This conference is open to all. If you would like to register for a full day of the conference (including lunch), or if you would like to attend the conference dinner, please send an email to santiago.bertran@exeter.ox.ac.uk.
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The German Sub-Faculty is pleased to launch the second booklet in the Treasures of the Taylorian Series ‘Writers in Residence’. It came out of the collaboration with the writer in 2017. brings together contributions by Emma Huber, Christoph Held, Henrike Lähnemann, Sheela Mahadevan , Alexandra Lloyd and Rey Conquer.
Lectures will be given by Durs Grünbein on Beyond Literature: Or, on the intrusion of history into the narrative of one’s own life
Lectures will be given by Durs Grünbein on Beyond Literature: Or, on the intrusion of history into the narrative of one’s own life
There will be a talk on Galician Literature in the current series of Literatures of Multilingual Europe Series. It is a talk on Galician literature by Alba Cid (Lectora at the John Rutherford Centre for Galician Studies). The talk will be given on Wednesday, May 15th at 5.15pm in Room 2 at the Taylor Institution Library.
Lectures will be given by Durs Grünbein on Beyond Literature: Or, on the intrusion of history into the narrative of one’s own life
Professor Catriona Seth's inaugural lecture, entitled 'Girls with books: reading, contagion and acquired immunity in 18th-century fiction', will be livestreamed this afternoon. Please click on the following link to watch: https://livestream.com/oxuni/seth
Professor Seth is the Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College. She works on the long eighteenth century and is a specialist of French literature and cultural history. She has published widely on topics which extend from Marie-Antoinette to Parny, from women’s writing to émigré fiction and from inoculation to foundlings. Professor Seth’s lecture is entitled: Girls with books: reading, contagion and acquired immunity in 18th-century fiction.
Lectures will be given by Durs Grünbein on Beyond Literature: Or, on the intrusion of history into the narrative of one’s own life
Apud Basileam – Printing in Basel around 1500
The exhibition opening will take place at 5pm, Monday 06 May. All welcome!
The Taylorian Library will be hosting a Humanities Coding Club on Friday afternoons in term time (1pm – 5pm, weeks 1-8, Graduate Group Study Room).
The Taylor Institution Library’s Digital Editions course is running this term. It will take place on Wednesdays 1.30pm-2pm (with Q&A till 2.30pm), weeks 1-8.
Dan Edelstein, William H. Bonsall Professor of French at Stanford University, will be delivering this lecture.
All St Edmund Hall is a stage – or at least will be on Saturday 27 April when a full cycle of medieval mystery plays will be performed across the College.https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/blog/a-medieval-mystery-cycle-for-oxford-at-st-edmund-hall
Professor Mary Helen Dupree – Georgetown University
The Québec Government's office in the UK and Alliance Française of Oxford offers you an exclusive free screening of "Pieds nus dans l'aube" (2017).
It will be followed by a reception at the exceptional Taylor Institute library to celebrate the French Language and Francophone Week (Semaine de la Francophonie).
Prof. David Arbesú (University of South Florida)
At this event in the Weston Library, the Translation Exchange will build a 'Spectacular Translation Machine': all hands on deck to create a collaborative translation of a graphic novel! If you are interested in volunteering to help run the machine on the night, please contact translation.exchange@queens.ox.ac.uk
on International Women's Day
The award-winning German author, dramatist, translator and musicologist will read from his latest novel, Und jeden Morgen das Meer.