To commemorate the 77th anniversary of the first White Rose trials, there will be a public performance of translated excerpts from the group’s letters and diaries in Oxford in mid-2020.
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The Faculty is sorry to announce that Cyril Edwards passed away on Saturday 13th July 2019.
Congratulations to the winners of the first round of LIDL prizes!
‘Mediating Modern Poetry’ (MMP) is opening up German poetry to new audiences in the UK and English-speaking world.
Huge congratulations to the first round of winners of the newly installed prize for creative projects during the Year Abroad in a German speaking country (https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/news/2019/03/18/lidl-year-abroad-prizes) which is sponsored by LIDL UK. The committee was delighted to receive such a variety of inventive and engaging proposals.
They are:
Sophie BAILEY (German & History, Christchurch) “Milch und Honig: Traditionen frisch gebacken”
Megan BLACK (German, St Hugh’s) “kiez.schafft: collective creating”
Arjuna KESHVANI-HAM (German & English, Worcester) “An Independent Publication: Mo MENTA”
Lucy KELLY (German & English, Jesus) We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Über It: Examining the progression of Germany’s LGBTQ culture
Eve MASON (German & English, Queens) “Es war einmal’: the revitalization of nineteenth-century German women writers’ fairy tales”
Josh PENOLLAR (German & Italian, Balliol) Sport & Sprache - Coaching Football for Underprivileged Children
Timothy POWELL (German & French, St Edmund Hall) "Deutsche Art steht über allen!": An exploration of Hermann Stodte's reception and translation of Walther von der Vogelweide's poetry in the NS-Zeit.
Constance SIMMS (German, St John’s) “Hello to Berlin”
The two projects by students currently on their Year Abroad, Megan Black and Connie Simms, will be celebrated by a launch in November 2019, date to be confirmed. The seven projects by students yet to go on their Year Abroad will go live as they are progressing. They will also be in for the chance to win an extra £500 prize after completion, to be judged in June 2020. Meanwhile, the application process remains open, with the next deadline end of December 2019 (https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/news/2019/03/18/lidl-year-abroad-prizes).
Dr Alex Lloyd and Emma Huber have won Teaching Excellence Awards from the University of Oxford's Humanities Division.
We are delighted to announce four new Year Abroad Prizes, kindly sponsored by Lidl, available to students reading German.
Katrin Kohl is contributing to a Start the Week episode entitled ‘Language and Culture’ on BBC Radio 4, Monday 4th March, 9:00 and 21:30.
The Faculty are very grateful to Bosch for their funding of a graduate scholarship for a student to undertake the new 1+1 MBA/MSt German course.
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages shares the concern within the sector on the issue of severe grading in the Modern Foreign Languages A level.
Applicants for the Faculty's graduate courses have access to a wide range of funding opportunities within the Faculty and wider University.
Research within the University has found that reading complex and engaging texts is key to inspiring young learners’ interest in Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) and potentially improving how the subject is taught in UK secondary schools, according to new Oxford University research.
Karen Leeder has been awarded the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation 2018 for her translation of Durs Grünbein,'The Doctrine of Photography', which appeared in Poetry 2017. The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for translation work is permanently endowed through a fund established by Bonnie Larkin Nims, Trustees of The Poetry Foundation, and friends of the late poet, translator, and Editor of Poetry. Previous winners include: Marilyn Hacker, Eavan Boland, and Michael Hofmann 2007
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/144808/the-doctrine-of-photography
The Faculty are delighted to announce the launch of a new configuration of our MSt course through a partnership with the Saïd Business School. The new 1+1 MBA course with Modern Languages will be available for first intake from October 2019, and is a unique, two-year graduate experience that combines the depth of a specialised, master’s degree with the breadth of a top-ranking, one-year MBA.
The Faculty is holding an information session for MSt and MPhil programmes on Monday 26 November.
The Sub-Faculty of German at the University of Oxford and German Studies at The University of Warwick are pleased to announce a series of events with the prominent German writer Olga Grjasnowa.
Tom Kuhn and David Constantine celebrate the launch of their new translation and edition, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, at the LRB Bookshop in London on 20 November.
Supermarket chain Lidl has made a gift in support of students studying German at Oxford.
Oxford Open Doors is the annual weekend when when we celebrate the city: its places, spaces and, most of all, its people. The Taylor Institution Library is taking part in the Oxford Open Doors event this Saturday, September 8th, 2018.
Library staff will be giving guided tours to small groups throughout the day, and visitors will be taken to the Voltaire Room to view an exhibition. We hope that this will not cause any disruption, as visitors will be advise that the library rooms are for quiet study. If you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact Joanne Ferrari (joanne.ferrari@bodleian.ox.ac.uk).