by Talking Humanities | Mar 28, 2017 | Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Training and Research
Last Sunday (26 March), a week of 1,500 events celebrating the French language all over the world came to a close. This year’s theme, ‘The virtual world’, had a decidedly forward-looking flavour that Dr Juliette Scott believes was selected to challenge the legacy of...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 5, 2016 | Events, Features, Languages & Literature, Republished, Research & Resources
Professor Line Cottegnies, who took part in a ‘Shakespeare in French’ conference organised by Dr Dominic Glynn and Senate House Library, discusses some of the problems she encountered when translating the Henry VI trilogy for the Pléiade-Gallimard edition of...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 21, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature
Dr Anna-Louise Milne decided to take the plunge and set aside her native English tongue in order to write her recent book in French, a language she learnt as a teenager and adult. In this post she discusses the reasons for this choice and how it relates to the concept...
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...
by aseifert | Jun 19, 2014 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Training and Research
The School of Advanced Study are pleased to announce the release of InScribe Module 2: Script. This is the second instalment from the online platform InScribe: Palaeography Learning Materials and follows the introductory module released in January 2013....
