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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.
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.