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Launch of Works on Lateness

Friday, December 9, 2016 - 18:30
Council Room Kings College, London

Pleased to anounce the joint launch of three volumes about lateness which might be of interest to you.

Ben Hutchinson, Lateness and Modern European Literature (OUP, 2016)

Karen Leeder (ed.), Figuring Lateness in Modern German Culture, a special edition of New German Critique (2015)

Gordon McMullan and Sam Smiles (eds), Late Style and its Discontents: Essays in Art, Literature and Music (OUP, 2016)

GSAA Canberra 2016

Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - 18:45

I am honured and delighted to be invited as a special guest of the

German Studies Association of Australia (GSAA)
International Conference
30 November – 2 December 2016
Australian National University, Canberra

to Canberra in December 2016. Also delighted I shall be going to Sydney to talk about the MMP Rilke on a roundtable and Contemporary German Poetry in a guest lecture and to Melbourne to talk about German poetry too

Details soon

Karen Leeder to talk about Ulrike Draesner's radical translation of Shakespeare in Berlin

Thursday, September 8, 2016 - 16:15 to Saturday, September 10, 2016 - 13:45
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Berlin

Very pleased that the wonderful symposium on Ulrike Draesner that took place in New College Oxford in April 2016 has led to a number of spin offs.

I shall speak at the conference "As you like it“? Kanon-Bildung und europäische Kultur im 21. Jahrhundert in Berlin in September 2016 sponsored by the Adenauer Stiftung organised by Prof Michael Braun.

Talking Leipzig Literature and Revolution at the Proms

Monday, August 29, 2016 - 17:45
Imperial College
Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester

Proms Extra 29 August 2016

17.45 pm

As the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performs at the Proms, novelist Philip Kerr and historian Karen Leeder talk about East and West Germany, their differences and similarities and how massive peaceful demonstrations in Leipzig in 1989 triggered the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Edited version broadcast on BBC Radio 3 during the interval

Transgressions: Karen Leeder to talk Poetry and Translation with Stephen Romer and Jamie McKendrick for Oxford Translation Day

Saturday, June 11, 2016 - 11:30
St Anne's College, Seminar Room 9
Oxford Translation Day

Very pleased to be taking part in  a wonderful rosta of events for Oxford Translation Day 2016 on 11 June 2016, at St Anne's College with Stephen Romer and Jamie McKendrick

Book your tickets here

PEN Translation Pitch

Saturday, June 4, 2016 - 14:30

Gearing up for the PEN Translation Pitch at the Free Word Centre on Thursday 9th June alongside some terrific translators and works. Come and support!

Translation Pitch: New Literary Voices with PEN Presents

Six enthralling books by contemporary European writers which have not yet been translated into English will be pitched live

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