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Author Raoul de Jong looking to nothing in particular.
Raoul de Jong (c) Jan Rosseel

Dutch Visiting Author 2024: Raoul de Jong

Dutch author Raoul de Jong is visiting Sheffield Dutch Studies in December 2024. Translator John Eyck will join us from New York. Our public presentation will be on Tuesday 17 December at 5pm in Diamond Workroom 2. All welcome.

Henk de Berg next and the cover of his new book Trump and Hitles

Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying

Prof. Henk de Berg explores one of today's most controversial topics -- the similarities and dissimilarities between Trump and Hitler.
academic visitor from Ukraine Vira Dutkanych leaning against a bord indicating what is on which floor in Jessop West

Our Ukrainian academic visitors

From October 2023 until April SLC and MLTC hosted the visit of two Ukrainian colleagues from Lviv. Dr Vira Dutkanych looks back on her time in Sheffield.

A dozen students in a light room, looking at their phones to read the script for their theatre rehearsal

Modern Languages Drama Festival 2024

Curtain up! Light the lights! The SLC Modern Languages Drama Festival is back at Sheffield’s Drama Studio. From 16 until 22 March 2024, we'll offer FOUR student productions. From the classic 'Le Cid' to the playful 'Rotkäppchen'.

Phil Swanson Interview

New documentary film on the politics of crime fiction in Latin America.

Philip Swanson, Hughes Professor of Spanish in SLC and specialist in Hispanic and Latin American literature and culture, has just returned from Athens, Greece, where he has been filming for a new documentary film on the politics of crime fiction in Latin America.
Grand Hotel Dolder

Switzerland’s Nation of Hoteliers

Dr Seán Williams discusses how at the turn of the 20th century, Switzerland embraced the Grand Hotel. The First World War brought one golden age of hotels to an end, ushering in a new, more uncertain one.

| Published by History Today
Ars Musica

Pooch Epistles – A Little History of Lapdogs

Dr Seán Williams discusses the history of the lapdog from the 18th century to the present day.

| Published by the BBC
Czech Visit

Jan Macháček Visit

Czech journalist, musician and political researcher Jan Macháček visited the University on 5 November to help us mark a significant historical milestone: thirty years since the Velvet Revolution brought an end to the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
Carolina Contreras

100 Grandes Mujeres Latinoamericanas – meet the inspirational women who shaped Latin American history and society

A new book celebrating 100 women who have shaped the history and society of Latin America, based on research by an academic at the University of Sheffield, will be published next month (November 2019).