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• Discussion Group: Translation as a Political Gesture in Ukraine
• Discussion Group: In Conversation with Jeremy Tiang and Zhang Yueran on Cocoon
• Fiction and Other Minds: Towards a Co-Modelling of Cognition
• Discussion Group: In Conversation with Reuben Woolley and Panayiotis Xenophontos on Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
• Book Launch of After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century
• Discussion Group: Object, Text, and Intermediality in Zbigniew Herbert
• Special Session of the OCCT Discussion Group: Poetry and Untranslatability
• Discussion Group: Space and the Experimental Work of Saihate Tahi
• Discussion Group: Cultural Translations of the Ten Commandments in Late Ming and Early Qing Jesuit Catechisms
• Translating Florbela: Book Launch of This Sorrow That Lifts Me Up
• Guillem Viladot's Ruth: Trans Literature and/in Translation
• Fiction and Other Minds: Embodied Cognition in Poetry and Dance
• After: Vivek Narayanan in Conversation with Alice Oswald
• Discussion Group: Translation and Mountaineering
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• Discussion Group: Rewriting the Rules in Translation with Mohini Gupta
• Publishing African Literature Today
• The Dakar Translation Symposium
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• Laura Seymour
• Karolina Watroba
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• Anna Saroldi
• Trisevgeni Bilia
• Daniel Amir
• Mohini Gupta
• Sarah Puetzer
• Marianna Leszczyk
• Rowan Anderson
• Eleni Philippou
• Olena Chervonik
• Hannah Scheithauer
• Discussion Group: After Liberation – Militarised Masculinities and Intergenerational Conflicts in Angolan and Algerian Narratives
• Discussion Group: Co-Translating Polish Literature
• OCCT: The First Ten Years
• Fiction and Other Minds: Gestalt Psychology and Cognitive Literary Studies
• Discussion Group: Translation in Multilingualism, Multilingualism in Translation
• Discussion Group: The Diasporic Canon
• Polish World Literature: A Roundtable Discussion
• Metaphors in Translation Conference
• Fiction and Other Minds: Searching for Authenticity with the Beats, Beckett, and the Embodied Phenomenological Mind
• Fiction and Other Minds: George Eliot’s ‘The Lifted Veil’
• Fiction and Other Minds: The Lyric I as Other Mind
• Fiction and Other Minds: Embodied Spaces, Embodied Minds
• Fiction and Other Minds: Cognitive Scaffolding and Literary Reading
• Fiction and Other Minds: Modalities of Reading
• Fiction and Other Minds: Enacting Fictional Space
• Fiction and Other Minds: Affective Transformations
• Fiction and Other Minds: Language, Tool Use, and the Evolution of Human Culture
• Fiction and Other Minds: Cognitive Ecology in Literature
• Receptions and Comparatisms: Disciplinarity
• Receptions and Comparatisms: Temporalities
• Receptions and Comparatisms: What Is a Language?
• Receptions and Comparatisms: Orality and Script Worlds
• Receptions and Comparatisms: Decolonisation
• Receptions and Comparatisms: Decoloniality
• Receptions and Comparatisms: Posthumanism
• Receptions and Comparatisms: Anthropocene
• Comparative African Literatures
• Translation, Criticism and Creativity
• Prismatic Translation and Prismatic Jane Eyre
• Intersecting Knowledge Communities: Oriental Cultures in Comparison (2015–2016)
• Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize Entry Requirements
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• Oxford Translation Day
• Oxford Translation Day 2022
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• Study Comparative Literature at Oxford
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• Oxford Translation Day 2022
• Welcome Drinks
• Special Session of the Discussion Group with Margherita Laera
• Book Launch of Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere
• Fiction and Other Minds: Mindreading — Cognitive Theory and Cultural Practice
• Book Launch of Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature: Relational Worlds
• Translation and Medical Humanities: Creative–Critical Exchange with the University of Oslo
• “Words Don’t Sleep”: Durs Grünbein’s Poetry of Life
• Translating Under Pressure: A Roundtable Discussion
• Workshop on Comparative Literature and Decoloniality, in partnership with the BCLA
• Translation and Medical Humanities Conference
• Discussion Group: Modernist Afterlives – Living Forth a Century Later
• Discussion Group: Language and Imagery in Contemporary Korean Cinema
• On the Logics of Social Worlds: A Talk with Gabriel Tupinambá
• Special Session of the OCCT Discussion Group: Creative Work Showcase
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• APGRD Receptions and Comparatisms
• 2025 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize shortlist is announced
• Reuben Woolley’s translation longlisted for International Booker Prize
• Discussion Group: Self Translation and Language-Making in Li Kotomi/Li Qinfeng’s The Island Where the Spider Lily Blooms / 彼岸花盛開之島/彼岸花が咲く島
• Discussion Group: Style and Imitation in Elena Ferrante and Kazuo Ishiguro
• Book Launch of Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice
• Ming Tak Ted Hui
• Oxford Translation Day 2023
• Sarah Fengler
• Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2022: 1. The Eyes of Others
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2022: 2. Time and the Novelist
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2022: 3. Narrating the Mystery
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2022: 4. Freedom
• Discussion Group: American Literature and Politics of Reception in Iran between Two Revolutions
• Discussion Group: Translating Sharov
• Discussion Group: What is Shona? Investigating a Language
• Discussion Group: Jamie McKendrick's The Years and After
• Special Event on Queer Poetry: Poetry Reading
• Special Event on Queer Poetry: Poetry Workshop
• Discussion Group: Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100-1250
• Discussion Group: Poetry Reading with Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
• Pre-Modern Comparative Literary Practice in the Multilingual Islamic World(s)
• Discussion Group: ‘Translating’ Mother Courage and Her Children to Africa and the UK
• East Asian Working Group
• Discussion Group: Modernism in Trieste
• Discussion Group: Book Launch of Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus
• Art Exhibition: The Years and After by Jamie McKendrick
• Discussion Group and Oxford Translation Day: The Curse of Knowledge: The Translator as Perpetual Student
• Oxford Translation Day: A Discussion and Reading of Max Lobe’s A Long Way from Douala
• Oxford Translation Day 2021
• Oxford Translation Day: A Discussion and Poetry Reading of Vaan Nguyen’s The Truffle Eye
• Oxford Translation Day: A Discussion and Poetry Reading of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony
• Oxford Translation Day: Shortlisted Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize Translators Reading and Discussing Their Translations
• Discussion Group: Book Launch of Speaking Politically: Adorno and Postcolonial Fiction
• Discussion Group: Translating Walis Nokan: Intertextuality, Hybridity, and Minimalism in Contemporary Flash Fiction from Taiwan
• Discussion Group: Work Practices and the Construction of Truth in the Translation of Marxist Texts
• Discussion Group: Translation and Gender
• Discussion Group: Translating Haruki Murakami
• Discussion Group: What Script Teaches Us about the State of World Literary Studies
• Discussion Group: Poetry Reading with Jennifer Wong
• Discussion Group: Transdisciplinary Modernism
• Discussion Group: Transitioning into the Vernacular: China and Greece in Parallel
• Fictions of Retranslations: Retranslating Language and Style in Prose Fiction
• Fiction and Other Minds: I and We: Literary Texts and the Constitution of Shared Identities
• Oxford Translation Day: Shortlisted Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize Translators Reading and Discussing Their Translations
• Oxford Translation Day: Award of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2020
• Discussion Group: Translation and the Zsolnay Publishing House, 1924–1938
• Oxford Translation Day: Sophie Hughes Discusses the Novel Hurricane Season
• Oxford Translation Day 2020
• Oxford Translation Day: A.E. Stallings Discusses Two Female Modern Greek Poets
• Discussion Group: Dramaturgy, Translation, and Reception around/in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
• Oxford Translation Day: Ghost Letters: A Poetry Reading with Baba Badji
• Oxford Translation Day: Parwana Fayyaz on the Poets of Herat
• Oxford Translation Day 2019
• Book Launch of Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry
• Oxford Translation Day 2018
• East Asian Working Group
• East Asian Working Group
• East Asian Working Group
• Oxford Translation Day 2014
• Oxford Translation Day 2015
• Oxford Translation Day: Poetry Evening with Tomasz Różycki
• Oxford Translation Day 2016
• Multilingualism and Post-Anglophone Fiction
• Oxford Translation Day 2017
• Discussion Group: A 15th-Century Castilian Translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron
• Slovenian Novelists Dušan Šarotar and Dino Bauk in conversation with Patrick McGuiness
• BCLA Annual Postgraduate Conference (Postponed from 2019)
• Hearing the Drawing: Ekphrastic Poetry and Translation, A Reading and Conversation
• Book at Lunchtime: Prismatic Translation
• Jennifer Croft Discusses and Reads from Homesick and her Translations
• Book Launch of Prismatic Translation
• African Classics: Translating Texts, Translated Contexts
• Translational Spaces: Language, Literatures, Disciplines Conference
• Special Session of the Discussion Group: A Conversation on Two Transcript Monographs
• Special Session of the Discussion Group with Yeogeun Kim
• Translation Workshop and Reading with Clemens Meyer
• The World Republic of Theory: Epistemic Inequality in World Literature Studies
• Welcome Drinks
• Fiction and Other Minds: Minds, Cognitive Science, and the Public Domain
• Discussion Group: Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France
• Discussion Group: The Short Story and Strange Tone
• White Nights: Urszula Honek in conversation with Kate Webster
• Discussion Group: Translating Otherness and the Remaking of Poetic Language in Contemporary Anglophone Chinese Diaspora Poetry
• Affiliations: Towards a Theory of Cross-Temporal Comparison
• Welcome Drinks
• Thesis Into Book: Karolina Watroba’s Mann’s Magic Mountain: World Literature and Closer Reading
• Collage Comparison
• Discussion Group: Poetry as Choreography: Translating Dance with Susana Thénon and Iris Scaccheri
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• What Have We Done/What Might We Do Next: The OCCT 10th Anniversary Workshop
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• The Point of Comparison
• Translation and Comparison
• Comparative Criticism: Histories and Methods
• Barbarisms: Multilingualism and Modernity in Narratives of the Spanish-speaking World
• Etymological Thinking in the 19th and 20th Century
• Poetry and the Translation of the Ordinary
• Discussion Group: Travelling Concepts II
• Life in Translation: Zofia Nalkowska in English and Virginia Woolf in Polish
• The Creativity of Criticism
• Translating Contemporary French Poetry
• Poetry and Translation: An Evening with Sasha Dugdale
• Discussion Group: Travelling Concepts III
• Korean Literature and Translation in Dialogue with the Circulation and Translation of Indian Language Texts in South and East-Asia in the 19th Century
• Discussion Group: Travelling Concepts IV
• Gender and Interculturality
• The Novel and other Minds
• What Happens to Literature if People are Artworks?
• Philosophy of Criticism: Creativity as a Virtue of Character
• ‘The Bearer-Beings’: Portable Stories in Dislocated Times
• ‘The Bearer-Beings’: Portable Stories in Dislocated Times
• Looking for Langston: Art, Poetry, and the Harlem Renaissance
• Thinking Colour Symposium
• Stories in Transit: Telling the Tale in Times of Conflict
• Writing an Academic Review
• Online and Offline Forums for Cultural Production
• Masterclass in Chinese to English Literary Translation
• Welcome Event
• Salons, Circles, Majalis: The Sociable Side of Literature
• Discussion Group: Allegories of Comparison: Benjamin and Hölderlin
• The Politics of Prizing Translation
• Book Launch of Translation: A Very Short Introduction
• (Re)writing Fragments: Reflections on Translating Poetry
• Forgotten Europe: Translating Marginalised Languages
• Translation as Afterlife
• Poetic Currency Symposium
• Poeting in Translation
• Sexuality and/as Disability in China and Taiwan
• Translation into Theatre and the Social Sciences Conference
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2019: Beyond Literature
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2018: 1. Strong Words in a Liquid World
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2018: 2. Voicelessness and Taboos
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2018: 3. Collective Amnesia and Collective Remembrance
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2018: 4. Open Discussion
• Javier Cercas and Juan Gabriel Vasquez in Conversation
• Journeys in Translation: Poetry Reading and Discussion
• Modalities of Cybertext Poetry: John Cayley vs. Hsia Yu
• Writing Histories of Lesser-Known Literatures: Being Poland
• Paris and London 1851–1900: Spaces of Transformation
• Book Launch: Likenesses
• Philosophy of Criticism: The Intersubjective Validity of Aesthetic Judgement
• Rethinking the Political through Intercultural Aesthetics
• Cultures of Mind-Reading: Conrad's Lord Jim
• Discussion Group: Ambivalence
• Translators and Writers: Translation and Fictionality
• Discussion Group: On Translation I
• Discussion Group: On Translation II
• Discussion Group: On Translation III
• Discussion Group: On Translation IV
• Discussion Group: On Translation V, with Don Paterson
• Discussion Group: Travel
• Discussion Group: Travel
• Discussion Group: Travelling Concepts I
• Discussion Group: What is World Literature?
• Discussion Group: The Classic, the Canon and the Past
• Discussion Group: Hocking and Comparative Philosophy
• Discussion Group: Delinking
• Ali Smith in Conversation
• Discussion Group: Creative Criticism
• Discussion Group: Ekphrasis
• Discussion Group: The Translation and Re-translation of Yoshimasu Gozo’s Alice Iris Red Horse
• Translation Workshop with Peter Cole
• After Clarice: Lispector’s Legacy
• Book Launch and Discussion of Minding Borders: Resilient Divisions in Literature, the Body and the Academy
• Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice Colloquium
• Theorising Interculturality
• Minding Borders Conference
• Schubert's Legacy
• World Literatures: Multilingual Locals and Cosmopolitan Dynamics
• Literature and Language Difference Conference
• Fiction and Other Minds: Embodiment, Free Will, Queer Sexuality, and the Posthuman
• Discussion Group: The Saxon ‘Other’ and the Saxon ‘Self’ in the Translation of Genesis B
• Discussion Group: Traversing Cosmovision(s): Notes to an English Rendition of a 16th Century Nahuatl Song of War, ‘Icuic Nezahualpilli’
• Discussion Group: Translating Turn-of-the-Century Sex Work for the Contemporary Stage
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2024: The Role of Fiction in the Environmental Crisis
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2024: The Making of World Literatures through Translation
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2024: Writing, Painting and Illustrating
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2024: Old and New Stories: A Writer's Journey
• Translation Workshop with Anne Weber and Tess Lewis
• Epic Annette: Podium Discussion and Q&A with Anne Weber and Tess Lewis
• Book Launch of Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
• Discussion Group: (Re)Producing the Concept: On Arabic Critical Theory
• Global Port Cities: Logics, Challenges, Creativity
• Special Session of the OCCT Discussion Group: How We Translate Ourselves and Others
• Discussion Group: Contemporary Greek Fiction in Translation — New Greek Voices: The Best Short Fiction from Greece
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• Georgina Fooks
• Oxford–Tunis Comparative Literature Forum
• Dialogues Towards an African Comparative Literature
• Fiction and Other Minds: Place and Memory: The Aesthetics of Constructing the Past
• Discussion Group: Comparing on the Scaffold — Genetic Insights from Qian Zhongshu’s Notes on Laozi and Hegel during the Cultural Revolution
• Discussion Group: Translating the (Un)translatable: The Case of Khadilkar’s Mānāpamān (1911) and Marathi Musical Drama
• Discussion Group: What is this Literature? The Case of ‘Greek’ Writing from Ukraine
• Book Launch of The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling
• Reading Poetry in Translation
• The Role of a Literary Translator and the Ethics of Naming in Translation: A Workshop and Conversation with Nicky Harman and Austin Woerner
• Translating Punctuation Workshop and Zine-Making with Adriana X. Jacobs and Georgie Fooks
• Found in Translation: A Collaboration with Curio Books and Culture
• Oxford Translation Day 2024
• Translating Colombian Poetry: Spanish Translation Workshop with Velia Vidal and Annie McDermott, in partnership with Charco Press
• Translating Kafka: German Translation Workshop with Ian Ellison and Hannah Scheithauer
• Translating Indigenous Languages: Quechua Translation Workshop with Constantina Higbee and Leo Boix, in partnership with the Poetry Translation Centre
• Translation and Decolonisation: A South–South Panel Discussion
• Gilles Ortlieb’s The Day's Ration: A Reading and Conversation with the Poet and his Translators
• amuk: A Performance and Conversation on (Mis)Translation with Khairani Barokka
• Polkadot Wounds: Anthony Capildeo in conversation with Malachi McIntosh
• Where Do I Start? A Panel Discussion with Emerging Translators
• Kafka in Korea: A Case Study for Diversifying Modern Languages
• AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation
• AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation: The First Symposium
• Valeria Taddei
• Oxford–Tunis Comparative Literature Forum
• Welcome Drinks
• Discussion Group: The Cosmopolitan Queer: Renée Vivien's Translations as De/Construction
• Discussion Group: Dialect in Translation
• Discussion Group: Thinking Activism and Translation in the Twenty-First Century
• Discussion Group: Cosmology, Ecology, Memory: New Comparative Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann
• Èṣù at the Library: Yorùbá, AI and Mistranslation
• Aoife Cantrill
• Fiction and Other Minds: Contingent Minds: Companions, Proxies and Nobodies in Literary Writing
• Panel Discussion with Taiwanese Translators
• Translation of the Route: Reading and Conversation with Laura Wittner and Juana Adcock
• Discussion Group: Book Launch: Connecting Spaces: The Travelogues and Letters of Lady Abala Bose
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2025: "Imperfect Speakers": Understanding Exophonic Women (1)
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2025: "Imperfect Speakers": Understanding Exophonic Women (2)
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2025: "Imperfect Speakers": Understanding Exophonic Women (3)
• The Weidenfeld Lectures 2025: "Imperfect Speakers": Understanding Exophonic Women (4)
• Discussion Group: Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons: On the Multiplicity and Innovations of Contemporary Chinese Literature and Subverting Expectations
• AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation: The Second Symposium
• Fiction and Other Minds: On the Effects of Fiction on Social Cognition. Evidence from Human Experimentation, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence
• Discussion Group: Contested Narratives: Translating La Araucana
• Discussion Group: Thinking Translation and Resistance: Making and Refusing Meaning
• Discussion Group: Translation in Periodicals: Working with Series and Databases
• Theatre and Translation Roundtable
• Translated Drama Scratch Night
• Mary Katherine Newman
• Special Session of the OCCT Discussion Group: Transgressing National Imaginaries
• Shivani Arulalan Pillai
• Translating Trees, Becoming Birds: A Discussion on Folk Tales from Meghalaya
• Discussion Group: Translation as Cultural Mediation? Eighteenth-century French Treatises on Indian History
• Discussion Group: On Multiplicity: The Book Launch of Translation Multiples
• Discussion Group: Workshop on Pitching your First Book in Comparative Literature and Translation
• Discussion Group: Comparative Methodologies: Imperatives, Narratives, and Power
• Slovak Translation Workshop with Nicol Hochholczerová
• Discussion Group: What Language Do We Sing In?: On Ek Gaana Kayi Zubaan, an Indian Film Music Translation Project
• Voiced in Translation: How the Real 'Nora' Answered Back
• Oxford-Weidenfeld 2025 Longlist Announced!
• Ten Versions of Kafka, in partnership with AHRC-funded Kafka's Transformative Communities project event and the British Comparative Literature Association
• Translating Multilingual Literature: Workshop with Dr Sheela Mahadevan
• "The One Who Has Arrived Late": Bengali Translation workshop with Utsa Bose
• Translating Onomatopoeia: Creative Translation Workshop with Polly Barton, in partnership with the Queen’s College Translation Exchange
• Creative Workshop: Manifestos for Activism in Translation
• Oxford Translation Day 2025