Laura Marcus Workshop 2 HT2024

 Life-writing and the Internet

Friday 23 February (6th Week), 10.30am - 12.30pm

History of the Book Room, St Cross Building (English Faculty), Manor Road, OX1 3UL.

Join us for the second Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop of Hilary Term 2024, led by Charles Pidgeon.

This workshop will focus on two questions:

Firstly, how does digitization change our epistemic relationships to memory, the archive, and how we record and think about history/biography? And, secondly, how do we write truthfully and critically about the parts of life which "happen online"? Throughout, we'll examine writers' strategies for moving from information to insight.

Participants should bring an anecdote about stumbling across something while online/trying to conduct research.

Charles Pidgeon is a writer and doctoral student at the University of Oxford’s English Faculty. He researches contemporary Anglophone writing about the internet and is particularly interested in cultural histories of how writers confront and conceptualise informational overwhelm. Previously, he was Events Administrator at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing. His writing appears in Post45 ‘Contemporaries’, The Oxford Review of Books, Voiceworks Magazine, and Oxford TechTribe. He has also written for theatre, winning Oxford’s New Writing Festival award in 2019 (as co-writer) and producing award-winning Edinburgh Fringe shows with Poltergeist Theatre. 

You can find out about the first workshop here.

Please note that this event is ONLY open to current members of the University of Oxford. Workshop places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis with priority given to members of the English Faculty. Places will be confirmed one week before the event.

Registration has now closed. Please email anna.oclw@gmail.com to join the waiting list.

Tea/coffee and cake will be served during the workshop.

This event will take place in the St Cross building on Manor Road (more information). Attendees are advised to wear face coverings while indoors and to use an LFT prior to the event.