Sir Robert Taylor Society Conference 2015

The Sir Robert Taylor Society is a network of Modern Languages Teachers and members of the Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty at the University of Oxford. As part of the Modern Languages Schools Liaison initiative, we provide links between Higher Education institutions and schools in both the state and independent sectors.

Our next conference will be held in Pembroke College on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th September 2015. Highlights of the programme include a round table to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, a session on Modernism, a lecture to commemorate the 750th anniversary of Dante, and a performance of Chastity on the Verge.

18th-19th February 2015, 7:30PM, Exeter College Chapel

Director: Lucy Rayfield
Producer: Frey Kwa Hawking
Musical Director: Benjamin van Leeuwen

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Professor Michael Lucey
(UC Berkeley and Visiting Fellow All Souls College Oxford)

“What you might hear when people talk, or Proust as a linguistic anthropologist.”

Wharton Room, All Souls College, 5pm, Wednesday 17 June

Michael Lucey is the author of Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (Duke University Press, 2006) and The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (Duke University Press, 2003).

Professor Dominique Rabaté
(Université de Paris VII)

Figures de la disparition dans le roman français contemporain

To be given on Wednesday 13th May 2015 at 5pm in the Taylor Institution, St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3NA, followed by a drinks reception. View poster (PDF)

Convener: Michael Sheringham FBA, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature
All welcome

Two of the leading poets from the UK and Germany in conversation, 12 May at 7pm, Keats House, 10 Keats Grove, Hampstead, London NW3 2RR.

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After a life marked by scandals and decades of imprisonment, the Marquis de Sade died in the lunatic asylum of Charenton on 2 December 1814. On the eve of the bicentenary day, Nicholas Cronk and Manuel Mühlbacher will present their recent edited volume Sade, l’inconnu?, which brings to the fore new aspects of Sade’s multifarious writing. The event will feature responses to the volume by Sade specialists Will McMorran (Queen Mary University, London) and Thomas Wynn (Durham University), followed by a drinks reception in honour of the late Marquis.

1 December 2014, 5.30 PM
Ertegun House, 37A St Giles, Oxford

EHRC Cross-Faculty Research Seminar

ROMANTIC POETICS

Wednesday, 4 June 2014 (6th Week)
From 4.00 to 6.00 pm
Room 2, Taylor Institution

Chair: Charlie Louth

Speakers:

Ela Tandello (Christ Church/Italian):
‘The Volcano Lover: Leopardi and the Romantic Sublime in La ginestra’

Anna Camilleri (Christ Church/English):
‘Byron’s Lyric Practice’

Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe (Hertford/French):
‘Metaphor and Thought in Victor Hugo’s Visionary Poetry of Progress’

This year, 2014, marks the 25th anniversary of Leonardo Sciascia, who died in November 1989. To kick-start the commemorations of the Sicilian writer, ISO (Italian Studies at Oxford) is holding a workshop on two of Sciascia's most controversial and disturbing works, Il contesto (1971) and Todo modo (1974), and on the two films that were inspired by those two novels in 1976.

Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG Seminar Room

Friday, 2nd May 2014, 2.30pm-5.30pm

For more information and to register, go to:

http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk/Sciascia2014

Twenty-five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall the poet Volker Braun will give a special reading of old and new work and answer questions with David Constantine and Karen Leeder on Tuesday 11 Nov. at 5pm, in the Seminar Room, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road.

This will be followed by a reception to mark the launch of Rubble Flora: Selected Poems (2014), to which everyone is welcome. This is the first collection of Braun’s poetry in English and spans 50 years of poems.

Spaces are limited and will be on a strictly first come first served basis. Please register with karen.leeder@new.ox.ac.uk if you wish to attend.

A conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 to 27 March 2013 (see http://www.hispanists.ox.ac.uk for details).

Brazil Week 2013

Week 7, 25th February - 1st March

A presentation at the Taylor Institution on February 6 2013 by Declan Donnellan, the internationally-renowned theatre director, to accompany his production of Jarry’s Ubu Roi at the Oxford Playhouse (see http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com for details).

Dictionary Mania in the Eighteenth Century

An EHRC Cross-Faculty Research Seminar

Wednesday, 15 May 2013 (4th Week) from 4.00 to 6.00 pm
Voltaire Room, Taylor Institution

In 1759, Melchior Grimm, editor of the Correspondance littéraire, wrote that ‘La fureur des dictionnaires est devenue si grande parmi nous qu’on vient d’imprimer un Dictionnaire des dictionnaires’ [The feverish demand for dictionaries in our society has now grown so intense that a Dictionary of dictionaries has just been published]. This term’s European Humanities Research Centre seminar will focus on a particularly important phenomenon within the wider culture of dictionaries and encyclopedias: their role as vehicles for translation and dissemination between languages. Specialists from French, German, Italian, and Russian will come together to show us how European and Classical languages were translated, metamorphosed, stretched, or simply used as an excuse for polemic.

Chair: Caroline Warman
Speakers:

15 February 2013 in Room 2, Taylorian Institution, University of Oxford

Session 1: Pessoa the and Romantics (2:00-3:30pm)
Paulo de Medeiros: 'Intimations of Death: Dickinson and Pessoa'.
Mariana Gray de Castro: 'Pessoa and Keats'.
Richard Zenith: 'Shelley, Pessoa and the Spirit of Prometheus.'
Moderator: Claudia Pazos-Alonso

Coffee Break

Session 2: Pessoa and the Irish (4:00-5:30pm)
Bartholomew Ryan: 'Joyce and Pessoa's ruin of all space, shattered glass, myths and
multiplicity'.
Patrícia Silva McNeill: 'Pessoa and Yeats'.
Bernard O'Donoghue: 'Communicators and Frustrators: the Irish heritage of Yeats and
Pessoa'.
Moderator: Thomas F. Earle

Organisers: Mariana Gray de Castro and Claudia Pazos-Alonso

Attendance is free, but it would be helpful if you registered in advance by emailing Mariana at
mariana.decastro@gmail.com
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Jan Wagner and Iain Galbraith - Bilingual reading

On Thursday 27 February, a Bilingual reading and discussion will take place in the Taylor Institution, St Giles, Room 3, at 5pm. This will be followed by drinks. All welcome!

La vida es sueño

Life is a dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A play by students and staff of the Spanish sub-faculty.

April 24th – 27th at 7.30 (8pm on Friday), and matinees on Thursday and Saturday, 2.30pm.

Tickets are from the Playhouse, 01865 305305.

The undisputed flagship of Spanish Golden Age theatre and considered the peer of plays such as Hamlet and Oedipus, Life is a Dream interweaves themes of power, destiny and love. Locked up in a tower at birth by his father, Prince Segismundo’s future is doomed by a prophecy that pronounced him a disaster for the country. Now a grown man, the Prince is liberated by his father and given the chance to prove the prophecy wrong, but can he escape his fate? This classic play was recently a sell-out hit at the Donmar Warehouse, and will be performed here in Spanish, accompanied by English subtitles.

As part of the Academy's 2013 Literature Week, Professor Richard Parish will be giving a lecture on:

"Imitations of Christ in 17th-century France: Some attendant difficulties."

at:

The British Academy,
10-11 Carlton House Terrace,
London SW1Y 5AH

on Wednesday 22 May 2013, 6 - 7.15pm

There will be a reception afterwards.

More information can be found at:

http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2013/parish.cfm

Thursday 14 March 2013

Dr Clive Griffin (Retired University Lecturer in Latin American Literature, Fellow of Trinity College)

Mexico: from Picture to Print

FREE ADMISSION – ALL WELCOME
Please note that places are limited in Convocation House (100 places per lecture), so we
recommend booking in advance via the Bodleian Library website.

However, if places are still available on the day, early arrival might secure you one.

Registration is now open for the Sir Robert Taylor Society's annual conference which provides a unique forum for interaction between Oxford's Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty and teachers of MFL in secondary schools and colleges. A number of 90% bursaries are available for travel and attendance for teachers from state schools/colleges.

Penser le génie à travers ses usages Genius and its uses, 15 November 2013

The conference will be held in Maison Française d'Oxford on 15 November 2013.



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