Several current Portuguese students and recent graduates of the Faculty have been providing translations for literary project Maps of Confinement, drawing together a manifesto of confinement experienced during the pandemic.
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Our colleagues from The Queen's College share details of their next International Book Club meeting - a really wonderful opportunity for school students to engage with literature from around the world!
On 24 February, Prof. Natalia Nowakowska (Oxford) delivered an Ilchester Lecture on the topic From Tribe to Dynasty? Globalizing the Jagiellonians of Central Europe (1377-1596).
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and the Sub-Faculty of Russian and Slavonic Languages join our colleagues at ASEEES, AATSEEL, BASEES, and across the Slavic studies community in strongly deploring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We stand with all those who oppose this act of aggression, and we wish for the safety of our colleagues, students, friends, and family in the region.
We are delighted to announce the launch of the freely searchable CAT19 database of French novels from 1801-1830.
Andrew Kahn and Irina Reyfman's translation of Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow (Columbia University Press, 2020) has been awarded the 2021 AATSEEL Book Prize for Best Literary Translation.
This year's Brazil Week focussed on the cultural impact of the ‘Semana de Arte Moderna’ [Modern Art Week].
Professor Carolin Duttlinger went on BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ last week to discuss the life, work and legacy of Walter Benjamin.
Professor Karen Leeder is the winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2021 of the Society of Authors for her translation of Durs Grünbein, Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City.
Applications for the BAME Humanities Study Day are open until 20th February.
Sophie Forst has written all about her studies, which has been possible due to the support of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation and Lidl GB.
Dr Alex Lloyd will be talking about her new book 'Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets' at the 2022 Oxford Literary Festival.
Jack Nunn (Worcester College) has been voted this year’s winner, for his essay on ‘New Ecologies: Plants, Stones, Robots’
Dr Belinda Jack was interviewed on Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on Radio 4 last week.
The Michaelmas edition of The Oxford Polyglot is now available.
As part of this third edition, the Maison Française d’Oxford will be hosting a series of special events on youTube, starting with Christine Angot on 26 January and Louis-Philippe Dalembert on 9 February.
Harriet McKinley-Smith has just been awarded a Fondation Wiener-Anspach doctoral fellowship for 2022-23.
Notes the completion of the pilot project to digitise, annotate, and collect the metadata of one of the great eighteenth-century correspondences.
Applications for Oxford's flagship access and outreach programme are now open!