German Open Day

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.

Poetry Reading: Michael Krüger and Paul Muldoon

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.

Film Screening: The Overcoat

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.

Research Seminar: 'The British Enclave at Oporto in the early Nineteenth Century'

2-4pm, Tuesday 23 January (Week 2)

Les Lumières au pluriel

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.

Film Screening: The Wedding

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.

Richard Jenkyns – Jane Austen 200 years on

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.

After Clarice: Lispector's Legacy

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.

Film Screening: The Lady with the Little Dog

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).

Effective database strategies for Modern Languages research

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.

Europe! Book Launch & Marathon Reading

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

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.

Zaharoff Lecture 2017

Tiphaine Samoyault: ‘Penser dans les mots’
Friday 3 November 2017, 5:00pm
Main Hall, Taylor Institution, St Giles

German Poet and Novelist Daniela Danz in Oxford

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.

Exploring the Reformation

Exploration the Reformation : Colloquium

Choral Evensong

Ovid 2000: An Oxford Celebration

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.

Workshop for Manuscript and Text Cultures

Special lecture in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the publication of the 95 Theses.

International Walter Benjamin Society Conference 2017

The next conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society will be held in Oxford at Worcester College and the Taylorian Institute on 24th-27th September 2017. To coincide with the conference, there will be a small exhibition at the Bodleian Library on the theme of “Reading with Benjamin,” which will include Kafka manuscripts, and other Benjamin-related rarities.