Sea-Crossings, Survival, Stories
Professor Dame Marina Warner Tuesday 22nd November 2016 - 5pm
Taylor Institution Hall, St Giles, Oxford Admission is free. All welcome.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 5:00pm
Magdalen College, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 4AU, Common Room (Cloisters staircase 3, first floor).
"Voyage littéraire par-delà les frontières : analyse de l'écriture nomade dans l'oeuvre de Linda Lê" by Veronica Ntoumos - de Remy
The launch celebrates several projects in the Faculty which have been sponsored by the EHRC Visibility Challenge.
Zaharoff Lecture 2016 - Marie Darrieussecq
‘Ecrire et ne pas écrire’ Thursday 3 November 2016, 5.00 p.m.
Taylor Institution, St Giles’, Main Hall
Followed by a Drinks Reception in Room 2, 6.00 – 6.45 p.m.
This term’s Oxford Medieval Studies lecture Devotional Culture in Late Medieval Strasbourg is given by Stephen Mossman in honour of Nigel Palmer on Friday 28th October at 5pm in the Taylor Institution.
The Italian Studies Library Group presents their Annual Lecture: Dr Donal Cooper (Cambridge University) From Deluge to the Digital: Fifty Years of Research and Conservation in Florence Since the 1966 Flood British Library Conference Centre, Bronte Room, M
On 21 to 24 June, staff and students from the University of Bonn will come to Oxford for an intense three-day colloquium on medieval German literature and culture.
This two-day conference is devoted to the reception of the Italian Renaissance in eighteenth-century German Literature. Participants include Oxford scholars as well as external speakers from Italy, Germany and the US, both senior and junior.
We are delighted to announce that on 16-17 June 2016 the University of Oxford will host an international conference entitled ‘500 Years of Orlando furioso’.
The conference is the launch of the Marie Curie Project conducted by Dr.
Delighted that Karen leeder's translations of Ulrike Almut Sandig have been shortlisted for the PEN Translation Pitch on June 9th 2016 at the Free Word Centre Part of European Literature Festival 2016.
Research and Publishing in the Digital Age
A drop-in session Thursday, 26 May 2016, 3-5 pm in Henrike Lähnemann’s office, 41 Wellington Square, 2nd floor »» HOW IS RESEARCH CHANGING WITH THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION?
The magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, founded by Ted Hughes, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a ‘Poetry and Translation study day’ on Saturday 14th May in Queen’s.
Come and see LE PETIT PRINCE, an original theatrical adaptation of the famous novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry !
Performed in FRENCH with ENGLISH SUBTITLES
AT THE SIMKINS LEE THEATRE (Lady Margaret Hall)
Performances from the 13th to the 16th of May
Professor Marc Silberman (University of Wisconsin - Madison) - Tuesday 10 May at 5.00 in the Taylorian, room 3, Professor Silberman is a distinguished scholar of the GDR and of German film and is prominent in Brecht studies.
This lecture will explore the afterlife of Dante's Divine Comedy through recordings, film, and visual arts, drawn from the collections of Taylor Institution Library. There will also be a display from the Library’s Special Collections.
Please also see attached poster.
This event is timed to enable the audience to attend Professor Carlo Ginzburg's lecture at 5pm the same day.
Professor Robert Evans
Britain and the Slavs in the 19th Century: The Ilchester Endowment in Context
Wednesday 27 April, 13:00-14:00 (lunch from 12:30)
Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford
This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. It provides a 'rereading' of East Germany and its legacy as a cultural phenomenon free from the prejudices that prevailed while it existed.
Exhibition celebrating Shakespeare, Ulrike Draesner and the Art of Translation opens in the Taylor Institution Library
400 years after Shakespeare’s death, the Taylorian Library presents ways in which his texts have stayed alive across the centuries in languages around the world under the title "Shall I compare thee? Shakespeare in translation"
A special focus lies on the “radical translation” by Ulrike Draesner, Writer in Residence in Oxford, on the occasion of the symposium discussing her work in April 2016. The German obsession with translating Shakespeare’s sonnets is shown in copies from the Taylorian holdings from the 19th to the 21st century. The worldwide context of Shakespeare-mania is explored in other forms of creative adaptation, across languages and media.
A programme of events exploring the relationship between culture and the economy organized by the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
How should we understand the relationship between culture, economics, politics, and society? How does this relationship shift according to different historical conjunctures? How meaningful are terms such as “stagnation” and “crisis” when applied to cultural forms? Are the classic theories that attempt to relate “base” to “superstructure” or “economic, social, political capital” to “cultural capital” still compelling? These are some of the general issues that this programme of events sets out to examine.