Professor Seth’s inaugural lecture on French literature

Professor Seth is the Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College. She works on the long eighteenth century and is a specialist of French literature and cultural history. She has published widely on topics which extend from Marie-Antoinette to Parny, from women’s writing to émigré fiction and from inoculation to foundlings. Professor Seth’s lecture is entitled: Girls with books: reading, contagion and acquired immunity in 18th-century fiction.

The Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature Lecture Series: The Violet Postage Stamp

Lectures will be given by Durs Grünbein on Beyond Literature: Or, on the intrusion of history into the narrative of one’s own life

Exhibition Opening on Printing in Basel

Apud Basileam – Printing in Basel around 1500

The exhibition opening will take place at 5pm, Monday 06 May. All welcome!

NEW Humanities Coding Club

The Taylorian Library will be hosting a Humanities Coding Club on Friday afternoons in term time (1pm – 5pm, weeks 1-8, Graduate Group Study Room).

Digital Editions course

The Taylor Institution Library’s Digital Editions course is running this term. It will take place on Wednesdays 1.30pm-2pm (with Q&A till 2.30pm), weeks 1-8.

Liberty as equality: Rousseau and Roman constitutionalism

Dan Edelstein, William H. Bonsall Professor of French at Stanford University, will be delivering this lecture.

The Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle

All St Edmund Hall is a stage – or at least will be on Saturday 27 April when a full cycle of medieval mystery plays will be performed across the College.https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/blog/a-medieval-mystery-cycle-for-oxford-at-st-edmund-hall

‘From Declamatory Academies to Poetry Slams: Literary Declamation and the Art of Speaking in Germany, 1750-1900’

Professor Mary Helen Dupree – Georgetown University

Exclusive screening of "Pieds nus dans l'aube"

The Québec Government's office in the UK and Alliance Française of Oxford offers you an exclusive free screening of "Pieds nus dans l'aube" (2017).

It will be followed by a reception at the exceptional Taylor Institute library to celebrate the French Language and Francophone Week (Semaine de la Francophonie).

El Sendebar a la luz de las versiones orientales: errores de copia que dejan huella

Prof. David Arbesú (University of South Florida)

Library Late: Babel, Adventures in Translation

At this event in the Weston Library, the Translation Exchange will build a 'Spectacular Translation Machine': all hands on deck to create a collaborative translation of a graphic novel! If you are interested in volunteering to help run the machine on the night, please contact translation.exchange@queens.ox.ac.uk

Celebrating German-Speaking Feminist Writers and Thinkers

on International Women's Day

Karl-Heinz Ott

The award-winning German author, dramatist, translator and musicologist will read from his latest novel, Und jeden Morgen das Meer.

'Shakespeare y Cervantes, de la palabra a la imagen dinámica' by Prof. Villanueva

The Sub-Faculty of Spanish at the University of Oxford is delighted to welcome to its Research Seminar the former Director of the Real Academia Española, Prof. Darío Villanueva.

Translation Studies: Kate Wakeling Translates Katja Lehmann Translates Kate Wakeling

Poet and photographer Katja Lehmann will be joined by poet and musicologist Kate Wakeling as they explore how ideas are expressed and understood through different mediums.

International Book Club

A brand new book club for all interested in international fiction. We’ll be reading The Remainder by the Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes. This short novel focuses on the children of those who fought against Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, and how they cope with its repercussions.

Translating the Russian Classics with Nicolas Pasternak Slater

Join us for an evening dedicated to translation and the classics. Nicolas Pasternak Slater will discuss his translation work and introduce his forthcoming version of Pasternak's Dr Zhivago. Nicolas studied Russian at Oxford in the 1960s, before working in machine translation and becoming a doctor. In recent years he has become a celebrated translator of Russian classics. The talk will be followed by a Q&A and a wine reception.

Brazil Week 2019

The University of Oxford's "Brazil Week" aims to raise awareness about the richness and diversity of Brazilian culture by organising a number of free events open not only to students and academics, but also to the general public. It celebrates the fact that there are so many academics and students at the University of Oxford who are working in and on Brazil (from areas as wide-ranging as Literature, Politics, Anthropology, Environmental Science, Linguistics, Theology and Ethnomusicology), and to bring them together.

Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain

Dr Robert Saunders, (Queen Mary University of London), will discuss his already much praised book.

2019 Taylor Lecture: Yanis Varoufakis

https://livestream.com/oxuni/events/8557394Realistic Utopias versus Dystopic Realities: Reflections on writing about an alternative economic present