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Professor of Poetry

The Art of Erosion

Inaugural Lecture of Alice Oswald, Professor of Poetry, held at the University of Oxford Exam Schools.
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Book at Lunchtime: India, Empire and First World War Culture

TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on India, Empire and First World War Culture by Professor Santanu Das. Held on 20th November 2019.
Literatures of Multilingual Europe

Introduction to Modern Greek Literature

Professor Peter Mackridge takes his audience on a whistle-stop tour of the major landmarks of Modern Greek Literature.
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Supriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia

Chaired by Elleke Boehmer.
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How to write a southern life: Ethics and writing practices

Eduardo Lalo, Elleke Boehmer, Jonny Steinberg and Premilla Nadasen give a talk for the Southern Biographies event. Chaired by, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach.
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Southern Biographies: epistemologies, methodologies, theoretical perspectives

Joy Owen, Marcio Goldman, Ramon Sarro and Santanu Das give talks as part of the Southern Biographies event. Chaired, Thomas Cousins.
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Book at Lunchtime: Chaucer: A European Life

TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Chaucer: A European Life by Professor Marion Turner. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held fortnightly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines.
Modern Languages Inaugural lectures

‘Arriving before us’: seeing, ingenuity and imagination in Dante: Simon Gilson's Inaugural lecture

During his inaugural lecture, Professor Gilson will show how ideas about vision and cognate faculties such as the wits and the imagination are central to Dante’s masterpiece, the Commedia.
The Zaharoff Lecture

Zaharoff Lecture 2018: Je n'ai pas la tentation du silence

Pierre Michon, writer, gives the 2018 Zaharoff lecture. Introduced by Catriona Seth.
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Literary Allusion in Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling’s imagination is fired by the past. How do historical objects illuminate the real-world sources of her ideas?
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Storming Utopia

This event is an Oxford Public Engagement with Research and part of a Knowledge Exchange project. Organised by Professor Wes Williams (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages) and Richard Scholar (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages).
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Delius and the Sound of Place

Book at Lunchtime: Delius and the Sound of Place
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Compassion's Edge

Book at Lunchtime: Compassion's Edge, Winner of the 2018 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize.
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Veteran Poetics

Book at Lunchtime: Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015
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Writing an Activist Life

A panel discussion with Karin Amatmoekrim, Margaretta Jolly, and JC Niala, exploring the politics and poetics of writing an activist life.
Poetry with Simon Armitage

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

Simon Armitage delivers his final lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry, reflecting on his own influences as a poet.
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The Social Life of Modernism: Conversation, Literary Community, and Espionage in 1930s Calcutta

This talk from TORCH Global South Visiting Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will be illustrated with images from the Parichay archives and related documents and correspondence.
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What is the Modern? Temporality, Aesthetics, and Global Melancholy

This talk from TORCH Global South Visiting Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will interrogate the temporality of the modern, the aesthetics of the modern, and as a somewhat cryptic afterthought, the mood of the modern, here categorized as melancholy.
History of the Book 2017-2019

15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database

Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019.
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Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation

The themes raised by Matthew Reynolds' Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation will be discussed by Dr Jason Gaiger (Ruskin School), Dr Adriana Jacobs (Oriental Studies) and Dr Nick Halmi (English).

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