The ability of Cuban people to 'resistir y vencer' (resist and overcome) in the face of growing uncertainty has been sorely tested, writes Dr James Kent from Languages Literatures & Cultures at Royal Holloway Royal Holloway for The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.co.uk/article/93a636…

Congratulations to our super-talented colleague James Kent on the publication of his photo-essay exploring the lives of young, amateur boxers in Cuba, in today's The Times and The Sunday Times. Stunning, important work! thetimes.co.uk/article/93a636…

The HRI and HARI, are delighted to jointly host this event on Tuesday 7 May 2024 to listen to Jonathon Coe in conversation with Professor Dan Stone and Professor Robert Eaglestone.

Book your free ticket here: buff.ly/4awTpVz

3 May, Senate House, London - Jean-François Ducis, ‘Hamlet’: a bilingual rehearsed reading. Introduced by Prof Joe Harris (𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬) this is a unique, free event in English + French with Exchange Theatre dir. by David Furlong. Full details here: eventbrite.com/e/french-hamle…

We are looking forward to welcoming the Society for Italian Studies (SIS) for their biennial conference, taking place at our Egham campus 19-21 June. Conference programme and registration now open!royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-t…

3 May, Senate House, London - Jean-François Ducis, ‘Hamlet’: a bilingual rehearsed reading. Introduced by Prof Joe Harris (𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬) this is a unique, free event in English + French with Exchange Theatre dir. by David Furlong. Full details here: eventbrite.com/e/french-hamle…

Save the date - 16 & 17 May - for a symposium on the Cinema of the Holocaust and film screenings of Occupied City and The Zone of Interest. More details to follow!

Great day on campus meeting offer holders and their families Languages Literatures & Cultures at Royal Holloway. Our student ambassadors - Eleanor from #languages and Beatrice from #liberalarts - did us proud.

65% of the available seats for our Dabis Lecture 2024 on 16 May on the #Elginmarbles are gone already!
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Tomorrow: Boilerhouse Auditorium. Screening The Measure of a Man (Dir Stéphane Brizé) and Seminar by Professor Martin O'Shaughnessy Seminar the Cinema and Television of Precarity HARI Languages Literatures & Cultures at Royal Holloway

Spring vibes on campus as we enter the second half of term 😊

Registration is open for the ACIS Conference, TU Dublin, 4-6 September 2024. Register now & avail of the Early Bird discount! eventbrite.co.uk/e/association-…
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If you want to embrace another culture, learn how French & German influenced English, view the world differently, challenge yourself with Arabic & Chinese or see how Latin & literatures reflect humanity, you've found some of the countless reasons why languages matter to everyone.

'[N]o language is superior to any other. [...] Languages represent thousands of natural experiments: ways of seeing, understanding and living that should form part of any meaningful account of what it is to be human.'
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The CVC podcast is back with a new series: Uncovered. The latest episode on eco-poetry exhibition Words from the Wild with Caroline Harris and Briony Hughes Poet is available now!

Good luck to our colleague Dr James Kent, who is delivering a workshop tomorrow at FototecadeCuba in Havana - he’s talking about his plans for a network linking artists, curators and institutions in the UK and Cuba. 👏

Save Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Subjects at the University of Kent - Sign the Petition! chng.it/TM5mC7Qs via Change.org UK

Great to see that our fantastic Centre for Visual Cultures is now also on Instagram- find and follow them under the same handle as here - Royal Holloway Centre for Visual Cultures!

Joseph Harris, Misanthropy in the Age of Reason: Hating Humanity from Shakespeare to Schiller (OUP Oxford Academic)

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Eric Robertson, Blaise Cendrars: The Invention of Life (Reaktion Reaktion Books)

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