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Public Reading in German and English of Gott ist nicht schüchtern, followed by Q&A with the author, hosted by Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT).
The Faculty is holding an information session for MSt and MPhil programmes.
Prof Marco Abel (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) talks about “‘1968’, German Cinema, and the Joys of Violence; or: the Forgotten Case of the Aesthetic Left”
We are pleased to announce that the Zaharoff Lecture 2018 will be given by Pierre Michon. The celebrated French author will join us on November 13th, 2018 (Tuesday of 6th Week, Michaelmas Term 2018) in the Main Hall of the Taylor Institution from 5 o’clock.
All are welcome to attend; for information on booking, please, see below.
We are pleased to announce that Professor Jonathan Thacker will be giving his Inaugural Lecture as the King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies on October 16th, 2018. The title will be 'The World as Stage in Spain’s Golden Age'.
The lecture is taking place in the Main Hall of the Taylor Institution. All are welcome to attend; for information on booking, please, see below.
All members of the Faculty are warmly invited to the launch of The White Rose project and exhibition on Friday, October 12th. The event will take place in Room 2 at the Taylor Institution from 5 o'clock in the evening. There will be a short talk, a chance to view the exhibition, and refreshments. The White Rose: Reading, Writing, Resistance exhibition will continue in the Voltaire Room until the end of October.
Booking for the launch event is required.
2018 marks the 75th anniversary of one of the most remarkable instances in the history of German Resistance: the White Rose group trials. To commemorate this event, there will be an exhibition in the Taylor Institution, entitled The White Rose: Reading, Writing, Resistance. The exhibition will run from October 12th to 31st in the Voltaire Room of the Taylorian. It will present information on the members of the White Rose and their resistance activities, as well as examples of literature which influenced them to oppose Nazism.
From Thursday, September 20th to Saturday, September 22nd, 2018 the international conference Women in Transition — Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries will take place at St Peter's College, University of Oxford and at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies, King's College London.
The programme and further details about are available on the conference website. This event is open to the public, but registration is required. To book your place, please, follow this link.
Open Days provide an excellent opportunity to visit the Faculty and meet our tutors and students. The next University of Oxford Open Day of 2018 will take place on Friday, September 14th. Colleges and departments across the University will be running tours and information sessions. To plan your day, see these pages.
To reserve your place at the Open Day, please, follow this link.
Open Days provide an excellent opportunity to visit the Faculty and meet our tutors and students. The University of Oxford Open Days 2018 will take place on Wednesday, June 27th, Thursday, June 28th, and Friday, September 14th. Colleges and departments across the University will be running tours and information sessions. To plan your day, please, see these pages.
To find out more and book your place at an Open Day, follow this link.
From Sunday, June 24th to Tuesday, June 26th 2018 the international conference Médialité des odeurs / Mediality of Smells will take place at Maison Française d’Oxford and Jesus College. This event is jointly convened by Dr Jean-Alexandre Perras (Jesus College, University of Oxford) and Dr Érika Wicky (Fonds National de La Recherche Scientifique and Université de Liège).
The study of scents and all things olfactory is currently thriving, a sign of the great interest that our information-based societies feel for a sense which seems to offer a direct and immediate experience of reality. The conference Mediality of Smells aims to develop the nascent interdisciplinary exchange around smells by examining the question of the media and the possible mediatisation of smells.
Najla Shami, Galician-Palestinian singer and songwriter, presents "Latitudes" in Oxford, on 21 June at the Shulman Auditorium, the Queen’s College, 7.30 pm.
This conference, which takes place at the Taylor Institution from Wednesday 20th to Thursday 21st June 2018, aims to explore the communicating vessels between reality and fiction in the cultural productions of the Iberian Peninsula across time, from the era of medieval chronicles to the digital age.
On 18 to 21 June, staff and students from the University of Bonn will come to Oxford for an intense three-day colloquium on medieval German literature and culture, hosted by the three German medievalists Henrike Lähnemann, Almut Suerbaum and Annette Volfing.
On Monday, June 18th 2018, together with Maison Française d’Oxford, we present an international study day themed Le Monde du roman français, 1800-1820 / The World of the French Novel, 1800-1820.
The French nineteenth-century novel was the genre that transformed multilingual European literature, and Le Monde du roman français, 1800-1820 will allow one to learn about the origins of that phenomenon.
This study day will feature talks in both French and English, with the researchers arriving from across Britain and France, but also Belgium and New Zealand. The subjects are diverse and include the works of particular authors of the period (Mme de Genlis, Pigault-Lebrun, or Germaine de Staël — to name a few) as well as over-reaching themes, such as the Romantic, the Gothic, and the Feminine.
This year's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages Graduate Conference 'In the Margins' is taking place in the Taylor Institution on Monday 18 June 2018.
On 15 June, Cinéma et culture française à Oxford, with the support of the Society for French Studies, welcomes the French actress and director Zabou Breitman, or simply Zabou, to the Taylor Institution, to talk about her career.
A one-day symposium at the Rothermere American Insitute (RAI) on Friday, 15 June (10.30am – 5.30pm), on the cultural, political and infrastructural situation in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María struck the island in September 2017.
On Thursday, June 14th we invite you to a reading by Puerto Rican author, photographer and film-maker Eduardo Lalo. This event will take place in Room 2 of the Taylor Institute, from 5 pm.
Eduardo Lalo is an award-winning novelist, whose works are hybrids of essay and fiction, set in locations around the world, at once remote and familiar. We are especially fortunate to host this reading on the eve of the Puerto Rico After Hurricane María: Culture, Politics, Place symposium on Friday, June 15th.
Please, note that the reading will be in Spanish. The event is free and open to the public.