Jennifer Burns and Fabio Camilletti are co-organizers of the interim conference in 2014 of the Society for Italian Studies. The conference - Interstitial Italy: Reassessing global questions through the 'peculiar' Italian case - will take place on 27th-28th March 2014 at the British School at Rome.

The latest QS World University Rankings table of universities that are under 50 years old, published on Tuesday 11 June 2013, has once again placed the University of Warwick at 3rd in the world. This also makes it the highest ranked European university.

This project is funded by an AHRC Research Networking award, under the Care for the Future theme. It will run from July 2012 to Spring 2014, and has a lively programme of upcoming events inthe UK, Italy and Germany. Including two conferences, one workshop, and a seminar series, overlapping with an itinerant artistic exhibition and two film screenings.

The 'Roman Modernities' network will allow scholars, artists, and urban planners to engage in joint enquiry on Rome as a paradigmatic location for reconfiguring the trajectory of Western modernity. It will interrogate existing/potential representations of the city from a strongly multi-disciplinary perspective.

On 20th May 2013, Warwick Hispanic Studies was excited to host the IV Galician Encontro for UK-based researchers in Galician Studies.

Nicki Williams and Dorothy Allen-Pickard have won The Guardian/Intergenerational Foundation/NUS film competition in the category of Young filmmaker documentary for their short film 'In the Name of Greatness'. Nicki, who graduated from Warwick in 2012 in English and Italian Literature, wrote and performed the poem featured in the film. The poem is combined with images to tackle questions of debt, greed, consumerism and the need for community. The film can be viewed at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2013/may/08/documentary-award-winner-name-greatness-video?INTCMP=SRCH

Warwick university is blazing a trail in working with other universities internationally to extend the reach and quality of our research, the scope of our teaching and the opportunities we can offer students and staff alike. Warwick is cooperating closely with Monash University in Melbourne Australia. The Department of German Studies at Warwick already has connections with German at Monash. Now a new joint PhD programme has been launched with funding - read on to find out more!

Find out more about how languages at Warwick have been performing in a global context. Click the main link for this news item to read more!

In the latest annual QS World University Rankings by Subject, modern languages at Warwick are collectively rated 26^th in the world. This places them above similar offerings in the universities of Cornell, Duke, Manchester, and King’s College London.

For the full table, see here.