Read all the latest news and upcoming events from the faculty on the main News page.
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.
We are happy to announce that booking for Professor Jonathan Thacker's Inaugural Lecture 'The World as Stage in Spain’s Golden Age' is now open.
The event will take place on October 16th, 2018 (Tuesday of 2nd Week, Michaelmas Term) at 5 o'clock. The location is the Main Hall of the Taylor Institution. All are welcome to attend. For further details and to reserve your place, see below.
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).
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages is very sad to report that Dr David Pattison passed away on September 3rd, 2018 at the age of 76.
Dr Pattison was appointed Tutorial Fellow in Spanish at Magdalen College in 1969, and held the post until his retirement in 2005 when he became an Emeritus Fellow. During his illustrious career he acted as Chairman of the Modern Languages Faculty Board and also served as President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Faculty's thoughts are with David's family at this time. Information on the funeral and memorial service is included below.
Open Days provide an excellent opportunity to visit the Faculty and meet our tutors and students. We welcome prospective applicants to have a look at libraries and classrooms, and to learn more about the admissions process and studying at Oxford.
The next University of Oxford Open Day will take place on Friday, September 14th, 2018. The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages will be holding information sessions on all three dates; booking is required. To reserve your place at the Open Day, please, follow this link.
We are pleased to announce that Professor Jonathan Thacker will be giving his Inaugural Lecture as the King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies on October 16th, 2018 (Tuesday of 2nd Week, Michaelmas Term 2018). The title of his lecture will be ‘The World as Stage in Spain’s Golden Age’.
We are glad to announce that registration is now open for the international conference Women in Transition — Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries. The conference will take place from Thursday, September 20th to Saturday, September 22nd, 2018 at St Peter's College, University of Oxford and at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies, King's College London.
The conference is open to the public upon registration. For further details, please, follow this link.
It is our pleasure to announce that the inaugural issue of The Oxford Polyglot, the Faculty e-newsletter, has now been published and can be seen in its entirety here. Professor Ian Watson, Chair of the Faculty Board, has provided the introduction, and the articles have been written by colleagues across Sub-Faculties, on topics varying from Romantic objects to Angolan women writers to epitaph fictions in late-medieval France and the friendships of the great German poet Goethe.
We hope that you enjoy learning about our research, activities, and events (find out about those in 'Our Events'). If you would like to be among the first to receive the future issues of The Oxford Polyglot, please, subscribe here.
On June 19th members of our Schools Liaison team ran an Oxford Language Day at Bridgwater and Taunton College in Somerset. At this event pupils from local schools met with University lecturers to learn about language study, receive taster sessions in French, German, and Spanish, and hear about life at the University of Oxford.
The Language Day is part of the larger Outreach programme undertaken by the Faculty to engage with young people in regions that are historically under-represented at Oxford. We encourage talented students across Britain to follow the opportunities and careers opened up by a degree in languages — and we are happy to answer any practical questions.
Open Days provide an excellent opportunity to visit the Faculty and meet our tutors and students. We welcome prospective applicants to have a look at libraries and classrooms, and to learn more about the admissions process and studying at Oxford.
The University of Oxford Open Days 2018 will take place on Wednesday, June 27th, Thursday, June 28th, and Friday, September 14th. The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages will be holding information sessions pm on all three dates; booking is required. To reserve your place at an Open Day, please, follow this link.
The 18th edition of the Forum for Iberian Studies will take place in Oxford on the 20 and 21 June at the Taylor Institution.
On Friday, June 15th, together with the Rothermere American Institute (RAI) , we present a one-day symposium 'Puerto Rico After Hurricane María: Culture, Politics, Place'.
The next MIMSS (Magdalen Iberian Medieval Studies Seminar) event is taking place on Friday next week: the Colloquium on Hispanic Texts and Manuscripts will be held at Magdalen College on June 8th, from 2 pm.
The colloquium programme includes accounts by four British researchers, whose works showcase different strains of Hispanic Studies in Oxford and London. The Faculty is represented by Professor María Morrás, whose presentation will conclude the event. All are welcome.
To learn more about MIMSS activities, please, follow this link.
We are pleased to announce that Dr Imogen Choi, Associate Professor in Spanish Golden Age Literature and Exeter College Fellow in Spanish, has been awarded the prestigious AHGBI and Spanish Embassy Publication Prize for 2017-18.
Dr Choi's doctoral thesis 'Conflict Ethics and Political Thought in Early Peruvian Epic' received the prize, while Dr Elizabeth Bolorinos Allard was given the runner-up AHGBI award for her thesis 'My Enemy or My Brother? Spanish Representations of Muslim and Jewish Culture during the Colonial Campaigns in Morocco, 1909-1927'.
Both works are to be published by Tamesis Books in 2018-2019.
The next session of the Magdalen Iberian Medieval Studies Seminar is taking place on Friday, May 25th 2018. Professor Bienvenido Morros (Autonomous University of Barcelona) will give a lecture titled 'Las serranas del Arcipreste de Hita y las pastorelas francesas'. Dedicated to works of medieval Castilian poet Juan Ruiz — otherwise known as the Archpriest of Hita — the talk will explore the connection between the lyrical musings of Ruiz and French pastorals.
The lecture given by Professor Morros will take place in the Oscar Wilde Room at Magdalen College, from 5 pm.
The event is free and open to all, and will be in Spanish.
We are pleased to announce that more spaces have been opened on our Modern Languages Open Day, taking place on Saturday, April 28th at the Examination Schools. The event will run from 10.50 am to 4 pm and will offer an overview of Modern Languages at Oxford, as well as a chance for prospective students to ask our tutors any questions they might have about the degree.
Please, note that booking is required.
Congratulations to Dr Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard who has been awarded the Doctoral Publication Prize for 2017, by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) and the Spanish Embassy. The Prize will cover Dr Bolorinos's thesis publication by Tamesis Books.
To celebrate the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, Alfredo Pérez de Armiñán, President of Patrimonio Nacional, and Carole Souter, Master of St Cross College, University of Oxford, will talk about the challenges faced by the preservation of heritage, both in Spain and in England.
Alfredo Pérez de Armiñán is the current president of the Patrimonio Nacional Board; before that, he was Deputy General Director of Culture of UNESCO and has held different public positions in the field of Spanish cultural heritage.
The talk will take place in West Wing Lecture Theatre, St Cross College from 5.15 pm on March 23rd. This event is free and open to the public.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council has awarded a network grant to ‘Dreaming Romantic Europe’, a project led by Catriona Seth, the Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature here at Oxford, as co-investigator, and by Professor Nicola J. Watson of the Open University as Principal Investigator.
The award will make it possible to draw together individual academics, but also scholarly associations and cultural heritage institutions across Europe, which are devoted to the study and presentation of Romanticism.