Apud Basileam – Printing in Basel around 1500
The exhibition opening will take place at 5pm, Monday 06 May. All welcome!
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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).
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.
Dan Edelstein, William H. Bonsall Professor of French at Stanford University, will be delivering this lecture.
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
Professor Mary Helen Dupree – Georgetown University
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).
Prof. David Arbesú (University of South Florida)
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
on International Women's Day
The award-winning German author, dramatist, translator and musicologist will read from his latest novel, Und jeden Morgen das Meer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr Robert Saunders, (Queen Mary University of London), will discuss his already much praised book.
https://livestream.com/oxuni/events/8557394Realistic Utopias versus Dystopic Realities: Reflections on writing about an alternative economic present
Public Reading in German and English of Gott ist nicht schüchtern, followed by Q&A with the author, hosted by Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT).
The Faculty is holding an information session for MSt and MPhil programmes.