Friday May 17th, 5PM, Project Room, 50 George Square, 1.06. A reception will follow. The inaugural LLC-based annual JTB Awards event. We will celebrate this year’s James Tait Black Prizes in Fiction and Biography, discussing the year’s shortlisted writers and winners, and hearing from some of our brilliant student readers. We will be joined by […]

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 […]

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 […]

Wednesday, 8 March, 2023, at 4:30pm in 40GS, Room #LG11. In his Baillie Gifford Prize-winning Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Story of Slavery, Alex Renton goes on a disturbing journey through his family archive, which yields up a horrific—yet not uncommon—story about his Fergusson ancestors’ involvement in Caribbean plantations where they owned, bought, and […]

A James Tait Black Visiting Writers Series Event. 5.00-6.00pm, with reception to follow, Monday 13 February, 2023, G.01, ground floor, 50 George Square A conversation on writing lives with the brilliant biographer and critic Frances Wilson. Frances Wilson has written exhilarating biographies, as daring as they are elegant, with remarkable historical range, which all raise questions and shape […]