Laura Chuhan Campbell has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her project entitled 'In the Beginning: Re-creating the Creation Story in Medieval French Translations' for academic year 2025/26.

Dario Lolli has received a Leverhulme International Fellowship for 'Licensing Cultures across the Japanese Creative Industries' for academic year 2025/26

Cette journée d’étude propose d’évaluer la place que tient l’écriture de création dans les cursus de français en French Studies et dans les centres d’apprentissage des langues étrangères (FLE), et de réfléchir à la question de l’évaluation et de l’inclusivité au sein même de ces pratiques.  

RELISH (Reframing European gastronomy Legacy through Innovation, Sustainability and Heritage) is an international project led by Durham that explores how we engage with food culture in a globalised world.

Researchers at the University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) have been awarded a significant philanthropic investment aimed at advancing research to address critical global challenges.

A volume to which Dr Vika Ivleva contributed the article ‘In-Between the Global and the Local: Silk in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Russia’ has been awarded the Association of Dress Historians (ADH), Book of the Year (BOTY) Award 2024.

What is utopianism? How did it emerge as a way of imagining alternatives to the present? Why do people often look to the past when they imagine an alternative future?

Communist suppression distorted music history in Eastern Europe. Now, Professor Patrick Zuk is being recognised for setting the record straight.

Professor Santiago Fouz Hernández (MLAC) introduced the recently restored version of Bigas Luna’s debut film TATUAJE/TATTOO (1976) at the 72nd San Sebastian Film Festival in the Basque Country last September. The SSIFF is the most prestigious film festival in Spain and among the most important in Europe, alongside Cannes, Venice, London or Berlin.

Tom Wynn has co-edited with Gillian Pink 'L'Écriture est la peinture de la voix', a two-part festschrift in honour of Nicholas Cronk, director of the University of Oxford’s Voltaire Foundation.

On 27 and 28 November, former British diplomat Ian Proud, who served in Thailand, Afghanistan and Russia, held a variety of events for students from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the History Department.

IAS co-director Professor Patrick Zuk (MLAC) has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Romanian National University of Music, Bucharest (NUMB), in recognition of his pioneering contribution to scholarship on music and cultural life in Eastern Europe.