Events

Sade, l’inconnu? Nouvelles approches critiques

Friday 24 May 2013, 16.00 - 18.00 pm
Saturday 25 May, 9.30 am - 5.10 pm
Ertegun House, 37 St. Giles’, Oxford

Imprisoned during his lifetime and sanctified in the twentieth century, the Marquis de Sade has attracted considerable critical interest during the last decades. He was a favourite of literary theory in the sixties and seventies, while more recent scholarship has begun to explore how Sade subversively rewrites major texts of the French Enlightenment. As the constant interest in Sade shows, his work continues to puzzle and fascinate his readers. The international conference Sade, l’inconnu? Nouvelles approches critiques brings together acknowledged specialists as well as young researchers to discuss emerging topics in Sade studies. Beginning with a keynote lecture by Michel Delon, the editor of Sade’s works in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, the conference will engage with neglected aspects of Sadean writing and highlight perspectives for future research.

Attendance including lunch is free, but space is limited, so it is essential to register for this event by emailing: manuel.muehlbacher@seh.ox.ac.uk. Most papers will be in French. Deadline for registration is Tuesday 21 May.

Lecture at British Academy by Professor Richard Parish

As part of the Academy's 2013 Literature Week, Professor Richard Parish will be giving a lecture on:

"Imitations of Christ in 17th-century France: Some attendant difficulties."

at:

The British Academy,
10-11 Carlton House Terrace,
London SW1Y 5AH

on Wednesday 22 May 2013, 6 - 7.15pm

There will be a reception afterwards.

More information can be found at:

http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2013/parish.cfm

Talk by Andrés Neuman

The Spanish-Argentine novelist Andrés Neuman is visiting to give a talk at:

The Taylor Institution
Thursday 16 May 2013, 5pm

His novel Traveller of the Century is shortlisted for the Independent Best Foreign Fiction Prize, having already won the Spanish National Critics Prize. He’ll speak in English and also be accompanied by his translators, Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia.

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Dictionary Mania in the Eighteenth Century

An EHRC Cross-Faculty Research Seminar

Wednesday, 15 May 2013 (4th Week) from 4.00 to 6.00 pm
Voltaire Room, Taylor Institution

In 1759, Melchior Grimm, editor of the Correspondance littéraire, wrote that ‘La fureur des dictionnaires est devenue si grande parmi nous qu’on vient d’imprimer un Dictionnaire des dictionnaires’ [The feverish demand for dictionaries in our society has now grown so intense that a Dictionary of dictionaries has just been published]. This term’s European Humanities Research Centre seminar will focus on a particularly important phenomenon within the wider culture of dictionaries and encyclopedias: their role as vehicles for translation and dissemination between languages. Specialists from French, German, Italian, and Russian will come together to show us how European and Classical languages were translated, metamorphosed, stretched, or simply used as an excuse for polemic.

Chair: Caroline Warman
Speakers:

Delphine Fayard (Wolfson): ‘Translating Greek during the French Enlightenment: from dictionaries to quarrels’
Vilma de Gasperin (Jesus): ‘A Dictionary of the English and Italian Language (1760): from Altieri to Baretti, through Samuel Johnson’
Kevin Hilliard (St Peter’s): ‘A 1740s German translation of Bayle's Dictionnaire’
Alexey Evstratov St Edmund Hall): ‘Catherine II and dictionaries: reading and writing in eighteenth-century Russia’

Closing drinks at 5.30pm.
All welcome.

Voicing the Singing God

A unique opportunity to come and hear outstanding poets Martyn Crucefix, Patrick McGuinness and Don Paterson speak about the business of translating, responding to and writing poetry.

The Hall, Taylor Institution, St Giles, Oxford.
Wednesday 15th May (4th week)
5.30pm

Martyn Crucefix published translations of Rilke’s Duino Elegies (2006) and Sonnets to Orpheus (2012) with Enitharmon; Don Paterson’s Orpheus, versions of Rilke’s sonnets, appeared with Faber in 2006; Patrick McGuinness has translated some of Rilke’s French poetry, including in his Jilted City (Carcanet, 2010)

This special event, supported by the EHRC, brings them together to read from their work and discuss Orpheus and Rilke, but also the questions surrounding translation and poetry more generally. Chaired by Karen Leeder, editor with Robert Vilain, of The Cambridge Companion to Rainer Maria Rilke (2010).

Wine will be served. Information from Karen Leeder: karen.leeder@new.ox.ac.uk

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Zaharoff Lecture 2013

‘L’Essai : une écriture extensible’ by Jean-Christophe Bailly (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage, Blois)

“Since its invention by Montaigne the essai has been a quintessential literary form in France, through Rousseau and Stendhal down to Camus and Barthes. Jean-Christophe Bailly, as well as being a poet, and dramatist, is a leading exponent of the contemporary essai, embracing topics as diverse as animality, photography, Fayoum portraiture, the city, and, in his widely acclaimed Le Dépaysement, the topography of France. In this lecture he will draw on his own experience to highlight some of the salient features of a hybrid literary form.”

5.00 pm, Thursday 2 May 2013
Taylor Institution, St Giles’, Main Hall

Followed by a Drinks Reception in Room 2, 6.00 – 6.45 pm

Convener: Michael Sheringham, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature

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Romanian in Oxford: language, culture and history

A one-day conference at Ertegun House, 37A St Giles' Oxford on Saturday 11 May 2013, from 9am-6.30pm.

Attendance including lunch is free, but space is limited, so please register for this event by emailing: martin.maiden@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk . Deadline for registration is Wednesday 8 May.

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