Oxford MMLGradNetwork

Network of graduate students of the faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages @UniofOxford #OxMML

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FREE Registration is now open for Bodies & Embodiment, the 2019 Oxford MML Graduate Network conference. Taking place on 24/6/2019 @TAYOxford - register here: https://t.co/EXPOCBGfnN

[TORCH Oxford @TORCHOxford]

Doing Feminist Thinking with Judith Butler

Professor Butler will explore what 'feminist thinking' is and can be.

Fri 28 May, 6pm | Online

Live on YouTube: https://t.co/04QP1oFMq1

Please note: this event will only be available live.

[Sophia Buck @sophia_m_buck]

Reminder: Today at 5-6.30pm is our third session of 'German Studies in the UK'.
@McLellandNicola (@UniofNottingham) will talk about 'The Beginnings of German at Universities' #education #lingustitics
@OxfordGerman @ags_tweets @TheGSA @DDGCtweets
Register: https://t.co/ecLcX5piKM

[Stephen Spender Trust @StephenSpender]

Only two days to go until the launch of the #SSTPoetryPrize 2021! We'd like to encourage everyone to give it a go if you're interested, as the benefits of applying can be huge, as Jane mentions...find out more on our website at https://t.co/0DnVMiXHcF #translation #teachertwitter

[Sophia Buck @sophia_m_buck]

We have an excellent line-up: on archives and collections @IMLR_News, societies and the gender question @WIGSblog, the history of linguistics and education @McLellandNicola, universities in comparison @HLaehnemann @OxfordGerman and German Studies as a matter of foreign affairs

[Sophia Buck @sophia_m_buck]

Calling all Germanists! w/ @AndreasPSchmid @AChroidheain @SarahFengler @LaviniaKamphau1

Our Lecture series 'German Studies in the UK' traces the interwoven histories of people, institutions, practices and concepts shaping our discipline..

Register: https://t.co/ecLcX5piKM

[Sophia Buck @sophia_m_buck]

Our Keynotes Clare Hills-Nova and @emmahuber will explore the history of the Oxford Taylor Library @bodleianlibs @TAYOxford : "Unpacking Oxford’s archives – Hermann Georg Fiedler, Wilhelm (William) Cohn and Edgar Wind in Oxford" #librarianship #unsettlingthearchive

[Sophia Buck @sophia_m_buck]

We aim to investigate the link between archival-focused and utopian thinking in #GermanStudies: The nexus of the #literarycanon and #nationbuilding, #literarycriticism and #historiography, and #methodologies and #documentation! @ExpandingGerman @DDGCtweets @TheGSA @cangermstudies

[Sophia Buck @sophia_m_buck]

The programme for our 18th annual German Graduate Symposium '#archives and #utopias' is out (8 May)! @AChroidheain ! We have a very exciting and international line-up @OxfordGerman @OxfordModLangs @UniofOxford. Make sure to register via eventbrite: https://t.co/W7tJ8zn0A9

[The Queen's Translation Exchange @TranslationExch]

Calling all Postgrads & ECRs @OxfordModLangs @engfac @OrientStudiesOx ! There are lots of opportunities for involvement with the Translation Exchange at the moment, please join our open meeting on Tues 27th to find out more https://t.co/EDLWGubD8y @OxMMLGN @OxMML_Schools

[Sophia Buck @sophia_m_buck]

Our Keynotes Clare Hills-Nova and Emma Huber @emmahuber
will explore the history of German Studies at Oxford through the collections and archives of the Taylor Institution Library @TAYOxford

[Sophia Buck @sophia_m_buck]

What are the (implicit) utopias or visions in archival agendas and what is the utopian potential of unsettling the archives? What are the discursive, affective, cultural and institutional archives of utopian thought traditions within and of German Studies? #unsettlingthearchive

[Sophia Buck @sophia_m_buck]

Calling all Germanists! Aoife @AChroidheain and I organise the 18th annual German Graduate Symposium (@UniofOxford) on the topic ‘Archives and Utopias’ (#archives #utopias). The CfP is out now, so send us your ideas... @OxfordModLangs @OxfordGerman @OxfordGermanNet @TheGSA

[Sophia Buck @sophia_m_buck]

Our German Graduate Seminar 'German Studies at Oxford: Archives and Utopias of a Community of Practice' traces the intersection of #disziplingeschichte and #institutionengeschichte

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That’s it for this year! Thank you so much to all our speakers and everyone who attended for a fantastic couple of days!

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Next up, and to conclude our conference is our second keynote. Galin Tihanov (London) will be speaking on ‘Travels Across Language: Cosmopolitan Made/Unmade’

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And our final speaker panel concludes with Hannah Scheithauer @HannahScheitha1 - ‘The Scholar’s Vulnerability: Victor Klemperer, Fascist Language and the Writing of ‘Inner Emigration’’

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Up next is our final panel, on Vulnerability of Scholars’ Voices

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The first paper is from Ola Siedorkiewicz (Oxford), on Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz and the ‘ignored voice’

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The final paper on this panel will be from Stefan Kalpachev (Oxford) on ‘Translating the ‘new phase of eros’: Cavafy’s (homo)erotic poems in English translation’

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Our second panel of the day, on Translational and Transcultural Vulnerability is about to start!

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We will then hear from @BuhlVirginie (Paris) on ‘Translating Vulnerable Voices into French: The Child Narrators in Emma Donoghue’s Room and Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English