OCCT Trinity 2017 Events
OCCT is a Divisional research programme supported by TORCH and St Anne's College. Our organising committeeincludes Prof Matthew Reynolds,Prof Adriana X. Jacobs, Prof Mohamed-Salah Omri, Dr Eleni Philippou,Dr Peter Hill,Ms Karolina Watroba,Ms Kate Costello,Ms Valeria Taddei,Dr Kasia Szymanska, Prof Ben Morgan,Prof Patrick McGuinness
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Week 4 – Poetic Currency Symposium (Collaboration with Stanford University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Poetry Reading and Keynote Address
Wed. 18May,5:00 -7:30pm; Seminar Room 10 in the New Library, St Anne’s College
Speakers: Adriana X. Jacobs (Oxford); Kristin Grogan (Oxford)
Poets: Claire Trévien (UK); Tahel Frosh (Israel); Roy ‘Chicky’ Arad (Israel)
Week 4 – Poetic Currency Symposium
Thurs. 19 May,10:30 -16:30pm; Seminar Room 5, St Anne’s College
Speakers: Eleni Philippou (Oxford); Kasia Szymanska (Oxford); Idan Gillo (Stanford); Anat Weisman (BGU); Shira Stav (BGU); Roy Greenwald (BGU)
Week 5– Fiction and Other Minds: Enacting Fictional Space
Wed.24 May 2017, 5:15 -7:15pm; Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
Speaker: Merja Polvinen (Helsinki);Respondent: Terence Cave (Oxford)
Week 6 – Oxford Translation Day
Saturday 3 June; 11-8pm; St Anne’s College and Other Venues across the City
Workshops, talks, readings, and award of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
Discussion Group
Mondays, 12.45-14.00 in weeks 2,4,6,8 in Seminar Room 10 in the New Library, St Anne’s College. Fortnightly meetings, led by graduate students and early-career researchers. This term’s topic is Reading Out of Context. For further details please check on OCCT website or email Karolina Watroba .
East Asian Working Group
Drawing on a broad range of critical texts from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the greater Sinophone community, we will discuss key theories in East Asian comparative criticism. The working language of this group will be Chinese. Mondays, 24 April and 15 May in Seminar Room 10in the New Library,St Anne’s College,3:30-5:30pm. For preparatory readings and other details, please check on OCCT website or email Kate Costello at .