Weekly Round-Up Week 6 - Faculty of Medieval and Modern

Weekly Round-Up Week 6 (3rd June 2010) – Trinity Term 2010
Contents
1. Travel Bursaries for medievalists
2. Special Lecture - Tuesday 15 June 2010
3. Seminar on Textual Bibliography For Modern Foreign languages
4. Seminar: - GIALLO A MILANO:
5. Special Lecture, Friday 4th June 2010
6. CFP: "La Jornada" Annual Graduate Student Conference Rutgers University, 2 October 2010
7. Galician Studies at the Queen’s College – Wednesday 9th June 2010
8. Ramona Fotiade on Life after Deconstruction, Thursday 3 June, 5pm,
Regent's Park College, Oxford.
9. "The first digital genetic edition of Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse"
10. Raynal’s 'Histoire des deux Indes': Colonial Writing, Cultural Exchange and
Social Networks in the Age of the Enlightenment
11. Changing face of religion in Portugal and Brazil - forthcoming Workshop at
St John's
12. Reading with Lydia Mischkulnig 3 June, 7pm
13. VF Bulletin - Early June 2010
14. "'All is Leaf': Goethe's Dynamic Form and the Beginnings of
Phenomenology"
15. Important notice for all undergraduate students:
16. Invitation for 15 June: EU Careers opportunities for linguists
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1. Travel Bursaries for medievalists
Travel Bursaries from the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages
and Literature
The Bursaries are intended to support any scholar whose research falls
within the remit of the Society, broadly defined, and who is not
receiving funding from any source. The Bursaries, for which the value
will be between £300 and £1000 will be awarded through open competition.
The deadline for submissions is 3^rd September 2010. The Committee
expects to reach a decision by the end of October. For full rules and
details of how to apply, visit:
http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/society_bursaries.shtml .
Dr Helen J. Swift
St Hilda’s College
Tel: +44 (0)1865 276871
www.medieval.ox.ac.uk
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2. Special Lecture - Tuesday 15 June 2010
FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN
LANGUAGES
SPECIAL LECTURE
Professor Sarah Kay
(Princeton University)
“The Nightingales’ Way: Jean Renart’s Roman
de la rose and the Invention of French Poetry”
Main Hall, Taylor Institution
Tuesday 15 June 2010 (8th week)
at 5.15pm
Sarah Kay (D.Phil., Oxford) is Professor of French and a specialist in medieval
French and Occitan literature at Princeton University. She was elected a Fellow of the
British Academy in 2004 and admitted as Chevalier dans l'Ordre des palmes
académiques in 2006. Her major publications are an edition of Raoul de Cambrai
(1992) and four monographs on aspects of medieval literature, most recently The
Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic
Poetry (2007). With Malcolm Bowie and Terence Cave she co-wrote A Short History
of French Literature (2003). Her interest in modern thought and theory lead her to
publish the first monograph in English on the work of Slavoj Zizek (2003). She
recently finished a 4-year AHRC research project on the relationship between poetry
and knowledge in late medieval France, generating the forthcoming Parrots and
Nightingales: Quotations from the Troubadours and the
Development of the European Lyric.
The lecture is followed by a Reception in Room 2, 6:15-7 pm. ALL WELCOME
Conveners: Dr Sophie Marnette and Dr Helen Swift
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3. Seminar On Textual Bibliography For Modern Foreign languages
Monday 14 June 2010
Meeting Room 1, Conference Centre, The British Library
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
PROGRAMME
10.30
Registration and Coffee
11.00 Trevor J. Dadson (Queen Mary University of London), The Printing of the
Rimas by Lupercio and Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (Zaragoza, 1634)
11.45
James Raven (Essex), Jobbing Printing in the Early Modern Printing House
12.30
Lunch (Own arrangements.)
1.45
François Dupuigrenet (Florida State University), The French Face of
English Bibles from the Great Bible to the London Polyglot
2.30
David Golberg, Peter Forsskål's Tankar om borgerliga friheten
3.15
Tea
3.45
Goran Proot (Universiteit Antwerpen), The Unobserved Typographical Turn
in Flemish Book Production
4.30
Jeremy Potter, The Tipping Point in International Publishing: Some
Questions Raised by Editions of a Key Reference Work of the XVIIIth Century.
The Seminar will end at 5.15 pm.
Please notify us by email or by post if you are able to attend. If you know of
colleagues who might like to attend, please pass on the invitation.
Barry Taylor ([email protected]; tel 020 7412 7576)
Susan Reed ([email protected]; tel 020 7412 7572)
Liz Baird **please note my new e-mail address:** [email protected]
Asst to the Taylor Institution Librarian in Charge
Taylor Institution Library, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3NA
01865 278141 (Wed-Fri)
**Library's new web site address:**
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/taylor/
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4. Seminar – GIALLO A MILANO:
Documentary screening and discussion
As part of the new ISO seminar series on migration, "Destinazione Italia",
Italian Studies at Oxford presents a screening of the award-winning
documentary GIALLO A MILANO, followed by a discussion with director Sergio
Basso and sociologist Daniele Cologna (Insubria University, Como)
Wednesday 16th June, 4-6 p.m.
Room 2, Taylor Institution
GIALLO A MILANO is a fascinating, aesthetically ground-breaking journey into
Milan's Chinese community. The screening will be followed by a short
presentation by Daniele Cologna, one of the sociologists who contributed to
the fieldwork, and a discussion with him and Sergio Basso (writer and
director of GIALLO A MILANO), chaired by Guido Bonsaver (ISO).
The film will be shown with English subtitles and the discussion will be
held in English.
*All welcome*
Seminar organized in collaboration with The Oxford University Italian
Society
* An attachment – Item 4 –GIALLO A MILANO -can be found at the following link
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/weekly_roundup
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5. Special Lecture, Friday 4th June 2010
OXFORD CENTRE FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES
HE Mrs Irina Bokova
Director-General of UNESCO
will deliver a lecture on
‘UNESCO, the World of Islam and the Rapprochement of Cultures’
at the Taylor Institute, St Giles, Oxford
Friday 4 June 2010 - at 5.00 pm
All Welcome
(Free) Tickets will be available on the door,
but tickets can be reserved by emailing:
[email protected]
Website & download a poster from:
http://www.oxcis.ac.uk/upcomingevent.html
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6. CFP: "La Jornada" Annual Graduate Student Conference - Rutgers
University, Saturday, 2 October 2010
Rutgers University
LA JORNADA 2010
XVIII Annual Graduate Student Conference
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
New Brunswick, New Jersey
* Two attachments – Items 6 – CFP, English - CFP, Espanol can be found at the
following link
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/weekly_roundup
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7. Galician Studies at the Queen’s College - Wednesday 9th June 2010
Taylorian Library, 5pm
Galego, que é e onde vai
Galician, what it is and where it is headed
Conference-debate by Iggy Roca, Francisco Dubert and John Rutherford
The Centre for Galician Studies at the Queen’s College invite you to
participate in a debate guided by Iggy Roca, Francisco Dubert and John
Rutherford around the idea of Galician and other minority languages. We
would like to count with your presence and active participation in this
common think tank around the idea of minority languages, language
planning and language sustainability, so that we can all embark in an
intellectual (and emotional) journey in order to draw practical conclusions
applicable to different languages and their status.
-Yo nunca sentí la necesidad de saber gallego.
-Es que esa necesidad no se siente en la barriga.
-I never felt the need for learning Galician
-That is because one does not feel that need in the belly
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8. Ramona Fotiade on Life after Deconstruction, Thursday 3 June, 5pm,
Regent's Park College, Oxford
Oxford Forum Event
Provocations
Thursday 3 June, 5-6.30 pm
Regent's Park College, Pusey Street, Oxford OX1 2LB
Life after Deconstruction
Ramona Fotiade, Senior Lecturer, French Section, School of Modern Languages and
Cultures, University of Glasgow
Chair: Nick Bunnin, University of Oxford
Convenors: Dr Roxana Baiasu and Dr Pamela Sue Anderson
All events are free and open to all without registration
For further information contact [email protected] or [email protected] ,
[email protected]
Forum for European Philosophy
Room J5, European Institute
London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE
www.philosophy-forum.org
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9. "The first digital genetic edition of Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse"
L'’édition génétique numérique de La Nouvelle Héloïse de J.-J. Rousseau
The first digital genetic edition of Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse
Rencontre organisée par Nathalie Ferrand dans le cadre du séminaire «Digital
Humanities» de la Maison Française d’Oxford (dir. Paolo D’Iorio)
Président de séance: Nicholas Cronk, Directeur de la Fondation Voltaire, Oxford
mercredi 9 juin 2010, 15h30-18h30
Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, OX2 6SE Oxford
15h30
Mot de bienvenue par Luc Borot, Directeur de la Maison Française
d’Oxford
15h35
Nathalie Ferrand (CNRS-MFO): «Genèse d’une édition génétique:
présentation du projet d’édition en fac-similé et génétique des manuscrits de La
Nouvelle Héloïse au CNRS»
16h10
Eliane Fighiera (Directrice de la Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée
nationale, Paris): «La Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale: son fonds ancien et son
fonds Rousseau»
16h35
Michèle Sacquin (Conservatrice en chef au Département des
Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de France): «La Bibliothèque nationale et les
manuscrits de La Nouvelle Héloïse : une longue histoire»
17h
Questions
17h15
Pierre Jouin et Andrée Galataud (Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée
nationale) : «La numérisation des manuscrits de La Nouvelle Héloïse à l'Assemblée
nationale»
17h40
Pierre-Marc de Biasi (Directeur de l’Institut des Textes et Manuscrits
Modernes, ITEM-CNRS, Paris): «L’approche génétique des manuscrits du XVIIIe
siècle»
18h05
Questions et discussion générale
Dispersés entre la France, la Suisse et les Etats-unis, les manuscrits de La Nouvelle
Héloïse n’ont pas été, jusqu’à maintenant, l’objet d’une étude spécifique.
Entreprendre la première édition de cette archive de plusieurs milliers de pages
nécessite de la rassembler, de la classer, de la déchiffrer afin d’apporter de nouveaux
éléments de connaissance pour l’interprétation de cette œuvre-somme des Lumières.
La collaboration de plusieurs bibliothèques, – notamment la Bibliothèque de
l’Assemblée nationale, la Bibliothèque nationale de France, la Bibliothèque
interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne, la Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de
Neuchâtel, la Pierpont Morgan Library de New York, les Archives Royales
(Koninklijk Huisarchief) de la Haye –, les acquis des méthodes de la critique
génétique développées par l’Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes et le
développement de l’édition numérique scientifique rendent aujourd’hui un tel projet
possible.
Manifestation organisée avec le soutien du service culturel de l'Ambassade de France
au Royaume-Uni, de la Maison Française d’Oxford, de l’Institut des Textes et
Manuscrits Modernes (Paris) et de la Voltaire Foundation de l’Université d’Oxford.
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10. Raynal’s 'Histoire des deux Indes': Colonial Writing, Cultural Exchange and
Social Networks in the Age of the Enlightenment 1-3 July 2010 Newnham
College, Cambridge
A three-day, international conference celebrating the publication of volume 1 of the
first modern critical edition of Raynal's 'Histoire philosophique des deux Indes' and
considering the work and its multiple contexts: colonial, cultural, social, intellectual,
and bibliographical.
For a detailed conference abstract, programme and registration details please see the
website here:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1241/
***
Just published:
** The Temperamental nude: class, medicine and representation in eighteenth-century
France
Tony Halliday SVEC 2010:05 ISBN 978-0-7294-0994-0
For further details:
http://xserve.volt.ox.ac.uk/VFcatalogue/details.php?recid=6456
** Correspondance de Mme de Graffigny: Volume 13, août 1752 - décembre 1753
Ed. Diane Beelen Woody, Aubrey Rosenberg et al
ISBN 978 0 7294 0809 7
** Le tome 49A de la série Œuvres complètes de Voltaire
Sermon des cinquante | Œuvres 1758-1759 Edition critique par J. Patrick Lee; MarieHélène Cotoni, Antonio Gurrado, Basil Guy, Emile Lizé, Haydn T. Mason, Gillian
Pink; John Renwick, David Williams ISBN: 9780729409018
You can order our books online at www.bookshop.blackwell.co.uk
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11. Changing face of religion in Portugal and Brazil - forthcoming Workshop at
St John's 15 St Giles, Room C (first floor), on Thursday June 3rd, 15.00-17.00.
The workshop will bring together recent qualitative and quantitative research bridging
sociological, anthropological and historical approaches.
Dr Tiago Santos, director of Númena -- Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais e
Humanas, based at Tagus Park, will talk about demographic changes in religious
affiliations, as well as of a project looking at Portuguese religious minorities; Dr
Marina Pignatelli, from Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, will be
presenting some of the anthropological work she conducted on the Jewish Community
of Lisbon; Prof. Peter Clarke, from Wolfson College, Oxford, will be talking about
Missionaries and Indians on the Brazilian Amazon; Dr Miguel Farias, from the Ian
Ramsey Centre, Theology Faculty and Department of Experimental Psychology of
Oxford University, will introduce the workshop and chair the discussion.
All are most welcome
Conveners:
Miguel Farias (Ian Ramsey Centre, Theology Faculty and Department of
Experimental Psychology), Luisa Pinto Teixeira (Instituto Camões Centre for
Portuguese Language).
Oganized by the Instituto Camões Centre and the Ian Ramsey Centre.
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12. Reading with Lydia Mischkulnig 3 June, 7pm
Reading with Lydia Mischkulnig
Introduced by Martin Liebscher
English translation read by Steven Rodgers
Thursday 3 June 2010, 7pm
This year’s writer-in-residence at the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre London is
Lydia Mischkulnig, whose distinctive and uncompromising voice has earned
her the prestigious Bertelsmann Literaturpreis at the Ingeborg Bachmann
Wettbewerb (1996) and the Manuskripte-Preis (2002). Born in Klagenfurt,
Lydia Mischkulnig studied at the University for Music and Performing Arts,
Graz and at the Film Academy in Vienna. In 2008 she was Visiting Professor
at Nagoya University in Japan.
Her work includes the novels Halbes Leben, published in 1994, Hollywood
in the Winter (‘Hollywood im Winter’), published in 1996, and Embrace
(‘Umarmung’), which appeared in 2002, as well as collections of short stories
such as Seven Temptations (‘Sieben Versuchungen’) (1998), and most
recently, Don’t Worry. Nine Visitations (‘Macht euch keine Sorgen. Neun
Heimsuchungen’), published in 2009. Lydia Mischkulnig lives and works
in Vienna.
You can now book tickets
to all ACF events online at
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Entry is free, but seating is limited
Please reply by 27 May 2010
E [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
T 020 7225 7300
Venue: Austrian Cultural Forum London
28 Rutland Gate, sw7 1pq
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13. VF Bulletin - Early June 2010
Welcome to the latest VF Bulletin.
For more detailed information please see our online catalogue
(http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/www_vf/catalogue/cat_index.ssi).
OUR RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS
• The latest from SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century)
— Le Rayonnement de Bayle
Ed. PHILIPPE DE ROBERT, CLAUDINE PAILHÈS et HUBERT BOST
Allant de la synthèse historique la plus concrète à l’analyse philosophique la
plus pointue, les contributeurs examinent certains thèmes bayliens importants
sous l’angle de leurs modalités de constitution et de diffusion.
SVEC 2010:06, ISBN 978-0-7294-0995-7, pbk/broché, x+320 pages, 16 ills.
— Edward Gibbon, ‘Essai sur l’étude de la littérature’: A critical edition
Introduced and annotated by ROBERT MANKIN
The first complete edition of the Essai that sets Gibbon’s work in its critical
context, including unpublished chapters, notes and variants, a detailed
introduction and an extensive commentary.
SVEC 2010:07, ISBN 978-0-7294-0997-1, pbk/broché, x+374 pages.
•
From the Complete works of Voltaire / Œuvres complètes de Voltaire
— Volume 45C: Paméla – Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de
Voltaire, écrits par lui-même
Ed. JONATHAN MALLINSON
Composed during the 1750s, a turbulent decade in his life, Voltaire’s Paméla
and the Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire are first-person
narratives focusing particularly on his relationship with Frederick the Great of
Prussia. Unpublished in Voltaire’s lifetime, they present a carefully
constructed account of his life, one which aims over the heads of his
contemporaries in its attempt to reach out to posterity.
ISBN 978-0-7294-0985-8, hbk/relié, xxxvi+470 pages.
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14.’'All is Leaf': Goethe's Dynamic Form and the Beginnings of
Phenomenology"
Title: "'All is Leaf': Goethe's Dynamic Form and the Beginnings of Phenomenology"
Speaker: Thomas Pfau, Eads Family Professor of English and Professor of German,
Duke University
Time and place: Thursday, 10 June (7th week), 5.15 pm, MacGregor Room, Oriel
College
Drinks at Chequers afterwards.
Prof. Pfau is the author of Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and
the Logic of Romantic Cultural Production (1997) and Romantic Moods:
Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840 (2005), and he is currently
completing a book to be called Parables of Life, 'an interdisciplinary
study of developmentalism and narratives of Bildung in the areas of
philosophy, literature, biology, and music').
Convenor: Nicholas Halmi
University Lecturer in English Literature of the Romantic Period,
University of Oxford
Margaret Candfield Fellow, University College
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15. Important notice for all undergraduate students:
Students are reminded of the importance of providing feedback on all your lectures an online feedback form is available for this purpose on
https://hermes.mml.ox.ac.uk/lectures/. Thank you!
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16.
Invitation for 15 June: EU Careers opportunities for linguists
Invitation: EU career opportunities for linguists
The Representation of the European Commission in the UK invites you to the launch
of a new promo clip "Translating for Europe – into English", made by the Translation
Department of the European Commission, which brings alive the work of a translator
working in the European Union institutions. The event will also provide an
opportunity to find out more about the recruitment competition for translators,
interpreters and lawyer linguists, which will open on 10 July.
The morning will start with a viewing of the clip, plus brief presentations about
working as a translator, interpreter and lawyer linguist. There will be plenty of
opportunity for questions from the floor.
Careers in translation are open to anyone with the requisite language skills to translate
in writing from at least 2 official EU* languages to English, which must be of nativespeaker standard. Interpreters require a specialised qualification in interpreting.
Lawyer Linguist is a very specialised career, requiring legal and language skills.
There is real concern within the European institutions about the poor numbers of
candidates with native-speaker-standard English applying for posts. English is a
pivotal language for the organisation and having too few quality translators in the
future will have serious consequences for the operation of the EU. Therefore this is a
perfect time for young multilingual Brits interested in an international career to get
involved.
To register for the event, please send the attached form to [email protected] by 8 June 2010
* The 23 official languages are: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian,
Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.
For the EU careers competitions, at least one of the foreign languages must be French
or German.
Programme
10.30-11.00 Arrival and registration
11.00 Welcome to the Representation – Antonia Mochan, Head of Media, European
Commission in the UK
11.10 Viewing of promo on working as an English-language translator: "Translating
for Europe – into English"
11.20 Presentation of the work of a translator - Seger Bonebakker, European
Commission translation department
11.30 Presentation of the work of an interpreter and lawyer linguist – Angeliki Petrits,
European Commission in the UK
11.45 Questions from the floor
12.30 End of the event and sandwich lunch
Venue: Representation of the European Commission in the UK, 8 Storey's Gate,
London, SW1P 3AT.
Transport: Nearest tube stations are St James' Park and Westminster. Victoria and
Charing Cross Stations are also in walking distance.
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