A reading with Austrian author Alois Hotschnig and translator Tess Lewis
Monday 1st week (10th October)
Queen’s College, Memorial Room
5.15pm
All welcome
Critically acclaimed author Alois Hotschnig is touring the UK on the publication of his short story collection Maybe This Time, translated by Tess Lewis.
The event will include readings in English and German, and discussion in English of Hotschnig’s writings and of literary translation.
There will be a drinks reception after the readings, and Tess Lewis will be happy to talk to students about her career in literary translation.
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Toril Moi (James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University)
‘Knowing Oneself, Knowing Others: Love, Language and Truth in Simone de Beauvoir's “The Woman Destroyed”’.
Convener: Michael Sheringham FBA, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature
Main Hall, Taylor Institution, St Giles'
5.00 p.m., Tuesday 8 March 2011
A Drinks Reception will follow
All Welcome
Gender in Medieval Literature
Wednesday, week 6 (16 November 2011), 4.00-6.00 pm
Room 3, Taylor Institution
Sophie Marnette (Balliol)
‘Gender and Genre: Reported Discourse in Lais and Fabliaux’
Manuele Gragnolati (Somerville)
‘Maternal Language and Corporeality in Dante’
Annette Volfing (Oriel)
‘Half Out, Half In: Gender Ambiguity and Pastoral Care in Seuse’s Exemplar’
All welcome, especially graduates
From Structuralism to Post-Modernism
Time: 5-6.30pm on Thursdays of odd weeks
Location: Howard Stringer Room, Merton College
(located on the ground floor of the TS Eliot Lecture Theatre).
Convenors: Benjamin Levy (ENS) and Emma Goodwin (Merton College)
Monday 21st November is the 200th anniversary of Heinrich von Kleist's death by his own hand near the Wannsee outside Berlin. To celebrate Kleist and his work there will be a reading in German and English in the Shulman Auditorium, Queen's, from 4.30 to 6pm.
There is no charge, anyone can drop in at any point, and all are welcome.
This event is part of the World Wide Reading organized by the Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft and the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin.
http://www.heinrich-von-kleist.org/wwrd/
11 November 2011
The University of Oxford is holding its first ever Humanities Graduate Open Day. This will be a unique opportunity for prospective students to find out about graduate courses in Humanities subjects at the University.
More information is available at:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/postgraduate_courses/about_the_university/graduate_open_days/humanities_open_day/index.html
You can register here:
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce an Ilchester Lecture by Professor Zhivov (Moscow, Berkeley and Stanford) on the subject 'Sin and Salvation in the History of Russian Spirituality'.
5 p.m. Thursday 21 October (Week 2)
Taylor Institution, Room 2
Thursday 20 October 2011
5.00pm
Main Hall
Taylor Institution
'Freemasons versus Jesuits: Conspiracy Theories in Enlightenment Germany'
followed by a drinks reception in the Taylorian.
Lincoln College, Oxford University
September 16-17, 2011
This conference gathers international scholars from the fields of ancient and modern literature, film studies, music theory, and philosophy – under the sign of betrayal; a sign, which each speaker at this symposium shall question. One might sum up: betrayal presupposes a triadic structure, in which the traitor is caught in a double bind. X gives Y over to some opposition, betraying his political, religious or private affiliations; or, perhaps, X gives himself away. If this structure has gained broad consensus, however, it also immediately opens an equally broad range of questions: Where does X come from; what is it that leads X to betray – and what exactly does he betray? The most basic structure of betrayal, giving over, in fact, involves everyone: for to speak, to give words over, gives oneself away. In light of this, the urgency to rethink betrayal(s) is equal to its ubiquity. In this conference, speakers will engage with the dynamics of betrayal, attending to its...
Made in partnership with the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach
Monday, 24 October 2011
Programme
Sheldonian Theatre
16.00 - Welcome by Dr Sarah Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian
16.15 - Reading of Act I, Scene I from Alan Bennett’s play Kafka’s Dick
16.30 - Kafka’s Writings: Private Confessions or Public Property?
Lecture by Ritchie Robertson, Taylor Professor of the German Language
and Literature, University of Oxford
17.00 - Panel discussion chaired by Katrin Kohl, Professor of German Literature,
University of Oxford
A Conference in Honour of Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards on the Occasion of his Retirement
Habakkuk Room
Jesus College
Oxford
11th–12th November, 2011
Programme (doc)
Poster (pdf)
Tuesday, 10 May, 5:00 p.m.
José María Merino, author and member of the Real Academia Española (sillón m), will discuss the development of his novels and microficción in a talk titled 'De la novela al minicuento, en mi experiencia de escritor'.
Room 3 of the Taylor Institute
St Giles, Oxford
23-24 September
Lady Brodie Room
St Hilda's College
The Society is anchored in an annual conference which acts as a forum for exchange between teachers of MFL in secondary schools and colleges and the MML Faculty. We have been working hard in recent years to increase participation from teachers in state schools and FE/sixth-form colleges and to include sessions on pedagogical issues (such as starting languages from scratch) as well as talks on areas of/approaches to literary and cultural research. For further information about the Society, see the website at:
http://sirroberttaylor.wordpress.com/
Programme (pdf)
Organised by Professor Leeder, the Symposium will take place at New College, Oxford on 24-25 March 2011.
Full information, including the Registration Form and Abstracts, can be found at:
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/gdrculture/
Book Launch
The Symposium includes the book launch of:
'The Vocation of Poetry'
by Durs Grünbein, translated by Michael Eskin
Professor Terence Cave, Emeritus Research Fellow, St John's College
'Thinking with Literature'
Convener: Michael Sheringham FBA, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature
Main Hall, Taylor Institution, St Giles'
5.00pm, Tuesday 10 May 2011
All Welcome
Professor James Wood
'ЧАЙКА' - Russian Play Reading of A.P. Chekhov's 'The Seagull', THURSDAY 20TH JANUARY at 4:30PM (Taylorian Institute, Lecture Room 2)
In Week 1 of Hilary Term, the week before Chekhov's masterful play is to be performed in English at the Oxford Playhouse, students and teachers from the university's sub-faculty of Slavonic Languages will be performing a reading of the play in Russian, to which all are warmly invited to attend.
Since the play is so often thought to be rooted in the tradition of realist theatre, the reading will be an opportunity to understand the construct, the bare structure of what Chekhov originally wrote which was so striking to audiences at the end of the nineteenth century, completely divided as they were on whether to love it or to hate it. Greater attention will be drawn to the fact that 'The Seagull' was written to be performed, to provoke both laughter and tears, not necessarily to be a stern representation of life itself....
presented by AHRC-funded project ‘Out of the Wings’
at Merton College, Oxford
18-19 March 2010
REGISTRATION FORM AVAILABLE HERE:
Registration and Accommodation, Catering OTW ‘10
Translating and performing the works of Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina and Calderón de la Barca, and other playwrights of the Golden Age have sparked an increasing amount of interest, heightened by the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2004-5 Golden Age season. Our Symposium will be attended by both academic and theatrical practitioners working within the field of Golden Age drama, and a wider base of attendees...
Director and Co-founder of the Cheek By Jowl Theatre Company
Tuesday 1 March, 2pm in the Taylorian Institute (Lecture Room2)
This coming Tuesday, everyone is warmly invited to come and listen to Declan Donnellan speak about his experiences as a theatre director and co-founder of the celebrated theatre company Cheek by Jowl, whose productions over the past 30 years have embraced works of Greek Tragedy, French Romanticism and Russian Theatre, both past and present. In addition to receiving 3 Olivier Awards for his direction amongst others, his most recent productions include 'Great Expectations' for the RSC, 'Three Sisters' and 'Boris Godunov' (both touring Russo-British collaborations), as well as 'Troilus and Cressida' and 'Macbeth' (in English) at the Barbican, where Cheek by Jowl has been Artistic Associate since 2006.