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The Undergraduate Admissions Office are offering guided tours of various Oxford colleges and departments and admissions talks during half term from Monday 21 to Friday 25 February.
On Monday 21 February, the following events may be of interest to potential Modern Languages applicants:
This page lists faculty events that have already happened.
Visit the Events page to see any current and upcoming events.
A Conference at Exeter College, Oxford
Monday, 15 March 2010, 10:00-17:00
This conference brings together leading scholars whose work on the early modern Inquisitions spans literary and historical considerations, as well as geographical boundaries. Their rich perspectives promise fresh insights.
Dr John Edwards (Queen’s College, Oxford), ‘The Spanish Inquisition Refashioned: The Experience of Mary I’s England and the Valladolid Tribunal, 1559’.
Dr Richard Pym (Royal Holloway), ‘The Curious Tale of the Irishman, the Gypsy, and “the Olivares Girl”: A Footnote to History’.
Dr António...
Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature 2009-10
(Writer and academic, Directeur d’Études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socials)
"Textual Trajectories in Early Modern Europe”
A symposium to mark Spain's Presidency of the European Union
Prof. Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale di Pisa)
Of Poetry, Poets and the Magic of Mirrors in the Renaissance
Thursday 13 May 2010, 5 pm
Oxford, Taylor Institution, Main Hall
All Welcome
A Conference at The Taylor Institution and Exeter College, Oxford
Thinkers ranging from Voltaire to Nabokov have dismissed the translation of poetry as an impossibility. Pirandello famously made similar protestations regarding drama. Jokes are routinely shrugged off as untranslatable. Yet translators, in theory and in practice, regularly contravene these claims, and the XIV Forum for Iberian Studies will likewise take these up as a gauntlet flung down. The Forum will explore ways in which translators overcome, acknowledge, or compensate for the presumed ‘impossibilities’ they encounter in the context of Iberian languages and literatures. At the university where La Celestina, Guzmán de Alfarache, La Regenta, and the Novelas ejemplares were first translated into English, we will discuss old and new challenges in concrete, practical terms.
The Forum will be attended by over 150 scholars and practitioners from 18 countries, who represent...
'Da bin ich noch, mein Land geht in den Westen...'
The Sub-faculty of German is delighted to announce that the distinguished German writer, Volker Braun, will be reading in German from his work:
on Tuesday 2 February (Week 3, Hilary Term)
in the McGregor Matthews Room, New College
at 4.30pm
Download poster
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please contact karen.leeder@new.ox.ac.uk to reserve a place.
This will be followed by:
(OGS, November 2009) in the Undercroft, New College, circa 6pm
11 July - 4 November 2009 (closed Saturday 29 August to Tuesday 8 September)
For details of a presentation of some of the Taylor Institution Library holdings illustrating the history of German book production in Strasbourg from the humanist period onwards, see:
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/german/strasbourghob/
Click on the link at the bottom of the page for the accompanying booklet (46 pages) or go to:
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/german/strasbourghob/strasbourg_booklet.pdf
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