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On Thursday 1 December 2016, Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly was conferred with an Honorary DLitt by the National University of Ireland in Dublin. She is an alumna of the NUI, having studied German and Spanish at University College Cork for her BA and German for her MA, before taking the degree of Dr. Phil at the University of Basel.
Our school competitions are now open! Please click here for details of the annual French film competition, Oxford German Olympiad, and the NEW Spanish flash fiction competition.
Andrea Klaus (University of Warwick) and Silke Mentchen (University of Cambridge) have written a detailed report into the reasons why the Erasmus+ scheme is so essential to academia.
Jack Flowers (Brasenose) has been awarded the Society for French Studies 2016 R.
On 16 November 2016, members of the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese met President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa at the Portuguese Embassy in London on the occasion of his first state visit to the United Kingdom. In the Picture (from Left to Right): Prof. T. F.
Are you thinking about how to engage others with your research? The Library recognises that its collections provide opportunities for valuable user engagement activities and can help to support a number of different approaches to creating an impact.
St Cross College in partnership with the Sino-British Fellowship Trust (SBFT) offers the following scholarship for which it invites applications from applicants who will be studying for a doctoral degree in the Humanities at the University of Oxford in th
Mediating Modern Poetry is pleased to host the launch of Ulrike Draesner's new version of the Nibelungenlied.
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Langauges and the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics are hosting a three-day workshop MAPS AND BEYOND: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) FOR LINGUISTS (22 October, 5 November, 19 November).
Edwin Williamson, King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies, has been elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Real Academia Española.
Translations of poetry by Ulrike Almut Sandig win PEN presents translation ptich prize as part of #ELNF2016. Sandig's Thick of it (Dickicht) was honoured by judges Max Porter, Meike Ziervogel and Stefan Tobler at this years's ceremony.
The University of Oxford, founded some nine centuries ago, has enjoyed the closest links, throughout its long history, with the great centres of learning across Europe.
On June 25th the French Ambassador, Her Excellency Madame Sylvie Bermann made the posthumous award of the highest rank in the ‘Ordre des Palmes Académiques’ to the late Michael Sheringham, who was, until last year, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature. Professor Michel Murat of the Sorbonne came over from Paris for the ceremony and gave the following address:
2016 marks the fifth year of Oxford University’s French film competition, in which school pupils are invited to watch a selected French film, and write an essay or script re-imagining the ending.
“Greek Studies in 15th Century Europe” is a Marie Curie individual research project held by Dr. Paola Tomè and financed by the European Union at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages in Oxford.
The OUSU Student-led Teaching Awards provide students every year with direct opportunities to recognise excellence in teaching by nominating their tutors and lecturers for awards in various categories, including Most Acclaimed Lecturer, Outstanding Tutor