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Dr Mari Jones named Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales

We are pleased to announce that Dr Mari Jones has just been named Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, joining over 400 other talented academics and professionals in the society.

Norman MacColl Symposium 2017: Magical Dispossessions: Nature, Capital and Conflict in Colombia

This year’s Norman MacColl lecturer is the Colombian artist, Alberto Baraya. Please join us on 28th and 29th April for a unique series of speakers and presentations on landscape and literature, botany and politics as well as on post-conflict art, economics and public space, as these open up new angles on historic and contemporary questions surrounding nationhood and disposession.

Dr Martin Ruehl Awarded 2017 Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence

It gives us great pleasure to announce that Dr Martin Ruehl has been awarded the 2017 Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence.

Multilingual (Con)figurations: Catalan and Ukrainian in Dialogue

Please join Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies on Friday 24 March for a workshop entitled Multilingual (Con)figurations: Catalan and Ukrainian in Dialogue. This event will take place from 09:30-14:00 at King's College, University of Cambridge.

MML and Linguistics Open Day 2017

Bookings for the 2017 MML & Linguistics Open Day are now open.

New language routes added to History/Modern Languages joint tripos for 2018

The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages is pleased to announce that applicants to the joint tripos for History/ML (HML) will be able to choose from four more language routes starting in 2018.

Graduate, get a job … make a difference

Alumnae from MML have been featured in a series of articles highlighting their choices and careers since completing their languages Degrees.

Cambridge Undergraduate Conference in German Studies

The third Cambridge Undergraduate Conference in German Studies will take place on Saturday 11 February 2017 . The topic is Remembering and Forgetting in the German-Speaking World. The 2017 keynote speaker will be Dr Hubertus Knabe, Director of Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, a museum and memorial in a notorious former Stasi torture prison.

The problem with the English

Emeritus Schröder Professor of German, Nicholas Boyle, argues that Brexit is the result of an English delusion, a crisis of identity resulting from a failure to come to terms with the loss of empire and the end of its own exceptionalism.

Brexit prompts academics to consider future for modern languages

Silke Mentchen, Department of German and Dutch, in Times Higher Education on the impact of Brexit on modern languages.

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

Dr Mari Jones named Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales

Norman MacColl Symposium 2017: Magical Dispossessions: Nature, Capital and Conflict in Colombia

Dr Martin Ruehl Awarded 2017 Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence