Professor of French and Neo-Latin Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies in the University of Warwick's School of Modern Languages & Cultures.
Ingrid De Smet
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Good luck to our Translation & Transcultural Studies PG team @warwick-smlc.bsky.social (Jenny, Yanyu, Belén, Xiaoyan, Leilani, Laura and Shaoyu) for tomorrow's start of The International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI) 2025! 🤞👍 And welcome, international visitors!
Warwick's interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the Renaissance has also called for PhD applicants interested in Warwick's central Postgraduate Research Scholarships. Same early deadlines as for Modern Languages... so alert prospective students please. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren...
Besides Warwick University's 60th anniversary, we ought also to celebrate 25 years of Neo-Latin @ Warwick! 😉🎂 Last week I discovered posters for the 2000 & 2001 workshops I organised with the late Peter Mack and Andrew Laird (now at Brown Univ). We're still hosting great NL PhD projects here...
There is only one week left to apply for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and The British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium 2026. Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/4nyWsmv
My interest in translations of Latin texts was piqued the weekend before last at the book launch of George Garnett and Magnus Ryan's 2024 translation of Bartolus's "crabbed and terse", "technical, dense and allusive" jurisdict prose full of copyists' errors... Some colleagues do love a challenge 😉🎓!
Lovely response from a student in a class on Early Modern France I was observing last week, when I asked why she liked the module: "Culture makes my brain work..." Let's start a range of T-shirts with that slogan!
Revisiting my research on "Eco-Latin" this afternoon for a paper at the online Prolepsis seminar this afternoon, 3 pm UK time. Fishing in British Neo-Latin waters this time, but Stephen Harrison will talk the Scottish expat George Buchanan and sixteenth-century Paris...
Hello all, and thanks for the welcome, @100days1815.bsky.social !
It's that time of year again for PhD applications! Interested in a PhD in Modern Languages, Translation Studies or Renaissance Studies? Warwick's annual PhD competition for 2026 entry is open; deadlines are soon: 8 Dec. (course applications) and 11 Dec. (funding) 2025!
