The College Record 2022

Together with Margit Dirscherl, I organized a conference on ‘The Heritage of
Humanism and Enlightenment in Exile Literature’. held at St Hugh’s on 24-25 March,
and on 19-22 April I attended a conference in Munich on the Enlightenment, where
I gave the keynote address: ‘Zwei neuere Aufklärungskonzepte aus Großbritannien:
Keith Thomas und David Wootton’.
I have published a paper, originally given as the keynote at a conference of graduate
historians: ‘Epilogue: Some Problems in Historical and Literary Periodization’,
in Lucian George and Jade McGlynn (eds.), Rethinking Period Boundaries (Berlin:
de Gruyter, 2022), pp. 231-52, and contributed two articles, ‘Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe’ and ‘Heinrich Heine’, to the fourth edition of the The Oxford Dictionary
of the Christian Church (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). I also provided
the introduction and notes to Allan Blunden’s new translation of Johann Peter
Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe, published in June 2022 in the Penguin
Classics series.
Reports and College Activities
Christopher Rowland (Theology, Emeritus)
A collection of published articles and essays was published
earlier this year: ‘By Immediate Revelation’: the Nature and
History of Apocalypticism, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022.
Credit: John Cairns
Macs Smith (French)
The end of last year saw the publication of my first book,
Paris and the Parasite (MIT Press). Much of this year was
devoted to articles and talks connected to it. That included
a foray into medieval Italian literature: I contributed a chapter
on Dante Alighieri and street art to Dante Alive (Routledge)
a forthcoming volume examining the poet’s impact on
popular culture 700 years after his death. In November, I
took part in the Dante After Hours event at the Ashmolean, giving a lecture and leading
a stencil art workshop at which visitors could paint their own portrait of Dante. More
recently, I completed an article on “Parkour Fails,” a genre of YouTube videos centred
on a French urban extreme sport. I also gave my first public lecture in France in March,
at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (DFK) in Paris.
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