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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Call for Conference Papers 'Women and Arabic Theatre' April 21-23 2027. Apply by 1 Dec 2026. More here: shorturl.at/HCOj0 International Federation for Theatre Research: www.facebook.com/iftrcomms Arabic Theatre Working Group: facebook.com/groups/atwgi... #IFTR #ArabicTheatre #ATWG

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Join Translator Ellen Elias-Bursać for a reading of the translated work 'Celebration', as well as a Q+A discussion about her career journey and what inspires her in her work! To sign up for the event, please register here: shorturl.at/xDz2l When: Wednesday 14th October, 6:15 PM in UCO: School 2

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ana’s project examines the political and identity implications of simplified and traditional Chinese characters, while Alistair’s explores accent discrimination and language attitudes in Chinese-speaking contexts.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join us for a conversation between Prof. Jordi Larios, Mr. Dylan Inglis, and Ms. Ana Barazal Barreira on three minority languages of Spain: Catalan, Basque, and Galician.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We are pleased to announce this semesters research seminar events for our Cross-cultural circa 19th Century Research Centre.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congratulations to the Departments of French, German and Iberian Languages in achieving 1st place in the 2027 Times University Guide. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The School of Modern Languages is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the prestigious Athena Swan Silver Award, recognising its sustained commitment to advancing gender equality and creating an inclusive and supportive environment for staff and students.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Professor Will Fowler’s second novel TRAIDORES has just come out in Mexico.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Join Simon Ezra-Jackson for a fast-paced potted history of one of the greatest utopian projects that never was — and see first-hand how quickly you too can pick up the international language of peace.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Professor Will Fowler is giving the plenary lecture “Violencia y política en México durante el siglo XIX” at the conference “La guerra por otros medios: política, revolución y gobernanza en el México del siglo XIX”, held at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, on Thurs 20 August 9am CST/4pm BST

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Congratulations to all our colleagues&students on excellent results in the National Student Survey 2026, with Arabic&Persian #1 in the UK (3rd year running), Spanish #2 UK (#1 in Scotland); German #3 UK (#1 Scotland); Chinese #4 UK (#1 Scotland), & Russian #4 UK (#2 Scotland).

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Read about the 16th EURAMAL: Catastrophe and Beyond: Representations of Violence and Trauma in Modern Arabic Literature here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Read about our recent Byre World Insights – ‘Queer Tales: Reenacting Women’s Lives’ event here: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Congratulations to all our students who graduated this Wed 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Highlights from the highly successful 16th EURAMAL Conference: more than 100 participants from Europe, the Arab world, and beyond, alongside special events featuring renowned writers & poets Nouri al-Jarrah, Ghayath Almadhoun, Sinan antoon, Eleni Kefala, David Herd, & Dima Wannous.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Read about our School's success in the Complete University Guide 2027: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu... #studylanguages

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📚🌍30 Sep–2 Oct 2026 our Festival of Languages is back for three days of inspiring events celebrating languages, cultures, literature, translation, & multilingual creativity. Access our exciting programme here: festivaloflanguages.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/festival-pro... #ByreTheatre #FestivalOfLanguages

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🎉🎉🎉We are happy to share with you that the four subjects our School has listed in the Complete University Guide @compuniguide are now all in the top 5 in the UK: French and Italian 2nd, German 3rd, and Spanish 5th. You can find more here: www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The ‘Lost Detectives’ podcast series is back! In Ep. 8, Claire Whitehead talks to Dr Grace Docherty about the depiction of non-human things in examples of crime fiction from the late imperial era in Russia. lostdetectives.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/podcasts/ soundcloud.com/university-o...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

As part of the Making Waves Lecture Series, the Development team invites you to our next event with Dr Niall Sreenan from the School of Modern Languages. More here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/makin...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We are hiring an Associate Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Modern Languages/Comparative Literature (Education Focused), a fixed-term position for one year to cover a period of staff leave. Applications must be submitted by 8 June 2026. More here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Join us on Mon for the 2nd German-Austrian Quiz Night! 🇩🇪🇦🇹 Test your knowledge, enjoy a fun evening, and win exciting prizes from the OeAD, DAAD, & Goethe-Institut Glasgow. 🗓 12 May🕖 7 PM📍 School 1. Snacks&drinks provided by the Austrian Cultural Forum London. Don’t miss it!

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The Carnegie Education Fund has launched a new grant scheme to help more people in Scotland access postgraduate study. The application pedriod for the 2026-27 academic year opened 1 May 2026. More here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Applications are now being accepted for the British Spanish Society 2026 postgraduate scholarships. Applicants must be British or Spanish nationals who are/will be engaged in university postgraduate study (Masters&doctoral) in the UK or Spain. More here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

We were delighted to host Cristina Rivera Garza, one of the best-known Latin American authors today, as our Writer in Residence this semester. Thank you to our Dr Liliana Chávez Díaz for arranging this residency. Read more here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Nice to read about our Prof Will Fowler In the Loop: staffnews.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/05/01/p...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Our Dr Marine Ganofsky, is among the eight St Andrews Academics who have been awarded Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for the Academic Year 2026-27, for her project ‘Enchanté! Libertines and the magic of desire in eighteenth-century French fiction’: news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/st-a...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Our honorary professor Janet Watson published her co-authored book, Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabic. Volume 2: Comparative Lexicon of Fish and Other Marine Species with Open Book publishers. More here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Our Prof Derek Duncan’s end of project exhibition, Incontri: a Scots Italian Photographic Archive is now showing at the Institute of Italian Culture in Edinburgh (until 15 May). More here: iicedimburgo.esteri.it/en/gli_event...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Our final AUSTRO PASS screening, Far From Being Lipizzans (2025), explores questions of identity, belonging, & the social boundaries behind a sense of “we”. Drawing on director Olga Kosanović’s personal experience, the film offers a thoughtful reflection on citizenship and inclusion. Don’t miss it!

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In this month’s Saints Spotlight, our Professor Nicki Hitchcott discusses her current research project that looks to fill the gaps in Belgian imperial history through the study of colonial archives: alumni.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/04/13/s...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Join us for our upcoming Byre World event "Queer Tales: Women's Lives Reenacted" at Byre Theatre. Details here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/queer...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Professor Will Fowler is giving a seminar today Monday 13th of April online (5-7pm UK-time) to history students from the Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES) (Acatlán campus) of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Join us this Monday for the second screening of our Austro Cinema series with Favoriten by Ruth Beckermann. Follow a group of pupils and their teacher over three years in a diverse Vienna classroom, exploring identity, migration, and everyday life. Don’t miss it! @acf_london

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Starting tomorrow, the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh will be hosting a free exhibition by Incontri: A Scots Italian Photographic Archive. Come along from 9 April to 15 May and have a look! #HES #HESsupported

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Join us this Thursday for the first screening of our Austro Cinema series with 27 Storeys: Alterlaa Forever. Discover the story behind the world-famous Wohnpark Alterlaa and dive into its unique history. Don’t miss it!

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

On 27 Mar final-year student Gregg Clark & Dr Elise Hugueny-Léger attended the Choix Goncourt UK ceremony at the French Institute & the French Embassy in London. Read more here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Permanent vacancy available from September 2026 in our Department of Italian. Read more here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A new vacancy for the position of Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies. This is a fixed-term position three years (September 2026 to August 2029) to cover a period of staff leave. Read the details here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We are inviting applications for the position of Associate Lecturer in Italian (Education Focused). This is a fixed-term position for one semester (September 2026 to January 2027). Details here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

14 Apr 1pm join the online guest lecture 'Accents that disappear, accents that stick', by Dr Tsung-Lun Alan Wan (Assistant Prof in Linguistics, Department of Foreign Languages&Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan). Details here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/guest...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Read Evie Reilly's (Employability and Careers Student Rep) article a series of teaching events, hosted by our school, including two public talks and a workshop led by Teacher-Trainer Sara Davidson from Oundle School, Northamptonshire: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

St Andrews has climbed 16 places for Modern Languages in the 2026 QS World University Subject Rankings, 63rd globally for Modern Languages and 11th in the UK. Congratulations to all our colleagues and students. Read more here www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Dr Humberto Morales Moreno, from the BUAP (Puebla, Mexico), will be addressing our c19c Research Centre tomorrow, here in St Andrews.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Happy Nowruz نوروز and thanks to Dr Parmis Mozafari who organised the Nowruz display in the Buchanan Building! Celebrated on the first day of spring, around March 20, it masrks the beginning of the new year in the Iranian solar calendar. More here: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Fri 27 Mar 4pm in ARB: 317 – ARTS SEMINAR 7 join Dr Paul Leworthy (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Newcastle University) for the Guest Lecture, Screening and Intervening: Documenting and Doing Memory Work in Das deutsche Volk. More here: cims.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/seminar-seri...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Join our brilliant team! We invite applications for the position of Associate Lecturer in French (Education Focused). This is a fixed-term position for ten months to cover a period of staff leave. Details here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Join the events with our Writer in Residence Cristina Rivera Garza, one of the most important Mexican American & Latin American authors, winner of 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her (auto)biographical work Liliana's Invincible Summer. A Sister's Search for Justice (more on the poster).

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Carol Adlam's graphic novel 'The Russian Detective' (Penguin/Jonathan Cape, 2024) has been shortlisted in the V&A Illustration Awards 2026. For the novel's research context see Adlam & Claire Whitehead’s article 'Lost Detectives: Intermedial Adaptations’: academic.oup.com/adaptation/a...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

🎭Free acting&creation workshop on women's diversity, led by Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos, Lecturer in Spanish Studies, Ciara Rooney, ModLangs School President, & Emily Hadfield, Spanish Student Convenor. No experience is required. Open to everyone 18+. Use the QR code to sign up!

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