Translation as Afterlife
In this seminar, Marcela Sulak (Bar Ilan University) and Adriana X. Jacobs (Oriental Studies) will explore the possibility of translation as...
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Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT)
The discipline of Comparative Literature is changing. Its Eurocentric heritage has been challenged by various formulations of ‘world literature’, while new media and new forms of artistic pr...
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20 of 38 episodes“Forgotten Europe”: Translating Marginalised Languages
Looking specifically at Modern Greek, Polish, Dutch, and Swedish, this event interrogates what it means to translate and publish marginalise...
Between Languages: Working in and out on Translation
With Adriana X. Jacobs (Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature), Kasia Szymanska (Junior Research Fellow in Slavonic Studies, University Coll...
Literature Beyond Literary Studies: Intermediality and Interdisciplinarity
With Professor Ben Morgan (Professor of German) and Peter Hill (Junior Research Fellow in Arabic Literature, Christ Church College), chaired...
Comparative Criticism: What Is It and Why Do We Do It?
Matthew Reynolds and Mohamed-Salah Omri discuss comparative literary criticism. Chaired by Valeria Taddei. Matthew Reynolds, Professor of En...
Intercultural Literary Practices
Laura Lonsdale (Queen's College, Oxford): 'Barbarisms: Multilingualism and Modernity in Narratives of the Spanish- speaking World’. Responde...
Fiction and Other Minds
Peter Garratt (Durham): ‘Mind Bloat and The Lifted Veil’ Helen Small (English/Oxford): 'On the Verification of Mental Experience'. Chaired b...
Extremist Translation and the Deformation Zone
Joyelle McSweeney (University of Notre Dame), Johannes Göransson (University of Notre Dame), Dr Adriana X. Jacobs (Oriental Institute), give...
Lunchtime talk with Italian journalist Antonio Armano
Cultural journalist and a writer.Antonio Armano in conversation with Valentina Gosetti. Conversation with Antonio Armano, a cultural journal...
Translation and Ekphrasis: Dante and the visual arts
Ekphrasis finds words for paintings and other visual phenomena; translation finds words for other words. But how secure in this distinction,...
Intercultural Tales
Hanan al-Shaykh gives a talk on 'Intercultural Literary Practices', with responses by Professor Marina Warner and Claire Gallien, chaired by...
To the Lighthouse
Laura Salisbury, Sowon Park (English), give a talk about Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. The chair is Ben Morgan (MML). Part of the Fict...
OCCT event - The Creativity of Criticism part four
Short presentation by Dr Martyn Harry (Music) followed by discussion. This seminar launched the Languages of Criticism project which brings...
OCCT event - The Creativity of Criticism part three
Short presentation by Dr Jason Gaiger (Ruskin School) followed by discussion. This seminar launched the Languages of Criticism project which...
OCCT event - The Creativity of Criticism part two
Short presentation by Dr Matthew Reynolds (English) followed by discussion.
Languages of Criticism - Translation and Comparison part two
Translation and Comparison. Convener: Dr. Xiaofan Amy Li
Unbuttoning Catullus
A discussion with Dr Gail Trimble, Prof. Nicola Gardini, Josephine Balmer for the OCCT Translation and Criticism strand. Chaired by Professo...
Other Worlding
A talk given by Peter Hitchcock from the OCCT strand "Intercultural Literary Practises."
Kirmen Uribe - Reading and in discussion with Daniela Omlor and Xon de Ros
A reading and discussion from the Translation and Criticism strand, Cultures of Mind-Reading: The Novel and Other Minds Intercultural Litera...
Cultures of Mind-Reading: The Novel and Other Minds - ‘Narrative and/as Heterophenomenology: Modelling Nonhuman Experiences in Storyworlds’
Prof David Herman (Durham) on ‘Narrative and/as Heterophenomenology: Modelling Nonhuman Experiences in Storyworlds’ with responses from Dr E...