All events
Upcoming university events.
Day 3 - Reimagining Humanism: Religious Humanisms as Frameworks for Building a Common Life in a Fractured World
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 9am to 5pm
Department: Theology and Religion (Department)
Series: McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026: Reimagining Humanism
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games
A conference on Eastern and Western approaches to the reception of the classical world in video games
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 9am to 5pm
Department: Classics (Department)
Organiser: Clare Chang; Sarah Marshall
Host: Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD)
Audience: Public Format: Hybrid
Translalia: Translation in Dialogue with AI
Try new app, Translalia, to experiment with using LLMs for poetry translation.
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 9.30am to 11am
Speaker(s): Professor Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford), Dr Joseph Hankinson (University of Oxford)
Department: English (Department)
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT
Series: OCCT
Audience: Public Format: In Person
MiM: Getting the best from yourself and others
See event description for more information
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 9.30am to 2pm
Speaker(s): Paul Brankin, Marie Brankin
Department: Green Templeton College (College)
Organiser: Naomi Benson
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Translating YA and Middle Grade Literature: A Primer
Try translating Arabic YA into English (no knowledge of Arabic needed), with award-winning translator, Sawad Hussain.
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 9.30am to 11am
Speaker(s): Sawad Hussain
Department: English (Department)
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT
Series: OCCT
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Eastern Art & Chinese Paintings Poetry Gallery Tour & Workshop
In this workshop with Sascha Akhtar, you will create asemic poems with meaning beyond language. Booking required
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 10.30am to 4pm
Department: Ashmolean Museum (Department)
Organiser: Public Programmes
Series: Shaped by Nature Season
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Hélène Cixous's Angst and Claude Cahun's Cancelled Confessions: A Workshop on Translating Two 'Difficult' Stylists Over Time
In this workshop, De Muth and Lewis will offer a brief tour of their thinking and approaches to their texts.
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 11am to 1pm
Speaker(s): Sophie Lewis, Susan de Muth
Department: English (Department)
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT
Series: OCCT
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Exhibition: Oxford and the American Revolution
by Dr Grace Mallon and Dr Perry Gauci
Saturday, 13 June 2026 to Saturday, 4 July 2026, 11am - 4pm
Department: Pembroke College (College)
Organiser: Grace Mallon and Perry Gauci
Host: Prombroke College JCR Art Collection
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Feminist Translation
In this workshop we will think about what “feminist translation” is, and why it matters.
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 11.30am to 1pm
Speaker(s): Professor Helen Vassallo (University of Exeter)
Department: English (Department)
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT
Series: OCCT
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Translating Dialect
How to translate dialect?
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 11.30am to 1pm
Speaker(s): Dr Kotryna Garanasvili
Department: English (Department)
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT
Series: OCCT
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Lost Lingual: Dinara Rasuleva in Conversation with Hendrikje Dorussen
Dinara Rasuleva discusses Lost Lingual, reflecting on language, translation, identity, and culture.
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 2pm to 3pm
Speaker(s): Dinara Rasuleva, Hendrikje Dorussen
Department: English (Department)
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT
Series: OCCT
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Theatre in Translation: From Page to Stage with Foreign Affairs
What happens to a play when it moves between cultures and languages?
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 3.15pm to 4.15pm
Speaker(s): Foreign Affairs Theatre
Department: English (Department)
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT
Series: OCCT
Audience: Public Format: In Person
"This is Why": Translators on Translating
Join acclaimed literary translators to hear more about their translation practices and choices.
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 4.30pm to 5.45pm
Speaker(s): Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Dr Minna Jeffery, Colin Bramwell, Dr Nichola Smalley, Professor Francis R Jones
Department: English (Department)
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT
Series: OCCT
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Short List Readings and Prize-Giving
Short list readings and prize-giving for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2026.
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 6.15pm to 7.15pm
Department: English (Department)
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT
Series: OCCT
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Sunset Ragas: Sounds of India
Indian classical music in the stunning setting of the Worcester College gardens.
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 8.30pm to 10pm
Department: Worcester College (College)
Host: Caius Lee
Series: Music at Worcester
Audience: Public Format: In Person