Manuscript Culture and Devotion in Germany and the Low Countries
Oxford, Somerville College / Taylor Institution, 12 October 2012
Poster (pdf)
On 12 October, Somerville College and the Taylor Institution will host a one-day conference on manuscript culture in medieval Germany and the Low Countries, in honour of Nigel F. Palmer, whose research on late medieval writing culture has built a bridge between Anglo-Saxon and continental manuscript scholarship. The conference brings together an international group of literary scholars and art historians; please see the attached poster and programme for details. Colleagues and graduate students are welcome - if you would like to attend the conference or the public lecture by Barbara Newman, please email almut.suerbaum@some.ox.ac.uk
Programme
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A two-day conference and reading on "Geschichts(er)findungen. Felicitas Hoppe als Erzählerin zwischen Tradition und Transmoderne." The conference takes place on Friday 30th November in the Shulman Auditorium at Queen's college, Oxford, and Saturday 1st December, in the Lady Brodie Room, St Hilda's College.
Registration is £30/25
For further information and registration please contact Svenja Frank (svenja.frank@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk) or Julia Ilgner (julia.ilgner@germanistik.uni-freiburg.de)
Download the conference programme
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN’S
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH
Date: Wednesday 30 May 2012
Time: 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm
Place: Blackwell’s Bookshop, Broad Street, first floor
Speaker: Solzhenitsyn expert Dr Mike Nicholson (Oxford) will talk about this famous novella, first published 50 years ago in 1962.
Entry free. All Welcome
The following events are open to everyone.
Convener: Prof. McLaughlin
EHRC/Blackwell’s Classic European Fiction Talks
Prof. Ritchie Robertson and Dr Ben Morgan
22 February 2012: ‘Thomas Mann, Death in Venice: the novella and the film’
7.00 pm to 8.00 pm, Blackwell’s, Broad Street
EHRC Cross-Faculty Seminar
29 February 2012: ‘Staging Power in Early Modern Europe’
Richard Cooper, ‘The Triumphs of Henri II, King of France’
Geraldine Hazbun, ‘The Illegitimate Hero in the comedia of Lope de Vega’
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, ‘Staging Power in late 17th Century Dresden – The Festivals of August the Strong’
4.00-6.30 pm, in the Taylorian Hall.
EHRC Book Launch
Printed and manuscript sources from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries.
Proscholium, Bodleian Library.
4 October - 11 November 2012.
Entry free.
Professor Tim Blanning (Cambridge), The Cultural Fashioning of Frederick the Great
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
On: Wednesday 17 October 2012
At: 5pm. Entry free.
"In the Fullness of Time: Serialization of the Russian Novel in the Nineteenth Century"
Organiser: Prof Andrew Kahn
Speaker: Professor William Mills Todd, III (Harvard University)
Thursday 31 May 2012
5pm-6:45pm, Room 2, Taylor Institution
Lecture will be followed by drinks reception.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Italo Svevo's birth, a number of films based on the work or on the life of the Triestine writer will be shown at Rewley House during Hilary Term 2012.
This will be a rare opportunity to see works that are very seldom available to the general public. The projections will take place in the Lecture Theatre of Rewley House (Wellington Square), every Wednesday starting at 7.30pm, from 18th January to 7th March, as follows:
Print programme
1. Wednesday 18 January:
A two-day colloquium at the University of Oxford organised by María Donapetry, Claire Williams and Roberta Gregoli. For the updated programme and to register, click here.
Wednesday 1 February 2012
‘Before Tolkien: Manuscripts, Audiences and Readers of Middle English Romance’
Dr Alison Wiggins (Senior Lecturer in English Language, School of Critical Studies,
University of Glasgow)
Wednesday 15 February 2012
‘The Birth of Romance in England’
Dr Laura Ashe (University Lecturer and Tutor in English Literature, Worcester College, Oxford)
Wednesday 7 March 2012
‘Medieval Romance and the Gift of Storytelling’
Dr Nicholas Perkins (University Lecturer and Tutor in English, St Hugh’s College, Oxford;
Curator of the exhibition)
Friday 23 March 2012
‘Shakespeare and Medieval Romance’
Professor Helen Cooper (Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature,
Magdalene College, Cambridge)
University of Oxford
Tercentenary Concert
At: Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
On: Wednesday 17 October 2012
At: 8pm
Click here to download the poster with ticket information. Concessions with University
Card.
Friday 30th November, 5.30pm in the Shulman Auditorium, Queen's College, Oxford.
DAAD Oxford Writer in Residence and Büchner Prize Winner 2012 Felicitas Hoppe will give a public reading associated with the conference "Geschichts(er)findungen. Felicitas Hoppe als Erzählerin zwischen Tradition und Transmoderne."
All welcome!
Download the Conference Poster
7 May, 1:30 Taylorian Institute, room 3:
Nicola Gardini presents Jonathan Galassi's acclaimed translation of Giacomo Leopardi’s "Canti" (Farrar Straus & Giroux and Penguin). Readings and discussion with Galassi.
JONATHAN GALASSI has worked for Houghton Mifflin Company, Random House, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he has served as president since January 2002. Galassi has published three books of poetry ("Left-Handed" has just appeared) and has also translated the work of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale. He was president of the Academy of American Poets from 1994 to 1999.
Gender, sexuality and movement from the fin de siècle to the années folles
Wednesday 6 June (7th week), 4 – 6 pm. Taylorian Main Hall
Chair: Michael Sheringham
Philip Bullock, Narrative and desire: verbal and visual representations of St Sebastian in the Russian fin de siècle
Cláudia Pazos Alonso, Dream and Desire in A Confissão de Lúcio (1914): a Portuguese modernist and fin de siècle Paris
Dimitris Papanikolaou, “A Greek writer murdered in Paris”: Movement, sexuality and the homosexual type in the long 1920s
A one-day conference on Saturday 10th November 2012 at Ertegun House, 37A St. Giles’, Oxford.
Attendance including lunch is free, but space is limited, so please register for this event by emailing: kelsey.rubin-detlev@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.
Deadline for registration is Wednesday 7 November.
Download poster of event
Subject: ‘National identities at the intersection: literature and visual media’
The XV Forum for Iberian Studies, an international conference on the study of the languages and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula, will take place 20–22 June in the Taylor Institution. Dinner at Balliol: 21 June.
Keynote speakers: Josep-Anton Fernàndez, José Manuel Sande, Isabel Capeloa Gil and Bernardo Atxaga. For more information, see: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/files/FIS/Sitio_web/Home.html.
‘Flaubert, l’art moderne de la prose’
by Jacques Neefs (Johns Hopkins University)
Date: Thursday 17 May 2012
Time: 5.00 pm
Location: Taylor Institution, St Giles’, Main Hall
Followed by a Drinks Reception in Room 2, 6.00 – 6.45 pm
Convener: Michael Sheringham, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature
Saturday, 29 October 2011
at Jesus College,
University of Oxford
Call for Papers
Lincoln College, Oxford University
September 16-17, 2011
Verrat und Argwohn Lauschen in Allen Ecken
(Friedrich Schiller, Wilhlem Tell 1, 4)