Conferences / Seminars / Lecture Series 

Day symposium "Transnational Lives and Cosmopolitan Biographies," convened by Philip Ross Bullock and Sandra Mayer, hosted by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing in collaboration with the "Writing 1900" network. Wolfson College, Linton Road, 17 March 2018. 

Half-day colloquium "Life-Writing and Female Celebrity," organised by Sandra Mayer and hosted by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing in collaboration with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, 4 November 2017, 2-6.15pm.  

One-day colloquium "The Lives of Houses," organised by Sandra Mayer and Oliver Cox, and hosted by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing in collaboration with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, 27 May 2017. Podcasts available here

Discussion Panel "The Celebrity Interview: History, Aesthetics, Method," organised by Sandra Mayer in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, 17 January 2017. See event report; podcasts available here

One-day workshop "Celebiography: Celebrity and Life-Writing in Dialogue," organised by Sandra Mayer in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, 19 November 2016. Podcasts available here

Seminar "Life-Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections," convened by Sandra Mayer and Julia Lajta-Novak. 13th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, NUI Galway, Ireland, 22-26 August 2016. See programme and list of abstracts

One-day symposium "Art and Action: The Intersections of Literary Celebrity and Politics," convened by Sandra Mayer, with the TORCH Celebrity Research Network. Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, 5 March 2016, 10am-6pm. Audio podcasts available through the Oxford University Podcast channel. See my conference report. 

Interdisciplinary Distinguished Lecture Series "Cultures of Celebrity," English Department, University of Vienna, winter term 2015/16. (Featuring talks by Richard Dyer, Chris Fletcher, Tom Mole, Diane Negra, Ruth Scobie, etc.)

Conference "After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity," The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, 19 September 2015. Roundtable on "Historical Re-evaluations of Celebrity in the 18th and 19th Centuries." (With Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Jessica Goodman, Tom Mole, Simon Morgan, Ruth Scobie)

Interdisciplinary one-day symposium "The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli: Fame, Legacy Representations," convened by Sandra Mayer, with Megan Kearney. Supported by the TORCH Celebrity Research Network and The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, 24 March 2015, 10am-6pm. See our conference report.

Workshop "Discourse on Literary Celebrity across Genres," Authors and the World Project, Lancaster University, 12-13 March 2015.

Workshop "Embodying Literary Celebrity in Multiple Media," Authors and the World Project, Lancaster University, 18-19 September 2014. See my conference report.