News in Modern Languages

Translation workshops inspire pupils to see language learning as a creative activity

University of Birmingham School students in the translation workshop.
Description:
Dr Emma Wagstaff recently organised several translation workshops, delivered to UoB school students by facilitators from the Stephen Spender Trust.
Date:
27 November 2023

Call for papers: Covid, Adaptation, Representation

Looking at tests in a lab
Description:
Papers Leading to publication(s) for online workshop 13 December 2023 from Lisa Downing, Nigel Harris and Andrew Watts of the Department of Modern Languages
Date:
06 November 2023

Memories of Hunger: History and Russia’s War against Ukraine

Statue of a small girl clutching ears of wheat to her chest at Ukraine’s National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide
Description:
The most recent Russian aggression in Ukraine has brought memories of previous wars and famines to the surface for many Ukrainian families.
Date:
02 November 2023

Hearing ‘bad grammar’ results in physical signs of stress – new study reveals

Woman with her hands on her head in frustration.
Description:
A new study by professors at the University of Birmingham has revealed for the first time how our bodies go into stress-mode when hearing misused grammar.
Date:
27 October 2023

Summer research fellowship for Dr Hilary Brown

Herzog August Bibliothek
Description:
Dr Hilary Brown, Associate Professor in Translation Studies is spending a month at the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Date:
18 July 2023

In conversation with Dr Natasha Rulyova

Aston Webb building
Description:
Pushkin House and Dr Natasha Rulyova, the University of Birmingham, are launching a second talk on Russophone Literature.
Date:
26 June 2023

University of Birmingham hosts 2023 Association of Adaptation Studies Conference

Aston Webb building
Description:
Last week, the University welcomed almost one hundred international scholars onto campus for the ‘Authenticity and Adaptation’ conference.
Date:
14 June 2023

Conversations with Authors of Russophone Literature

Description:
Pushkin House and Dr Natasha Rulyova, the University of Birmingham, are launching a series of conversations with authors of Russophone literature.
Date:
11 May 2023

PhD researcher Isabel Cawthorn curates exhibition at the Biblioteca de Asturias in Oviedo

Photo of the exhibition ‘Clarín, un cuentista fantástico’,
Description:
‘Clarín, un cuentista fantástico’, an exhibition showcasing the Spanish author and his interest in the fantastic has launched in his hometown, Oviedo.
Date:
26 April 2023

Dr Jenny Wong wins BA/Leverhulme Small Grant

Person performing Shakespeare
Description:
This project will take a closer look at the cultural importance of Shakespeare in China and the translation of its religious materials.
Date:
28 March 2023

Birmingham 65th in the world for Arts and Humanities

The law arches by the University Aston Webb building
Description:
The College of Arts & Law remains amongst the best performing research-intensive universities in the world, according to the 2023 QS World University Rankings.
Date:
22 March 2023

Dr Luis Medina Cordova wins BA/Leverhulme Small Grant

A person scrolling on social media during Covid-19
Description:
This project will investigate and archive the ways in which writers in Latin America responded to the Covid-19 pandemic through social media.
Date:
17 March 2023
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