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Read more at: Taster Session in Modern Greek
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Taster Session in Modern Greek

Don’t get lost for words in Greece! Join Dr Regina Karousou-Fokas for this enjoyable and welcoming introduction to the Modern Greek language where you will have the opportunity to learn about the language and develop basic language skills. Saturday 22 October, 12.30-1.30pm Faculty of MML, Sidgwick Site


Read more at: Sykes Postgraduate Research Studentships in Italian
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Sykes Postgraduate Research Studentships in Italian

A number of new postgraduate studentships in Italian have been announced. Please follow the link for further details.


Read more at: Conference: Intersubjectivity, Desire, and the Mimetic Brain: René Girard and Psychoanalysis
intersubjectivity

Conference: Intersubjectivity, Desire, and the Mimetic Brain: René Girard and Psychoanalysis

Intersubjectivity, Desire, and the Mimetic Brain: René Girard and Psychoanalysis A conferenced organised by Dr Pierpaolo Antonello and Dr Alessandra Diazzi to be held on 11-12 November, 2016.


Read more at: From Mothers to Citizens: Italian Women from Unification to the Republic.
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From Mothers to Citizens: Italian Women from Unification to the Republic.

The Department of Italian is hosting an upcoming conference entitled 'From Mothers to Citizens: Italian Women from Unification to the Republic. '


Read more at: Italian Research Seminars, Easter Term 2016
Seminars ET2016

Italian Research Seminars, Easter Term 2016

Research Events in Italian Studies programme for Easter Term 2016.


Read more at: Prof Ledgeway to receive honorary PhD
Prof. Adam Ledgeway to recieve honorary PhD from the University of Bucharest

Prof Ledgeway to receive honorary PhD

Warmest congratulations to Prof Adam Ledgeway, who will receive an honorary PhD from the University of Bucharest next week.


Read more at: Italian Research Seminars, Lent Term 2016
Graduate Seminars LT 2016

Italian Research Seminars, Lent Term 2016

Research Events in Italian Studies programme for Lent Term 2016.


Read more at: Department of Italian ranked best in the country
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Department of Italian ranked best in the country

ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ University has been ranked best in the country for Italian in the Complete University Guide's 2015 ranking of UK universities. ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ was ranked top for 29 subjects in all, which put the University at the top of the charts overall. For more information on the league table, see The Complete University Guide


Read more at: 500 Years of Italian Grammar(s), Culture, and Society in Italy and Europe
500 Years Conference

500 Years of Italian Grammar(s), Culture, and Society in Italy and Europe

A conference entitled 500 Years of Italian Grammar(s), Culture, and Society in Italy and Europe: From Fortunio’s Regole (1516) to the Present will take place on Thursday 10 December in the Music Room, Downing College, ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ.


Read more at: ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy
Dante vertical readings

ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

Beginning 18 October 2012 and continuing over four years, a team of Dante experts from the U.K. and abroad are carrying out a series of public lectures on the Comedy that explore the 'vertical' connections between cantos of the same number across all three canticles.


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Researchers at the ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ have launched a new study into Llanito, the distinctive hybrid vernacular spoken in Gibraltar, and its relationship to Gibraltar English. The project is led by Professor Brechtje Post, Professor Ioanna Sitaridou, Professor Laura Wright, and Research Assistant Amber Holt, and forms...

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2 September 2025

We are delighted to share the news that Dr Claire White, Associate Professor of French in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, and Fellow of Girton College, ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ, has published her new book, Zola’s Dream: Idealism on Trial , with ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ University Press. The study takes as its starting...

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This year, the Phoebe Taylor Prize for Outstanding Work in Spanish Translation was awarded to Sophia Khwaja-Clarke for her project on translations of selected poems from the collection Un Montón de escritura para nada by Mexican poet and academic Sara Uribe. Like Phoebe’s project, this translation focuses on a Latin...

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