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OCCT Review Book Club

Friday 20 November 2026
17:00 - 18:00
Seminar Room 10, St Anne's College

OCCT Review Editors

Join us for the new OCCT Review Book Club where we discuss new works in comparative literature and translation studies. In these sessions, we will either be discussing texts that are still looking for a reviewer or spotlighting a recent review from the journal. The book club is for anyone interested in writing for the OCCT Review or simply curious about current trends in these fields. 

For our first meeting, we will be discussing The Poetics of Self-translation by Rainier Grutman (Routledge, 2026). Please read the first chapter, ‘Translating (by) themselves?’, in preparation: the text is available online via SOLO. 

Tea, coffee, & sweet treats provided! 

Upcoming events at OCCT

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Discussion Group: Translingual Narrative in Zulu South African and Hispanophone Equatoguinean Novels

19 October
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In Conversation with Czech Author and Translator Viktorie Hanišová

22 October
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Book Launch: The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures by Xiaofan Amy Li

22 October
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Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!

26 October
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Discussion Group: Maps of the word: topographies and topoi of world literature

02 November
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World Comparative Literature Doctoral Forum (i)

02 November
Fiction and Other Minds

Fiction & Other Minds: Mind-body Dualism as Social Signalling

04 November
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Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!

09 November
Book Cover Translate and Rule by Hannah Scott Deucher

Book Launch: Translate and Rule by Hannah Scott Deuchar

12 November
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Discussion Group: Lyrics Nestled in Narrative: Folksongs as Poems and Paratexts in a Bihari Colonial Romance

16 November
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20 November
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Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!

23 November
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Discussion Group: Modernist Mathematics in Late Imperial Russian and Early Soviet Culture

30 November
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