🎓 Final year? Stay with the University of the Year! Join Progress to Postgrad on 12 Nov to explore courses, careers & funding — and maybe even get a provisional offer on the day 💜 👉 Book now: durhamuni.eventsair.com/progress-to-...

Towards a Dance Commons: Exploring Inclusion and Community through Movement - 12-13/11 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

🎓 Discover Durham Tours – October Half Term 2025 Prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students are invited to join Discover Durham Tours* on 27, 28, and 31 October 2025. 📌 Register and find more details here: durhamuni.eventsair.com/2025-discove...

🍁 Durham alumna Mia Ainsley (Italian & Spanish) shares her favourite autumnal things to do in Durham. Read more: durham-student.org/autumnal-thi...

SO much enjoyed last night's screening of WE WERE HERE: The Untold History of Black Africans in the Renaissance. Fred Kudjo Kuwornu is an incredibly talented filmmaker. Stunningly lovely music, as well! Thanks very much to @languagesdurham.bsky.social for making this event happen.

Recipes and Gastronomy as Cultural Heritage: Meaning, Methodology, and Media22–25 October 2025 | University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, Italy - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Professor Tom Wynn Inspires Students at City of London School for Girls - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Dr Dario Lolli on the Jury of the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Durham’s Prof Santiago Fouz Hernández hosted a Q&A with filmmaker Borja Cobeaga after Breaking Walls (2025) at the gala launch of the 12th Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival.

Dr Alexis Radisoglou to Deliver Keynote lecture for the launch of New Research Centre at University of Bristol - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

MLaC CARES: In solidarity with people across the globe who have experienced breast cancer. A short video from Abir Hamdar’s Hair Talk installation, capturing a moment in a Lebanese woman’s cancer recovery, part of her Performing Arab Cancer project. - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Living Texts Seminar: Dr Amaleena Damlé in Conversation with Priya Hein - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Dr Rosi Song brings the legacy of Gaspar Cassadó to international audiences - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

We Were Here: The Black Renaissance Uncovered – Screening & Conversation with Filmmaker www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Durham project shortlisted for QS Reimagine Education Awards 2025 - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Durham Scholar to Explore Catalan Culinary Identity at UMass Amherst - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

“‘Uyun Teta: Blindness, Sightedness and the Stories In-Between” — New Essay by Abir Hamdar in the journal Medical Humanities www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

MLAC Research Showcased in New Bigas Luna Blu-ray Collection - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Celebrating Student Success: Maisy Hicks Recognised in National Essay Competition - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Our colleague Viktoria Ivleva recently spoke at the Russian and Ukrainian Summer Schools at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, exploring how Pushkin and Gogol employed sartorial codes of the Romantic tradition and dandyism to convey aesthetic and political allegiances. tancam.uk/russian-and-...

Listen to our colleague Jan Clarke on the Not Just the Tudors podcast! Jan and host Suzannah Lipscomb explore the life, legend, and legacy of Molière, from his biting satire, savvy court politics, and deep understanding of human nature. podfollow.com/not-just-the...

Check out the Decolonising Knowledge and Power podcast hosted by our student Michaela Ashworth. Our colleagues Laura Leon Llerena and Yarí Pérez Marín have appeared on the podcast. open.spotify.com/show/1jCBsBF...

August is Women in Translation Month! To enjoy a curated playlist of readings from the world’s best female-authored literature by the translators of the works themselves, have a look at Translators Aloud, the YouTube channel co-found and run by Tina Kover: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Congratulations to our PhD student Claire Leibovich who has won a creative writing contest in French organized by the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust. Claire won for her pastiche of La Bible de Sens. www.amisdeproust.fr/fr/component...

Congratulations to our colleague Fusako Innami, whose book Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan is runner-up for British Comparative Literature Association's inaugural First Book Prize 2025. See further here: bcla.org/cedric-van-d...

Our colleague Luke Sunderland (who performs as Luke Connell) spoke on BBC Upload about his new medieval comedy show! You can listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... The show starts its tour next week. The Durham show has sold out; book for the others here: linktr.ee/lukeconnell

Congratulations to Matthew Hilborn on the publication of Film Comedy and Spain! The book results from Matthew's PhD entitled ‘Side-Splitting: Humour and National Identity in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (1970–2020)’, written at Durham. www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

In this video, Laura Lewis, Mari Carmen Maya, Kaoru Umezawa, James Youdale, Olga Zabotkina and Aziza Zaher present their findings from a study exploring the implications of Generative AI on language learning, teaching, assessment and feedback. dcad-resourcebank.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/05/07/e...

Congratulations to our students who graduated this week. We are very proud of you all. Do keep in touch!

Back in 2019, our colleague Olga Zabotkina had a simple but powerful idea: bringing together students to create a Russian language performance. In this video, you can hear from Olga and the students themselves as they share their experiences on and off the stage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=klFu...

Our colleague Daniel Newman spoke at the Bradford Literary Festival with acclaimed food writer Fiona Dunlop, together offering a sensory journey through the rich culinary heritage of al-Andalus. www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/a-culi...

Congratulations to Claudia Dellacasa, lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, and Durham alumna, on winning the XXIV International Flaiano Prize in Italian Studies Luca Attanasio, for "Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs".

We proud to be part of a World Top 100 University (QS World University Rankings 2026) - since 2010. We’ve strengthened our academic reputation, are 64th globally for employability and 22nd for sustainability. #QSWUR

🎓 Calling all modern languages alumni! We’d love to hear from you. Share your experience and help shape the future of modern languages by taking part in the Global Alumni Survey 2025. Closes 30 June at 11:59pm (BST). #DUAlumniSurvey25 #DurhamAlumni #HaveYourSay #MakeYourMark #DurhamForLife

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University The School is inviting expressions of interest from potential candidates. See further here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #postdocs #academicjobs

Durham Film Festival 2025: Celebrating Student Talent and International Voices The 2025 Durham Film Festival took place from June 11th to 14th, transforming various venues across Durham into lively hubs celebrating cinema. Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Yael Almog Publishes a Special Issue of Political Theology on the Diversity of Jewish Diaspora: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... In a recent interview, Yael shares the inspiration behind her work on diasporic Jewish literature: www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...

Our colleague Luke Sunderland (who performs as Luke Connell) brings a comedy show based on his research in medieval culture to the Durham and Newcastle Fringe festivals. Luke's show offers something distinctive: a comic tour of the medieval world. Full details here: linktr.ee/lukeconnell

Congratulations to two of our PhD students on their recent successes: Benedetta Panisson has been selected to participate in the Italian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale with her project Queer Sea Marriage. www.labiennale.org/en/news/bien...

🎉 Exciting news! The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has received an Athena Swan Silver Award 2025 – one of only two UK Arts & Humanities faculties to do so! ✅ Advancing gender equality ✅ Improving career development ✅ Strengthening leadership opportunities @DurhamUniversity #DUInspire

Congratulations to our colleague Marcela Andrea Cazzoli on her nomination for an Excellence in Student Research Supervision award. The nomination praised Marcela as "very supportive" and "very encouraging", highlighting her "incredibly useful insights" and "invaluable comments".

MLAC’s Joss Morfitt recently presented a paper exploring the British Film Institute’s pioneering history of queer film programming. The paper was entitled “Anatomising Queer Curatorial Histories: ‘Images of Homosexuality’ and the BFI’s Legacy of Queer Film Programming”.

This short film tells you all about the Spanish Apprentice Tourism Challenge. 5 teams of Year 10 pupils from 8 schools visited Bishop Auckland, and developed presentations on the the area's cultural offer, working with Durham University language students. vimeo.com/1089064090?s...

All welcome to the Lucille Cairns Memorial Lecture 2025 “Children of the Ghetto and the Jewish East End” Nadia Valman, Professor of Urban Literature, Queen Mary University of London 9 June 2025, 4-5.30 pm, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College

We’re delighted to announce a talk by our Chancellor, Fiona Hill. Fiona studied languages at St Andrews before an inspiring international career. This is an excellent opportunity for students to meet Fiona Hill and discuss languages and careers. "How Languages Changed My Life" 11 June, 2pm, ER140.

Congratulations to our colleague Aziza Zaher for her nomination for Academic Tutor of the Year.  Students noted in their nomination that: “In our Arabic classes we often describe Aziza as the embodiment of sunshine itself. She never fails to motivate us and always has a massive smile on her face”.

Congratulations to our colleague Ed Welch who has won the Society for French Studies R. Gapper Book Prize for his book "Making Space in Post-War France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of State Planning". Read the jury's statement praising the book here: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...

We are currently inviting expressions of interest from outstanding candidates who wish to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship through the School. Further information, including details of eligibility criteria, can be found here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Leslie Brooks Lecture and Roundtable, 6 June, St Cuthbert’s Society. Lecture, 11am: Quan Zhou Wu, “About Race in Spain through Comics”. Roundtable, 2pm: “Creative Practice Against Racism” with Jorge Catala-Carrasco. All welcome; please register here by 27 May: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Fusako Innami's brilliant book "Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan" is now free to read for all users. www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...