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Rilke: Centenary Readings
To mark the centenary of Rilke’s death there will be a series of Oxford Centenary Readings held in the Queen’s College in HT 2025. These will be informal papers with plenty of discussion, about one poem or a handful of poems, that offer close readings and new insights. Papers will be in English and English translations will be provided for all poems and quotations (except for the session in week 4 with the visiting poets) making these sessions accessible to anyone with an interest in this remarkable poet and poetry in general.
Type: Seminar Series
Talks:
Wednesday 21 January 2025
Traversing genre boundaries – Rilke’s poetic testament of 30th October 1925
Date: 21 January 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Professor Katrin Kohl (University of Oxford)
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: The Queen’s College, Lecture Room B, Back Quod
Organisers:
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Wednesday 28 January 2025
Found in Translation – Valéry’s “Palme”, Rilke’s translation, and James Merrill’s puzzle.
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Robert Vilain
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: The Queen’s College, Lecture Room B, Back Quod
Organisers:
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Wednesday 4 February 2025
‘“Kindheitstage, noch unaufgeklärt”: Two Visions of Childhood’ (‘Kindheit’, Das Buch der Bilder I.i; ‘Kindheit’, Neue Gedichte)
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Syamala Roberts
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: The Queen’s College, Lecture Room B, Back Quod
Organisers:
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Wednesday 11 February 2025
Jan Wagner and Norbert Hummelt will introduce Tanzt die Orange! 100 Antworten auf Rilke (Hanser 2025).
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Jan Wagner,
Norbert Hummelt
Organisers:
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Hosts:
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Wednesday 18 February 2025
‘Rilke’s Petromodernism: Oil and its Absence in the Sonnets to Orpheus’ (Sonette an Orpheus, II. X).
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Frey Kalus
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: The Queen’s College, Lecture Room B, Back Quod
Organisers:
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Wednesday 25 February 2025
Vergers: Rilke's French Orchard
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Stephen Romer
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: The Queen’s College, Lecture Room B, Back Quod
Organisers:
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Hosts:
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Wednesday 4 March 2025
‘Vollmacht’
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Charlie Louth
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: The Queen’s College, Lecture Room B, Back Quod
Organisers:
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Hosts:
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Wednesday 11 March 2025
'Animate Imaginations in Rilke’s Neue Gedichte’ (‘Die Gazelle’, ‘Das Einhorn’, ‘Schwarze Katze’, ‘Der Schwan’)
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: The Queen’s College, Lecture Room B, Back Quod
Organisers:
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Hosts:
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Editor:
Katy Terry
