OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Hector Abad Faciolince is a Colombian writer, translator, and journalist. He has been a visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and the University of Iowa in the United States. Among his most widely read books, translated into English, are Oblivion. A Memoir; Recipes for Sad Women; and The Farm. His two most recent books are a chronicle of a trip to Ukraine that ended in tragedy, Ahora y en la hora, which narrates the last days of the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amélina, and a short novel in which an elderly retired philosophy professor, outraged by the famine in Palestine, tries to smuggle food into Gaza: Con tres dedos se escribe. Abad Faciolince, born in Medellín in 1958, began various careers in his country (Philosophy, Medicine, Journalism), but finally graduated in Modern Languages and Literature from the University of Turin, Italy.
