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Visibility award
Visibility Award 4: Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 5x5

The EHRC committee is pleased to announce the first recipients of the new Visibility Award Scheme for staff and students in Modern Languages. Number 4 up is, Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 5x5, the pilot for a multimedia project aimed at making modern language texts more accessible and engaging for today’s students.

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Faculty to lead major interdisciplinary research project on Creative Multilingualism

Researchers from six universities with joint expertise in over 40 languages will collaborate with 16 external partners to investigate the connection between languages and creativity in an ambitious research programme funded by the AHRC. The £4 million Oxford-led programme on Creative Multilingualism forms part of the Open World Research Initiative (OWRI), together with programmes led by Cambridge, King’s College London and Manchester. Over four years, they will seek to place languages at the heart of academic and public life.

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Oxford Alumna wins top award for new translators

Oxford alumna Imogen Taylor has won the 2016 Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation. This year’s judges were Anthea Bell, Jens Boyer and Paula Johnson. Imogen Taylor studied French and German at New College, Oxford and the Humboldt University in Berlin. She now works as a freelance translator and academic in Berlin. Her translations include Sascha Arango’s The Truth and Other Lies. Taylor receives an award of €1,000 and will attend the 2016 Leipzig Book Fair between 17 and 20 March, including the International Translators’ meeting on 13 March.

Rilkes Sonnets
Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus - Dancing the Orange

Daljit Nagra – Radio 4 & 4 Extra’s Poet in Residence – has selected Karen Leeder's ‘Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus - Dancing the Orange’ for Radio 4 Extra’s ‘Poetry Extra’ slot on Sunday 24th April 2016 at 5.00pm, with a repeat the next morning.

Visibility challenege
EHRC Challenge: The Visibility of Modern Languages

Bids are invited for EHRC small grants (£2,500) that enhance the visibility of research in Modern Languages. This challenge stems from the idea that there is much going on in Modern Languages which would profit from showcasing.

The challenge should be to encourage everybody working in Modern Languages (faculty, librarians, students) to:


think about the visibility of their research in ways which profit their ongoing work
share best practice in documenting outreach, using social media
link up within the university as much as with external partners

Gemma Tidman wins BSECS President's Prize 2016

Gemma Tidman, a doctoral student at Wolfson working on the French eighteenth-century, has won the prestigious President’s Prize for 2016, which is awarded to the best postgraduate paper at the Annual Conference of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Studie

Brazil Week 2009

Dr. Claire Williams (St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford) Event programme (pdf)

Brazil Week, a weekful of Brazil-related cultural and academic events, took place in Oxford and London between 26 and 31 October 2009.

Ten Years On: 9/11 in European Literature

  Download poster (pdf)     TEN YEARS ON – 9/11 in European Literature
An International Conference and Reading
September 15-16, 2011
Oxford University, St Hilda’s College
Lady Brodie Room

Special Guest: Thomas Lehr, currently holding the Heiner-Mül

Cavafy Week

17:00-19:00: Erotic Poetry Workshop Venue: St John's College MCR, “Body Remember” is a two hour poetry workshop with George Ttoouli – a published poet and an Honorary Teaching Fellow for the Warwick Writing Programme. Using C.P.

Film Competition 2014

The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford University is looking for budding film enthusiasts in Years 7-11 and 12-13 to embrace the world of French cinema.

French Film Competition 2015

The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford University is looking for budding film enthusiasts in Years 7-11 and 12-13 to embrace the world of French cinema.

Competitions for Schools

The Spanish Flash Fiction Competition and French film competition will open in December. Watch this space for details about how to enter... This year's theme is Freundschaft - Friendship. Please see the Oxford German Network website for details: www.ogn.

Cervantes and Shakespeare: 400 years

  AN ANGLO-SPANISH SYMPOSIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD TO COMMEMORATE THEIR DEATHS IN 1616 Thursday 28th to Friday 29th January 2016
Weston Library & Exeter College All papers will be delivered in English The event is free and open to all but please re