SMLC - News and events
£2.6m goes to Warwick from the new Turing scheme to facilitate study abroad.
The UK Government has announced today (4 August 2021) that the University of Warwick will be awarded £2.6 million for international student mobility, as part of the inaugural Turing Scheme.
Warwick is one of the world’s top 100 universities, and one of the ways it has achieved that position is because it is a globally connected institution. Its staff and students learn, work, and research as part of a highly international community, and more than 1000 Warwick students each year also take the opportunity to study and work abroad at one of the University’s many worldwide partner institutions.
Calling all students: Survey on the Future of SMLC!
Please read more to find out about this important survey - and take part. Have your voice heard at this pivotal point in our School's journey!
Student Podcasts in German launched ahead of Writer in Residence programme.
Listen to Warwick Undergraduate student podcasts ahead of the visit to Warwick by our writer in residence 2018 Olga Grjasnowa!
Two Chairs Reading, Wed May 9, 17:30. Holywell Music Room, Oxford.
A !FREE! poetry reading featuring winners from the Two Chairs Creative Writing Competition, and judges Ian McMillan, Hanan Issa, Momtaza Mehri.
Two Chairs Creative Writing Competition Launches!
Dr James Hodkinson and Professor Karen Leeder (Oxford) launch a creative writing competition on Monday 25 Sept.
Warwick hosts UK's national conference for German Studies
The Department of German Studies and the School of Modern Languages and Cultures played host to British and Irish-based Germanists of all backgrounds last week, from 5-7 September. A brief preview follows.
Warwick German Studies alumna Emily Wagstaffe receives German Embassy German Teacher Award. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Many congratulations to our former student Emily Wagstaffe, now Head of German at Oundle School, who has been awarded a very prestigious German Teacher Award by the German Embassy. The ceremony was on 12 June, and Emily received her prize from the Ambassador Peter Ammon and John le Carré. Click here to read the Embassy's report.
Touring exhibition opens: 'Following Islam through German History, 1770-1918.'
Dr James Hodkinson's touring exhibtion has now opened in schools in Surrey. It will be touring educational institutions in the UK over the next 12-18 months.
The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through representations of Islam in German-speaking culture from the late Enlightenment to the Great War of 1914-1918. Looking at texts and images, it tracks the shifting values and functions attributed to Islam in German and Austrian society, culture, thought and politics, highlighting both the Islamophobia and Islamophilia of the age and asking visitors to reflect on how these patterns are still with us today.
Trailer released for Dr James Hodkinson's Film
Together with Dr Ian Roberts, Dr James Hodkinson is making a series of films charting his impact project on Islam in Germany. Watch the trailer here.
James Hodkinson in Public Discussion with Baroness Warsi and the Bishop of Guildford
Dr. James Hodkinson of SMLC, currently researching Islam in German History, has been invited to take part in an event hosted by Woking People of Faith Interfaith forum, alongside prominent speakers in Woking on November 18th, 7pm.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/people/academic/jameshodkinson/
Congratulations to Zoe Russell Prize winners
The winners and runners up of the Zoe Russell Prize 2015 were awarded their prizes by Mr and Mrs Russell at a ceremony on Friday 30 November:
Joint Winners: Nadia Bazargan (F&G) and Halina Gadbury (F&G)
Joint Runners up: Lucy O'Connor (G&H); Hannah Solle (E&G); Heather Watts (GwF)
Previous winners Alice Arnold (F&G); Rachel Bousfiled (F&G) and Rebecca James (G&B) also attended.
CONGRATULATIONS!