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A new article by Dr Belinda Jack has been published in the medical journal The Lancet. Titled 'Poetry and Emotion', the publication investigates the intimate relationship between the text and the reader, and how verse can be used to process unarticulated experiences.
Dr Jack analyses such poems as Walking Away by Cecil Day Lewis and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas.
On Friday, March 2nd we present renowned comic book author and film director Enki Bilal in conversation with students and members of the public. One of the most sought-after artists in the world will talk working across genres and cultures. The conversation will be convened by Dr Michael Abecassis and take place in the Main Hall, Taylor Institution.
This event is free and open to all, and will be in French.
Professor Catriona Seth is to receive an honorary degree from Queen's University Belfast, in acknowledgement of her achievements in the field of French literature research.
Czech Centres and the Czech Literary Centre, announce the 5th year of the International Competition for Young Translators – The Susanna Roth Prize – for young translators up to the age of forty.
On Friday, February 23rd the Faculty, together with The European Humanities Research Centre and Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, invites you to 'The Multiple Legacies of Rosa Luxemburg' symposium.
The event is dedicated to the life, thought and legacy of Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), one of the most creative writers of modern socialism, a leading Jewish intellectual and the foremost female theoretician of European radicalism. The symposium is free and open to the public.
This Thursday, February 15th, 2018, we present the third screening in the Galician Film Series, jointly organized by The John Rutherford Centre for Galician (University of Oxford) and the Galician Film Forum (GFF)-London. Costa da Morte by Lois Patiño brings a story from the eponymous rocky, misty, and stormy part of Spain.
This screening will take place at the Taylorian Institution; it is free and open to the public upon registration.
As part of the Seminar on Contemporary French Writing and Culture, author, illustrator, and graphic artist Emmanuel Guibert will be a guest in the ‘Conversations avec…’ series. The conversation will be convened by Professor Catriona Seth and Professor Seth Whidden and take place on Monday, February 19th at Queen’s College.
This event is free and open to all, and will be in French.
The Open Days for spring 2018 have now been announced! We welcome prospective applicants to meet our tutors and students, to have a look at libraries and classrooms, and to learn more about the admissions process and studying at Oxford.
The main Open Day at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages is taking place on Saturday, April 28th, with additional language-specific days from February to March.
Tonight at 5 pm, Noble Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel will be speaking at a joint seminar arranged by the Spanish Sub-faculty, the Latin American Centre, and the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. The talk is taking place at the Taylor Institution, Room 2 and is open to public.
Please, notice that the talk will be in Spanish, with interpretation.
Compassion’s Edge: Fellow-Feeling and its Limits in Early Modern France is a new book by Professor Katherine Ibbett, Fellow of Trinity College, which was published last year by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
The 15cBOOKTRADE Project (2014-2019, PI Cristina Dondi) has received considerable attention from the international media over the past two months.
As part of France Culture’s focus on travel, the radio show ‘Soft Power’ devoted its last episode of 2017 to Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century. Among the invited guests was Seth Whidden, who recently completed a biography of Rimbaud due out later this year.
Dr Paola Tomè, who was a Marie Curie Fellow in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford (2015-17), died on 24 December 2017 after a long and brave struggle against cancer. She was a very active presence in the Faculty with her seminars, lectures and conferences and she also forged strong links between MML and the Faculty of Classics: her loss will be keenly felt by all of us.
A conference on Les Lumières au pluriel marks a stage of the ANR/DFG-funded EDULUM project. It is being held on 14-16 December at the Maison Française in Oxford and at All Souls College, with support from both organisations and from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford.
A new prize was established in 2017 as part of the Oxford German Olympiad: ‘A German Classic’.
Congratulations to Dr Andrew Counter of the French Sub-Faculty on winning the very prestigious MLA Prize:
The Modern Language Association of America have awarded the twenty-fifth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies to Dr Counter for his book The Amorous Restoration: Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France, published by Oxford University Press.
Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), one of the greatest writers and the most famous woman of the early nineteenth century, is the subject of Radio 4’s In Our Time, hosted by Lord Bragg on November 16 2017. He is in conversation with Catriona Seth FBA, the Marshal Foch Professor of Literature and Fellow of All Souls, who recently edited Staël’s works for Gallimard’s prestigious “Pléiade” series, and with fellow academics Professor Alison Finch and Dr Katherine Astbury.
The Russian sub-faculty is pleased to announce the showings of literary adaptations of masterpieces of Russian classical literature, preceded by short introductions by Modern Languages faculty members, as part of the EHRC Visibility Project. The project aims to introduce the variety of literary adaptations to students reading Russian and everyone interested in Russian literature and language. Short introductions will help unravel these films’ cultural and historical significance.
Radio 3's Sunday feature for Remembrance Day was a programme by Professor Patrick McGuinness on Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi's First World War memorial Column for Infinity in Targa Jiu.
A small exhibition in the Voltaire Room marking the 200th anniversary of the death of Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), who was at the time the most famous woman in Europe, in parallel with that of Jane Austen (1775-1817) offers an opportunity to see numerous rare books and manuscripts from the Taylor Institution’s own holdings along with several volumes generously loaned by Chawton House Library and documents drawn from private collections.