Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT)
by Oxford University
The discipline of Comparative Literature is changing. Its Eurocentric heritage has been challenged by various formulations of ‘world literature’, while new media and new forms of artistic production are bringing urgency to comparative thinking across literature, film, the visual arts and music. The resulting questions of method are both intellectually compelling and central to the future of the humanities. To confront them, our research programme brings together experts from the disciplines of English, Medieval and Modern Languages, Oriental Studies, and Classics, and draws in collaborators from Music, Visual Art, Film, Philosophy and History.
Episodes
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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. Marcela Sulak’s talk is entitled “Translating Ghosts and Unborn Souls…
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“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. Translations from French, German and Spanish (and more recently, non-European giants such as Arabic and Chinese)...
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Between Languages: Working in and out on Translation
With Adriana X. Jacobs (Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature), Kasia Szymanska (Junior Research Fellow in Slavonic Studies, University College), chaired by Kate Costello (DPhil candidate in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature). In Michaelmas 2016 the OCCT Discussion Group will follow a new...
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Literature Beyond Literary Studies: Intermediality and Interdisciplinarity
With Professor Ben Morgan (Professor of German) and Peter Hill (Junior Research Fellow in Arabic Literature, Christ Church College), chaired by Karoline Watroba (DPhil candidate in German and Comparative Criticism).
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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. Matthew Reynolds, Professor of English and Comparative Criticism, Mohamed-Salah Omri, Professor of Modern Arabic Language and Literature and Valeria Taddei, DPhil candidate in Italian and...
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Intercultural Literary Practices
Laura Lonsdale (Queen's College, Oxford): 'Barbarisms: Multilingualism and Modernity in Narratives of the Spanish- speaking World’. Respondent: Jane Hiddleston (French/Oxford)
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Fiction and Other Minds
Peter Garratt (Durham): ‘Mind Bloat and The Lifted Veil’ Helen Small (English/Oxford): 'On the Verification of Mental Experience'. Chaired by Ben Morgan.
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Extremist Translation and the Deformation Zone
Joyelle McSweeney (University of Notre Dame), Johannes Göransson (University of Notre Dame), Dr Adriana X. Jacobs (Oriental Institute), give a talk for the OCCT Translation and Criticism strand.
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Lunchtime talk with Italian journalist Antonio Armano
Cultural journalist and a writer.Antonio Armano in conversation with Valentina Gosetti. Conversation with Antonio Armano, a cultural journalist and a writer. He was the editor of Saturno, and he regularly contributes to Italian national newspapers and magazines, including Il Fatto Quotidiano, and...
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Translation and Ekphrasis: Dante and the visual arts
Ekphrasis finds words for paintings and other visual phenomena; translation finds words for other words. But how secure in this distinction, given that language has visual form, and that the visual arts can employ language-like elements? This seminar explores the interplay between translation and...
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Intercultural Tales
Hanan al-Shaykh gives a talk on 'Intercultural Literary Practices', with responses by Professor Marina Warner and Claire Gallien, chaired by Prof. Mohamed-Salah Omri (Oriental Studies). Part of the Intercultural Literary Practices OCCT Strand.
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To the Lighthouse
Laura Salisbury, Sowon Park (English), give a talk about Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. The chair is Ben Morgan (MML). Part of the Fiction and Other Minds OCCT Strand.
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OCCT event - The Creativity of Criticism part four
Short presentation by Dr Martyn Harry (Music) followed by discussion. This seminar launched the Languages of Criticism project which brings together experts in literature, film, visual art and music to pursue a comparative investigation of criticism’s practices, their intellectual basis, and the...
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OCCT event - The Creativity of Criticism part three
Short presentation by Dr Jason Gaiger (Ruskin School) followed by discussion. This seminar launched the Languages of Criticism project which brings together experts in literature, film, visual art and music to pursue a comparative investigation of criticism’s practices, their intellectual basis,...
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OCCT event - The Creativity of Criticism part two
Short presentation by Dr Matthew Reynolds (English) followed by discussion.
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Languages of Criticism - Translation and Comparison part two
Translation and Comparison. Convener: Dr. Xiaofan Amy Li
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Unbuttoning Catullus
A discussion with Dr Gail Trimble, Prof. Nicola Gardini, Josephine Balmer for the OCCT Translation and Criticism strand. Chaired by Professor Matthew Reynolds
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Other Worlding
A talk given by Peter Hitchcock from the OCCT strand "Intercultural Literary Practises."
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Kirmen Uribe - Reading and in discussion with Daniela Omlor and Xon de Ros
A reading and discussion from the Translation and Criticism strand, Cultures of Mind-Reading: The Novel and Other Minds Intercultural Literary Practices.
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Cultures of Mind-Reading: The Novel and Other Minds - ‘Narrative and/as Heterophenomenology: Modelling Nonhuman Experiences in Storyworlds’
Prof David Herman (Durham) on ‘Narrative and/as Heterophenomenology: Modelling Nonhuman Experiences in Storyworlds’ with responses from Dr Emily Troscianko (MML) and Dr James Carney (Social and Evolutionary Science Research Group) followed by refreshments Wednesday 20th November, 4-6.30pm, The...
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Cultures of Mind-Reading: The Novel and Other Minds - “Tell Me Who I Am”
Dr. Marco Bernini (Durham): ‘Parallel Convergence: Cognitive Science Facing Beckett’s “The Unnamable”’, and Dr. Simon Kemp (Oxford): ‘Tell Me Who I Am’: Beckett’s “The Unnamable”. Wednesday 21 May, 3-5.30pm, Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Dr. Marco Bernini (Durham): ‘Parallel Convergence:...
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OCCT event - The Point of Comparison
The Point of Comparison
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Languages of Criticism - Translation and Comparison part one
Translation and Comparison. Convener: Dr. Xiaofan Amy Li
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Languages of Criticism - The Practice of Commentary
Dr Robert Chard (Oriental Studies) on Commentary and the Confucian Ritual Canon, and Prof Stephen Harrison (Classics) on Commentary and Reception in Classics. Robert Chard and Stephen Harrison on the Practice of Commentary Tuesday 11th March, 4-6pm, St Anne’s College, Seminar Room 8 Dr Robert…
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Languages of Criticism - Creatively Critical
Dr Clare Connors (UEA) and Prof Wen-Chin Ouyang (SOAS) will explore the place of creativity in recent Western and classical Arabic literary criticism. Respondent: Dr Helen Slaney.
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OCCT event - The Creativity of Criticism part one
Short presentation by Andrew Klevan, followed by discussion. This seminar launched the Languages of Criticism project which brings together experts in literature, film, visual art and music to pursue a comparative investigation of criticism’s practices, their intellectual basis, and the potential...
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Philosophy of Criticism - Creativity as a Virtue of Character
Prof. Matthew Kieran (Leeds) Tuesday January 28th, 4-6pm, Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities. Preparatory reading is here and the speaker’s homepage is here/ http://www.matthewkieran.com/
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Philosophy of Criticism - Malcolm Budd’s “The Intersubjective Validity of Aesthetic Judgements”
Prof Derek Matravers (The Open University) on Malcolm Budd’s “The Intersubjective Validity of Aesthetic Judgements”. Tuesday February 18th, 4-6pm, Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities. Speaker homepage. The paper is available to Oxford participants here via Weblearn. Those who are unable to read all…
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Philosophy of Criticism - Creativity, Culture and Tradition
Prof. Berys Gaut (St Andrews) on Creativity
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Intercultural Literary Practices - Rethinking the Political through Intercultural Aesthetics
Salim Bachi is author of Le Chien d’Ulysse (2001), Le Silence de Mahomet (2010), Moi, Khaled Khelkal (2012), and other books. He will read from his work (with a translation provided), and discuss the seminar theme. Other speakers are: Patrick Crowley (Uni
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Intercultural Literary Practices - Theorising Interculturality
Dr. Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht), Prof. Peter McDonald (English), and Prof. Elleke Boehmer (English) Here are the examples which Peter McDonald is referring to in the recording: J. Hillis Miller, ‘The University of Dissensus’, Oxford Literary Review, 17:1-2 (1995), pp.-126-27 Xu Bing, ‘Nursery Rhymes...
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Translators and Writers - Translation and Fictionality
Peter Ghosh and Jonathan Katz on Translation and Fictionality Mr Peter Ghosh, a historian and translator of Max Weber, and Dr Jonathan Katz, a classicist and translator of Joseph Roth explore how the distinction between fiction and non-fiction might matter to translation. Chaired by Patrick...
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Translators and Writers - Poetry and the Act of Translation
Prof Patrick McGuinness (MML) on pseudo translations and Dr Adriana X Jacobs (Oriental Studies) on rogue translations. Respondent: Kasia Szymanska. Wednesday 14 May, 4-6.30pm, Seminar Room 7, St Anne’s College with Prof Patrick McGuinness (MML) on pseudo translations and Dr Adriana X Jacobs...
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Round Table: The Future of Comparative Criticism
Matthew Reynolds, Laura Marcus, Mohamed-Salah Omri and Terence Cave on the futures of comparative criticism; followed by discussion.
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Tropes of Comparison
Katrin Kohl on metaphors of comparison, Ami Li on temporality and interpretive contexts, Carole Bourne-Taylor on Michel Deguy.
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Comparative Literature, Britain and Empire
Joep Leerssen on Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Philologists: Comparative Literature between National Ethnicity and Global Empire.
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Shaped by the Classics?
Tania Demetriou on the non-existent classical epyllion; Helen Slaney on dilettante comparatists; Henriette Korthals Altes on dance and text; John McKeane on Sophocles, Holderlin and Lacoue-Labarthe.
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Literature in the World
Ritchie Robertson on Weltliteratur before Goethe; Wen-Chin Ouyang's response; Sowon Park on world literature and the pan-Asian empire.
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The discipline of Comparative Literature is changing. Its Eurocentric heritage has been challenged by various formulations of ‘world literature’, while new media and new forms of artistic production are bringing urgency to comparative thinking across literature, film, the visual arts and music. The resulting questions of method are both intellectually compelling and central to the future of the humanities. To confront them, our research programme brings together experts from the disciplines of English, Medieval and Modern Languages, Oriental Studies, and Classics, and draws in collaborators from Music, Visual Art, Film, Philosophy and History.
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