Dr Clare Connors (UEA) and Prof Wen-Chin Ouyang (SOAS) will explore the place of creativity in recent Western and classical Arabic literary criticism. Respondent: Dr Helen Slaney. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Short presentation by Andrew Klevan, followed by discussion. This seminar launched the Languages of Criticism project which brings together experts in literature, film, visual art and music to pursue a comparative investigation of criticism’s practices, their intellectual basis, and the potential for re-grounding and enriching them. We used examples from a variety of art forms to initiate questions regarding the creative possibilities of criticism. Among those present were Céline Sabiron,...

Prof. Matthew Kieran (Leeds) Tuesday January 28th, 4-6pm, Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities. Preparatory reading is here and the speaker’s homepage is here/ http://www.matthewkieran.com/ Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Prof Derek Matravers (The Open University) on Malcolm Budd’s “The Intersubjective Validity of Aesthetic Judgements”. Tuesday February 18th, 4-6pm, Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities. Speaker homepage. The paper is available to Oxford participants here via Weblearn. Those who are unable to read all of it may focus on sections XII to XV (p359-end). Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Prof. Paul Crowther (Galway) on the Canon. Convened by Dr. Klevan and Dr. Grant. Pre-seminar Reading available at https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/fceac83f-391f-437f-b4bf-91214ee1efaa/Philosophy%20of%20Criticism/Brit%20J%20Aesthetics-2004-Crowther-361-77.pdf Tuesday 6 May, 5-6.30pm, Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Prof. Berys Gaut (St Andrews) on Creativity Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Salim Bachi is author of Le Chien d’Ulysse (2001), Le Silence de Mahomet (2010), Moi, Khaled Khelkal (2012), and other books. He will read from his work (with a translation provided), and discuss the seminar theme. Other speakers are: Patrick Crowley (Uni Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Dr. Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht), Prof. Peter McDonald (English), and Prof. Elleke Boehmer (English) Here are the examples which Peter McDonald is referring to in the recording: J. Hillis Miller, ‘The University of Dissensus’, Oxford Literary Review, 17:1-2 (1995), pp.-126-27 Xu Bing, ‘Nursery Rhymes 5’, 1994 Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Absent Traveller (1991/2008), p. 4 Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Songs of Kabir (2011), pp. 78-9 James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939), p. 203 ...

Peter Ghosh and Jonathan Katz on Translation and Fictionality Mr Peter Ghosh, a historian and translator of Max Weber, and Dr Jonathan Katz, a classicist and translator of Joseph Roth explore how the distinction between fiction and non-fiction might matter to translation. Chaired by Patrick McGuinness Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Prof Patrick McGuinness (MML) on pseudo translations and Dr Adriana X Jacobs (Oriental Studies) on rogue translations. Respondent: Kasia Szymanska. Wednesday 14 May, 4-6.30pm, Seminar Room 7, St Anne’s College with Prof Patrick McGuinness (MML) on pseudo translations and Dr Adriana X Jacobs (Oriental Studies) on rogue translations. Respondent: Kasia Szymanska. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales;...

Matthew Reynolds, Laura Marcus, Mohamed-Salah Omri and Terence Cave on the futures of comparative criticism; followed by discussion.

Katrin Kohl on metaphors of comparison, Ami Li on temporality and interpretive contexts, Carole Bourne-Taylor on Michel Deguy.

Joep Leerssen on Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Philologists: Comparative Literature between National Ethnicity and Global Empire.

Tania Demetriou on the non-existent classical epyllion; Helen Slaney on dilettante comparatists; Henriette Korthals Altes on dance and text; John McKeane on Sophocles, Holderlin and Lacoue-Labarthe.

Ritchie Robertson on Weltliteratur before Goethe; Wen-Chin Ouyang's response; Sowon Park on world literature and the pan-Asian empire.