International Seminar: Balzac and England

On April 12th-14th, 2018 international seminar Balzac et l'Angleterre / Balzac and England will be taking place at Maison Française d’Oxford.

The seminar will be conducted in both English and French, with speakers arriving from across Britain and France, but also Morocco, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, the Czech Republic, and United States. Over the course of three days this international gathering of scholars will explore the nature of Balzac's engagement with Britain, but also of Britain's — and the world's — engagement with Balzac.

Italian Open Day

Open Day for prospective Undergraduate students applying to study Italian will take place on Saturday, March 17th, 2018. We welcome everyone interested in the subject and, as the spaces are limited, encourage you to register as soon as possible.

The Open Day will feature a mix of talks and academic taster sessions, with opportunities to ask questions about the course and application process. Visitors will meet students and staff of the Faculty, including Professor Simon Gilson, Professor Emmanuela Tandello, and Professor Francesca Southerden.

Art, Heritage and Conservation: A Cross-Channel Conversation

To celebrate the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, Alfredo Pérez de Armiñán, President of Patrimonio Nacional, and Carole Souter, Master of St Cross College, University of Oxford, will talk about the challenges faced by the preservation of heritage, both in Spain and in England.

Alfredo Pérez de Armiñán is the current president of the Patrimonio Nacional Board; before that, he was Deputy General Director of Culture of UNESCO and has held different public positions in the field of Spanish cultural heritage.

The talk will take place in West Wing Lecture Theatre, St Cross College from 5.15 pm on March 23rd. This event is free and open to the public.

Galician Film Series in Oxford: Short Films Session

The fourth screening in the Galician Film Series, jointly organised by The John Rutherford Centre for Galician (University of Oxford) and the Galician Film Forum (GFF)-London, is taking place this Thursday, March 15th. This installment in the series will consist of five short films which will take you to Galicia, stopping by in London and Sweden.

The showings will take place at the Taylorian Institution; the event is free and open to the public upon registration.

Meeting with Lilian Thuram

On Thursday, March 15th we present Lilian Thuram in conversation with students and members of the public. The famous football defender, who helped France win the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000 championships, is a UNICEF ambassador and promotes education as a way to battle racism. He will be speaking about his initiatives, which include a book My Black Stars, used in French schools.

This conversation will be convened by Dr Michael Abecassis and take place in the Holywell Music Room.

The event is free and open to all, and will be in French.

Boris Frumin Film Event

On Thursday 8 March, 2018, there will be a showing in the Main Lecture Hall, Taylor Institution, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3NA, of two films by Boris Frumin, one of the leading directors of the Leningrad 'New Wave' cinema during the 1970s. Frumin has lived since 1978 in the USA, where he has continued directing, scripting, and producing films.

Opening Frontiers: Modern Poetry in Translation in the Sixties and since

Readings and discussion with the present and former editors of the poetry magazine founded by Ted Hughes.

Russian and Other Slavonic Languages Open Day

Open Day for prospective Undergraduate students applying to study Russian and other Slavonic languages will take place on Saturday, March 3rd, 2018. We welcome everyone interested in the subject and, as the spaces are limited, encourage you to register as soon as possible.

The Open Day will feature a mix of talks and academic taster sessions, with opportunities to ask questions about the course and application process. Visitors will meet students and staff of the Faculty, including Professor Polly Jones (Russian) and Professor Julie Curtis (Russian).

Conversation avec Enki Bilal

On Friday, March 2nd we present renowned comic book author and film director Enki Bilal in conversation with students and members of the public. One of the most sought-after artists in the world will talk working across genres and cultures. The conversation will be convened by Dr Michael Abecassis and take place in the Main Hall, Taylor Institution.

This event is free and open to all, and will be in French.

Musical and Literary Approaches to the Operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau

On Friday, March 2nd Dr Jonathan Patterson, together with Dr Jonathan Williams (Director of College Music, St Hilda's College) and the Faculty of Music, will present a unique seminar: 'Musical and Literary Approaches to the Operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau'.

Dedicated to the works of the 18th-century French composer and music theorist, the seminar will explore Rameau's legacy through the integration of literary and musical analytical techniques.

This event is free and open to all.

Latin American History Seminar: 'Spanish American Conversations about the Portuguese Empire (16th and 17th centuries)'

5pm, Thursday 1 March (Week 7)

Spanish and Portuguese Open Day

Open Day for prospective Undergraduate students applying to study Spanish and Portuguese will take place on Thursday, March 1st, 2018. We welcome everyone interested in these subjects and, as the spaces are limited, encourage you to register as soon as possible.

The Open Day will feature a mix of talks and academic taster sessions, with opportunities to ask questions about the course and application process. Visitors will meet students and staff of the Faculty, including Professor Ben Bollig (Spanish) and Professor Cláudia Pazos-Alonso (Portuguese).

Film Screening: The Lefty

The Russian Sub-Faculty alongside the Vintage Film Club is very pleased to continue the Russian classic film series as part of the European Humanities Research Centre Visibility Project. The project aims to introduce film adaptations of Russian classical literature to students in connection with the FHS course in Russian (Papers VIII and X). Also, anyone interested in Russian literature and language is welcome.

The Multiple Legacies of Rosa Luxemburg: Symposium

On Friday, February 23rd the Faculty, together with The European Humanities Research Centre and Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, invites you to 'The Multiple Legacies of Rosa Luxemburg' symposium.

The event is dedicated to the life, thought and legacy of Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), one of the most creative writers of modern socialism, a leading Jewish intellectual and the foremost female theoretician of European radicalism. The symposium is free and open to the public.

Brazil Week 2018

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.

Conversation avec Emmanuel Guibert

As part of the Seminar on Contemporary French Writing and Culture, author, illustrator, and graphic artist Emmanuel Guibert will be a guest in the ‘Conversations avec…’ series. The conversation will be convened by Professor Catriona Seth and Professor Seth Whidden and take place on Monday, February 19th at Queen's College.

This event is free and open to all, and will be in French.

Luther for Everybody

Craig Harline (Brigham Young) Luther for Everybody, followed by a presentation of Reformation pamphlets held by the Taylor Library, introduced by Henrike Lähnemann.

Book Reading: Christiane Rösinger

As part of the WiR-Programmes from the DAAD, the German author and songwriter Christiane Rösinger reads from her latest book Zukunft machen wir später. Meine Deutschstunden mit Geflüchteten, in which she describes her experiences as a voluntary DaZ teacher in Berlin.

Romance Linguistics Seminar: 'Accounting for Portuguese double past participle forms'

5pm, Thursday 15 February (Week 5)

Research Seminar: 'Colonial genealogies, Masculinity and the Conquest in Pepetela's Yaka (1985) and Arnaldo Dos Santos's A Casa Velha das Margens (1999)'

2-4pm, Tuesday 13 February (Week 5)