OCCT TT 2020 Week 0 updates

Given the COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided to move our events online.

Oxford Translation Day will now take place as online sessions over a series of weeks, culminating with the announcement of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize shortlist on 13 June. We will also make recordings of some of Oxford Translation Day’s online sessions available on the OCCT website on 13 June.

Here is the Oxford Translation Day programme, in partnership with Modern Poetry in Translation and Queen’s Translation Exchange:

18 May, 1pm. Parwana Fayyaz on the Poets of Herat

[Live-streamed event, registration required]

25 May, 5pm. Ghost Letters: A Poetry Reading with Baba Badji

[Live-streamed event, registration required]

13 June, 3pm. Sophie Hughes Discusses the Novel Hurricane Season

[Recording will be available on OCCT website on this date]

13 June, 3pm. A.E. Stallings

[Recording will be available on OCCT website on this date]

13 June, 3pm. Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Shortlist

[Shortlist will be available on OCCT website on this date]

For further details and to register, please go to the individual events on our events page: https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/events.

The Discussion Group will run digitally on Mondays on a fortnightly basis (1pm; Weeks 2;4;6;8), and will require registration. The Week 4 Discussion Group will coincide with an Oxford Translation Day event, Parwana Fayyaz's poetry reading. For further details and to register, go to the OCCT events page: https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/events and DG page: https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/occt-discussion-group-2019-2020-comparisons-across-and-beyond-genres.

Check our website for the most up-to-date information on our events.

 

Oxford Translation Day poster