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GSAA Canberra 2016
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
Rilke Today: Poetry, Philosophy, Reflection
Delighted to be taking part in a panel discussion with Cat Moir, Chris Edwards and Luke Fisher on the poetry, philosophy, and reception of the work of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) in Sydney next week on Monday Monday, 28th November, 5.30 p.m. Find out more here
Ulrike Draesner Nibelungen. Heimsuchung Book Launch
Please join Mediating Modern Poetry for the launch of Ulrike Draesner's new version of the Nieblungenlied: Nibelungen. Heimsuchungen (Reclam 2016).
This will take place on Tuesday 8th November (Tues of 5th week) at 5.30pm in Lecture Room 6, New College.
Karen Leeder to talk about Ulrike Draesner's radical translation of Shakespeare in 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
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
Ulrike Draesner and Ewan Fernie on translating Shakespeare
Ulrike Draesner in conversation with Ewan Fernie and chair Matthew Reynolds on her radical translations of Shakespeare's sonnets
Radical Transaltion Radical Transformation
St Anne's College, Seminar Room 9
Transgressions: Karen Leeder to talk Poetry and Translation with Stephen Romer and Jamie McKendrick for 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
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
Rereading East Germany is Book at Lunchtime
Karen Leeder Rereading East Germany: The Literature and Film of the GDR (Cambridge: CUP, 2016; paperback 2019).Featured in the Book at lunchtime series May 2016: an interdisciplinary launch hosted by TORCH, Oxford with invited panelists: Sara Jones, Dennis Tate, Marc Silbermann and introidcued by Tom Smioth.
Karen Leeder with Poet in the City at Lutonia! Spoken Word Festival
Karen Leeder in conversation about Shakespeare's sonnets with Don Paterson and Mimi Khalvati at Lutonia! on Sunday 20th March 2016: 17.30pm
http://www.lutonculture.com/luton-library-theatre/whats-on/2016/03/20/shakespeares-sonnets/1805/