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.

Brazil is becoming more and more visible on the world stage. Not only is its economy booming, but it is hosting both the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016. Thousands more people will visit this vibrant country and learn more about its rich and intricate culture.

Oxford can get a small taste of this variety and colour at the events organised in the second Brazil Week, which takes place in the last week of October in venues around the University. This year there are talks, films, exhibitions and music, and special guests from Brazil.

The definitive programme is available HERE.

For more information contact: brazilweek@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Monday 5 July 2010
University of Oxford

In Spanish American literature, science is often a locus for socio-political commentary, self-discovery, and narrative/poetic experimentation. This conference aims to explore the roles of scientific discourses in shaping the poetics and politics of Spanish American literature, with hopes of better understanding how the convergence of these seemingly separated areas of knowledge and expression has impacted on the cultural production of the continent. What is the place afforded to ostensibly universal and irrefutable scientific discoveries, which (in large part) do not originate in Spanish America? How is the relationship between cultural history and
scientific discourses explored and reworked in literary texts?

Possible areas of investigation include, but are not limited, to:...

Clara Florio Cooper Memorial Lecture

Dr Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge)

‘Lingua toscana in bocca calabra: Italian in Calabria’

Thursday 6 May 2010, 5 pm
Oxford, Taylor Institution, Main Hall
All Welcome

Desire in Dante & the Middle Ages

The Taylor Institution, Oxford, 28-29 June 2010

An international conference, funded by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Oxford, and sponsored by the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature.

Poster and Programme

Saturday 13 November 2010, 10.00 am

The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages is organising an Open Day for prospective students wishing to learn more about graduate opportunities at the University of Oxford. The Open Day will be held on Saturday 13 November 2010, commencing at 10.00 am. The venue will be the Taylor Institution, St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3NA.

The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford is one of the world’s leading centres for the study of European language, literature, and culture. Academic staff working in the sub-faculties of French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Slavonic and Celtic offer expertise in areas ranging from the medieval period to the present day. The faculty offers one- and two-year taught Masters courses, as well as M.Litt. and D.Phil. research degrees. A number of studentships and scholarships are available.

by Brian Melican

5.30pm on Tuesday 23 November in the Taylorian (Room 2)

organised and run by the Undergraduate Admissions Office

http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/finding_out_more/tours/guided_tours/index.html

The Undergraduate Admissions Office are offering guided tours of various Oxford colleges and departments and admissions talks during half term from Monday 21 to Friday 25 February.

On Monday 21 February, the following events may be of interest to potential Modern Languages applicants:

Negotiating Power in the Literature of the Iberian Inquisitions: Courts, Crowns, and Creeds

A Conference at Exeter College, Oxford
Monday, 15 March 2010, 10:00-17:00

This conference brings together leading scholars whose work on the early modern Inquisitions spans literary and historical considerations, as well as geographical boundaries. Their rich perspectives promise fresh insights.

Dr John Edwards (Queen’s College, Oxford), ‘The Spanish Inquisition Refashioned: The Experience of Mary I’s England and the Valladolid Tribunal, 1559’.

Dr Richard Pym (Royal Holloway), ‘The Curious Tale of the Irishman, the Gypsy, and “the Olivares Girl”: A Footnote to History’.

Dr António...

Professor Roger Chartier
Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature 2009-10

(Writer and academic, Directeur d’Études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socials)

"Textual Trajectories in Early Modern Europe”

Salvador de Madariaga: Statesman and Scholar

A symposium to mark Spain's Presidency of the European Union

Taylorian Special Lecture

Prof. Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale di Pisa)

Of Poetry, Poets and the Magic of Mirrors in the Renaissance

Thursday 13 May 2010, 5 pm
Oxford, Taylor Institution, Main Hall
All Welcome

XIV Forum for Iberian Studies: The Limits of Literary Translation, 24-25 June 2010

A Conference at The Taylor Institution and Exeter College, Oxford

Thinkers ranging from Voltaire to Nabokov have dismissed the translation of poetry as an impossibility. Pirandello famously made similar protestations regarding drama. Jokes are routinely shrugged off as untranslatable. Yet translators, in theory and in practice, regularly contravene these claims, and the XIV Forum for Iberian Studies will likewise take these up as a gauntlet flung down. The Forum will explore ways in which translators overcome, acknowledge, or compensate for the presumed ‘impossibilities’ they encounter in the context of Iberian languages and literatures. At the university where La Celestina, Guzmán de Alfarache, La Regenta, and the Novelas ejemplares were first translated into English, we will discuss old and new challenges in concrete, practical terms.

The Forum will be attended by over 150 scholars and practitioners from 18 countries, who represent...

A reading by Volker Braun

'Da bin ich noch, mein Land geht in den Westen...'

The Sub-faculty of German is delighted to announce that the distinguished German writer, Volker Braun, will be reading in German from his work:

on Tuesday 2 February (Week 3, Hilary Term)
in the McGregor Matthews Room, New College
at 4.30pm

Download poster

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please contact karen.leeder@new.ox.ac.uk to reserve a place.

This will be followed by:

Launch of 'From Stasiland to Ostalgie': the GDR twenty years after

(OGS, November 2009) in the Undercroft, New College, circa 6pm

11 July - 4 November 2009 (closed Saturday 29 August to Tuesday 8 September)

For details of a presentation of some of the Taylor Institution Library holdings illustrating the history of German book production in Strasbourg from the humanist period onwards, see:
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/german/strasbourghob/
Click on the link at the bottom of the page for the accompanying booklet (46 pages) or go to:
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/german/strasbourghob/strasbourg_booklet.pdf

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