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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’s Persian Letters
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Quentin Skinner Lecture 2024: William Selinger on love and despotism in Montesquieu’s 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: 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’. 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 ‘Women and the Making of Modern Languages: A New Modernism’. 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 ‘Planning for a Better Life in the Anthropocene...


Read more at: PhD student in German wins book proposal prize

PhD student in German wins book proposal prize

We are delighted to announce that Katie Unwin has won a prize in the Oxford German Olympiad, presented in association with major publisher, Camden House.


Read more at: New Publication: Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny

New Publication: Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny

The third in a series of books devoted to the theatre of Jean Racine, co-edited by Professor Nicholas Hammond, has just been published. Entitled Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny, and devoted to the two plays Bajazet and Mithridate, both first performed in 1672, the book contains essays by a number of people currently in the...


Read more at: Events: Seminar Series on Graphic Narratives, 2023-24.

Events: Seminar Series on Graphic Narratives, 2023-24.

The Faculties of Education, MMLL and FAMES are running a seminar series dedicated to graphic narratives in 2023-2024. There are two final events this term. Friday 31 May, Deena Mohammed in conversation 15:30-17:00, London time. Alison Richard Building, Room S1. Zoom access will be provided to attendees who request it ahead...


Read more at: Postgraduate Student wins Society of Dix-Neuviémistes' Prize

Postgraduate Student wins Society of Dix-Neuviémistes' Prize

Ellamae Lepper, one of our current PhD students in French, was awarded the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes' Postgraduate Prize . The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN) Postgraduate Prize is awarded for the best postgraduate conference paper submitted for the Society’s Annual Conference . Her paper was titled 'Veiling and...


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Book publication: The New º£½ÇÉçÇø History of Russian Literature

4 December 2024

The New º£½ÇÉçÇø History of Russian Literature (º£½ÇÉçÇø University Press) has been edited by Prof Simon Franklin, Dr Rebecca Reich and Prof Emma Widdis.

Languages, Power and Cultures (Trinity College) and Langevity (Emmanuel College) programmes open for applications

2 December 2024

Applications are open for the Languages, Power and Cultures Programme at Trinity College, aimed at students in their penultimate school year.

Selwyn Sykes º£½ÇÉçÇø Masters Studentship in Italian Studies

20 November 2024

Selwyn College will offer two studentships for UK MPhil students in Italian Studies for entry in October 2025.

Doyle Calhoun on archives, literature and anticolonial resistance

18 November 2024

Content Notice: This article contains discussions of colonial violence and suicide. Dr Doyle D. Calhoun teaches and works on a range of topics related to African and Caribbean literatures and cinemas; Senegalese literature and cinema in French and Wolof; the archives and afterlives of French slavery; Négritude; and the...