• Type: Seminar Series
• Web Address: http://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/

Wednesday 16 October 2019

• 17:15 - OCCT Welcome Drinks
  Organising Committee

Monday 21 October 2019

• 12:45 - Discussion Group
  OCCT

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 17:30 - Slovenian novelists Dušan Šarotar and Dino Bauk - in conversation with Patrick McGuiness
  Please note room change to Seminar Room 11
  Patrick McGuiness

Monday 4 November 2019

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Erin Mouré Discusses an Extract from Her Latest Translation
  Erin Moure, has a life-threatening peanut allergy and anyone who wishes to attend the session must not eat or bring anything with peanuts on the day. Lunch will be cancelled as a precautionary measure.
  Erin Mouré

Wednesday 13 November 2019

• 15:00 - Translation Workshop
  Peter Cole

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 17:15 - Hearing the Drawing: Ekphrastic Poetry and Translation, A Reading and Conversation
  Peter Cole

Monday 18 November 2019

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Kyoko Yoshida Discusses the Translation and Re-translation of Yoshimasu Gozo’s Alice Iris Red Horse
  Dr Kyoko Yoshida

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 18:00 - Fiction and Other Minds: “Operationalising the interactive turn of Social Neuroscience through Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction paradigms”.
  Guillame Dumas (Institut Pasteur)

Monday 2 December 2019

• 12:45 - CANCELLED - Special Session of the Discussion Group: Conversation on the two Transcript Monographs
  EVENT CANCELLED
  Julia Caterina Hartley (Warwick University), Amy Xiaofan Amy Lin (UCL)

Monday 27 January 2020

• 12:45 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Yeogeun Kim

Monday 10 February 2020

• 12:45 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Julia Caterina Hartley (Warwick University), Xiaofan Amy Li (UCL)

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 17:15 - Fiction and Other Minds
  Professor Dan Zahavi (St Hilda's College), Naomi Rokotnitz (Worcester College)

Thursday 20 February 2020

• 12:45 - Jennifer Croft discusses and reads from Homesick and her translations
  Jennifer Croft

Saturday 22 February 2020

• 10:00 - Translational Spaces: Language, Literatures, Disciplines Conference
  Various Speakers

Monday 24 February 2020

• 12:45 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Discussion group

Friday 28 February 2020

• 17:30 - African Classics: Translating texts, translated contexts
  Antjie Krog, Nkosinathi Sithole, Chris Dunton

Friday 6 March 2020

• 17:30 - Book Launch - Prismatic Translation
  Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 March 2020

• 12:45 - CANCELLED - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  This event has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Margherita Laera (University of Kent)

Monday 18 May 2020

• 13:00 - Oxford Translation Day: Parwana Fayyaz on the Poets of Herat
  Parwana Fayyaz (University of Cambrige)

Monday 25 May 2020

• 17:00 - Oxford Translation Day – Ghost Letters: A Poetry Reading with Baba Badji
  Baba Badji

Monday 1 June 2020

• 13:00 - Dramaturgy, Translation, and Reception around/in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
  Estelle Baudou (University of Oxford), Giovanna Di Martin (St Anne's College, Oxford)

Saturday 13 June 2020

• 15:00 - Oxford Translation Day – Sophie Hughes Discusses the Novel Hurricane Season
  Sophie Hughes
• 15:00 - Oxford Translation Day: A.E. Stallings
  A.E Stallings
• 15:00 - Oxford Translation Day: Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Shortlist
  TBA

Monday 15 June 2020

• 13:00 - OCCT Discussion Group: Translation and the Zsolnay Publishing House, 1924-1938
  Tatsiana Haiden (University of Vienna)

Wednesday 30 September 2020

• 12:00 - Shortlisted Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize Translators Reading and Discussing Their Translations
  TBA
• 19:00 - Award of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize
  TBA

Monday 19 October 2020

• 13:00 - Poetry Reading with Jennifer Wong
  Jennifer Wong

Monday 2 November 2020

• 13:00 - OCCT Review on Transdisciplinary Modernism
  Niamh Burns, Rowan Anderson

Monday 16 November 2020

• 13:00 - Transitioning into the vernacular: China and Greece in parallel
  Claudio Russello

Monday 30 November 2020

• 17:00 - What script teaches us about the state of world literary studies
  Dr Sowon S Park (UCSB)

Monday 25 January 2021

• 13:00 - Discussion Group - Translation and Gender
  Eleonora Colli (Oxford)

Monday 8 February 2021

• 13:00 - Discussion Group - Book Launch of Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus
  Daniele Nunziata (Oxford)

Monday 22 February 2021

• 13:00 - Discussion Group – Translating Haruki Murakami
  David Karashima (University of Tokyo)

Monday 8 March 2021

• 13:00 - Discussion Group - Work Practices and the Construction of Truth in the Translation of Marxist Texts
  Christina Delistathi (Westminster)

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 14:30 - Fictions of Retranslations: Retranslating Language and Style in Prose Fiction
  Various Speakers

Monday 3 May 2021

• 13:00 - Translating Walis Nokan: Intertextuality, Hybridity, and Minimalism in Contemporary Flash Fiction from Taiwan
  Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 May 2021

• 13:00 - Book Launch of Speaking Politically: Adorno and Postcolo-nial Fiction
  Eleni Philippou (University of Oxford), Daniele Nunziata (Oxford)

Monday 31 May 2021

• 13:00 - The Curse of Knowledge: The Translator as Perpetual Stu-dent
  Anton Hur (University of Oxford)

Monday 14 June 2021

• 13:00 - ‘Translating’ Mother Courage and Her Children to Africa and the UK
  Oladipo ‘Dipo’ Agboluaje (Goldsmiths), Tiziana Morosetti (Goldsmiths)

Monday 18 October 2021

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group - Modernism in Trieste
  Denis Topalović

Wednesday 27 October 2021

• 17:15 - Book Launch – Stefano Evangelista's Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere
  Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford)

Monday 1 November 2021

• 13:00 - Poetry Reading – Yousif M. Qasmiyeh's Writing The Camp
  Yousif M. Qasmiyeh

Monday 15 November 2021

• 12:45 - Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100-1250 – Ayoush Lazikani
  Ayoush Lazikani

Saturday 20 November 2021

• 14:00 - Queer Poetry Workshop – Stuart Bell and Sophie Seita
  Stuart Bell, Sophie Seita

Wednesday 24 November 2021

• 17:30 - Queer Poetry Reading – Édith Azam, Laura Doyle Péan, Calliope Michail, Lola Olufemi, Azad Ashim Sharma
  Various Speakers

Monday 29 November 2021

• 12:45 - Jamie McKendrick's exhibition 'The Years and After'
  Jamie McKendrick

Monday 24 January 2022

• 12:45 - What is Shona? Investigating a Language
  Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford)

Monday 7 February 2022

• 12:45 - Translating Vladimir Sharov
  Dr Oliver Ready (St Antony's College)

Monday 21 February 2022

• 10:00 - American Literature and Politics of Reception in Iran between Two Revolutions
  Behnam M. Fomeshi

Saturday 26 February 2022

• 09:00 - Metaphors in Translation Conference
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 2 March 2022

• 17:00 - Polish World Literature
  Dr Karolina Watroba, Professor Tamara Trojanowska (Toronto), Dr Stanley Bill (Cambridge), Ola Sidorkiewicz (Oxford)

Monday 7 March 2022

• 12:45 - The Diasporic Canon
  Dr Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 May 2022

• 12:45 - Rewriting the Rules in Translation - Mohini Gupta
  Mohini Gupta

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 17:15 - Fiction and Other Minds Seminar
  Professor Joseph Glicksohn (Bar-Ilan University), Professor Chanita Goodblatt (Ben Gurion University)
• 17:30 - Alibi: Italian Poets in the UK - Marta Arnaldi, Gëzim Hajdari, Luca Paci
  Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford), Peter Hainsworth, Luca Paci, Gëzim Hajdari

Monday 16 May 2022

• 18:00 - Translation in Multilingualism, Multilingualism in Translation: Two Versions of Giannina Braschi's Yo-Yo Boing!
  Ellen Jones

Monday 6 June 2022

• 12:45 - Co-Translating Polish Literature
  Professor Michael Parker (University of Oxford), Aleksandra Parker

Monday 13 June 2022

• 12:45 - After Liberation: Militarised Masculinities and Intergenerational Conflicts in Angolan and Algerian Narratives
  Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 October 2022

• 12:45 - Cultural Translations of the Ten Commandments in Late Ming and Early Qing Jesuit Catechisms
  Dr Giulia Faluto (University of Oxford)

Monday 31 October 2022

• 12:45 - Translation and Mountaineering
  Anna Saroldi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 17:30 - After: Vivek Narayanan in Conversation with Alice Oswald
  Alice Oswald (Professor of Poetry, Oxford), Vivek Narayanan

Monday 14 November 2022

• 12:45 - Space and the Experimental Work of Saihate Tahi
  Sarah Puetzer (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 January 2023

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Translating Vertiginously with Polly Barton, Queen's College Translation Exchange Translator-in-Residence and TORCH HCP Visiting Fellow
  Chair: Polly Barton (Translator-in-Residence)

Monday 6 February 2023

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Translation as a Political Gesture in Ukraine
  TBA

Monday 20 February 2023

• 13:00 - Discussion Group: Jeremy Tiang and Zhang Yueran in conversation about Cocoon
  Jeremy Tiang, Zhang Yueran

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 17:15 - Fiction and Other Minds: Towards a Co-Modelling of Cognition
  Marco Bernini (Associate Professor in Cognitive Literary Studies at Durham University)

Monday 6 March 2023

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Reuben Woolley and Panayiotis Xenophontos in conversation about Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
  Reuben Woolley, Panayiotis Xenophontos

Monday 1 May 2023

• 12:45 - Discussion Group - Modernist Afterlives: Living Forth a Century Later - Dr. Ian Ellison (Kent)
  Dr. Ian Ellison (Kent)

Monday 15 May 2023

• 12:45 - Discussion Group - Self-Translation and Language-Making in Li Kotomi/Li Qinfeng's The Island Where the Spider Lily Blooms - Dr Aoife Cantrill (Manchester)
  Dr Aoife Cantrill (Manchester)

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 17:15 - Translating Under Pressure: A Roundtable Discussion
  Kateryna Dysa, Hanna Komar, Mujib Mehrdad

Monday 29 May 2023

• 12:45 - Discussion Group - Language and Imagery in Contemporary Korean Cinema - Dr Haneul Lee (Oxford)
  Dr Haneul Lee (Oxford)

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 17:15 - Online Launch of Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature: Relational Worlds
  Professor Annmarie Drury (CUNY), Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson (Johns Hopkins), Professor Galin Tihanov (QMUL), Dr Joseph Hankinson (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 October 2023

• 12:45 - OCCT DG Week 2: The Short Story and Strange Tone with Iris Pearson (Oxford)
  Iris Pearson

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 17:15 - Thesis Into Book: Karolina Watroba’s Mann’s Magic Mountain: World Literature and Closer Reading
  Dr Karolina Watroba, Professor Ben Morgan (University of Oxford)

Monday 30 October 2023

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: 'Translating Otherness and the Remaking of Poetic Language in Contemporary Anglophone Chinese Diaspora Poetry'
  Jennifer Wong

Monday 13 November 2023

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: 'Poetry as Choreography: Translating Dance with Susana Thénon and Iris Scaccheri'
  Georgina Fooks

Monday 27 November 2023

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: 'Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France'
  Dr Julia Hartley (University of Glasgow)

Monday 22 January 2024

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Discussion Group: The Saxon ‘Other’ and the Saxon ‘Self’ in the Translation of Genesis B with Elliot Vale
  Elliot Vale

Monday 5 February 2024

• 12:45 - Traversing Cosmovision(s): Notes to an English Rendition of a 16th Century Nahuatl Song of War, ‘Icuic Nezahualpilli’
  Javaria Abbasi (DPhil Candidate, Oxford)

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 17:30 - The Weidenfeld Lectures 2024 — Véronique Tadjo on Freeing the Imagination
  Véronique Tadjo

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 17:30 - The Weidenfeld Lectures 2024 — Véronique Tadjo on Freeing the Imagination
  Véronique Tadjo

Monday 19 February 2024

• 13:00 - (Re)Producing the Concept: On Arabic Critical Theory with Ziad Kiblawi (Oxford)
  Ziad Kiblawi (St Antony’s College)

Monday 26 February 2024

• 12:45 - Special Session of the OCCT Discussion Group: How We Translate Ourselves and Others
  Various Speakers

Monday 4 March 2024

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Translating Turn-of-the-Century Sex Work for the Contemporary Stage
  Minna Jeffery

Monday 29 April 2024

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Helen Mitsios: “Contemporary Greek Fiction in Translation — New Greek Voices: The Best Short Fiction from Greece”
  Helen Mitsios

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:15 - Fiction and Other Minds: Place and Memory: The Aesthetics of Constructing the Past
  Professor John Sutton (University of Stirling)

Monday 13 May 2024

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Dr Panayiotis Xenophontos: “What is this Literature? The Case of ‘Greek’ Writing from Ukraine”
  Dr Panayiotis Xenophontos

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 09:00 - OCCT Literature and Language Difference Conference
  Various Speakers

Monday 27 May 2024

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: William Blythe: “Comparing on the Scaffold — Genetic Insights from Qian Zhongshu’s Notes on Laozi and Hegel during the Cultural Revolution”
  William Blythe

Monday 10 June 2024

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Atharva Argade-Miskin: “Translating the (Un)translatable: The Case of Khadilkar’s Mānāpamān (1911) and Marathi Musical Drama”
  Atharva Argade-Miskin

Saturday 15 June 2024

• 10:00 - Oxford Translation Day 2024
  Various Speakers

Monday 21 October 2024

• 12:45 - The Cosmopolitan Queer: Renée Vivien's Translations as De/Construction
  Rebecca Boyd (University of Oxford)

Monday 4 November 2024

• 12:45 - Thinking Activism and Translation in the Twenty-First Century
  Georgie Fooks, Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 17:30 - Èṣù at the Library: Yorùbá, AI and Mistranslation
  TBA

Monday 18 November 2024

• 12:45 - Dialect in Translation
  Kotryna Garanasvili (University of East Anglia)

Monday 2 December 2024

• 12:45 - Roundtable - Cosmology, Ecology, Memory: New Comparative Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann
  Dr. Conor Brennan, Roberto Interdonato, Hannah Scheithauer

Monday 27 January 2025

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Contested Narratives: Translating La Araucana
  Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 10:30 - AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation: The Second Symposium
  Various Speakers

Friday 7 February 2025

• 13:15 - Theatre and Translation Roundtable
  Minna Jeffery, Stephen Bailey, Tzen Sam

Monday 10 February 2025

• 13:00 - Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons: On the Multiplicity and Innovations of Contemporary Chinese Literature and Subverting Expectations
  Xiao Yue Shan, Zuo Fei

Monday 10 March 2025

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Thinking Translation and Resistance: Making and Refusing Meaning
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:15 - On the Effects of Fiction on Social Cognition. Evidence from Human Experimentation, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence
  TBA