The first full-scale production on the stage at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities is Headlong’s radical reimagining of Karel Čapek’s ‘robot play’, R.U.R., which was first performed in 1920 and brought Czech literature to the world.
Professor Catriona Seth was Andrew McGregor's 'expert guest' for BBC Radio 3's broadcast of "The Marriage of Figaro" from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
The conference 'E. T. A.
Prof. Karen Leeder was delighted to fly the flag for UK German Studies at a special event at the Goethe Institute to mark the move of the DAAD into the Goethe Institute in London on 30th June 2026. Pleased to see so many colleagues too.
The 2027 Bukhman International Booker Prize committee has been announced. The panel includes the writer, translator and Oxford Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Patrick McGuinness.
Imagine being a school pupil charged with awarding a prize to a contemporary novelist. That is the idea behind the Schools' Laureate.
Dr Vaysman will be joining a cohort of fellows from more than twenty countries, who will work with mentors and collaborators across all of the Schools within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and beyond.
Dame Emma Walmsley, who read Classics and Modern Languages as an undergraduate, was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Oxford at the annual Encaenia ceremony in the Sheldonian.
Congratulations to the Maison Française d'Oxford which is 80 this year. The MFO, in Norham Gardens is well-known to students in French and beyond.
On 22 June 2026, the faculty hosted a symposium, bringing together historians and literary scholars to celebrate Professor Tom Earle's 80th birthday.