncle’

https://www.youtube.com/embed/w9xQfF3kPFc

Sarah Lightman, ‘ “I Forget That I Already Wrote It”: Repetition and Remembering in the works of Jenny Diski, Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Sarah Lightman’

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jn3yn_A8OXk

Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir, ‘Narrative and Genre: Diski and Life Writing’

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6U35Sn4WFl8

Marisa Nakasone, ‘An Excess of Reality: Pain, Language, and the Modern Madwoman in Jenny Diski’s Nothing Natural’

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6WsZkmRiybg

Lisa Mullen, ‘ “A kind of grow-your-own narrative”?: Unwriting the Cancer Memoir in Jenny Diski’s In Gratitude'

https://www.youtube.com/embed/vl_2NETXVpI

Gerd Bayer, ‘The Unapologetic Writer: Jenny Diski, Michel Montaigne, and Marie De Gournay’

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rL-xiQki6JY

Ian Patterson: Concluding remarks. And close.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/tac3b0fvuyo

Note: the recording for Eliza Maureen Altenhof, ‘ “Diagnosis” in Jenny Diski’s In Gratitude’ is unavailable.