Friday 30th November, 5.30pm in the Shulman Auditorium, Queen's College, Oxford.
DAAD Oxford Writer in Residence and Büchner Prize Winner 2012 Felicitas Hoppe will give a public reading associated with the conference "Geschichts(er)findungen. Felicitas Hoppe als Erzählerin zwischen Tradition und Transmoderne."
All welcome!
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7 May, 1:30 Taylorian Institute, room 3:
Nicola Gardini presents Jonathan Galassi's acclaimed translation of Giacomo Leopardi’s "Canti" (Farrar Straus & Giroux and Penguin). Readings and discussion with Galassi.
JONATHAN GALASSI has worked for Houghton Mifflin Company, Random House, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he has served as president since January 2002. Galassi has published three books of poetry ("Left-Handed" has just appeared) and has also translated the work of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale. He was president of the Academy of American Poets from 1994 to 1999.
Gender, sexuality and movement from the fin de siècle to the années folles
Wednesday 6 June (7th week), 4 – 6 pm. Taylorian Main Hall
Chair: Michael Sheringham
Philip Bullock, Narrative and desire: verbal and visual representations of St Sebastian in the Russian fin de siècle
Cláudia Pazos Alonso, Dream and Desire in A Confissão de Lúcio (1914): a Portuguese modernist and fin de siècle Paris
Dimitris Papanikolaou, “A Greek writer murdered in Paris”: Movement, sexuality and the homosexual type in the long 1920s
A one-day conference on Saturday 10th November 2012 at Ertegun House, 37A St. Giles’, Oxford.
Attendance including lunch is free, but space is limited, so please register for this event by emailing: kelsey.rubin-detlev@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.
Deadline for registration is Wednesday 7 November.
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Subject: ‘National identities at the intersection: literature and visual media’
The XV Forum for Iberian Studies, an international conference on the study of the languages and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula, will take place 20–22 June in the Taylor Institution. Dinner at Balliol: 21 June.
Keynote speakers: Josep-Anton Fernàndez, José Manuel Sande, Isabel Capeloa Gil and Bernardo Atxaga. For more information, see: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/files/FIS/Sitio_web/Home.html.
‘Flaubert, l’art moderne de la prose’
by Jacques Neefs (Johns Hopkins University)
Date: Thursday 17 May 2012
Time: 5.00 pm
Location: 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
Saturday, 29 October 2011
at Jesus College,
University of Oxford
Call for Papers
Lincoln College, Oxford University
September 16-17, 2011
Verrat und Argwohn Lauschen in Allen Ecken
(Friedrich Schiller, Wilhlem Tell 1, 4)
Call for Papers
University of Oxford, 27-29 September 2010
A week of academic and cultural events devoted to the Caribbean, past and present, and its place in the world comprising a
Conference
Exhibition
Musical Workshops
27 September – 2 October 2010
Co-organizers: Eva Sansavior and Richard Scholar
Conference
Professor Ronnie Ferguson (Professor of Italian, University of St Andrews), will deliver the annual Clara Florio Cooper Lecture at 5 p.m., on Monday 9 May 2011, in the Main Hall, Taylor Institution.
Subject: ‘The historical status of Venetian: language or dialect?’
Followed by a Drinks Reception in Room 2, 6.00-6.45 pm.
All welcome
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.
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.