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 […]

A conversation with the renowned writer and musician Amit Chaudhuri, following the award of the James Tait Memorial Prize for Biography for Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Classical Music, recorded in January 2023, ahead of a planned visit to the University as part of the James Tait Black Visiting Writers Programme later in […]