This year's Modern Languages Emerging Voices Lecture will be given by Dr Victoria Adams (Leeds) Between Commodification and Autonomy: Mapping the Impacts of State Funding on Cultural Production in Brazil post-1990 Wednesday 3rd December @ 4.30pm, 6 University Square, Room OG/006

A pleasure to welcome Ben to @ModLangs_QUB yesterday and to hear his brilliant talk on ‘healing the hospital’ with contemporary French philosophy, literature and film.

Professor Isabel Torres explores how the ancient root of poetry comes alive in the creative madness of #Cervantes’s Don #Quixote

Talk this Friday 28 November at 1pm: 'Indigenous Peoples' Letters to Brazil: Rethinking History, Imagining the Future', by Rafael Xucuru-Kariri (UFBA/KCL). Part of the Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group Seminar Series.

Our colleague Professor Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa @DrGSEspinosa receiving his prize for best monograph published in 2024 from the Spanish Society for 18th-Century Studies, at an event in Oviedo yesterday.

Another image of our colleague Professor Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa (centre) with his prize for best monograph published in 2024 from the Spanish Society for 18th-Century Studies, awarded yesterday in Oviedo @DrGSEspinosa

A further blog post from our Research Initiation Scheme, which aims to integrate final-year undergraduates into research culture, is live. Read Josh's write-up of the inaugural @CDRGModLangsQUB Emerging Voices in Modern Languages Lecture, by Radvan Markus: https://t.co/dfc4TaKIek

Many congratulations and ¡enhorabuena! to our @modlangs_qub colleague Professor Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa @DrGSEspinosa for winning the Spanish Society for 18th-Century Studies prize for best monograph published in 2024 🥳🥳🥳

Second of two new blog posts today from our Research Initiation scheme, which aims to integrate final-year undergraduate students into research culture in Modern Languages. Josh interviews Katie McNamee, PhD student in Irish https://t.co/trFrKKv62X

First of two new blog posts today from our Research Initiation scheme, which aims to integrate final-year undergraduate students into research culture in Modern Languages. Máire Cáit interviews Dr Emma Humphries, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow: https://t.co/MO5uxC2sBL

3/3 To ensure highest level of institutional support, prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact both their proposed mentor and the Research Development Team (AHSSresearch@qub.ac.uk) no later than 8 weeks prior to the scheme deadline of 1 October 2025.

2/3 The scheme opens on 2 July 2025 and the final deadline for submissions is 1 October 2025. Interested candidates should contact a potential mentor/supervisor at the earliest opportunity (find details of staff in Modern Languages here: https://t.co/qXBnjgBssH).

🧵1/3 The Department of Modern Languages at Queen’s University Belfast welcomes applications from outstanding Early Career Researchers to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme 2026/2027. Full details of scheme and eligibility criteria: https://t.co/pNH8kQ6xqV

A new post in the @CDRGModLangsQUB Modern Languages Research Initiation Series, written by final-year undergraduates, is out. Read Máire Cáit's report on Doyle Calhoun's recent talk on "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire":  https://t.co/gPeUGJw3e4

@CDRGModLangsQUB Here is a sneak preview! Read the full interview at https://t.co/TVl0mPftps

The latest blog post in our @CDRGModLangsQUB Modern Languages Research Initiation series presents an interview by Ciarán, a final-year Spanish and Portuguese undergraduate, with Erin, an advanced-stage PhD student working across the same language pairing:

Currents in Crime Fiction: Trans-Atlantic Translations 25 March, 4-7pm, Seamus Heaney Centre at QUB "Join us for a brilliant two part event where crime fiction experts and novelists discuss the knotty issue of translation and influence" https://t.co/Y01iIUMiA2

I’ll be introducing the 14th April 6pm showing of La Haine @QFTBelfast noting developments in depictions of ethnicity, gender and police violence in the banlieues from 1995 until 2024’s stage retelling La Haine: jusqu’ici rien n’a changé. @ModLangs_QUB https://t.co/gyhj08Vfco

As part of the "Translation Day" event taking place at the @HeaneyCentre today there is a session at 4pm featuring table reads of plays-in-translation, including The Shattered Tongue by Juan Mayorga, translated by @ModLangs_QUB 's very own Dr Anne Holloway

The next blog post in our Research Initiation series, authored by undergraduates, is Ciarán's write-up of a seminar given by Leah Middlebrook (University of Oregon) back in the autumn on "Hidden in Plain Sight: Amphion and the Dilemmas of Lyric Theory": https://t.co/61pYzHwZ2n