Prix Honoré Chavée
15 July 2013
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.
BBC journalist honoured
23 July 2013
One of the Department's ex-students was honoured at this year's graduation ceremonies by being made a Fellow of the University. Betsan Powys graduated here in German and Drama in 1987 and has just been made Editor of Programmes for Radio Cymru.
Invited speaker
23 May 2013
Dr Wini Davies will be the main speaker at this year's Welsh-medium Modern Languages Conference in Gregynog on June 20/21, 2013. She will speak (in Welsh) on 'Standard German in the classroom - the teachers' dilemma'.
International Appointment
18 July 2013
Professor David Trotter, Head of the Department of European Languages, has been elected President of the Société de Linguistique Romane for 2013-16.
DAAD Scholarship
16 April 2013
Congratulations to second year German student Betty Ritson for winning a DAAD Summer Course Scholarship. Betty will have the opportunity to attend a summer course in Germany this year. >> More information here:
Invitation
05 April 2013
Dr Alex Mangold has been invited to chair a panel on "Zizek, Lacan and Performance" at the inaugural conference of the new PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY network (11-13 April 2013, University of Surrey).
Plenary lecture
21 May 2013
Professor Trotter is giving an invited plenary paper entitled
Objectivisme, subjectivisme et constructivisme : (re)trouver le sens en ancien français’, at the 4e Colloque RES PER NOMEN. “Les théories du sens et de la référence. Hommage à Georges Kleiber”, Reims, May 2012. It is mainly about hippopotamuses and unicorns.
'Memory in post-1945 Art and Literature' Workshop
03 July 2013
'Memory in post-1945 Art and Literature' workshop at Aberystwyth University, 3-4 July 2014
'Exile and Gender' Symposium
17 September 2013
Symposium organised by Dr Andrea Hammel will take place at the University of London.
Société de Linguistique Romane
23 July 2013
Professor David Trotter, Head of the Department of European Languages, has been elected President of the Société de Linguistique Romane for 2013-16.