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Fantasy Literature
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Sylvia Townsend Warner

Carolyne Larrington introduces the writing of Sylvia Townsend Warner.
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Ursula K. Le Guin

A brief introduction to the writer Ursula K. Le Guin.
Fantasy Literature
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T. H. White

A brief introduction to the writer T. H. White.
Fantasy Literature
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Diana Wynne Jones

A brief introduction to the writer Diana Wynne Jones.
Fantasy Literature
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Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century

A guest lecture by Dr Maria Cecire (Bard College) discussing children's fantasy literature.
Fantasy Literature
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Interview: Catherine Butler

An Interview with Dr Catherine Butler, author of the book 'Four British Fantasists'.
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Approaching Fantasy Literature

A short introduction to reading and studying fantasy literature.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Translation as Afterlife

In this seminar, Marcela Sulak (Bar Ilan University) and Adriana X. Jacobs (Oriental Studies) will explore the possibility of translation as “afterlife” through a discussion of the Hebrew poets Orit Gidali and Hezy Leskly.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

“Forgotten Europe”: Translating Marginalised Languages

Looking specifically at Modern Greek, Polish, Dutch, and Swedish, this event interrogates what it means to translate and publish marginalised and minor European languages into English.
Oxford Writers' House Talks

Critical Writing

Dr Eleni Philippou, Leah Broad, Theophilus Kwek and James Watt in conversation.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Comparative Criticism: What Is It and Why Do We Do It?

Matthew Reynolds and Mohamed-Salah Omri discuss comparative literary criticism. Chaired by Valeria Taddei.
Political Demonology: The Logic of Evil in Contemporary Literature and Theology

‘“Political Theology” or “Occasional Decisionism”? On the Formal Character of Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology’

Bruno Godefroy (Universities of Erlangen and Lyon) gives a talk in Session 2: Political (Dis-) Orders, part of the Political Demonologies conference held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.
In Our Spare Times

The life of Oscar Wilde

Oxford students discuss the life of Oscar Wilde.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Thinking with Literature

A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Terence Cave about literature's links to cognitive science.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Conference Introduction

Stefano Evangelista introduces the Cosmopolis & Beyond conference.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

“Guide to a Disturbed Planet”: Modernist travel and the Cosmopolitics of Hospitality in Rebecca West

Annabel Williams explores the notion of hospitality in British modernist travel literature through the work of Rebecca West.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Cosmopolitan Bodies and choral Anxieties in early twentieth-century Performances of Greek Drama

Fiona Macintosh examines the anxieties in pre-WW1 Britain surrounding social and theatrical, and especially Greek-inspired, dance, which becomes increasingly associated with moral decadence and dangerous 'cosmopolitanism'.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Queer Cosmopolitanism in the Expatriate Literature of Berlin

Ben Robbins considers queer cosmopolitanism in the work of Anglophone writers who lived in Berlin during the era of the Weimar Republic.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

21st-Century Literary Cosmopolitanism: Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Global Village

Arcana Albright examines the cosmopolitan dimension of contemporary Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s oeuvre, in particular his literary website.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

The location of world literature: spaces of self-reflection

Galin Tihanov seeks to locate the Anglo-Saxon discourse of ‘world literature’ vis-à-vis three major reference points: time, space, and language, and to examine the potential of literature to construct its own images of 'world literature'.

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