Vittoria Fallanca (1st-year DPhil, Pembroke College) has been announced as the runner-up for the 2016 R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize with her work 'The Design of the Essais: Montaigne and the language of ‘dessein’'.
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The aim of this conference is to foreground transnational women’s contribution to Portuguese culture (and vice versa) and to interrogate the nature of their impact in Portugal and beyond, while fostering an interdisciplinary and transcultural perspective. The conference will examine how the meaning of being a transnational/ diasporic artist has shifted across time, and focus on negotiations of creative influence and multiple identifications through the lens of gender.
The University of Oxford has been ranked 3rd in the prestigious QS World University Rankings for Modern Languages, just behind Harvard University and the University of Cambridge, with the coveted top five-star rating for research, innovation, and teaching.
L'idée vient en parlant: These words will serve as a basis for exploring – in English and German – how the debate about knowledge is configured in literary texts, to what extent it determines the poetic reflections of specific authors, and what might be the methodological and theoretical implications.
A workshop in honour of T.J. Reed's 80th birthday, hosted at St John's College and The Queen's College from 18-19 April 2017.
All you ever wanted to know about Les Liaisons dangereuses in five short podcasts: now available here.
The Sub-Faculty of Spanish will host the V Foro Cervantes on 6 and 7 March.
Women in German Studies is a professional organisation for Germanists in Great Britain and Ireland which was founded in 1988 by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. From 22 to 24 June 2017 the conference will come to Oxford for the first time, to explore the topics 'reform' and 'revolt' across German history, literature and culture.
On Thursday 9th February 2017 the faculty held its first Year 9 Modern Languages Open Day, attended by 90 pupils from 11 Oxfordshire schools.
Jan Wagner will now give the Annual Poetry Society Lecture at 7pm on Monday 20 February in the Shulman Auditorium, The Queen's College, High Street Oxford. This is a new venue because of demand.
Professor Catriona Seth has been re-elected President of SFEDS (Société Française d’Etude du XVIIIe Siècle), the interdisciplinary association of specialists of the 18th century.
The German-Japanese writer Dr Yoko Tawada will be visiting the University of Oxford from 17 February to 1 March 2017, on the invitation of DAAD-Lektor Christoph Held.
Professor Karen Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature and Fellow of New College, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
An interview with Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German, was recently published in Letter, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) alumni magazine. Henrike discusses her reactions to the Brexit vote, and those of people around her in the UK, and thoughts on how it will affect British universities.
A new podcast series from the Ashmolean Museum has launched, featuring an episode by Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly from the Marrying Cultures research project.
Dr Javier Muñoz-Basols has been elected President of ASELE (Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera).
The journal Nineteenth-Century French Studies (edited by Faculty member Professor Seth Whidden) has been named the recipient of the 2016 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Julie Curtis, Professor of Russian Literature, and Philip Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music, recently helped Garsington Opera stage a new, original production of Tchaikovsky’s best-loved opera.
On Thursday 1 December 2016, Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly was conferred with an Honorary DLitt by the National University of Ireland in Dublin. She is an alumna of the NUI, having studied German and Spanish at University College Cork for her BA and German for her MA, before taking the degree of Dr. Phil at the University of Basel.
Our school competitions are now open! Please click here for details of the annual French film competition, Oxford German Olympiad, and the NEW Spanish flash fiction competition.