Andrea Klaus tops the download charts for most downloaded book from University of Warwick Press! Her book 'Stolpersteine: German in 10 minutes a day' has topped the charts for the press' 'most downloaded book' of 2025 with 2,918 downloads! Read more: publishing.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/uw...

Excellent work from our own @airelleamedro.bsky.social who has guest edited an issue of @francemodern.bsky.social !

Events this week: 11 Feb: Translation Studies welcomes Professor Stephen Henighan on literary translation, 16.00, FAB3.31 12 Feb: Work-in-Progress with Alicja Matuszewska on Rethinking geistiges Elsässertum: Alsatian duality in the physical space post-regional fusion, FAB2.48, 17.00

Montargis, Paris, Valladolid: A Year Abroad Triptych A Year Abroad doesn't have to just be in one place: hear from our final year student, Katerina, about her experiences across three locations and three very different placements!

JoSTrans 49, Jan 2028, CFP for special issue Digital Patronage & the Politics of Translation in Algorithmic Culture Guest-edited by Minlin Yu and Jenny He www.jostrans.org/about/cfp49 SMLC's Jenny He is guest editing this issue and the CFP is live NOW. Translation Studies folk take note and share

Really enjoyed working with Channel Talent to put on an online A-level German lesson on the Dark Sides of Unification, using “blues in schwarz weiss” by May Ayim to think through some of the links between then and now.

Life as an English Language Assistant in Guyana "Overall my time in Guyane as an English assistant so far has been nothing short of the best time of my life, and I would definitely recommend going for it to anyone who is thinking about applying": thinking about trying somewhere a bit different for…

#congratulations to Susannah Wilson on her #newbook with @cornelluniversity.bsky.social, A Most Quiet Murder, which launched this afternoon. 👉Link to the publisher's website: tinyurl.com/46yhetf2 👉And read here a short blog by Susannah for the Legal History Miscellany blog: tinyurl.com/4xd69h2x

Exciting events this week: TOMORROW 28 Jan, Lala Toutonian is giving an online talk for Hispanic Studies WEDS 29 Jan, Susannah Wilson (French) launches 'A Most Quiet Murder', FAB3.30, 15.00 Also WEDS, Lili Owen Rowlands (Royal Holloway), presents on erotic labour in French cinema, FAB3.30, 16.30

Summer trip to Xi’an, China by Stephanie Welch Over the summer a group of five students including myself had the privilege of spending four weeks in one of Chinas ancient capitals Xi’an. During our stay we attended Mandarin classes, spent time at the Shaanxi History Museum and visited the cities…

😍Two amazing events happening this week! TODAY: SMLC Work-in-Progress seminar, 17.00, FAB2.48 - Yanyu Liu on 'Circulation of Crime Fiction in the Landscape of World Literatue' TOMORROW: author Juhea KIM exploring the anxieties of creative writing & literary translation, OC1.09, 15.00

And we've got even more photos of our fantastic PhD graduates here: www.instagram.com/p/DTxsOWJjNv...

It's graduation day here University of Warwick! Congratulations to all our students who are graduating today! Check out photos from our drinks reception earlier: www.instagram.com/p/DTu87fzjDw... Whilst you're there, why not follow us? @smlc_warwick on Insta for the latest SMLC news and gossip!

New Year, New Term... and a new series of exciting research seminars in Hispanic Studies! We’re delighted to open the term with a talk by Mathew Hilborn alongside our very own Mary Harrod. 21 Jan, 17.00, FAB cinema

Fan of French cinema? SMLC's Douglas Morrey has been on The French Cinema Room podcast discussing the emblematic and Oscar-winning Juliette Binoche. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7o6m...

IPCITI 2025 at Warwick: Young Scholars, Big Conversations Our second blog of 2026 is a second look at one of the wonderful conferences hosted in SMLC last term. This time, the IPCITI 2025 translation/interpreting conference!

🎉CONGRATULATIONS to Qian Liu on her book 异域之爱：互文性翻译理论视角下的中国近现代爱情小说的译与撰 Exotic Love: Translation & Creation of Romantic Stories in Early 20th-century China from an Intertextual-Translational Perspective (Peking University Press) 👉The book tinyurl.com/3yc3jk8u 👉Qian's research tinyurl.com/mr2ehpec

👏New Year, New Doctor! 🎉Congratulations to Shaoyu Yang, who passed her PhD Viva before Christmas. She is the first graduate of our MA Translation & Cultures to finish a PhD with us, a great achievement. Learn about Shaoyu's research: tinyurl.com/2umvvmra And our MA programmes: tinyurl.com/mu9xshjx

Warwick–Tongji Postgraduate Symposium 2025: Translation, Discourse, and Global Communication Our first blog of 2026 sees us catch up with one of the wonderful conferences we hosted last term: the Warwick-Tongji Postgraduate Symposium, focused on Translation, Discourse and Global Communication.

A Grain of Sand Come for the journey, stay for the photos: our final blog post of 2025 is a stunning pictorial account of Joe Guy's Year Abroad in China. As winter closes in on Warwick, let yourself drift through these breath-taking Chinese landscapes...

It may have been Week 10 but colleagues in German Studies ended the year with a double header: 1. GeFo in. Studio, an informal, roundtable research sharing event. 2. Screening of Pabst’s ‘Die freudlose Gasse’ as part of the #weimar100 project introduced via a paper from our own Dr Ian Roberts

Wednesday 10th December, 6pm, FAB cinema Weimar 100 event marking the centenary of G. W. Pabst's Die freudlose Gasse (Joyless Streets)! Introductory lecture by Ian Roberts followed by & subtitled screening with refreshments. Please register: tinyurl.com/y2kdrfpd

¡Feliz Navidad! Spanish Food and Wine and the Victorian Christmas On the first day of Christmas (well, December) the SMLC gave to me... reflections on the Spanish influences on Christmas in Britain, by Kirsty Hooper. A piece likely to make readers rather peckish and thirsty...

💥NEW BOOK ALERT! 🎉Susannah Wilson has published with @cornelluniversity.bsky.social A Most Quiet Murder: Maternity, Affliction, and Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century France 👉Publisher's website: tinyurl.com/46yhetf2 👉Blog by Susannah for Legal History Miscellany : tinyurl.com/4xd69h2x

Happening TODAY! French Studies Seminar Series - two of our PhD candidates, Adam Agowun and Airelle Amedro, will be presenting their research. Airelle will present her work on author Virginie Despentes and Adam his work on Nicolas Sarkozy's political communication strategy. 16.30-18.00, FAB3.30

Having been digging through my files this morning to find material on the history of French Studies @warwick-smlc.bsky.social for the alumni day @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Who recognises these 3 brochures?

Year Abroads past and present Time for some more Year Abroad stories, this time taking us from China to Heidelberg via Montpellier...

Amazing photos from last week's #IPCITI2025 conference! We've had another busy week of research, with amazing talks for the German, Italian, and Falling Skies seminar series. And TODAY, we have the Dante Futures conference: Wolfson Research Exchange from 16.45. Be sure to tag us if you're posting!

🔉🎉Stay tuned for our week-long #IPCITI2025 recap! Here's a little sneak peek of the wonderful institutional welcome delivered by our Co-head of School @warwick-smlc.bsky.social, Professor Elisabeth Herrmann and Dr Caroline Summers from @warwicktranslation.bsky.social (1/2)

Don't forget our two amazing seminars taking place THIS AFTERNOON! See details below and find out more on the SMLC Events page on our website: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...

Вы говорите по-русски? Warwick Language Centre’s Russian conversation club Вы говорите по-русски? Hear from our 2nd year BA Modern Languages student, Cerys, about her experience of the Language Centre's Russian Conversation Club!

SMLC seminars THIS WEEK 19.11: The Gestalt of the Worker: The New Man in Ernst Jünger's Weimar Photobooks (Thomas Crew, German, FAB4.74, 17-18.30) 19.11: Falling Skies: Extraction (Pierre-Phillipe Fraiture, French, FAB4.79, 17-18.00) 20.11: Book Launch: The New Life (Italian, FAB2.32, 17-19.00)

Languages & Careers 60 Midlands students attended language/culture tasters & alumni careers/employability talk with brilliant alumni Maria Dunkley Freelance Translator & Ella Hillyard Senior Consultant @deloitteinsights.bsky.social Amazing feedback & our Ambassadors Seun, Abi & Natalia were amazing!

Thank you @i-de-smet.bsky.social ! Two great days of talks in store at #IPCITI2025 happening today & tomorrow here at Warwick! If you're attending, make sure let us know what you think and to tag us in your posts! #translation #interpreting @heriotwattuni.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social

#IPCITI2025 Intl PG Conf in Translation & Interpreting: happening at Warwick THIS WEEK! 📍 Online attendance for Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney's keynote "Translating Rape" is free and open to all ⏰ Thurs 13 Nov, 9.30-11 Register by Wednesday, 12 November 🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...

TOMORROW 11 Nov, Dr Miriam Gordon, French, SMLC is talking about: 'Towards a Biblical Postcolonial Theory: Reflections from the French Caribbean', 5:30pm in OC1.07 This talk will explore the intersections between postcolonial theory, French Caribbean and the Bible. All welcome to attend!

Long Read: Authorship, Madness and the Modern Muse: Reading Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl Think Taylor Swift’s new album is just pop music? Think again! Our colleague Kelly Mayjonade-Christy dives deep into Taylor Swift’s latest release “The Life of a Showgirl”, where she explores how the…

@warwicktranslation.bsky.social have had another busy week of events: a meeting of their PG/staff reading group and a talk by Ye Tian @universityofleeds.bsky.social about translation and the city. You can read more about their events here: tinyurl.com/39ch3e5j #translation #china #research

Second session of 'Falling Skies' seminar series, Weds 19 Nov, 5-6pm, FAB4.79 on EXTRACTION through Sammy Baloji’s documentary L’Arbre de l’authenticité [The Tree of Authenticity] and led by Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (SMLC) Sign up tinyurl.com/yx5xvvvd We hope to see many of you there!

From Alpine views to asparagus soup, let our students Bella Kench and Ebony Guy walk you through their Year Abroad stays in Germany, Grenoble, and Italy...

And if those talks weren't enough, today we've Translation Studies' second seminar where Prof Ning Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University & Tsinghua University) will talk about 'Contemporary Chinese Fiction in the Context of World Literature' S0.09, 13.00, TODAY! @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social

SMLC research seminars are in full swing! After Kate Astbury's fascinating talk on Napoleonic theatre @100days1815.bsky.social, this last week has seen @stefanoserafini.bsky.social on the gothic in Italy and as we speak the first 'Falling Skies' seminar! Watch this space for more events coming soon!

Happening TODAY. The first in a fascinating new seminar series from Warwick SMLC. 17.00 in FAB4.78 to hear Dr Curie Virag on the theme 'Human'. #interdisciplinary #crossdisciplinary #human #seminar @warwickuni.bsky.social

EUTOPIA Connected Community Francophonies brings together students for activities linked to Francophone language/culture. Warwick students learning French can take part in the ‘Enquête croisée sur la francophonie’ Sign up: forms.office.com/e/Bf2akeec7w Deadline 31 Oct! @eutopiauni.bsky.social

NEW ARTICLE: 'Pirates, Slave Traders or Patriots? Imperial Exceptionalism, Maritime Tensions and the Emergence of the Spanish Sea Novel, c. 1830-1870' by @booksonspain.bsky.social @warwick-smlc.bsky.social Read it #OA online: bit.ly/MLO-Hooper

Working 9 to 5, what a way to do a Year Abroad! If you're thinking about a work placement as part of your year away, read about Caitlin and Farooq's experience of working in Parisian start-ups!

New article klaxon! Find out about the origins of the Spanish sea novel - a response to C19 Spain's declining global influence & attachment to the slave trade. It's been nearly ten years in the works and now you can read it on @modlangopen.bsky.social @warwick-smlc.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3hv68ewz

A year in Bordeaux anyone? Read about Beth and Louis' experiences of a life in the land of wine, rugby union... and broken washing machines!

I’m so pleased that we have been able to develop our Language learners as peace makers project this year as part of @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social 60th anniversary celebrations. Thank you to @ucflangs.bsky.social for adding to the university funding - will share resources for others to use soon

A wonderful outreach day @coventrycathedral.bsky.social for the 'Language Learners as Peacemakers' event. Many thanks to the staff and student ambassadors who gave up their time to help ❤️ Find more pics on our Instagram tinyurl.com/2475acm9 And why not give us a follow?