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Thursday 16th – Friday 17th July 2026Room 2, Taylorian Institute, University of OxfordSt Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3NA directions On the occasion of the two-day international conference ‘E. T. A. Hoffmann and Other Bodies’ organised Dr Joanna Neilly (University of Oxford) and Dr Eleoma Bodammer (University of Edinburgh) in the author’s 250th anniversary year.in Oxford, the …
FROM SHAME TO FAME. CELESTINA’S VISUAL CULTURE IN OXFORD LIBRARIESVOLTAIRE ROOM, TAYLOR INSTITUTIONMonday 11 May 2026 (Week 3), 9–11.309–9.45: Guided visit to the exhibition, Dr María Bastianes and Dr Amaranta Saguar García (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)9.45–10.10: Break10.10–10.40: Celestina as Theatre, Dr María Bastianes10.45–11.15: Celestina and the History of the Book, Dr Amaranta Saguar García11.20–11.30: General …
The edition ‘Wider die Rotten der Bauern’ / ‘Against the Bands of Peasants’ launched on Friday, 28 November 2025, in the Taylor Institution Library. The edition comprises a historical and bibliographic introduction as well as the edition, translation, and facsimile. Watch the launch with a full reading of the pamphlet below. Ebook of the volume …
To celebrate the 2025 conference of the Association for German Studies (AGS), the Taylorian is showing a special exhibition linked to the theme of the conference ‘German in the World’, opening on 2 September 2025 and running until end of October 2025. The catalogue is open access available via the Publications website of the Taylor …
Exhibition in the Voltaire Room, Taylor Institution Library29 May to 13 June 2024 Who was Kafka? It is hard to escape Kafka at the moment in Oxford, with the Kafka24 celebrations marking 100 years since his death, on 3 June 1924. He is one of the most significant German-language authors of the 20th century, and …
Exhibition in the Voltaire Room in the Taylor Institution Library May-June 2024 to accompany the workshop ‘The Reading and Reception of the Homeric Poems and the Nibelungenlied in Germany and Europe from the Eighteenth Century to the Present‘. Download the publication including a full catalogue of the exhibition: Mary Boyle, Philip Flacke, Timothy Powell: Epic! Homer and …
Special Collections Exhibition | Taylor Institution Library | University of Oxford 14 – 26 June 2024 When we pick up a book, we often forget that as well as reading a text we are looking at an object. Unlike the relative intangibility of words, which dwell in our minds and memories as well as on …
During Michaelmas Term 2023, Kira Kohlgrüber (Frankfurt) and Karen Wenzel (Augsburg) worked as research interns with Henrike Lähnemann. Here Kira reports on behalf of both of them on highlights of their time in the city, on working with manuscripts, Reformation pamphlets, and xml, and being part of the History of the Book group at the …
For Volume 6 of the series ‘Reformation Pamphlets’, a team of Germanists from Halle and Oxford have edited two short polemical texts from 1523 held in the Taylorian by Martin Luther, dealing with the question whether monks and nuns should leave their monastic houses: Deutung der greulichen Figur des Mönchkalbs (‘Interpretation of the Gruesome Figure …
The Taylor Institution’s collection of Georges de Peyrebrune’s Works, a unique collection in the UK. by Marie Martine, DPhil in Modern Languages (German and French) I came across Georges de Peyrebrune during the first year of my DPhil as I was looking for women writers in contact with naturalist literary circles in end-of-nineteenth-century France. I …