In this seminar, Marcela Sulak (Bar Ilan University) and Adriana X. Jacobs (Oriental Studies) will explore the possibility of translation as “afterlife” through a discussion of the Hebrew poets Orit Gidali and Hezy Leskly. Marcela Sulak’s tal

“Forgotten Europe”: Translating Marginalised Languages

Feb 10th, 2017 1h 16m

Looking specifically at Modern Greek, Polish, Dutch, and Swedish, this event interrogates what it means to translate and publish marginalised and minor European languages into English. Translations from French, German and Spanish (and more rec

Between Languages: Working in and out on Translation

Nov 30th, 2016 23m 29s

With Adriana X. Jacobs (Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature), Kasia Szymanska (Junior Research Fellow in Slavonic Studies, University College), chaired by Kate Costello (DPhil candidate in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature). In Michaelmas

Literature Beyond Literary Studies: Intermediality and Interdisciplinarity

Nov 1st, 2016 17m 59s

With Professor Ben Morgan (Professor of German) and Peter Hill (Junior Research Fellow in Arabic Literature, Christ Church College), chaired by Karoline Watroba (DPhil candidate in German and Comparative Criticism).

Comparative Criticism: What Is It and Why Do We Do It?

Oct 19th, 2016 22m 44s

Matthew Reynolds and Mohamed-Salah Omri discuss comparative literary criticism. Chaired by Valeria Taddei. Matthew Reynolds, Professor of English and Comparative Criticism, Mohamed-Salah Omri, Professor of Modern Arabic Language and Literature

Intercultural Literary Practices

Nov 9th, 2015 56m 44s

Laura Lonsdale (Queen's College, Oxford): 'Barbarisms: Multilingualism and Modernity in Narratives of the Spanish- speaking World’. Respondent: Jane Hiddleston (French/Oxford)

Fiction and Other Minds

Nov 9th, 2015 47m 33s

Peter Garratt (Durham): ‘Mind Bloat and The Lifted Veil’ Helen Small (English/Oxford): 'On the Verification of Mental Experience'. Chaired by Ben Morgan.

Extremist Translation and the Deformation Zone

Jul 24th, 2015 57m 44s

Joyelle McSweeney (University of Notre Dame), Johannes Göransson (University of Notre Dame), Dr Adriana X. Jacobs (Oriental Institute), give a talk for the OCCT Translation and Criticism strand.

Lunchtime talk with Italian journalist Antonio Armano

Jun 23rd, 2015 1h

Cultural journalist and a writer.Antonio Armano in conversation with Valentina Gosetti. Conversation with Antonio Armano, a cultural journalist and a writer. He was the editor of Saturno, and he regularly contributes to Italian national newspap

Translation and Ekphrasis: Dante and the visual arts

Feb 24th, 2015 1h 53m

Ekphrasis finds words for paintings and other visual phenomena; translation finds words for other words. But how secure in this distinction, given that language has visual form, and that the visual arts can employ language-like elements? This

Intercultural Tales

Feb 17th, 2015 1h 17m

Hanan al-Shaykh gives a talk on 'Intercultural Literary Practices', with responses by Professor Marina Warner and Claire Gallien, chaired by Prof. Mohamed-Salah Omri (Oriental Studies). Part of the Intercultural Literary Practices OCCT Strand.

To the Lighthouse

Feb 9th, 2015 1h 17m

Laura Salisbury, Sowon Park (English), give a talk about Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. The chair is Ben Morgan (MML). Part of the Fiction and Other Minds OCCT Strand.

OCCT event - The Creativity of Criticism part four

Dec 19th, 2014 10m 31s

Short presentation by Dr Martyn Harry (Music) followed by discussion. This seminar launched the Languages of Criticism project which brings together experts in literature, film, visual art and music to pursue a comparative investigation of crit

OCCT event - The Creativity of Criticism part three

Dec 19th, 2014 11m 49s

Short presentation by Dr Jason Gaiger (Ruskin School) followed by discussion. This seminar launched the Languages of Criticism project which brings together experts in literature, film, visual art and music to pursue a comparative investigation

OCCT event - The Creativity of Criticism part two

Dec 19th, 2014 23m 48s

Short presentation by Dr Matthew Reynolds (English) followed by discussion.

Languages of Criticism - Translation and Comparison part two

Dec 17th, 2014 31m 54s

Translation and Comparison. Convener: Dr. Xiaofan Amy Li

Unbuttoning Catullus

Dec 1st, 2014 1h 18m

A discussion with Dr Gail Trimble, Prof. Nicola Gardini, Josephine Balmer for the OCCT Translation and Criticism strand. Chaired by Professor Matthew Reynolds

Other Worlding

Nov 14th, 2014 1h

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

Nov 14th, 2014 1h 14m

A reading and discussion from the Translation and Criticism strand, Cultures of Mind-Reading: The Novel and Other Minds Intercultural Literary Practices.

Cultures of Mind-Reading: The Novel and Other Minds - ‘Narrative and/as Heterophenomenology: Modelling Nonhuman Experiences in Storyworlds’

Sep 20th, 2014 1h 2m

Prof David Herman (Durham) on ‘Narrative and/as Heterophenomenology: Modelling Nonhuman Experiences in Storyworlds’ with responses from Dr Emily Troscianko (MML) and Dr James Carney (Social and Evolutionary Science Research Group) followed by r

Cultures of Mind-Reading: The Novel and Other Minds - “Tell Me Who I Am”

Sep 20th, 2014 1h 26m

Dr. Marco Bernini (Durham): ‘Parallel Convergence: Cognitive Science Facing Beckett’s “The Unnamable”’, and Dr. Simon Kemp (Oxford): ‘Tell Me Who I Am’: Beckett’s “The Unnamable”. Wednesday 21 May, 3-5.30pm, Seminar Room, Radcliffe HumanitiesD

OCCT event - The Point of Comparison

Sep 20th, 2014 11m 16s

The Point of Comparison

Languages of Criticism - Translation and Comparison part one

Sep 20th, 2014 14m 52s

Translation and Comparison. Convener: Dr. Xiaofan Amy Li

Languages of Criticism - The Practice of Commentary

Sep 20th, 2014 1h 34m

Dr Robert Chard (Oriental Studies) on Commentary and the Confucian Ritual Canon, and Prof Stephen Harrison (Classics) on Commentary and Reception in Classics. Robert Chard and Stephen Harrison on the Practice of CommentaryTuesday 11th March,

Languages of Criticism - Creatively Critical

Sep 20th, 2014 2h 21m

Dr Clare Connors (UEA) and Prof Wen-Chin Ouyang (SOAS) will explore the place of creativity in recent Western and classical Arabic literary criticism. Respondent: Dr Helen Slaney.