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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.
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
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).
‘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
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
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
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.
Taylor Institution
St Giles’, Oxford
Friday 9th March 2012
Programme (pdf)
Manuscript Culture and Devotion in Germany and the Low Countries
Oxford, Somerville College / Taylor Institution, 12 October 2012
Poster (pdf)
On 12 October, Somerville College and the Taylor Institution will host a one-day conference on manuscript culture in medieval Germany and the Low Countries, in honour of Nigel F. Palmer, whose research on late medieval writing culture has built a bridge between Anglo-Saxon and continental manuscript scholarship. The conference brings together an international group of literary scholars and art historians; please see the attached poster and programme for details. Colleagues and graduate students are welcome - if you would like to attend the conference or the public lecture by Barbara Newman, please email almut.suerbaum@some.ox.ac.uk
Programme
A two-day conference and reading on "Geschichts(er)findungen. Felicitas Hoppe als Erzählerin zwischen Tradition und Transmoderne." The conference takes place on Friday 30th November in the Shulman Auditorium at Queen's college, Oxford, and Saturday 1st December, in the Lady Brodie Room, St Hilda's College.
Registration is £30/25
For further information and registration please contact Svenja Frank (svenja.frank@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk) or Julia Ilgner (julia.ilgner@germanistik.uni-freiburg.de)
Download the conference programme
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN’S
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH
Date: Wednesday 30 May 2012
Time: 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm
Place: Blackwell’s Bookshop, Broad Street, first floor
Speaker: Solzhenitsyn expert Dr Mike Nicholson (Oxford) will talk about this famous novella, first published 50 years ago in 1962.
Entry free. All Welcome
The following events are open to everyone.
Convener: Prof. McLaughlin
EHRC/Blackwell’s Classic European Fiction Talks
Prof. Ritchie Robertson and Dr Ben Morgan
22 February 2012: ‘Thomas Mann, Death in Venice: the novella and the film’
7.00 pm to 8.00 pm, Blackwell’s, Broad Street
EHRC Cross-Faculty Seminar
29 February 2012: ‘Staging Power in Early Modern Europe’
Richard Cooper, ‘The Triumphs of Henri II, King of France’
Geraldine Hazbun, ‘The Illegitimate Hero in the comedia of Lope de Vega’
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, ‘Staging Power in late 17th Century Dresden – The Festivals of August the Strong’
4.00-6.30 pm, in the Taylorian Hall.
EHRC Book Launch
Printed and manuscript sources from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries.
Proscholium, Bodleian Library.
4 October - 11 November 2012.
Entry free.
Professor Tim Blanning (Cambridge), The Cultural Fashioning of Frederick the Great
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
On: Wednesday 17 October 2012
At: 5pm. Entry free.
"In the Fullness of Time: Serialization of the Russian Novel in the Nineteenth Century"
Organiser: Prof Andrew Kahn
Speaker: Professor William Mills Todd, III (Harvard University)
Thursday 31 May 2012
5pm-6:45pm, Room 2, Taylor Institution
Lecture will be followed by drinks reception.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Italo Svevo's birth, a number of films based on the work or on the life of the Triestine writer will be shown at Rewley House during Hilary Term 2012.
This will be a rare opportunity to see works that are very seldom available to the general public. The projections will take place in the Lecture Theatre of Rewley House (Wellington Square), every Wednesday starting at 7.30pm, from 18th January to 7th March, as follows:
Print programme
1. Wednesday 18 January:
A two-day colloquium at the University of Oxford organised by María Donapetry, Claire Williams and Roberta Gregoli. For the updated programme and to register, click here.
Wednesday 1 February 2012
‘Before Tolkien: Manuscripts, Audiences and Readers of Middle English Romance’
Dr Alison Wiggins (Senior Lecturer in English Language, School of Critical Studies,
University of Glasgow)
Wednesday 15 February 2012
‘The Birth of Romance in England’
Dr Laura Ashe (University Lecturer and Tutor in English Literature, Worcester College, Oxford)
Wednesday 7 March 2012
‘Medieval Romance and the Gift of Storytelling’
Dr Nicholas Perkins (University Lecturer and Tutor in English, St Hugh’s College, Oxford;
Curator of the exhibition)
Friday 23 March 2012
‘Shakespeare and Medieval Romance’
Professor Helen Cooper (Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature,
Magdalene College, Cambridge)
University of Oxford
Tercentenary Concert
At: Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
On: Wednesday 17 October 2012
At: 8pm
Click here to download the poster with ticket information. Concessions with University
Card.