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Talking Afropean

Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book.
Linguamania

Why should we read translated texts?

This episode explores what we lose or gain when we read a translated book. Are we missing something by reading the English translation and not the original language version? And what can the translation process tell us about how languages work?
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture III: Stories for the future, and how to get there

Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, gives the third and final lecture in the Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture II:Think Big! A modest argument about large scales

Martin Puchner gives the second lecture in the Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture I: The Challenge of World Literature

Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, gives the first of the Princeton University Press Lectures.
Exploring Humanities - The Ertegun Scholarship Programme

Conversation with Wole Soyinka

A wide-ranging conversation between Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and members of the Ertegun House community. Topics include the status of African literature, the relationship between creativity and ideology, Brexit, and Bob Dylan.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

The location of world literature: spaces of self-reflection

Galin Tihanov seeks to locate the Anglo-Saxon discourse of ‘world literature’ vis-à-vis three major reference points: time, space, and language, and to examine the potential of literature to construct its own images of 'world literature'.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Other Worlding

A talk given by Peter Hitchcock from the OCCT strand "Intercultural Literary Practises."
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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.
English Graduate Conference 2012

What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1

Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics.
Great Writers Inspire

What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1

Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics.

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