The programme Creative Multilingualism is offering FIVE awards of up to £500 each for small creative projects.
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Our colleagues from The Queen's College share details of their next International Book Club meeting - a really wonderful opportunity for school students to engage with literature from around the world!
On 24 February, Prof. Natalia Nowakowska (Oxford) delivered an Ilchester Lecture on the topic From Tribe to Dynasty? Globalizing the Jagiellonians of Central Europe (1377-1596).
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and the Sub-Faculty of Russian and Slavonic Languages join our colleagues at ASEEES, AATSEEL, BASEES, and across the Slavic studies community in strongly deploring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We stand with all those who oppose this act of aggression, and we wish for the safety of our colleagues, students, friends, and family in the region.
Andrew Kahn and Irina Reyfman's translation of Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow (Columbia University Press, 2020) has been awarded the 2021 AATSEEL Book Prize for Best Literary Translation.
Applications for the BAME Humanities Study Day are open until 20th February.
The Michaelmas edition of The Oxford Polyglot is now available.
Notes the completion of the pilot project to digitise, annotate, and collect the metadata of one of the great eighteenth-century correspondences.
A reminder that the Prismatic Jane Eyre translation competition for schools is still open for entries.
DPhil Candidate Oliver Jones has been named joint winner of the Forum for Modern Language Studies Prize 2021 for his article ‘Reading Implication: Moral Injury in Heinrich Böll’s Billard um halb zehn and Vasilii Grossman’s Vse techet’.
Professor Andrew Kahn has been appointed Academic Editor of Electronic Enlightenment.
On the first anniversary of Samuel Paty's assassination, and at a time when many children across the world, particularly girls, are being denied access to education, the Faculty wishes to stress that it condemns any violence against those seeking to dispense or acquire learning.
The faculty has been awarded funding from the Oxford Diversity Fund for this academic year to support the Diversity Translation Project.
The Guardian university ranking 2021 confirms the faculty as the best Modern Language department in the UK
The Faculty is sad to announce the death of Dr Gerald Stone FBA on Saturday 11 September 2021.
Professor Julie Curtis gave the lecture on Friday 11 June 2021, marking her retirement.
The tenth issue of the Oxford Polyglot is now available for reading.
The faculty is partnering with the Queen’s College Translation Exchange and Stephen Spender Trust on the Inclusive Outreach through Translation project.