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This year’s Taylor Lecture will be given by Dr Neil MacGregor, renowned art historian and a graduate of the Faculty (French and German, 1967). Titled 'The Humboldt Forum: Two Brothers, a Palast and a Schloß', the lecture will explore world history through a Berlin lens.
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.
Open Day for prospective Undergraduate students applying to study German will take place on Saturday, February 24th, 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 Henrike Lähnemann and Professor Ben Morgan.
Michael Krüger and Paul Muldoon are coming to Queen's College for a poetry reading and discussion of politics and translation. Everyone is welcome to join.
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.
Howard Jones (Keble) Translating Luther's Sermon on Indulgences and Grace and 95 Theses and Edmund Wareham (Somerville) Translating the Passional of Christ and Antichrist. This event will showcase new translations which will appear in the Treasures of the Taylorian Reformation Pamphlets book series.
2-4pm, Tuesday 23 January (Week 2)
A conference on Les Lumières au pluriel marks a stage of the ANR/DFG-funded EDULUM project. It is being held on 14-16 December at the Maison Française in Oxford and at All Souls College, with support from both organisations and from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford.
The Russian Sub-Faculty alongside the Vintage Film Club is very pleased to show films based on Russian classical literature as a part of the European Humanities Research Centre Visibility Project. On 1 December (Friday), we will show the film adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's play The Wedding (directed by Vitaly Mel'nikov, 1977).
If you, or any of your students, are interested in applying for 2018 entry, the Faculty is holding an information session on Modern Languages Masters courses.
On 21 November, Richard Jenkyns, former Public Orator, and a direct descendant of Jane Austen’s brother, will be giving a talk at the Taylorian on the Austen family music books.
The conference "After Clarice: Lispector's Legacy" commemorates the fortieth anniversary of Clarice Lispector’s death, but also aims to analyse her legacy and influence as it has developed in the decades since.
The Russian sub-faculty is pleased to announce the showings of literary adaptations of masterpieces of Russian classical literature, preceded by short introductions by Modern Languages faculty members, starting with the adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s most famous novel The Lady with the Little Dog (directed by Iosef Khefitz, 1960).
A practical introduction to searching for scholarly materials to support your research, focusing on building a search to fit your research question, using relevant databases and evaluating your results.
Over one hundred members of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, many of them undergraduates, translated texts from the European Enlightenment in spring 2017. For the official launch of the book, coordinated by Catriona Seth, we are holding a marathon reading of the anthology in its original languages, with the new translation providing subtitles.
Modern Poetry in Translation is launching its autumn issue War of the Beasts and the Animals at Queen's with readings by Maria Stepanova and David Constantine.
Tiphaine Samoyault: ‘Penser dans les mots’
Friday 3 November 2017, 5:00pm
Main Hall, Taylor Institution, St Giles
The German poet and novelist Daniela Danz, who is currently the DAAD Writer in Residence at Queen Mary University in London, will be visiting Oxford on Monday, 30th October.
Exploration the Reformation : Colloquium
Choral Evensong
A display of books, an afternoon of talks and an 'Ovid trail' to celebrate the life and works of Ovid, 2000 years from his death.