Study Day: ‘Multiple Identities: telling life stories through objects’

This joint study day between the Centre for Fashion Curation (London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London) and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing interrogates the overlap between material culture and life writing, from memoir and biography to the care, collection and interpretation of objects.

Featured speakers:

Dr Kate Kennedy, Weinrebe Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

Eleri Lynn, Chief Curator for Historic Royal Palaces

Dr Emily Cockayne, Associate Professor of Cultural History, University of East Anglia

Dr Sophie Oliver, Senior Lecturer in Modernism, University of Liverpool

Dr Alice Little, Researcher in music and the history of collecting

Judith Clark, Professor of Fashion and Museology, University of the Arts London

Dr Christine Checinska, Senior Curator, Africa and Diaspora: Textiles and Fashion, V&A

Dr Georgia Haseldine, Senior Curator, V&A East Storehouse

Claire Wilcox, Professor in Fashion Curation, University of the Arts London and Visiting Scholar, OCLW