During her period as TORCH Humanities Exchange Fellow, Dr Jennifer Wong offered an opportunity for university members and the wider Oxford community to use creative writing to consider the meaning of home and of diasporic space, time, and materiality. In creative writing workshops and public events (see tab on ‘Event’), Dr. Wong encouraged and guided participants to reflect on how objects and material culture (objects brought, kept, lost, missed, or remembered), create or challenge our sense of home, and discussed how to express this in different forms of writing. Writing workshops were an opportunity for participants to create their own poems and stories, to experiment with ways of expressing their sense of home—as a lived or re-imagined experience, as translation, or perception. Workshops participants were invited also to submit their work for inclusion in an anthology.
A Personal History of Home - Dr Jennifer Wong.
As part of the personal history of home project, Jennifer invited submissions from writers and artists worldwide to contribute their own memories and published and unpublished creative work to illustrate the multiple facets of home, across geographical locations and other boundaries.
Anthology: A Tapestry of Home
A Personal History of Home - Recordings from 29 November 2022, Holywell Music Rooms, Oxford.
