The Oliver Prior Society

The 2011 Oliver Prior Society programme.

gaplow — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:49:21 +0000

Here are the details of this year’s conference which is a one-day event taking place on Saturday, March 12^th at Selwyn College, Cambridge:

10.30 : Coffee

11.00 : M. Bernard Fauconnier: Sartre dramaturge, un théâtre en résistance (Lecture in French)

12.00 : Mr Anthony Earl: (formerly Eltham College) The Renaissance

1.00 : Lunch

2.00 : AGM

2.15 : Cambridge Admissions

2.45 : Dr Johannes Kaminski (Girton College): Wittgenstein’s Legacy: The Topology of Oxford and Cambridge in the works of Thomas Bernhard

3.45 : Tea

The cost of this day conference, including lunch and refreshments will be £60 (£55 for retired members).

If you would like to attend, email Stephen Edwards at Monmouth School for a registration form (sj.edwards@monmouthschool.org). Registrations must be made by 3 March.

A number of colleagues have asked about the possibility of a dinner on the Friday night and this has been arranged for 7.30 (preceded by aperitif at 7.00). No accommodation is available in the College as students will still be in residence. Members will therefore need to make their own bed and breakfast arrangements in Cambridge. The cost of the dinner, including wine, is £45.

Welcome to the Oliver Prior Society.

gaplow — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:45:27 +0000

The Oliver Prior Society is an organisation that acts as a forum for schools with candidates applying to read Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge.

It holds an annual meeting in Cambridge to enable schoolteachers and university teachers of modern languages to liaise and share information.

In the course of the meeting, those attending hear of current teaching and research in modern languages at university level. There is ample opportunity for questions and discussion.

The most recent meeting took place at Selwyn College, Cambridge on Saturday 6 March 2010, when there were stimulating talks on Kafka and on the treatment of Berlin in German cinema as well as a most helpful general introduction to current research in linguistics. The text of one of the talks is included on this site as an example – click on the banner heading above this introduction.

Next year’s meeting will also take place at Selwyn College. It will be held on Saturday 12 March 2011. If anyone wishes to be added to the mailing list for attendance, then they should contact Stephen Edwards, the Honorary Secretary, at sj.edwards@monmouthschool.org.

If you click on the banner heading above, you can find out more about how the Oliver Prior Society came into being.