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.
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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.
Professor Mary Cosgrove (University of Warwick) will give a paper entitled 'Boredom in the Neoliberal Present: An Overview' on Wednesday 9 March, 5.30pm in the Lady Brodie Room, St Hilda's College, Oxford. All are welcome. Please RSVP to georgina.
Next Tuesday's Medieval Studies Lecture will be given by Prof Rita Copeland (Taylorian, 5pm):
'Enthymeme and Emotion from Aristotle to Hoccleve'.
Rita Copeland is Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Her talk will be followed by a drinks reception at 6.30-7.30pm in Room 2. All welcome.
Building on the success of last year’s inaugural Italian play, this year we are pleased to announce an exciting adaptation of short fairy tales from Italo Calvino’s landmark 1956 collection. Performed by students of Italian and lovers of Italian theatre, the show is a spirited tour of regional folk culture with stories of love, trickery, danger, death, and the beautiful endurance of life. The show is in Italian with English summaries provided.
Discussion on the Brazilian Author Raduan Nassar * a screening of cult director Luiz Fernando Carvalho’s elegant and textured adaptation of Nassar’s Lavoura Arcaica (1984) * Film: To the Left Hand of the Father (2001) * Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Seminar * Film Screening: Durval Records, dir. Anna Muylaert (2002) * Taylorian Lecture by Professor Pedro Meira Monteiro: “The Dusk of Writing: Machado de Assis’s Last Pages and the Unfulfilled Promise of Brazil” * Concert: Lambrego - songs inspired by the Brazilian songwriting tradition.
The Italian Sub-Faculty and the Italian Cultural Institute in London
26th February 2016, 12.00am, Main Hall, Taylorian
An event with poet, playwright and voice-actress
Mariangela Gualtieri
DARE VOCE AL VERSO: Incontro con Mariangela Gualtieri
Amelia Rosselli is recognized as one of the greatest poetic voices of the Twentieth Century.
On Monday 15th February 2016, St John’s College will be holding a study day for high achieving Year 12 students who are considering studying German at university.
The purpose of the event is to introduce students to higher level academic study of German and to offer an insight into how the course is taught at Oxford. Participants will have the opportunity to find out more about studying languages at Oxford and the application process. They will also take part in a translation workshop and an academic seminar, led by Oxford tutors and based on preparatory material sent out in advance. There will also be an opportunity to meet current students and have lunch and a tour of the college.
Students interested in attending this event should complete the application form which can be downloaded from the St John's College website. The form must be signed by a member of school staff and a parent or guardian. All applications must be received by post, or email by 4pm on Friday 29th January 2016. If you have any questions, please contact Emma Coulson, Access and Outreach Officer....
An Anglo-Spanish Symposium at the University of Oxford to commemorate the 400th anniversaries of the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare, which will take place on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th January 2016 at the Weston Library & Exeter College.
Cervantes and Shakespeare, who died within eleven days of each other in 1616, are universally regarded as the supreme exemplars of literary achievement in their respective languages. This symposium brings together six British scholars of Cervantes and six Spanish Shakespeare scholars to explore the literary worlds of these two iconic authors, whose works convey the turbulent spirit of the restless age in which they lived.
Speakers will cover a broad range of topics, such as the ‘lost’ play by Shakespeare, inspired by a story from Cervantes’s Don Quixote; the extraordinary influence of Don Quixote; similarities and differences in form, style, and theme in their works; issues of interpretation; and the enduring fascination both writers have exerted on readers, writers and artists in modern times. All papers will be delivered in English, and there will be plenty of scope for discussion by speakers...
Both of the following events are free to attend but booking is essential. Please email office@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk by 20 January, noon, if you are interested in attending part or all of the event. A map for the event is available on the Website of the Taylor Institution.
Round Table: The Future of German Studies
22 January 2016, 2pm, Taylor Institution, Room 2
On the Occasion of the Inaugural Lecture of Henrike Lähnemann, Chair in Medieval German Literature and Linguistics
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jochen Schiewer (University of Freiburg), Dr Wilhelm Krull (VolkswagenStiftung), Dr Dorothea Rüland (DAAD), Prof. Katrin Kohl (Oxford German Network), Dr Carsten Dose (FRIAS), Chair: Prof. Ritchie Robertson (Taylor Chair of German Studies)
22-23 January – Women and the Canon. A symposium organized by Adele Bardazzi, David Bowe, Natalya Din-Kariuki, Julia Hartley. 25 February – Italian Cultural Institute in London, Londra per Amelia Rosselli.