Jan Wagner will now give the Annual Poetry Society Lecture at 7pm on Monday 20 February in the Shulman Auditorium, The Queen's College, High Street Oxford. This is a new venue because of demand.
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Professor Catriona Seth has been re-elected President of SFEDS (Société Française d’Etude du XVIIIe Siècle), the interdisciplinary association of specialists of the 18th century.
The German-Japanese writer Dr Yoko Tawada will be visiting the University of Oxford from 17 February to 1 March 2017, on the invitation of DAAD-Lektor Christoph Held.
Professor Karen Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature and Fellow of New College, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
An interview with Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German, was recently published in Letter, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) alumni magazine. Henrike discusses her reactions to the Brexit vote, and those of people around her in the UK, and thoughts on how it will affect British universities.
An interview with Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German, was recently published in Letter, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) alumni magazine. Henrike discusses her reactions to the Brexit vote, and those of people around her in the UK, and thoughts on how it will affect British universities.
Dr Javier Muñoz-Basols has been elected President of ASELE (Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera).
The journal Nineteenth-Century French Studies (edited by Faculty member Professor Seth Whidden) has been named the recipient of the 2016 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Julie Curtis, Professor of Russian Literature, and Philip Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music, recently helped Garsington Opera stage a new, original production of Tchaikovsky’s best-loved opera.
On Thursday 1 December 2016, Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly was conferred with an Honorary DLitt by the National University of Ireland in Dublin. She is an alumna of the NUI, having studied German and Spanish at University College Cork for her BA and German for her MA, before taking the degree of Dr. Phil at the University of Basel.
Our school competitions are now open! Please click here for details of the annual French film competition, Oxford German Olympiad, and the NEW Spanish flash fiction competition.
Our school competitions are now open! Please click here for details of the annual French film competition, Oxford German Olympiad, and the NEW Spanish flash fiction competition.
Our school competitions are now open! Please click here for details of the annual French film competition, Oxford German Olympiad, and the NEW Spanish flash fiction competition.
Our school competitions are now open! Please click here for details of the annual French film competition, Oxford German Olympiad, and the NEW Spanish flash fiction competition.
Jack Flowers (Brasenose) has been awarded the Society for French Studies 2016 R.
Mediating Modern Poetry is pleased to host the launch of Ulrike Draesner's new version of the Nibelungenlied.
Edwin Williamson, King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies, has been elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Real Academia Española.
The University of Oxford, founded some nine centuries ago, has enjoyed the closest links, throughout its long history, with the great centres of learning across Europe.
The University of Oxford, founded some nine centuries ago, has enjoyed the closest links, throughout its long history, with the great centres of learning across Europe.
The University of Oxford, founded some nine centuries ago, has enjoyed the closest links, throughout its long history, with the great centres of learning across Europe.