Monday 30 January
14:15 | THE EARLIEST EXAMPLES OF MUSICAL NOTATION AND LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BODLEIAN
Part of the Palaeography and Manuscript Studies seminar series
17:00 | FREE SPEECH RIGHTS ARE WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Free Speech Debate Panel Discussion
17:00 | AGRICULTURAL ENLIGHTENMENT: THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH TO GROWTH IN THE RURAL ECONOMY, C. 1750-1840
Part of the Besterman Enlightenment workshop series
17:15 – 19:15 | REFLECTIONS ON TRANSLATING POETRY
Part of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Programme
Tuesday 31 January
13:00 – 14:00 | COSMOPOLITES OR NATIONALISTS?
Mme de Stael, Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar, Frederick II, Rahel Varnhagen and Caroline de la Motte-Fouque in Dialogue
15:30 – 17:30 | EAST ASIAN WORKING GROUP
Group is dedicated to the examination of the untranslated, underexplored theories of East Asian criticism
17:00 | TRANSLATING HINDUSTAN: CHALLENGES AND EXPLORATIONS OF TRANSLATING EARLY MODERN HINDI TEXTS INTO CHINESE
Approaches to Translation Seminar
17:00 | THE LAWYERS DENIED: HOW BLACK LAWYERS OF THE LATE C19TH AND EARLY C20TH LAID THE FOUNDATIONS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS LAW IN SOUTH AFRICA
Speaker: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi (Legal Resources Centre and Johannesburg Bar)
17:30 – 19:00 | NELSON MANDELA: A WORLD LIFE
Speaker: Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature, University of Oxford)
Wednesday 1 February
10:00 – 12:00 | RADIO PITCHING: TURNING YOUR RESEARCH INTO A PROGRAMME
For senior and mid-career researchers
13:00 – 14:00 | AFRICAN MIGRATION TO AND FROM EUROPE: RETHINKING CIRCULAR MIGRATION
Part of the International Migration Institute Seminar Series
14:00 – 16:30 | WOMEN IN HUMANITIES FEMINIST PEDAGOGY WORKSHOP
Led by Hannah Kinney and Julia Hamilton
17:00 | "A FAITHFUL ECHO OF MEDIEVAL SPAIN"
Speaker: Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard (University of Oxford)
17:00 | THE MATERIAL PRESENCE OF ABSENT ANTIQUITIES
With Caroline van Eck (Cambridge University)
17:15 – 19:15 | FICTION AND OTHER MINDS
Seminar exploring the theme of ‘Modalities of Reading’
17:30 – 19:00 | ANCIENT MEDICINE SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Markham J. Geller (Free University of Berlin)
17:30 – 19:00 | PATHOLOGIES OF SOLITUDE
Speaker: Professor Barbara Taylor (Queen Mary University of London)
17:30 – 19:00 | SECULARITY VS. RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT WITHIN ANCIENT BABYLONIAN MEDICINE
Part of the Ancient Medicine Seminar series
Thursday 2 February
14:00 – 15:30 | CREATING A SAFE SPACE: REVOLUTIONARY IMAGINATIONS IN A FEMINIST BOOKSHOP
Part of the Feminist Mappin in a Volatile World: Spaces of Creativity and Survival series
14:15 | TRADITIONS IN MOTION: THE CIRCULATION OF TEXTS, 1100-1900
Trans-cultural Sectarians: The Messianic Cult of Jacob Frank and his Daughter in Eighteenth-Century Poland
16:00 – 17:30 | THE FORTRESS: A CASE STUDY OF TOTAL WAR IN THE EAST, 1914-15
Speaker: Professor Alexander Watson (Goldsmith’s University)
17:00 | WRITING A NEW HISTORY FOR SOUTH SUDAN: WHOSE HISTORY AND FOR WHOM?
Book launch organised by the African Studies Centre
17:15 | TRUMP IN THE AGE OF CAPTAIN AMERICA/CAPTAIN AMERICA IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
With Jason Dittmer (University College London)
17:30 – 19:00 | WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CLAIM OF JUSTICE AND ANY OTHER KIND OF MORAL CLAIM?
Speaker: Samuel Bruce (University of Oxford)
Friday 3 February
9:30 – 11:00 | HEIDEGGER READING GROUP
Graduate led reading group
12:30 – 13:45 | MAINSTREAMING BLACK POWER
Speaker: Tom Davies (University of Sussex)
17:00 | LANGUAGE, CRISIS AND AFFECT: MUTED EMOTIONS IN HEINRICH VON KLEIST’S MICHAEL KOHLHAAS
Speaker: Dr Tobias Heinrich (University of Oxford)
17:00 – 19:00 | THE CULT OF SAINTS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CONSTANTINIAN BASILICA
Part of the Cult of Saints in the First Millennium project
Monday 6 February
12:45 – 14:00 | OCCT DISCUSSION GROUP: WHAT IS GOOD LITERATURE?
An Experiment in Aesthetic Judgement & Implicit Comparison
14:00 – 15:30 | THE RELATION OF LITERATURE AND LEARNING TO SOCIAL HIERARCHY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
With papers by Richard McCabe and Emma Claussen
14:15 | THE OTHER MUSE: LATIN AND ENGLISH POETRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Speaker: Victoria Moul (Kings College London)
17:00 | VOLTAIRE AND THE JACOBITES, 1722-1733
Part of the Besterman Enlightenment workshop series
Tuesday 7 February
17:00 | THE FIRES BENEATH: THE LIFE OF MONICA WILSON, SOUTH AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
Book launch hosted by the African Studies Centre
17:30 – 19:00 | 'DOORS INTO THE DARK': SEAMUS HEANEY AND HIS WORLDS
Speaker: Roy Foster
18:15 | THE JERUSALEM TEMPLE SONG IN THE CANTILLATION OF PSALMS 136 AND 137
Speaker: David Mitchell (Pro-Cathedral, Brussels)
Wednesday 8 February
12:15 – 13:15 | IN SYNC
Event organised by Said Business School
12:30 -14:00 | THE SPIRITS OF CROSSBONES GRAVEYARD
Book at Lunchtime session
13:00 – 14:00 | THE POLITICS OF CONGOLESE COMBATTANTS’ VIOLENT TRANSNATIONAL MOBILISATION
Part of the International Migration Institute Seminar Series
13:00 | LAW AND AESTHETICS IN IAN MCEWAN'S THE CHILDREN ACT
Speakers: Lucinda Ferguson (Facult of Law) and Tessa Roynon (Faculty of English)
17:00 | THE MATERIAL PRESENCE OF ABSENT ANTIQUITIES
With Caroline van Eck (Cambridge University)
Thursday 9 February
14:00 – 15:30 | MUSIC FOR THE AMAY GYAN NAT (SPIRIT): SONG, DANCE, AND GENDER IN BURMESE NAT PWE CEREMONIES
Part of the Feminist Mappin in a Volatile World: Spaces of Creativity and Survival series
14:15 | TRADITIONS IN MOTION: THE CIRCULATION OF TEXTS, 1100-1900
The First Arabic Translations of Enlightenment Literature: Syrians, Greeks and Franks in Damietta, 1808-1818
17:00 | NARRATING HISTORY THROUGH COMICS: AIVALI
With Soloup (comics artist)
17:00 | YOUTH WAITHOOD, FORCED MIGRATION, AND THE TRANSNATIONAL NEGOTIATION OF "FORTRESS" EUROPE: CASE STUDIES OF CONGOLESE MIGRANTS
Speaker: Peter Kankonde (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and University of Notre Dame, USA)
17:15 – 19:15 | “FORGOTTEN EUROPE”: TRANSLATING MARGINALISED LANGUAGES
Seminar which interrogates what it means to translate and publish marginalised and minor European languages into English
17:30 | HISTORY, VISION, AMBITION
Part of the 'MOVING, TEACHING, INSPIRING: The National Trust & University of Oxford in the 21st Century' lecture series.
18:00 – 19:30 | UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LGBT HISTORY MONTH LECTURE 2017
Lecture with CN Lester
Friday 10 February
9:30 – 11:00 | HEIDEGGER READING GROUP
Graduate led reading group
12:30 – 13:45 | POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
Hosted by TORCH Race and Resistance programme
Saturday 11 February
19:00 – 22:00 | OUT IN OXFORD: PARTY AT THE PITT
AfterHours event
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