Ambassador’s German-British Friendship Award recognizes Oxford German Network’s contribution to strengthening bonds of friendship between Germany and the UK
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Professor Emma Bond leads a new UKRI-funded grant on the African collections of Italian explorer, Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti.
The Faculty congratulates Sir Robin Niblett who read Modern Languages as an undergraduate in the 1990s on his appointment as Warden of New College. Election of New Warden | New College
We are delighted to share details about this year’s conference for MFL Teachers which will take place on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 September 2025 at Somerville College, Oxford.
View the results of our 2025 Flash Fiction Competitions in French and Spanish for secondary school students.
Professor Papaioannou joins the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
The Faculty is delighted to have been awarded Bronze award through the Athena Swan Charter. The Athena Swan Charter is a framework which is used across the globe to support and transform gender equality within higher education and research.
Ian Maclachlan has won the prize awarded by the Modern Language Review for the best article published in 2024, for his essay on 'Nicolas Pesquès and the Ecology of Life-Writing: Human and Non-Human Relations in La Face nord de Juliau'.
Nikolaj Lübecker has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2025-26. Nikolaj’s project – entitled The World Brain, A Cultural History – explores the sometimes utopian, sometimes dystopian idea that the world coheres as a cognisant system.
The British edition of the prestigious French literary prize has been held in London on 28th March.
The Faculties of History and Medieval and Modern Languages along with St Hilda’s College, Oxford are delighted to be offering a Study Day dedicated to Year 12 state school students looking to study History and a Modern Language at University/Oxford!
Karen Leeder discusses The Café with No Name with Austrian Writer for Oxford Literary Festival Thursday 3rd April, 2 pm 1 hour Bodleian Convocation House £8 £15 tickets here International bestselling Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler talks about his late
Karen Leeder has been longlisted for the prestigious Griffin International Poetry Prize 2025 with her translation of Psyche Running.
Year 12 BAME students attending state schools can now apply to attend our virtual Humanities Study Day.
It is with great sadness that we inform members of the Faculty of the death of Professor Martin McLaughlin, Emeritus Agnelli-Serena Chair of Italian and Fellow of Magdalen College. Martin passed away peacefully at Sobell House at 6.30 on Friday morning.
Congratulations to doctoral student Anna Glieden, who has been awarded a prestigious Wiedemann-Fellowship for Enlightenment Research at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) in Halle.
We are delighted that award-winning and internationally best-selling novelist, essayist, critic and poet Tahar Benjelloun will be giving the 2025 Zaharoff lecture.
Ola Sidorkiewicz has been awarded a scholarship by the Institute for the Development of Polish Language, part of the Polish Ministry of Education in recognition of her efforts to promote the study of Polish language and culture abroad.