by Talking Humanities | Jan 14, 2020 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Dr Tom Smith, a lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews, opens up about his insatiable love of languages and his research into the constructions of race in Berlin’s techno scene. Tell us about yourself I first discovered my love of languages as a...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 14, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, opens the library’s Vye Collection to view the work of Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz, a ’pietistic Protestant polymath who wrote under several pseudonyms’. The German writer...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 25, 2018 | Features, Languages & Literature, Training and Research
The Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) is a hub of research training activities, enabling the next generation of linguists and scholars in modern languages, literatures, and cultures to maximise their research skills. One of the institute’s most popular...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 1, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Misc
Moving to a new environment comes with many challenges, especially when the cultural gaps are big. Dr Katalin Morgan discusses navigating the peculiarities of some German ‘scientific’ discourses. I grew up partly in Germany and understand the language, but my tertiary...
by aseifert | Oct 16, 2014 | Events, Languages & Literature
By James Hodkinson So where in the world is German? This deliberately wide-ranging question is not merely a geographical one: recognizing the undisputed political and economic importance of the German speaking nations, it also asks about the status of the language...
