Introduction
Welcome to the eleventh issue of The Oxford Polyglot
The year isn’t entirely new any more, but it’s still time to wish you well for 2022, wherever you are. Since the start of the academic year, there have been many highs and lows.
The year isn’t entirely new any more, but it’s still time to wish you well for 2022, wherever you are. Since the start of the academic year, there have been many highs and lows.
A compulsive flâneur himself, Patrick McGuinness (St Anne's) gives us a revised extract from his new book.
Might Marseille have been the best place to spend time in 2021? Read on...
Isabella Dobson (Merton) is a second-year student reading Spanish and Portuguese who has been enjoying her time working in the Bodleian.
Caroline Warman presents her recent book The Atheist’s Bible: Diderot and the 'Eléments de physiologie'
Did you know you can learn Galician at Oxford? Our current lecturer gives you a glimpse of her occupations
Emanuela (‘Ela’) Tandello’s farewell lecture opens on to wider reflections about her legacy
Charlie Louth recalls the valedictory lecture given by Ritchie Robertson, last Taylor Chair of German
Alain Viala, whom many will remember as a remarkable teacher and researcher died this summer. Here are some of the tributes paid to him.
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