Professor Daniel L Newman shares a recipe from his recent book 'The Exile's Cookbook'. The unique medieval cookbook reveals the fascinating development of the Arab culinary tradition and its profound influence on European cooking.

Dr Yael Almog has been awarded the DAAD/German Studies Association (2022-23) best article prize.

Details of future Living Texts seminars will be posted on our website, so please check back. 

Pleibéricos, an online platform founded during the Covid-19 pandemic by Prof Santiago Fouz Hernández (Durham) and Dr Esther Gimeno Ugalde (Vienna) to promote new books in Iberian Studies, marks its third anniversary this year with a new online catalogue featuring the over 100 books launched by the platform since June 2020 and its first hybrid event.

Professor Santiago Fouz Hernández is hosting two Spanish Cinema events this September, in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes Manchester and the London Spanish Film Festival.

Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze’s new novel, Les malices, has come out with French publisher L’Harmattan.

Ahead of the publication by De Gruyter in 2024 of their handbook on Modern Languages, MLaC Professors Andy Byford and Claudia Nitschke have taken part in an interview titled ‘Modern Languages: Remapping a Shifting Landscape’.

Dr Yarí Pérez Marín from our School of Modern Languages and Cultures was invited to write a review of the latest DC Comics film, Blue Beetle, starring Xolo Maridueña as the first Latino superhero lead. Warning: this review contains spoilers for Blue Beetle.

MLaC student Matilda “Tilly” Prentis who set up a charity for refugees and found temporary homes for over 50 families from Ukraine has been highly commended in the Global Volunteering Awards (held as part of Durham Global Week).

Our very own student Katie Kassam has received the 2023 World Literature Today student translation award for “Wolf Food,” her translation from Russian of the prologue to the science-fiction novella Волчья сыть (Volch’ia syt’), by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko.

Dr Fusako Innami will be leading a dance workshop with a focus on touch.

Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Karen O'Brien, makes the case for languages education