Andrey Levitskiy wins Early Career Researcher Award at the Vice Chancellor's Public Engagement with Research Awards 2019
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Congratulations to Professor Andrew Kahn on his election to the British Academy.
As president of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dr Caroline Warman of Jesus College welcomed the 1600 delegates.
Patrick McGuinness has been elected to the Royal Society of Literature.
‘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).
French Ambassador, His Excellency Mr Jean-Pierre Jouyet, presented Professor Patrick McGuinness and Mrs Geneviève Adams of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages with the insignia of chevalier and chevalière of the 'Palmes académiques'
Dr Alex Lloyd and Emma Huber have won Teaching Excellence Awards from the University of Oxford's Humanities Division.
The Voltaire Foundation is delighted to announce the award of a generous research grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant of $704,000 for a period of 18 months will enable the preliminary phase of Digital Scholarly Editions of the European Enlightenment (Digital Enlightenment).
We are pleased to announce that Professor Jonathan Thacker's inaugural lecture as King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies is now available online, here.
TORCH supports various types of International Engagement, enabling and facilitating research connections and collaborations. Many of these exchanges have come through ‘bottom-up’ connections with researchers, and others are part of wider, strategic plans to encourage and support international research with Oxford.
The Faculty would like to congratulate Dr Kate Tunstall on being appointed Interim Provost of Worcester College.
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.
To celebrate the launch of the Babel: Adventures in Translation exhibition at the Weston Library, Oxford, we're holding a competition for school pupils from year 5 to year 13. There will be prizes of £50 - £100 for the winners of each age category and overall task winners.
Madeleine Chalmers has been selected as the winner of this year’s R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize, for her essay ‘The Surreal Technics of André Breton and Gilbert Simondon’.
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.