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 Congratulations
Professor David Trotter has been asked to join the scientific board of Quaderni di Filologia Romanza.
Conférence
Lecture by Professor Georges KLEIBER (Strasbourg) on
"Histoire de personne(s) : qui est JE, qui est TU ?, qui est IL.
2 May at 13.10 in Hugh Owen A14.
All Welcome
Conférence
« À travers vents et marées : la navigation et la sémantique »
L'École nationale des chartes accueillera M. David Trotter (université de Aberyswyth) comme professeur invité de la fin du mois de mars au milieu du mois d'avril.
M. David Trotter donnera une conférence publique de sémantique historique, le mardi 10 avril à 17h, dans la grande salle, intitulée « À travers vents et marées : la navigation et la sémantique ». |
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Congratulations
Professor David Trotter will be professeur invité at the École nationale des Chartes, Paris, March/April 2012.
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Lecture
At 1.10 on Wednesday 2nd May, in A14 Hugh Owen Building, Professor Georges Kleiber (Université de Strasbourg), will lecture on:
"Histoire de personne(s) : qui est JE ? Qui est TU ? Qui est IL ?"
Professor Kleiber is one of the most distinguished French linguists of his generation.
Lecture
Aberystwyth Linguistic Forum
Dr David Willis (Cambridge University), The Syntactic Atlas of Welsh Dialects: some preliminary findings.
Thursday 29 March 2012 at 6.15, Hugh Owen Building, Room A14
All Welcome
Lecture
Professor Hans GOEBL, University of Salzburg
'Introduction aux problèmes et méthodes de l’« Ecole dialectométrique
de Salzbourg »' (avec des exemples gallo‐, italo‐ et ibéroromans)
on Wednesday 29th February, 5.00 p.m., Hugh Owen A14.
Professor Goebl is the creator of the ALD : Atlant linguistich dl ladin dolomitich y di
dialec vejins I + II / Atlante linguistico del ladino dolomitico e dei dialetti limitrofi I +
II / Linguistic Atlas of Dolomitic Ladinian and neighbouring dialects
(Hugh Owen Library: ATLAS G1989.22.D6E3.G5 , ex dono auctoris)
and founder of the pioneering “Salzburg school” of dialectometry (which has
developed a methodology for the mathematical measurement of dialectal distance).
Lecture
'Consensus - the Parliament of Fools'
Professor David Wulstan will deliver a second lecture in the series "Research or re-search", on Consensus - the Parliament of Fools, on Wednesday 22nd February at 5 p.m. in Hugh Owen A14.
Professor Wulstan is a former Professor of Music in Aberystwyth, and Honorary Professor in the Department of European Languages.
All welcome.
Congratulations
The Department of European Languages wishes to congratulate those graduating students listed below who have been rewarded for excellence in their studies. We wish them, and all of our graduating students, all the best for the future.
The André Barbier prize (awarded for the best year abroad dissertation in French, in memory of a previous Professor of French) was awarded to Rosemary Sillars.
Chris Smith, (BA European Languages, Spanish and French major with German minor), who has just won this year's Veritas Language Solutions translation contest, featuring students from the best universities all over Europe. |
Distinctions in Oral Examinations |
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M’sa, Aicha (French) |
Buraczynska, Joanna (Spanish) |
| Macleod, Shona (French) |
Chambers, Arran (Spanish) |
Sillars, Rosemary (French) |
Kirkham, Julie (Spanish) |
Szustak, Andrzej (French) |
M’sa, Aicha (Spanish) |
Toomer, Penelope (French) |
Oates, Luke (Spanish) |
Biggar, Nikolaj (German) |
Roberts, Kyle (Spanish) |
Buraczynska, Joanna (German) |
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First Class Degree |
Buraczynska, Joanna |
Oates, Luke |
Chambers, Arran |
Macleod, Shona |
Edwards, Liam |
Mears, Nathan |
Gyllensten, Benedicte |
Sillars, Rosemary |
Other prizes
David & Margaret Evans Prize in German – awarded for proficiency in German:
Cecilia Burns (Level 1 Advanced) and Victoria Jazwiecka (Level 1 Beginners)
Tony Wrighton-Edwards Prize in Spanish – awarded for proficiency in Spanish:
Leanne Ruaux (Level 2) and Mateusz Mazzini (Level 2)
Congratulations
The Anglo-Norman Dictionary, directed by Professor D.A. Trotter since 2001, has been awarded the Prix Honoré Chavée of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, founded in Paris in 1663. The PRIX Honorè CHAVÉE was established "to encourage linguistic studies and especially research relating to Romance languages”.
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Congratulations
Professor Trotter, D.A., has been invited to be member of comité scientifique of the Revue Internationale de Linguistique Française, published by the Institut de Linguistique Française.
Conference
Holocaust Writing and Translation Workshop
A One-Day Conference (Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
(Rooms ST 274/275, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1) Co-Ordinators: Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth) and Peter Davies (Edinburgh).
Congratulations
to Professor Trotter on his election to the Vice-Presidency of the Société de Linguistique romane.
Intern advertisement: Details >> here
Lecture
Dr Wini Davies will be giving a guest lecture at the University of Basle Switzerland, on October 12, 2010, on the topic: 'Die Konstruktion von "gutem" und "schlechtem" Deutsch'.
DAAD Award
Dr Wini Davies has been awarded by The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) a study grant for senior academics which will enable her to spend two months in Germany (at the University of
Duisburg-Essen) during her sabbatical in the winter semester of 2010-11.
Invitation
Dr Wini Davies has been invited to speak at a symposium on Luxembourg Studies at the University of Sheffield in July to mark the retirement of Professor Gerald Newton.
Aberystwyth Linguistic Forum (ALF)
Grant
Professor David Trotter has been awarded £66,353 as the Aberystwyth element of a joint Heidelberg-Aberystwyth grant from the AHRC and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). >> More
Congratulations
Professor David Trotter has been invited by AERES (Agence de l'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur), to be a member of a research evaluation committee that will assess the research output and future projects of a major research group, Sens, Informatique, Texte, Histoire (directed by Professor Olivier Soutet) at the Sorbonne (Université de Paris-IV). AERES, established in 2007, is the French equivalent of the UK's RAE and TQA.
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