Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway

Open Day: University of London MA Languages and Cultures Across Borders

**Open Day next Weds 26th Nov, 2-4pm at Senate House** for the 2026-7 intake on the intercollegiate MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders. Register your place: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @llc-rhul.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

'Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach' by Salvador Dalí, 1938. Oil on canvas. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT. A painting of a face and a fruit bowl on a beach with hidden figures and visual puzzles set against a rocky backdrop in tones of yellow, brown and orange with blue and red highlights.

The 2025 David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture, entitled 'Dalís', will be delivered on 11 November (online) by Dr. Alicia Kent of @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Free and open to all! Full details here:
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards

We are pleased to announce that @royalholloway.bsky.social will offer 3 studentships funded by the AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA) in 2026-27. Deadline for applications: 13 January 2026. Awards to start in September 2026.

Further details below.

Do you want to boost your language students at A-level? Sign up to this webinar with Michael Slavinsky, founder of Languages For All, a charity which aims to increase the number of students at A-level & degree level from state schools. More info 👇: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/programme/we...

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships, 2026 The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway University of London invites applications to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme, 2026.

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at
@royalholloway.bsky.social invites expressions of interest from potential applicants to the 2026 @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social
Early Career Fellowship scheme. Details of the process and deadlines here 👇

A poster for our Clearing Hotline: Tel. +44(0)1784 772455

Wishing good luck to those getting their A-Level results tomorrow! If you enter Clearing keep calm and don't worry. We will have places available on courses including Languages, Liberal Arts and Comparative Literature and Culture. Call us from 8am on Thursday! Tel: +44(0)1784 772455

Another #language piece in the @theconversation.com @uk.theconversation.com (by our own @saschastollhans.bsky.social) focusing on #German and the benefit of language learning/of a curriculum that introduces students to #linguistics and linguistic concepts theconversation.com/learning-ger... #edusky

Congrats 🎉to our doctoral student Gareth on the publication of a great article - read open access here 👇👇

Sign the Petition Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University

Welsh universities have always been centres of excellence in languages, German in particular - no more, it seems.

Cardiff is ditching excellent courses in German, Italian and Portuguese, and now Bangor is proposing the same for German and Chinese. Please sign / share the petition.

On 27 May, 4-6pm, our annual collaborative postgraduate research seminar with the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social takes place (online, via MS Teams). All very welcome to join and listen to the six of our researchers discuss their projects. Details and a meeting link here.

@llc-rhul.bsky.social

This was excellent - congratulations to Joe and fellow panellists! Catch up with it via BBC Sounds if you missed it.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.

Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière.

The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.

Registration for Nineteenth-Century Legacies is open! Join us at Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham June 3rd) for excellent papers, plenary speakers, and a roundtable discussion. Complete form by 19th May to confirm attendance. forms.office.com/e/RdenySx4D3

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.

Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière.

The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.

Writing the Next Saint: Salas Barbadillo, Juana de la Cruz and the Politics of Saint-Making in Early Modern Spain* Antonio Jerónimo Salas Barbadillo published his Triunfos de la beata soror Juana de la Cruz in 1621. This article discusses the politics of saint-making in the Madrid of the first quarter of the se...

Why did Salas Barbadillo actively contribute to soror Juana’s canonization bid & how were his writings shaped by censorship, patronage & the debate on Mary’s immaculacy? Find out in latest article by @arantzam.bsky.social of @llc-rhul.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A tree in full white blossom, with a building and a blue sky in the background.

This tree, near our building on campus, is quite the show stopper!

Out today: a new book by our colleague Jon on an essential German film classic!

Deadline extended: 25th March 2025. Submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.

In case of interest to London people - tickets (£6.50) now on sale for my talk / book launch at the BFI Reuben Library on Monday 14 April: 'New Writings: ‘People on Sunday’ and the Cultural Networks of Weimar Berlin'.

Great to see our Centre for Visual Cultures here - do give them a follow!

A photo of one of the towers of Royal Holloway’s Founders Building in the .

Another photo of the Founders Building against a blue sky.

Royal Holloway’s campus in the sun.

Spectacular afternoon on campus!

There's still time to submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London in June, but the deadline is coming up fast! Applications are due Saturday, Mar. 15, so ⏰ is of the essence! See below for more details.

@projectmuse.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social

top 5 french reads bookblast diary french reads january 2019

Updated Post: Top 5 French Reads IV Book Blast Presents https://buff.ly/4bi2xif

Additional cool fact about Madeleine Carroll - she graduated with a BA in French from the University of Birmingham. www.westbromwichhistory.com/people-place...

New research from our colleague Arantza 👇👇

The German 50+1 rule explained via @footpolpodcast.bsky.social

Great episode, chP

The call for papers for this year's SFS Postgraduate Conference 'CONDITIONS' closes on Monday 3 March 2025.

Send in your entries before the deadline next week! 📨👇

Witness History - La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish civil war - BBC Sounds Dolores Ibárruri was dubbed La Pasionaria for her fiery speeches in the Spanish civil war

Fascinating podcast from BBC World Service, looking at Dolores Ibárruri, nicknamed La Pasionaria, whose catchprase ¡No Pasarán!' ('They shall not pass') became the battle cry of the Republicans.