Spanish and Portuguese Open Day

Open Day for prospective Undergraduate students applying to study Spanish and Portuguese will take place on Thursday, March 1st, 2018. We welcome everyone interested in these subjects and, as the spaces are limited, encourage you to register as soon as possible.

The Open Day will feature a mix of talks and academic taster sessions, with opportunities to ask questions about the course and application process. Visitors will meet students and staff of the Faculty, including Professor Ben Bollig (Spanish) and Professor Cláudia Pazos-Alonso (Portuguese).

Film Screening: The Lefty

The Russian Sub-Faculty alongside the Vintage Film Club is very pleased to continue the Russian classic film series as part of the European Humanities Research Centre Visibility Project. The project aims to introduce film adaptations of Russian classical literature to students in connection with the FHS course in Russian (Papers VIII and X). Also, anyone interested in Russian literature and language is welcome.

The Multiple Legacies of Rosa Luxemburg: Symposium

On Friday, February 23rd the Faculty, together with The European Humanities Research Centre and Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, invites you to 'The Multiple Legacies of Rosa Luxemburg' symposium.

The event is dedicated to the life, thought and legacy of Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), one of the most creative writers of modern socialism, a leading Jewish intellectual and the foremost female theoretician of European radicalism. The symposium is free and open to the public.

Brazil Week 2018

The University of Oxford's "Brazil Week" aims to raise awareness about the richness and diversity of Brazilian culture by organising a number of free events open not only to students and academics, but also to the general public. It celebrates the fact that there are so many academics and students at the University of Oxford who are working in and on Brazil (from areas as wide-ranging as Literature, Politics, Anthropology, Environmental Science, Linguistics, Theology and Ethnomusicology), and to bring them together.

Conversation avec Emmanuel Guibert

As part of the Seminar on Contemporary French Writing and Culture, author, illustrator, and graphic artist Emmanuel Guibert will be a guest in the ‘Conversations avec…’ series. The conversation will be convened by Professor Catriona Seth and Professor Seth Whidden and take place on Monday, February 19th at Queen's College.

This event is free and open to all, and will be in French.

Luther for Everybody

Craig Harline (Brigham Young) Luther for Everybody, followed by a presentation of Reformation pamphlets held by the Taylor Library, introduced by Henrike Lähnemann.

Book Reading: Christiane Rösinger

As part of the WiR-Programmes from the DAAD, the German author and songwriter Christiane Rösinger reads from her latest book Zukunft machen wir später. Meine Deutschstunden mit Geflüchteten, in which she describes her experiences as a voluntary DaZ teacher in Berlin.

Romance Linguistics Seminar: 'Accounting for Portuguese double past participle forms'

5pm, Thursday 15 February (Week 5)

Research Seminar: 'Colonial genealogies, Masculinity and the Conquest in Pepetela's Yaka (1985) and Arnaldo Dos Santos's A Casa Velha das Margens (1999)'

2-4pm, Tuesday 13 February (Week 5)

Taylor Lecture 2018

This year’s Taylor Lecture will be given by Dr Neil MacGregor, renowned art historian and a graduate of the Faculty (French and German, 1967). Titled 'The Humboldt Forum: Two Brothers, a Palast and a Schloß', the lecture will explore world history through a Berlin lens.

Film Screening: A Bad Good Person

The Russian Sub-Faculty alongside the Vintage Film Club is very pleased to continue the Russian classic film series as part of the European Humanities Research Centre Visibility Project. The project aims to introduce film adaptations of Russian classical literature to students in connection with the FHS course in Russian (Papers VIII and X). Also, anyone interested in Russian literature and language is welcome.

German Open Day

Open Day for prospective Undergraduate students applying to study German will take place on Saturday, February 24th, 2018. We welcome everyone interested in these subjects and, as the spaces are limited, encourage you to register as soon as possible.

The Open Day will feature a mix of talks and academic taster sessions, with opportunities to ask questions about the course and application process. Visitors will meet students and staff of the Faculty, including Professor Henrike Lähnemann and Professor Ben Morgan.

Poetry Reading: Michael Krüger and Paul Muldoon

Michael Krüger and Paul Muldoon are coming to Queen's College for a poetry reading and discussion of politics and translation. Everyone is welcome to join.

Film Screening: The Overcoat

The Russian Sub-Faculty alongside the Vintage Film Club is very pleased to continue the Russian classic film series as part of the European Humanities Research Centre Visibility Project. The project aims to introduce film adaptations of Russian classical literature to students in connection with the FHS course in Russian (Papers VIII and X). Also, anyone interested in Russian literature and language is welcome.

Howard Jones (Keble) Translating Luther's Sermon on Indulgences and Grace and 95 Theses and Edmund Wareham (Somerville) Translating the Passional of Christ and Antichrist. This event will showcase new translations which will appear in the Treasures of the Taylorian Reformation Pamphlets book series.

Research Seminar: 'The British Enclave at Oporto in the early Nineteenth Century'

2-4pm, Tuesday 23 January (Week 2)

Les Lumières au pluriel

A conference on Les Lumières au pluriel marks a stage of the ANR/DFG-funded EDULUM project. It is being held on 14-16 December at the Maison Française in Oxford and at All Souls College, with support from both organisations and from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford.

Film Screening: The Wedding

The Russian Sub-Faculty alongside the Vintage Film Club is very pleased to show films based on Russian classical literature as a part of the European Humanities Research Centre Visibility Project. On 1 December (Friday), we will show the film adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's play The Wedding (directed by Vitaly Mel'nikov, 1977).

If you, or any of your students, are interested in applying for 2018 entry, the Faculty is holding an information session on Modern Languages Masters courses.

Richard Jenkyns – Jane Austen 200 years on

On 21 November, Richard Jenkyns, former Public Orator, and a direct descendant of Jane Austen’s brother, will be giving a talk at the Taylorian on the Austen family music books.