Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)

The broad aim of the Janus Project is to facilitate scholarly conversation and collaboration on Classics between East Asia and ancient Greece and Rome. The project is supported by the John Fell OUP Research Fund.

Reading Group on Angelo Zottoli’s five-volume Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae meets weekly during Hilary Term and Trinity Term 2024. In Hilary Term (Weeks 1-8) the Reading Group will meet on Fridays at 14:00-15:30 (GMT) in the Owen Walker Room at Oriel College.

For hybrid attendance, and copies of the text, please email mailto:admin@janus-project.org

The theme for Trinity Term 2024 seminars is: Greco-Roman and Classical Chinese Translation: Theory and Practice
This seminar series is intended to look more broadly at Latin translations of Chinese texts, Chinese translations of Greco-Roman texts, and translation as theory and practice within and between both traditions.

If you are interested in coming to our events and joining this network please contact: mailto:admin@janus-project.org
Type: None
Series organisers: Cynthia Liu (Jesus College, Oxford), Charis Jo (Oriel College, Oxford)
Web Address: https://janus-project.org/about/

Talks:

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

The Latin Confucius. The Translation techniques of the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)
Date: 24 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Simone Mollea (Università di Torino), Elisa della Calce (Università di Torino)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Daring translation and mistranslation: Stephen Weston and the Qianlong emperor’s poetry on chicken cups (with a note on Keats’s reception of Eastern and Western Classics)
Date: 31 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Justine Potts (Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Latinizing Chinese and Sinicizing Latin: a joint examination of Angelo Zottoli’s translations of Tang poetry
Date: 7 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Cynthia Liu (Oxford), Xiaojing Miao (Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark