Catch up: Prokhorov Lecture by TJ Reed – Beginning in their times – Homer, Montaigne, Shakespeare (and some others)
TJ Reed gave the first 2016-17 Arts and Humanities Prokhorov Lecture on the topic: Beginning in their times: Homer, Montaigne, Shakespeare (and some others) on 1 December 2016.
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TJ (Jim) Reed, formerly Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, is the President of the English Goethe Society and a Fellow of the British Academy.
He is also a founding member of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense and a corresponding member of the Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften.
His books include:
- Thomas Mann: The Uses of Tradition (1974)
- The Classical Centre (1980)
- Goethe (1984)
- Schiller (1991)
- Humanpraxis Literatur (2001)
- Mehr Licht in Deutschland. Eine kleine Geschichte der Aufklärung (2009)
- Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment (2015)
TJ Reed is the recipient of the Gold Medal of the Goethe-Gesellschaft, the Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Freiburg.