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
Programme
09:00-09:30 Registration and welcome by organisers Juliet Simpson and David Hopkin
09:30-11:00 1st morning panel, ‘Uncanny Observers’:
Vesna Elez, Who is the Old Man in Baudelaire’s “Les Sept Vieillards”?
Raphaella Serfaty, The Construction of Illegible Urban Space in Honoré Daumier’s Caricatures
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 2nd morning panel, ‘Haunted Cities, Urban Ecstasies’:
Karl Bell, In Search of Urban Ecstasies: Mystical Desire in Arthur Machen’s London
Elizabeth Benjamin, The Frosted Veil: Shifting Identities in the Haunted City of Nancy
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:30 1st afternoon panel, ‘Glimpsed Cities in Parables and Poets’:
Elisabeth Rodini, Through Giggi’s Front Door: Searching for Rome in Parables and Poetry
Dagmar Thielen, “Mon Coeur pleure d’autrefois…”: Bruges as a Centre for Cultural Memory and Identity in the Work of Fernand Khnopff and Grégoire Le Roy
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:30 2nd afternoon panel, ‘Colonial Spirits, Entangled Sites’:
Nuno Grancho, Diu Must Pray. Public and Private Rituals, Performance and Display
Kavita Peterson, Filling in the Blanks: Excavating Colonial Berlin
17:30 onwards, wine reception at the Maison Française d’Oxford
19:15 Speakers’ dinner at Hertford College (Catte Street, Oxford OX1 3BW)
