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Author Raoul de Jong looking to nothing in particular. — Raoul de Jong (c) Jan Rosseel

13 November 2024

Dutch Visiting Author 2024: Raoul de Jong

Dutch author Raoul de Jong is visiting ��«Ӱҵ Dutch Studies in December 2024. Translator John Eyck will join us from New York. Our public presentation will be on Tuesday 17 December at 5pm in Diamond Workroom 2. All welcome.

Henk de Berg next and the cover of his new book Trump and Hitles

14 June 2024

Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying

Prof. Henk de Berg explores one of today's most controversial topics -- the similarities and dissimilarities between Trump and Hitler.

academic visitor from Ukraine Vira Dutkanych leaning against a bord indicating what is on which floor in Jessop West

6 June 2024

Our Ukrainian academic visitors

From October 2023 until April SLC and MLTC hosted the visit of two Ukrainian colleagues from Lviv. Dr Vira Dutkanych looks back on her time in ��«Ӱҵ.

A dozen students in a light room, looking at their phones to read the script for their theatre rehearsal

13 February 2024

Modern Languages Drama Festival 2024

Curtain up! Light the lights! The SLC Modern Languages Drama Festival is back at ��«Ӱҵ’s Drama Studio. From 16 until 22 March 2024, we'll offer FOUR student productions. From the classic 'Le Cid' to the playful 'Rotkäppchen'.

Foreign Languages and the James Bond Novels

This vidcast looks at how foreign languages feature in James Bond's fictional universe, specifically in the first Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953)

23 September 2019

Live at the Proms

Seán Williams, Lecturer in German and European Cultural History, can regularly be heard on BBC Radio 3. This summer, he presented a programme live at the Proms, just before Beethoven's 9th symphony.

21 September 2019

Trapped: the truth behind narco-trafficking in Mexico

A day in the London Immigration Tribunal Chambers can be a matter of life and death. For Dr Pete Watt and the Mexican national he was helping to save, it was no different.

12 August 2019