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Read more at: Stephen Spender Prize 2024 closes Wednesday 31 July

Stephen Spender Prize 2024 closes Wednesday 31 July

The annual Stephen Spender Prize is awarded for translations of poetry into English from any other language. Its categories this year include Open Entry, Portuguese Spotlight, Individual Youth Entry, Schools Laureate Prize, and Teacher Laureate Prize. For inspiration and more information on categories, T&Cs, and prizes...

Read more at: Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body

Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body

Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body, a major new exhibition co-curated by Prof Chris Young (German) and Prof Caroline Vout (Classics), has opened at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and will run until 3 November 2024.

Read more at: Quentin Skinner Lecture 2024: William Selinger on love and despotism in Montesquieu鈥檚 Persian Letters
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Quentin Skinner Lecture 2024: William Selinger on love and despotism in Montesquieu鈥檚 Persian Letters

8 July 2024 Interested in Montesquieu's Persian Letters ? They're covered in many of our French section's links to online resources . They're also covered in this year's Quentin Skinner lecture, delivered by William Selinger . You can watch the lecture for free on the CRASSH YouTube channel .

Read more at: University Undergraduate Open Day Schedule - 4 and 5 July 2024
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University Undergraduate Open Day Schedule - 4 and 5 July 2024

Welcome to 海角社区! These Open Days are designed for students considering an application to 海角社区 in September/October 2024 and include admissions talks, departmental tours, sample subject lectures, and opportunities to talk to current staff and students. Please feel free to approach Student Ambassadors and staff...

Read more at: Amaryllis Furness wins Phoebe Taylor Prize for outstanding Spanish translation

Amaryllis Furness wins Phoebe Taylor Prize for outstanding Spanish translation

The 2024 Prize, established in the memory of our former student, was awarded for Amaryllis' project on the 1949 short story 鈥淩a铆z del sue帽o鈥� by Marta Brunet

Read more at: German 海角社区 Roadshow

German 海角社区 Roadshow

The German Section at 海角社区 hosted a Goethe Institut Careers Roadshow on Friday 28 June, promoting the study of German and the breadth of careers that a German degree can open up. As well as providing admissions information and a taster session with current students, we hosted local businesses, the Goethe Institut...

Read more at: Italian research project explores allied forces and memory

Italian research project explores allied forces and memory

'Escape, Community, Resistance, Memory. Italian Populations and Allied Prisoners of War鈥�. We are pleased to announce a new research project and grant launched in the Italian Section, to run until 2027. Sponsored by the Monte San Martino Trust, which commemorates Italian civilians and communities who helped Allied prisoners...

Read more at: Professor Gilby interviewed about her Leverhulme Fellowship

Professor Gilby interviewed about her Leverhulme Fellowship

Professor Emma Gilby, Professor of Modern Literature and Thought and Bye-Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, has been awarded a three-year Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for her project 鈥榃omen and the Making of Modern Languages: A New Modernism鈥�. Around the turn of the twentieth century, two social...

Read more at: Dr Tara Talwar Windsor's lecture in "Resonanzen - Schwarzes Internationales Literaturfestival"
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor's lecture in "Resonanzen - Schwarzes Internationales Literaturfestival"

Dr Tara Talwar Windsor gave a lecture on Friday 31 May in "Resonanzen - Schwarzes Internationales Literaturfestival " in Recklinghausen, a four-day event dedicated to the celebration of Black German-language fiction, curated by Sharon Dodua Otoo and Patricia Eckermann.

Read more at: Dr Solange Manche awarded Society for French Studies Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Dr Solange Manche awarded Society for French Studies Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr Solange Manche, who has been awarded The Society for French Studies 2024-25 Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Her project includes both the reworking and publication of her doctoral thesis and the development of a new postdoctoral project provisionally entitled 鈥楶lanning for a Better Life in the Anthropocene...

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