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Launch of the Taylor Institution Library’s ‘Reformation Pamphlet Series’, including a public reading of the full ‘Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen’ in German, with a new English translation. This text is the first in the new pamphlet series and will be available to participants at a discounted price.
Speaker: Professor Mark Lipovetsky (Colorado)
Title: The Trickster and Revolution: Rereading Modernists of the 1920s
Thomas More’s ground-breaking island fantasy, first published in 1516, asks us all what brave new world we are to wish for. What would a society better than ours look like? Who ought to be allowed in? And on what terms? These are More’s questions in Utopia, and they have never mattered more than today, as the UK prepares to pursue a political future outside the EU and walls go up in the US. It may seem timely to return to the traditional reading of More’s text as a blueprint for political change: Utopia tells, after all, how a peninsula cut itself off from the continent to make a better future as an island… Yet the name More created for his island – Utopia – means ‘no place’: the political message of More’s text is undermined by the surrounding irony that his brave new world is a Nowhere Island.
The MFO is hosting a two day conference jointly organised by Sophie Lefay (Université d'Orléans), Laurent Turcot (Université du Québec à Trois Rivières) and Catriona Seth (University of Oxford) on walking and social rituals in the 18th century. It will include papers on national characteristics of walks, literary and educational walks, royal progresses and botanical collections, garden fashions and commercial activities for walkers. All welcome.
The 14th Annual German Graduate Symposium will take place on the first Saturday of Trinity Term, the 29th of April 2017, in the New Seminar Room in St John's College. Life, ideas, narratives, bodies are always in motion.
Prize-winning French author and film producer, Delphine de Vigan, will be in conversation with Henriette Korthlas Altes (MFO) and Catriona Seth (All Souls) at Jesus College, in the Harper Room at Jesus College at 5.15 P.M. on Wednesday 26th April.
A workshop in honour of T.J. Reed's 80th birthday, hosted at St John's College and The Queen's College from 18-19 April 2017.
Peter Lang is delighted to announce that Richard Scholar, author of Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking, will be presenting his book at the Oxford Literary Festival at 3.15pm on Friday 31 March.
The aim of this conference, then, is to foreground transnational women’s contribution to Portuguese culture (and vice versa) and to interrogate the nature of their impact in Portugal and beyond, while fostering an interdisciplinary and transcultural perspective. The conference will examine how the meaning of being a transnational/ diasporic artist has shifted across time, and focus on negotiations of creative influence and multiple identifications through the lens of gender.
L'idée vient en parlant: These words will serve as a basis for exploring – in English and German – how the debate about knowledge is configured in literary texts, to what extent it determines the poetic reflections of specific authors, and what might be the methodological and theoretical implications.
Zep est un célèbre dessinateur d’origine suisse. Il est notamment le père de Titeuf, le petit héros à la mèche jaune qui naît en 1992 et qui lui donne la notoriété de par le monde, avec plus de 20 millions d’albums vendus.
The second lecture of the V Foro Cervantes given by Agustín Sánchez Vidal will take place on 7 March, entitled 'Quijote Welles. Variaciones sobre Cervantes y España'.
The Sub-Faculty of Spanish will host the V Foro Cervantes on 6 and 7 March.
The German-Japanese writer Dr Yoko Tawada will be reading a selection of German and Japanese texts in St Edmund Hall (Doctorow Room) on 28 February at 5.30pm.
Friday 24th February 2017 - 5:00pm, McGregor-Matthews Room, New College
Ulrike Draesner will present the first Eugene Ludwig Lecture associated with her time as Writer in Residence and Visiting Fellow in New College, Oxford and TORCH.
On 22 February at 5.30pm, Yoko Tawada will be reading from her books Abenteuer der deutschen Grammatik and Etüden im Schnee in the Taylor Institution Library (Room 2). The reading will be held in German.
Monday 20 February 2017, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Shulman Auditorium, The Queen's College
The next Annual Poetry Society Lecture will be presented in Oxford in partnership with New College Oxford, and will be given by the German poet and translator, Jan Wagner.
Due to the popularity of this event it has been moved from New College to The Queen's College.
Wednesday 8 February, 6.45pm, Shulman Auditorium, The Queen’s College
Everybody is welcome.
Julia Engelmann, acclaimed German slam poet, became known to a wider public through a youtube video of one of her performances at the Bielefelder Hörsaal-Slam 2013 that has just exceeded 10 million views. She will be reading from her latest book ‘Jetzt, Baby’.
The programme for Brazil Week 2017, which will take place in next week (3rd week), is now available.
Sea-Crossings, Survival, Stories
Professor Dame Marina Warner Tuesday 22nd November 2016 - 5pm
Taylor Institution Hall, St Giles, Oxford Admission is free. All welcome.