The next film night will feature the thrilling documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, on Wednesday 3 November, 7.30pm at the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium.

Narrated by Academy Award winner Jodie Foster, this film will take you on a journey through the incredible life and work of cinema pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché (1873-1968). Admission is free and booking is not required.

For any questions, please email martin.robert@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Looking forward to seeing you there!

The Film Society

We are pleased to announce that Wolfson alumna Diana Amoa will be back on our stage soon. Amoa, who attended Oxford for her MSc and MBA as a Rhodes Scholar, is a leading figure on Wall Street and will talk about her career and the importance of building strong intercultural connections to tackle global issues. The event will take place next Tue Oct 26th 7 pm GMT.

The Southern Lives Workshop at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing is convened by Professor Elleke Boehmer and rises out of her British Academy funded Southern Imagining and Tracing Southern Latitudes projects. The Workshop will bring together writers and scholars in the oceanic humanities, postcolonial and Global South studies and polar studies, to explore how the high southern latitudes are imagined through life-writing.



We are interested in how southern worlds (the southern extremities of the large continents, including Australia, and the southern oceans and islands) are often seen as interconnected or in relation to each other, including in biography, memoir and auto-fiction. This reciprocity forms an important part of the imaginative mapping that life-writing stimulates.



Our research questions include:

What does it mean to view the world from a southern hemisphere perspective?

What perspectives do global southern writing and story-telling offer to northern imaginative norms, including that of the ‘Global South’?

How might the postcolonial and world literature fields be approached from a consciously antipodean or about-face viewpoint?

How do we build comparative and lateral links across southern spaces and lives, and what is the epistemological and environmental traction of doing so?

Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb discusses his new book The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics (Oxford University Press).

Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb is a professor of philosophy at Houghton College, USA.

This event will take place in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium (LWA) (accessibility information). Wolfson College currently operates a mandatory indoor face coverings and one-metre social distancing policy, and we can therefore offer 75 spaces are in the LWA.

Ruth Scurr discuses her new biography, Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows, with literary critic Alexandra Harris.

Dr Ruth Scurr is a writer and historian. She is a Lecturer and Fellow at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University.

Professor Alexandra Harris is a literary critic and cultural historian. She is a Professorial Fellow at Birmingham University.

The OCLW Weinrebe Lectures are an annual series named in memory of Harry Weinrebe, a philanthropist and the founder of the Dorset Foundation.

This event will take place in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium (LWA). Wolfson College currently operates a mandatory indoor face coverings and one-metre social distancing policy, and we can therefore offer 75 spaces are in the LWA.

OCLW is proud to host and sponsor the UK premières of new music by Nicola LeFanu , Kristina Arakelyan, Anna Appleby, Joanna Ward and Lucas Jordan, in the presence of the composers. This collaboration with Donne (a charity advocating for gender equality in composition) is part of OCLW's Re:Dress Women Composers project.

Join us for a free glass of wine afterwards.

PROGRAMME:

• Anna APPLEBY Winds of Iona
• Kristina ARAKELYAN Of all the Souls (world première)
• Joanna WARD Test Ever / Green Hour (world première)
• Lucas JORDAN Song after Sacro Monte di Ossuccio (UK première)
• Anna APPLEBY Five Miniatures for piano (world première)
• Kristina ARAKELYAN To the Stars
• Nicola LEFANU The Moth Ghost (world première)

Sofija Knezevic is one of the most acclaimed jazz singers and composers of her generation, a winner and a nominee of multiple international awards. On October 24. she will be presenting songs from her debut album SOFIJAZZ, which she has won 9 prestigious awards for in the last year. Her music brings together sounds from across centuries and cultures, bridging the Eastern European sounds to the blues, samba to a heavy swing, while her storytelling instincts make her an incredible interpreter of musical tales from throughout history. On this very special night, she’ll be joined by trombonist Elliot Mason, pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Carlos Henriquez and drummer Kayvon Gordon making this a powerful musical experience for her listeners around the world.



Admission is FREE