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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.
Special lecture in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the publication of the 95 Theses.
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.
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) is one of the best known figures of the Italian Renaissance, often seen as the prime example of a ‘Renaissance man’ (the all-round personality who is expert in both the arts and sciences, according to a definition coined by
The final performance of STORMING UTOPIA is this Saturday: the 'gala' opening show of the Oxford Festival of the Arts.
Part of a Knowledge Exchange Partnership between TORCH, the Pegasus Theatre, MML and others within Oxford, Storming Utopia, co-directed by Wes Williams, and featuring a number of MML colleagues and students as performers, is a show generated by discussions about ideal communities and life in post-Brexit Britain: our group of performers includes academics, refugees, students, and primary school children, cellists, dancers, historians of the theatre, and geographers....
Women in German Studies is a professional organisation for Germanists in Great Britain and Ireland which was founded in 1988 by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. From 22 to 24 June 2017 the conference will come to Oxford for the first time, to explore the topics 'reform' and 'revolt' across German history, literature and culture.
2017 marks the 5th anniversary of what has become the biggest event in OGN’s calendar. The Oxford German Olympiad is an annual themed competition for learners of German aged between 9 years and 18 years old and living in the UK.
Since the 1970s, feminist criticism has rediscovered a vast body of literary works by eighteenth-century women and uncovered a great deal about the diverse roles that women played in eighteenth-century society and culture, as authors, actresses, translators, and public figures. Studies of women’s writing have challenged our understandings of genre, periodisation, and authorship, and gender has become an integral part of any discussion of individual identity.
In September 1871, Paul Verlaine, an established poet living with his wife’s parents’, took seventeen-year-old Arthur Rimbaud under his wing, inviting him to move into the family home in Paris. It was not long before Verlaine fell under the spell of the talented and irreverent teenager. The two became lovers, and their violent and hedonistic relationship would destroy Verlaine’s reputation, torture his wife Mathilde, and alienate his friends and colleagues. At the same time, it was perhaps only with Rimbaud that Verlaine was ever truly free. Whether the two of them knew it or not, their meeting would change the course of French poetry forever.