Storming Utopia this Saturday

The final performance of STORMING UTOPIA is this Saturday: the 'gala' opening show of the Oxford Festival of the Arts.

Part of a Knowledge Exchange Partnership between TORCH, the Pegasus Theatre, MML and others within Oxford, Storming Utopia, co-directed by Wes Williams, and featuring a number of MML colleagues and students as performers, is a show generated by discussions about ideal communities and life in post-Brexit Britain: our group of performers includes academics, refugees, students, and primary school children, cellists, dancers, historians of the theatre, and geographers....

Oxford German Olympiad Essay Prize for Sixth-Formers

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new prize as part of the Oxford German Olympiad: 'A German Classic: Goethe’s Faust, part I - Essay Prize for Sixth-Formers'

The Prize is designed to be the focus of an annual celebration of a classic text of German literature, providing resources that will remain available via our website for the future.

Portuguese Graduate Student interviewed in Brazilian Press

DPhil student, Daniel Mandur Thomaz, was interviewed in the Brazilian newspaper, the Folha de São Paulo, about his research into Antonio Callado and the radio plays he produced for the BBC's Brazilian Service.

Spanish Flash Fiction Competition 2017 Results

Telling a story in just 100 words is no easy task, but our entrants were up for a challenge. What impressed the judges was not just how complete these stories could be, but how they managed to surprise the reader, reimagining familiar situations from a new perspective. The judges chose to award a joint first prize in the Years 7-11 category, and a first prize in the Years 12-13 category.

'New Queer Greece'; Performance, Politics, Identity

This one day colloquium on Saturday 10th June is organized under the auspices of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture and the Sub-Faculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek, Oxford. It was made possible thanks to a generous grant by the Onassis Foundation. All welcome. No prior booking required.

Workshop on Crises of Meaning and Political Theology

The Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse research network at TORCH is delighted to host a workshop on 'Crises of Meaning and Political Theology' on the afternoon of 6 June. Speakers will include: All are welcome. Coffee, tea and biscuits will be provided.

Guest Professorship for Catriona Seth in Augsburg

Catriona Seth has been appointed Guest Professor for Transnational Research by the Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum at the University of Augsburg.

Call for Speakers: Reading of Luther's 'Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen'

To celebrate Oxford’s Bonn Week, Oxford's Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, Prof. Henrike Lähnemann, is looking for German speakers who would like to take part in a public reading of Martin Luther’s ‘Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen’ in German which is scheduled to take place on 25 May, 4-5:30pm, at the Taylor Institution Library, Oxford.

Reformation500 meets Bonn70

2017 sees the 500th anniversary of the German Reformation, a movement that shaped European history, and to mark Oxford's Bonn Week a series of events are taking place which mark both celebrations.

Bringing Proust's Imaginary Music to Life

Friday 5 May saw the culminating event of an exciting collaboration between the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and the Faculty of Music in Oxford. The project, generously supported by the John Fell OUP Research Fund, has been investigating the descriptions of the imaginary sonata for piano and violin of the fictional composer Vinteuil from Marcel Proust's famous long novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).

Paget Toynbee Lecture 2017 - CANCELLED

We regret to announce that the Paget Toynbee Lecture 2017 has been cancelled.



Professor Ascoli is an eminent scholar in Medieval and Early Modern Italian culture. His interests include the relations between literary form and history; the author-reader relationship; the construction of Italian national identity; literary politics of gender; Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto, Shakespeare. He is the author of the celebrated study, Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (Cambridge, 2008), and has recently completed editing the Cambridge Companion to Petrarch (2015).

French Film Competition 2017

2017 sees the sixth year of Oxford University’s French film competition, in which school pupils are invited to watch (a) selected French film(s), and write an essay or script re-imagining the ending.

L'idée de l'Europe au Siècle des Lumières

During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continent’s future, in particular when stressing their hope that peace could be secured in Europe. Published in French, and edited by academics from the University of Oxford and the University of Augsburg, with colleagues from different European countries, this volume gathers such texts on Europe, its history, its diversity, but also on what its nations have in common.

Portuguese Ambassador visits Oxford

On Wednesday 26 April 2017, H. E. Manuel Lobo Antunes, the Portuguese ambassador to the UK was welcomed by staff and students in the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese.

Inspirational Teacher Honoured by Oxford University

Debra Walsh, teacher of French at Brynteg Comprehensive School in Bridgend, is one of ten state school teachers who have been recognised by the University of Oxford's annual Inspirational Teachers Awards. She was nominated by Elis Harrington, a first-year student at Jesus College studying French and German.

Oxford Ranked Second in Complete University Guide 2018

The University of Oxford has been ranked second in the Complete University Guide for 2018 entry, and very highly across the board for language subjects.

Neil Kenny & Patrick McGuinness Win R. Gapper Book Prize

The Faculty is delighted to report that Neil Kenny and Patrick McGuinness have been announced as the joint winners of the prestigious R. Gapper Book Prize for their publications Death and Tenses: Posthumous Presence in Early Modern France (Oxford: OUP, 2015) and Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France (Oxford: OUP, 2015) respectively.

Des boulevards aux jardins : rituels de la promenade au XVIIIe siècle

The MFO is hosting a two day conference jointly organised by Sophie Lefay (Université d'Orléans), Laurent Turcot (Université du Québec à Trois Rivières) and Catriona Seth (University of Oxford) on walking and social rituals in the 18th century. It will include papers on national characteristics of walks, literary and educational walks, royal progresses and botanical collections, garden fashions and commercial activities for walkers. All welcome.

Conversation with Delphine de Vigan

Prize-winning French author and film producer, Delphine de Vigan, will be in conversation with Henriette Korthlas Altes (MFO) and Catriona Seth (All Souls) at Jesus College, in the Harper Room at Jesus College at 5.15 P.M. on Wednesday 26th April.

Professor Catriona Seth Interviewed on French Radio

Oxford academic Professor Catriona Seth is interviewed on French radio by philosopher Adèle van Reeth. They discuss Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), a 'thinker without borders', whose works include essays, novels and political pamphlets and whose ideas often show preoccupations with themes which are still present in contemporary debates, from the role of fiction to the way culture can serve to unite people.