Last week our Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social was interviewed in Le Figaro about Laclos' novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses', studied by many students here in Oxford and in France ⬇️
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join us at the French Graduate Seminar (Oxford Modern Languages) this term to hear about ongoing PhD & Masters research that travels through time & across borders 🌍 with a fantastic line-up including Duarte Bénard da Costa, Maddison Sumner & Tobias Barnett!

In the final article of last term's Polyglot, we spoke to Stephen Romer about his new book on Franco-British Modernism 📚
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We have lots of exciting events coming up to mark the centenary of Franz Kafka's death with #OxfordReadsKafka ! Take a look here at some of the things we have planned for May and June: mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/news/2024/04/2…
#OxfordKafka2024

Only two days left to register for the conference + dinner! 😊

The Medieval German Seminar meets weekly to discuss Konrad von Würzburg, 'Der Schwanritter' (d-nb.info/1144611792/34) with Henrike Lähnemann 📯 @[email protected]

📆 Wednesdays
⌚️ 11:15am-12:45pm
📌 Oriel College

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wonderful to see so many friendly faces today at the launch event for the Renée Vivien exhibition at the Taylor Institution Library (Taylorian) – a huge thank you to Oxford Modern Languages for promoting the works of this brilliant writer, and to Camisl and Imogen Bright for their fascinating talks! 👏🏻

Coming soon: Lecture Series by the Oxford Modern Languages graduate students! Including an exciting contribution by MedievalGermanOxford DPhil student Julia Lorenz on 'Love, Friendship, and Surrounding Space in #MiddleHighGerman #Courtly Literature'!

EVENT: Kafka(esque) Cinema Weekend🍿
The Lady Margaret Hall Foreign Film Club will be hosting a series of screenings covering films Kafka watched, adaptations of his prose, and ‘Kafkaesque’ cinema.
⏰ 27 April 1:30pm - 28 April 6:15pm
📍Lady Margaret Hall – Simpkins Lee Theatre
More info in bio!

Kafka's Ape and Ed Gaughan Words and Music
Old Fire Station Oxford 10-12 May 2024
Booking: oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/
Two award-winning shows translate Kafka's dark parable for the modern day.
#OxfordreadsKafka
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Political manners, philosophical narratives, fugitive poetry and the dialectics of myth: don't miss the fascinating sessions of our #EnlightenmentWorkshop this term! Wednesdays at 5pm Magdalen College, starting 8 May.

We are delighted to announce that Hermán Luis Chávez has won the Bodleian Libraries Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting 2024 for their essay on the composer Atiliano Auza León (b.1928) and 20th C. Bolivian Art Music.

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A lovely piece about Oxford Modern Languages students' involvement in the #ChoixGoncourtUK 🇬🇧🇫🇷 with Maison Française d'Oxford Institut français UK Ambascience UK FrenchBooksUK Académie Goncourt French Embassy UK🇫🇷🇪🇺
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The Oxford Polyglot: MSt graduate Zoe West-Taylor walks us through how her master's research on Miguel de Unamuno evolved into her upcoming doctoral project on María Luisa Bombal and modernism 📚mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-polyglo…

At BBC Radio 4 Broadcasting House to watch a little Ed Harris 🥽🐥🌸 #Kafka2024 magic happen. Can't wait to see what might be on Trial... Oxford Kafka German at Oxford Oxford Modern Languages Arts and Humanities Research Council

Just over a month to go until our second annual Occitan Studies Day Taylor Institution Library (Taylorian) ! More info and registration here: mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/2024/05…

In the latest Oxford Polyglot, Henrike Lähnemann 📯 @[email protected] tells us about her experience on prime-time German television talking about her successful recent book on medieval nuns! mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-polyglo…

Do not miss the 2024 Linacre Lectures ‘Uncovering Women’s History’ May and June
Linacre College Kristine Dyrmann Humanities Division University of Oxford Oxford Students Oxford History Oxford Modern Languages Race and Resistance
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The Occitan Studies Day will be held in Oxford on May 11 with Oxford Modern Languages, and the dinner will be hosted by St John's College. We look forward to seeing you 😊
👉🏻 Registration: oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-an…

It’s not long now until our exhibition ‘Kafka: Making of an Icon’ opens Bodleian Libraries! With lots coming up soon on the project, let’s take a look back at what we got up to in March… 🧵