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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
The EHRC committee is pleased to announce the first recipients of the new Visibility Award Scheme for staff and students in Modern Languages. Number 4 up is, Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 5x5, the pilot for a multimedia project aimed at making modern language texts more accessible and engaging for today’s students.
More information on French seminars, lectures and conferences in Oxford hosted by the Maison Française d'Oxford is available here.
Annabel Rowntree, a first year doctoral student at LMH, has been announced as the runner up of this year’s Juan Facundo Riaño Essay medal.
Oxford University has come top in the 2016 QS World University Rankings for Modern Languages. The annual QS World University Rankings is a comprehensive guide to the world’s top universities in a range of popular subject areas.
Researchers from six universities with joint expertise in over 40 languages will collaborate with 16 external partners to investigate the connection between languages and creativity in an ambitious research programme funded by the AHRC. The £4 million Oxford-led programme on Creative Multilingualism forms part of the Open World Research Initiative (OWRI), together with programmes led by Cambridge, King’s College London and Manchester. Over four years, they will seek to place languages at the heart of academic and public life.
The EHRC committee is pleased to announce the first recipients of the new Visibility Award Scheme for staff and students in Modern Languages. Number 3 up is the project to complement a successful subtitling project with new material.
The EHRC committee is pleased to announce the first recipients of the new Visibility Award Scheme for staff and students in Modern Languages. Number 2 up is the project to roll out a successful blog on poetry and translation
The EHRC committee is pleased to announce the first recipients of the new Visibility Award Scheme for staff and students in Modern Languages. Number 1 up is the project to map the correspondence of Catherine the Great.
Oxford alumna Imogen Taylor has won the 2016 Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation. This year’s judges were Anthea Bell, Jens Boyer and Paula Johnson. Imogen Taylor studied French and German at New College, Oxford and the Humboldt University in Berlin. She now works as a freelance translator and academic in Berlin. Her translations include Sascha Arango’s The Truth and Other Lies. Taylor receives an award of €1,000 and will attend the 2016 Leipzig Book Fair between 17 and 20 March, including the International Translators’ meeting on 13 March.
Daljit Nagra – Radio 4 & 4 Extra’s Poet in Residence – has selected Karen Leeder's ‘Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus - Dancing the Orange’ for Radio 4 Extra’s ‘Poetry Extra’ slot on Sunday 24th April 2016 at 5.00pm, with a repeat the next morning.