2-3pm, Thursday, 11 November, 2021 from 2-3pm in the Project Room, 50 George Square. A one-hour research in progress panel on ‘non-normative lives’, proposed and with presentations by Nicole Chen and Charley Matthews, followed by discussion. The talks today link the reading for the JTB Prize into doctoral research projects, with both presentations speaking to […]

Friday 17 February, 2023, 10.00-11.30am, Project Room, first floor, 50 George Square. Launching the James Tait Black Memorual Prize Visiting Writers Programme, an opportunity to participate in a masterclass with the renowned biographer, critic and literary artist Frances Wilson, discussing her work towards a new biography of Muriel Spark. Limited to 16 students, postgraduates, and/or doctoral […]

Thursday, 8 December, 2022, 4.00-5.00pm, in the Centre for Research Collections Seminar Room, 6th floor, University of Edinburgh Main Library. A one-hour Edinburgh Life-Writing Network research-in-progress panel, proposed and with presentations by Edinburgh doctoral researchers and James Tait Black Biography Prize readers, Aiswarya Jayamohan and Maxime Geervliet, followed by discussion. Aiswarya Jayamohan: “stupid and gauche […]

1-2pm, Friday, 29 October, 2021. Room 1.22, 19 George Square. The inaugural Reading Group for ELWN will discuss the seminal work of Laura Marcus, focusing on the ‘Introduction’ and the chapter ‘Auto/biographical Spaces’, from Auto/biographical Discourses. Chair: Maxime Geervliet (Edinburgh). Our first reading is extracted chapters from an essential text for anyone working on life-writing – Laura Marcus‘s Auto/biographical Discourses. […]

2-3pm, Thursday, 11 November, 2021 from 2-3pm in the Project Room, 50 George Square. A one-hour research in progress panel on ‘non-normative lives’, proposed and with presentations by Nicole Chen and Charley Matthews, followed by discussion. The talks today link the reading for the JTB Prize into doctoral research projects, with both presentations speaking to […]

Weds 19 February 2020, 12:30-18:00, Project Room, 50 George Square. A one-day life-writing colloquium including a James Tait Black Biography Readers’ Discussion, research-in-progress presentations, and work-in-progress readings, with a visiting talk linked to the English Literature Seminar. Schedule 12:30-13.20    James Tait Black Prize in Biography 2020: Readers’ Discussion (JTB Co-ordinators June Laurenson, Alice Rae and […]

1-2pm, Friday, 23 March, 2018, DHT, LG.06). A one-hour panel on ‘Lives in the Archive’, exploring the place of archives in literature, life-writing, and cultural history, with visiting speakers Alison Light and Dora Osborne. Position papers will be followed by discussion. Chair: Jonathan Wild Alison Light is a writer and currently also Honorary Professorial Fellow in the English Department at […]

5.00-6.00pm, Friday 6 October, 2023, 50 George Square, Lecture Theatre G.03. Followed by Reception from 7.00pm (sponsored by NYRB) – A James Tait Black Prize Visiting Writer Event A conversation with Amit Chaudhuri, winner of the 2022 James Tait Black Prize in Biography for Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music (NYRB/Faber), celebrating the […]

Wednesday 9 April, 12:30-13:30, 2025, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Conference Room The Edinburgh Life-Writing Network reading group this semester, kindly hosted by IASH, will be on the theme of writing ‘vulnerable lives’, particularly in the context of the medical humanities. We’ll discuss Thomas Couser’s ‘Auto/Biographical, Biomedical, and Ethnographic Ethics’, from Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics […]