Friday 13 June 2025

• 17:00 - Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
  Eliot Vale (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Saturday 14 June 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Translation Day 2025
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 09:30 - Creative Workshop: Manifestos for Activism in Translation
  Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 09:30 - "The One Who Has Arrived Late": Bengali Translation Workshop
  Utsa Bose (History, Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 11:00 - Translating Multilingual Literature: Workshop with Dr Sheela Mahadevan
  Dr Sheela Mahadevan (University of Liverpool)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 12:30 - Starting Out in Translation Studies: Early Career Reflections
  Minna Jeffery, Aoife Cantrill, Dr Georgia Nasseh (University of Cambridge), Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - Between Tongues: Poetry and Self-Translation in Celtic Languages
  Menna Elfyn, Petra Joana Poncarova, Mererid Puw Davies
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 15:30 - In Conversation: Polly Barton and Monica Cure
  Polly Barton, Monica Cure
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:45 - “This is Why”: Translators on Translating, Editors on Editing
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 18:30 - Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Short List Readings and Prize-Giving
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 16 June 2025

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Matilda Houston-Brown, Akrivi Ventouras, Clémence Smith
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 12:00 - , “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
  Julian Murphet
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 12:30 - POSTPONED: Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
  Please note that this talk has been postponed and will now take place next year
  Daniel Hartley (Durham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 20 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?
  Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University)
  Tolkien seminars