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Encyclopedia Diderot 300
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:

1 Jan 2013
Fernando Pessoa and English Literature Workshop

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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1 Jan 2013
Lifedream Sm
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.

1 Jan 2013
Lecture at British Academy by Professor Richard Parish

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

1 Jan 2013
Lecture to accompany proscholium case display: ‘Mexico: from Picture to Print’

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.

1 Jan 2013
MFL teachers' conference, 27-28 September 2013

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.

1 Jan 2013
Re-Discoveries

The 5th Conference of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL), will be held in St Peter's College on 6th and 7th September.

Registration is open on the University Store, until 22 August (for accommodation).

The conference webpage is
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~srp/abil5.html

and the conference email
abil5cong@gmail.com

1 Jan 2013
Romanian Poster 250
Romanian in Oxford: language, culture and history

A one-day conference at Ertegun House, 37A St Giles' Oxford on Saturday 11 May 2013, from 9am-6.30pm.

Attendance including lunch is free, but space is limited, so please register for this event by emailing: martin.maiden@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk . Deadline for registration is Wednesday 8 May.

Click on the image to download the programme.

1 Jan 2013
Round Table on Creative Writing and Academia

Organized by the EHRC

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 5.00-7.00 pm, in the Taylor Institution (Main Hall), St Giles.

The participants will include members of the Modern Languages Faculty and other Faculties. The round table will also celebrate achievements by prize-winning colleagues: Patrick McGuinness’s The Last 100 Days was recently long-listed for the Man Booker Prize; Nicola Gardini won the 2012 Premio Viareggio for fiction; and the poet, Antonella Anedda, won the poetry prize in the 2012 edition of the Premio Viareggio. The Viareggio Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in Italy and is roughly equivalent to the Man Booker prize in the UK.

This will be a two-part event:

1 Jan 2013
Neuman Poster
Talk by Andrés Neuman

The Spanish-Argentine novelist Andrés Neuman is visiting to give a talk at:

The Taylor Institution
Thursday 16 May 2013, 5pm

His novel Traveller of the Century is shortlisted for the Independent Best Foreign Fiction Prize, having already won the Spanish National Critics Prize. He’ll speak in English and also be accompanied by his translators, Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia.

Click on the image to download the poster.

1 Jan 2013
The Cherry Orchard

Two current Russian undergraduates are producing Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at the O'Reilly Theatre, Keble College from Wednesday 27 February to Saturday 2 March. For tickets, go to:

http://www.wegottickets.com/BarbarianProductions

A trailer for the production can be seen here:

http://vimeo.com/59369827

1 Jan 2013
Vsg
Voicing the Singing God

A unique opportunity to come and hear outstanding poets Martyn Crucefix, Patrick McGuinness and Don Paterson speak about the business of translating, responding to and writing poetry.

The Hall, Taylor Institution, St Giles, Oxford.
Wednesday 15th May (4th week)
5.30pm

Martyn Crucefix published translations of Rilke’s Duino Elegies (2006) and Sonnets to Orpheus (2012) with Enitharmon; Don Paterson’s Orpheus, versions of Rilke’s sonnets, appeared with Faber in 2006; Patrick McGuinness has translated some of Rilke’s French poetry, including in his Jilted City (Carcanet, 2010)

This special event, supported by the EHRC, brings them together to read from their work and discuss Orpheus and Rilke, but also the questions surrounding translation and poetry more generally. Chaired by Karen Leeder, editor with Robert Vilain, of The Cambridge Companion to Rainer Maria Rilke (2010).

1 Jan 2013
Zaharoff 2013
Zaharoff Lecture 2013

‘L’Essai : une écriture extensible’ by Jean-Christophe Bailly (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage, Blois)

“Since its invention by Montaigne the essai has been a quintessential literary form in France, through Rousseau and Stendhal down to Camus and Barthes. Jean-Christophe Bailly, as well as being a poet, and dramatist, is a leading exponent of the contemporary essai, embracing topics as diverse as animality, photography, Fayoum portraiture, the city, and, in his widely acclaimed Le Dépaysement, the topography of France. In this lecture he will draw on his own experience to highlight some of the salient features of a hybrid literary form.”

5.00 pm, Thursday 2 May 2013
Taylor Institution, St Giles’, Main Hall

Followed by a Drinks Reception in Room 2, 6.00 – 6.45 pm

Convener: Michael Sheringham, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature

1 Jan 2013
Ghost
‘Giving up the Ghost: The Haunting of Modern Culture’

An interdisciplinary New College Symposium Friday 13 April and Saturday 14 April, 2012, at New College, Oxford.

Fee £20, including tea and coffee (£10 students).

Speakers: María del Pilar Blanco, Colin Davis, Mark Fisher, Kirstin Gwyer, Dina Khapaeva, Karen Leeder, Julian Wolfreys, along with the prize-winning writer David Constantine and the painter and visual artist Sarah Sparkes.

Convenors: Professor Karen Leeder and Dr Kirstin Gwyer

Registration: www.new.ox.ac.uk/giving-up-the-ghost
Enquiries: Egle.Jankauskaite@new.ox.ac.uk, 01865 279487

Supported by the Ludwig Fund, New College; Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford, Arts & Humanities Research Council

1 Jan 2012
Brazil Week 2012

5-10 March 2012

A week of Brazil-related cultural events taking place in Oxford. For more information, please contact claire.williams@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

The updated programme is here:

Programme

1 Jan 2012
Clara Florio Cooper Memorial Lecture

Subject: ‘On Translation: Primo Levi into and out of English’

Professor Laura Lepschy (University of London), Dr Helena Sanson (Cambridge) and Dr Emmanuela Tandello will give the Clara Florio Cooper Memorial Lecture (in the form of a round-table discussion with students from the Sub-Faculty of Italian) at 5.00 pm, on Thursday 10 May 2012, in the Main Hall, Taylor Institution.

1 Jan 2012