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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).
We are pleased to announce that Professor Jonathan Thacker's inaugural lecture as King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies is now available online, here.
TORCH supports various types of International Engagement, enabling and facilitating research connections and collaborations. Many of these exchanges have come through ‘bottom-up’ connections with researchers, and others are part of wider, strategic plans to encourage and support international research with Oxford.
The Faculty would like to congratulate Dr Kate Tunstall on being appointed Interim Provost of Worcester College.
We are delighted to announce four new Year Abroad Prizes, kindly sponsored by Lidl, available to students reading German.
Katrin Kohl is contributing to a Start the Week episode entitled ‘Language and Culture’ on BBC Radio 4, Monday 4th March, 9:00 and 21:30.
To celebrate the launch of the Babel: Adventures in Translation exhibition at the Weston Library, Oxford, we're holding a competition for school pupils from year 5 to year 13. There will be prizes of £50 - £100 for the winners of each age category and overall task winners.
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 are very grateful to Bosch for their funding of a graduate scholarship for a student to undertake the new 1+1 MBA/MSt German course.
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.
Karen Leeder has been awarded the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation 2018 for her translation of Durs Grünbein,'The Doctrine of Photography', which appeared in Poetry 2017. The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for translation work is permanently endowed through a fund established by Bonnie Larkin Nims, Trustees of The Poetry Foundation, and friends of the late poet, translator, and Editor of Poetry. Previous winners include: Marilyn Hacker, Eavan Boland, and Michael Hofmann 2007
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/144808/the-doctrine-of-photography
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.
The Sub-Faculty of German at the University of Oxford and German Studies at The University of Warwick are pleased to announce a series of events with the prominent German writer Olga Grjasnowa.
Tom Kuhn and David Constantine celebrate the launch of their new translation and edition, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, at the LRB Bookshop in London on 20 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.
