A display of books, an afternoon of talks and an 'Ovid trail' to celebrate the life and works of Ovid, 2000 years from his death.
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Special lecture in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the publication of the 95 Theses.
The next conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society will be held in Oxford at Worcester College and the Taylorian Institute on 24th-27th September 2017. To coincide with the conference, there will be a small exhibition at the Bodleian Library on the theme of “Reading with Benjamin,” which will include Kafka manuscripts, and other Benjamin-related rarities.
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) is one of the best known figures of the Italian Renaissance, often seen as the prime example of a ‘Renaissance man’ (the all-round personality who is expert in both the arts and sciences, according to a definition coined by
The final performance of STORMING UTOPIA is this Saturday: the 'gala' opening show of the Oxford Festival of the Arts.
Part of a Knowledge Exchange Partnership between TORCH, the Pegasus Theatre, MML and others within Oxford, Storming Utopia, co-directed by Wes Williams, and featuring a number of MML colleagues and students as performers, is a show generated by discussions about ideal communities and life in post-Brexit Britain: our group of performers includes academics, refugees, students, and primary school children, cellists, dancers, historians of the theatre, and geographers....
Women in German Studies is a professional organisation for Germanists in Great Britain and Ireland which was founded in 1988 by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. From 22 to 24 June 2017 the conference will come to Oxford for the first time, to explore the topics 'reform' and 'revolt' across German history, literature and culture.
2017 marks the 5th anniversary of what has become the biggest event in OGN’s calendar. The Oxford German Olympiad is an annual themed competition for learners of German aged between 9 years and 18 years old and living in the UK.
Since the 1970s, feminist criticism has rediscovered a vast body of literary works by eighteenth-century women and uncovered a great deal about the diverse roles that women played in eighteenth-century society and culture, as authors, actresses, translators, and public figures. Studies of women’s writing have challenged our understandings of genre, periodisation, and authorship, and gender has become an integral part of any discussion of individual identity.
In September 1871, Paul Verlaine, an established poet living with his wife’s parents’, took seventeen-year-old Arthur Rimbaud under his wing, inviting him to move into the family home in Paris. It was not long before Verlaine fell under the spell of the talented and irreverent teenager. The two became lovers, and their violent and hedonistic relationship would destroy Verlaine’s reputation, torture his wife Mathilde, and alienate his friends and colleagues. At the same time, it was perhaps only with Rimbaud that Verlaine was ever truly free. Whether the two of them knew it or not, their meeting would change the course of French poetry forever.
This one day colloquium is organized under the auspices of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture and the Sub-Faculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek, Oxford. It was made possible thanks to a generous grant by the Onassis Foundation. All welcome. No prior booking required.
The Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse research network at TORCH is delighted to host a workshop on 'Crises of Meaning and Political Theology' on the afternoon of 6 June. Speakers will include: All are welcome. Coffee, tea and biscuits will be provided.
Presentation of the Festschrift in Honour of Professor Martin McLaughlin (edited by G. Bonsaver, B. Richardson, G. Stellardi. Oxford: Legenda, 2017) The volume will be introduced by Prof. P. Hainsworth and Prof. D.
Discover more about J.S. Bach’s spectacular Cantata 79 ‘Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild’ (God the Lord is Sun and Shield), written for the Reformation Day in 1725, with the Oxford Bach Soloists.
Print your own Theses at the Bodleian Print Workshop. The doors will be open and visitors can print for free their own copy, plus typeset their name for a letter of indulgence.
Launch of the Taylor Institution Library’s ‘Reformation Pamphlet Series’, including a public reading of the full ‘Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen’ in German, with a new English translation. This text is the first in the new pamphlet series and will be available to participants at a discounted price.
Speaker: Professor Mark Lipovetsky (Colorado)
Title: The Trickster and Revolution: Rereading Modernists of the 1920s
Thomas More’s ground-breaking island fantasy, first published in 1516, asks us all what brave new world we are to wish for. What would a society better than ours look like? Who ought to be allowed in? And on what terms? These are More’s questions in Utopia, and they have never mattered more than today, as the UK prepares to pursue a political future outside the EU and walls go up in the US. It may seem timely to return to the traditional reading of More’s text as a blueprint for political change: Utopia tells, after all, how a peninsula cut itself off from the continent to make a better future as an island… Yet the name More created for his island – Utopia – means ‘no place’: the political message of More’s text is undermined by the surrounding irony that his brave new world is a Nowhere Island.
The MFO is hosting a two day conference jointly organised by Sophie Lefay (Université d'Orléans), Laurent Turcot (Université du Québec à Trois Rivières) and Catriona Seth (University of Oxford) on walking and social rituals in the 18th century. It will include papers on national characteristics of walks, literary and educational walks, royal progresses and botanical collections, garden fashions and commercial activities for walkers. All welcome.
The 14th Annual German Graduate Symposium will take place on the first Saturday of Trinity Term, the 29th of April 2017, in the New Seminar Room in St John's College. Life, ideas, narratives, bodies are always in motion.
Prize-winning French author and film producer, Delphine de Vigan, will be in conversation with Henriette Korthlas Altes (MFO) and Catriona Seth (All Souls) at Jesus College, in the Harper Room at Jesus College at 5.15 P.M. on Wednesday 26th April.