Professor Carolin Duttlinger went on BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ last week to discuss the life, work and legacy of Walter Benjamin.
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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!
We are delighted to announce that Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, FBA, will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in June 2022, to honour her contribution to German studies.
Two colleagues have been awarded the title of full Professor in the most recent Recognition of Distinction exercise.
Colleagues will be saddened to learn that Richard Parish, Emeritus Professor of French, Fellow of St Catherine's College and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, died on 1 January 2022. Richard was a distinguished scholar and a wonderful colleague, and will be much missed by colleagues and friends.
The University of Oxford has launched its ‘gran finale’ for Dante in Oxford 2021 – a schools competition celebrating Italy’s most famous poet.
We’re delighted to announce the return of our ever-popular French and Spanish Flash Fiction competitions for school students.
Jonathan Thacker and Roy Norton of the Sub-Faculty of Spanish have co-edited a 'Companion to Calderón de la Barca', the most significant seventeenth-century Spanish playwright.et
The Maison Française d'Oxford are hosting an exhibition called 'From history painting to Steve Bell's cartoons. Parodies of Napoleonic art (1801-2019)' until 10 January 2022.