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Honorary DLitt for Professor Helen Watanabe O'Kelly

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.

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Why we cannot afford to lose Erasmus+

Andrea Klaus (University of Warwick) and Silke Mentchen (University of Cambridge) have written a detailed report into the reasons why the Erasmus+ scheme is so essential to academia.

Want to create an Impact? How the Taylorian can help

Are you thinking about how to engage others with your research? The Library recognises that its collections provide opportunities for valuable user engagement activities and can help to support a number of different approaches to creating an impact.

Scholarship in the Humanities for DPhil entry in 2017-2018

St Cross College in partnership with the Sino-British Fellowship Trust (SBFT) offers the following scholarship for which it invites applications from applicants who will be studying for a doctoral degree in the Humanities at the University of Oxford in th

Maps and Beyond

The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Langauges and the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics are hosting a three-day workshop MAPS AND BEYOND: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) FOR LINGUISTS (22 October, 5 November, 19 November).

Homage to Michael Sheringham

On June 25th the French Ambassador, Her Excellency Madame Sylvie Bermann made the posthumous award of the highest rank in the ‘Ordre des Palmes Académiques’ to the late Michael Sheringham, who was, until last year, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature. Professor Michel Murat of the Sorbonne came over from Paris for the ceremony and gave the following address:

2016 French Film Competition - Results

2016 marks the fifth year of Oxford University’s French film competition, in which school pupils are invited to watch a selected French film, and write an essay or script re-imagining the ending.