Programme for Brazil Week 2015, 19–23 January 2015.
International Colloquium on Contemporary Brazilian Literature
Programme for the International Colloquium on Contemporary Brazilian Literature, which took place on Monday 19 January 2015 at the Dorfman Centre, St. Peter's College.
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Professor Carlo Caruso, Durham, will deliver the Clara Florio Cooper Memorial Lecture at 5pm, on Thursday 14 May 2015, in the Main Hall, Taylor Institution, St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3NA.
Subject: ‘War, hunger and censorship: Italian as seen through the letters of Italian POWs in the Great War’
Followed by a wine reception
All welcome
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Launch of Oxford Medieval Studies (Torch Research Programme)
Thursday 3rd Dec. (week 8), at 5:15pm. Main Hall, Taylor Institution, followed by a drinks reception. All welcome.
Speakers include:
Emma Dillon (Professor of Music, King's College London)
Henrike Lähnemann (Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford)
David Wallace (Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania)
Chris Wickham (Chichele Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford)
The discussion will be chaired by Sally Mapstone (Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) and Professor of Older Scots Literature.
The Italian Department of the University of Oxford is pleased to announce a two day interdisciplinary conference on Etymological Thinking in the 19th and 20th Centuries which will take place at the Taylor Institution the 6th and 7th November.
Etymology becomes a distinctive feature of intellectual and literary culture in the 19th century, remaining one throughout the 20th century. Interest in etymology characterizes the development of linguistics, philology, and literature. Its powerful but also problematic status prompts writers and intellectuals of different backgrounds to explore etymology in relation to such essential notions as temporality, history, and memory, as well as to recast questions of kinship and diversity between languages. At the same time, this new “etymological thinking” has played a significant role in shaping collective identities, ideologies, and psychologies.
The conference will involve literary scholars, experts on cultural studies, philologists, classicists, linguists and experts in translation. Papers will investigate topics such as etymology as a literary device in different genres, the relevance of etymologies to the...
2pm, Tuesday 10 February, Room 3, Taylorian Institute, St.
Taciana Oliveira’s film about the life and work of renowned Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), released in December 2015, will be shown at selected venues around the world as part of a series of international events programmed to mark Lispector’s birthday.
Saturday 12 December, 2pm
Taylor Institute, University of Oxford
St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3NA
This beautiful documentary includes rare footage and interviews with Lispector’s family and friends, such as Ferreira Gullar, Nélida Piñon, Augusto Ferraz, Alberto Dines, Marina Colasanti, Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna and Luiz Carlos Lacerda.
Introduced by Dr Claire Williams (St. Peter’s, Oxford). The film runs for 95 minutes and is in Portuguese, with English subtitles.
FREE EVENT – ALL WELCOME, but please book your place by emailing:
sandra.beaumont@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
The Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature, Trinity Term 2015: Humanitas lecture series by Javier Cercas. View poster (PDF)
The lectures are free and open to all. For more information please visit www.torch.ox.ac.uk/humanitas.
All events will take place at 5:30pm in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College:
Tuesday 12 May: The Third Truth (part 1)
Thursday 14 May: The Third Truth (part 2)
Tuesday 19 May: Vargas Llosa's Question
Thursday 21 May: The Blind Spot
Tuesday 26 May: The Man Who Says No
Thursday 4 June: In Conversation: European Literature, Politics and Historical Memory
Registration is open for the Humanities Graduate Open Day which will take place on 13 November 2015.
In the Shadow of Kafka, a series of documentaries and drama on BBC Radio 3 from Sunday 10 May–Saturday 16 May, will examine one of the most elusive and intriguing figures in 20th century literature, Franz Kafka.
100 years since the publication of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, the Czech writer remains one of the most influential writers of the last century, inspiring generations with his novels and short stories, themes of alienation, authority and mythical transformation. In the Shadow of Kafka will re-examine this legacy, exploring Kafka’s life and work through the lens of contemporary writers and dramatists including Margaret Atwood, April de Angelis, Hanif Kureishi, Karen Leeder, Mark Ravenhill and Jeff Young in a week of special broadcasts.
Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rome
Ian Thomson, University of East Anglia. View poster (PDF)
At the British Library Conference Centre, 29 June 2015 at 6pm. Wine and light refreshments will be served after the lecture.
Attendance is free but registration is required. If you intend to come to the lecture please email Chris Michaelides: chris.michaelides@bl.uk, ISLG Chair, and type ISLG Lecture in the subject line.
Week 1. OCCT welcome lunch
Friday 16 Oct, 13:00-14:00
Radcliffe Humanities Building, Colin Matthew Room
Week 2. Maison Française and OCCT hosted conference: Paris and London 1851-1900
13:30 Friday 23 Oct – 16:00 Saturday 24 Oct
Maison Française, see MFO website for programme
Week 3. Fiction and Other Minds seminar:
Wednesday 28 Oct, 16:30-18:30
Speakers: Peter Garratt (Durham): ‘Mind Bloat and The Lifted Veil’
Helen Small (English/Oxford): 'On the Verification of Mental Experience’
Chair: Ben Morgan (German/Oxford)
Radcliffe Humanities Building, Seminar Room
Why Camões Still Matters: Copies in Search of Originals: inaugural lecture celebrating the appointment of Phillip Rothwell as King John II Professor of Portuguese.
5pm (doors open 4:30pm), Monday 26 January 2015, Main Hall, Taylor Institution, Saint Giles', Oxford, OX1 3NA.
Monday 18 May (4th week) at 6pm, in the Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, OX1 3BN.
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. Introduced by Ian Wallace.
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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
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’