For the first time, students in Britain will be judges for France’s top literary prize, the Goncourt.
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Congratulations to the winners of the first round of LIDL prizes!
Two members of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages have been recognised and awarded the title of Professor.
His Excellency Monsieur Jean-Pierre Jouyet, France's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, is leaving London to take up the position of Ambassador to the OECD in Paris
Professor Catriona Seth FBA (All Souls College) has been elected Secretary-General of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Patrick McGuinness has been elected to the Royal Society of Literature.
French Ambassador, His Excellency Mr Jean-Pierre Jouyet, presented Professor Patrick McGuinness and Mrs Geneviève Adams of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages with the insignia of chevalier and chevalière of the 'Palmes académiques'
The Voltaire Foundation is delighted to announce the award of a generous research grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant of $704,000 for a period of 18 months will enable the preliminary phase of Digital Scholarly Editions of the European Enlightenment (Digital Enlightenment).
The Faculty would like to congratulate Dr Kate Tunstall on being appointed Interim Provost of Worcester College.
Madeleine Chalmers has been selected as the winner of this year’s R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize, for her essay ‘The Surreal Technics of André Breton and Gilbert Simondon’.
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages shares the concern within the sector on the issue of severe grading in the Modern Foreign Languages A level.
Applicants for the Faculty's graduate courses have access to a wide range of funding opportunities within the Faculty and wider University.
Research within the University has found that reading complex and engaging texts is key to inspiring young learners’ interest in Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) and potentially improving how the subject is taught in UK secondary schools, according to new Oxford University research.
The Faculty are delighted to announce the launch of a new configuration of our MSt course through a partnership with the Saïd Business School. The new 1+1 MBA course with Modern Languages will be available for first intake from October 2019, and is a unique, two-year graduate experience that combines the depth of a specialised, master’s degree with the breadth of a top-ranking, one-year MBA.
Medieval and Modern Languages doctoral student Helen Craske has jointly won the prestigious Naomi Schor Memorial Award presented by the international scholarly society the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association (NCFS), at its annual conference held in late October.
The Faculty is holding an information session for MSt and MPhil programmes on Monday 26 November.
We are pleased to announce that the Zaharoff Lecture 2018 will be given by Pierre Michon. The celebrated French author will join us on November 13th, 2018 (Tuesday of 6th Week, Michaelmas Term 2018) in the Main Hall of the Taylor Institution from 5 o’clock.
All are welcome to attend.
Oxford Open Doors is the annual weekend when when we celebrate the city: its places, spaces and, most of all, its people. The Taylor Institution Library is taking part in the Oxford Open Doors event this Saturday, September 8th, 2018.
Library staff will be giving guided tours to small groups throughout the day, and visitors will be taken to the Voltaire Room to view an exhibition. We hope that this will not cause any disruption, as visitors will be advise that the library rooms are for quiet study. If you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact Joanne Ferrari (joanne.ferrari@bodleian.ox.ac.uk).
Kieran Hodgson, an alumnus of the Faculty, has been shortlisted for the best comedy award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018. His show '75 is an exploration of the prehistory of Brexit, dating not to the referendum of June 2016, but back to the 1960s and '70s.
Advertised as 'an overambitious hour of history, politics and enduring friendship punctuated by stunningly accurate impressions of dead politicians you've never heard of', '75 has been a success, with the critics especially praising Hodgson's considerable skills as an impersonator.
The show will be running until August 26th, 2018, and further details can be seen on the Pleasance Theatre Trust website. We wish Kieran the best of luck with the performances and with his nomination.