We are delighted to announce that David Constantine has been awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. the award recognises his significant contribution to the European poetic tradition and to contemporary poetry.
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Volume 145 of the Complete works of Voltaire has just been awarded a prize by the Modern Language Association.
A series of online talks and events, hosted by the University of Oxford, celebrating Argentine literature, film, art and music. Running from autumn-winter 2020 to spring-summer 2021.
Free and open to all.
Professor Ritchie Robertson has just published with Allen Lane/ Penguin a 900-page study, The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790.
Claudia Pazos Alonso will be on "In Our Time" programme on Thursday 3rd December 2020.
Professor Henrike Lähnemann has edited and provided a guide on how to read Reformation pamphlets in the facisimile.
Read the interview with Nan Gibson (Chief Human Resources Office, Lidl UK) on the university's Art Blog 'Why do languages matter?'
Professor Patrick McGuinness will explore 'Zero-Growth Writing' on BBC Radio 3 this evening.
Please join pianists Eloïse Bella Kohn and Daniel Propper, singer Anna Sideris and Professors Laura Tunbridge and Catriona Seth on 27 November at 5 P.M. for a conversation around performing the works of two major French composers who died within ten days of each other in 1918.
Professor Caroline Warman has released her new book ‘The Atheist's Bible: Diderot’s 'Éléments de physiologie’.
Dr Alexandra Lloyd has released her new book, 'Childhood, Memory, and the Nation - Young Lives under Nazism in Contemporary German Culture'.
Professor Geraldine Hazbun releases her new book, Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature.
Scholastique Mukasonga was able to join us for the 2020 virtual Zaharoff lecture and 'In Conversation' events last week.
Professor Karen Leeder has been selected as the recipient of a National Translation Award 2020 for her achievements as a translator of works of Austrian Literature.
The Spanish Sub-Faculty is pleased to invite applications for doctoral research across the range of Spanish and Spanish American studies from the medieval period to the present day.
Nicholas Cronk and Glenn Roe have released, Voltaire’s Correspondence: Digital Readings (Cambridge University Press, 2020) - the first in a new series, “Eighteenth-Century Connections”.
The recent town-hall meeting of the faculty focussed on race and diversity.
Eve Mason has published German fairytales by women writers, called 'A String of Pearls'.