Oxford’s Michaelmas Terms always have a speed of their own: it seems no time at all since the buzz of the Faculty welcome for the new graduate students, the first week of first year lectures, or the return of the final year students from their various adventures abroad.
The sixth Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies, Simon Gilson, gave his inaugural lecture ‘“Arriving before us”: seeing, ingenuity and imagination in Dante’.
Dr Charlotte Ryland presents an exciting new initiative, the Queen’s College Translation Exchange
Katrin Kohl interviews winner of New Books in German Translation Prize, Beth Molyneux
On her year abroad in Quebec, Olivia Mappin-Kasirer has been discovering buried French treasure in a Canadian Law Library
Outreach Officer Natasha Ryan reports on the very successful 61st annual conference of the Sir Robert Taylor Society, held at Somerville College
Melissa Driver, who is in her first year at St Catz reading Spanish and German, recounts some of the highlights of the 2019 Argentina Week
André Penafiel is a postdoctoral fellow, funded by the British Academy, who is currently working on Camões’s Os Lusíadas, the Portuguese national poem.
The celebration event will take place on Friday 28 February 2020.