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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'.

Dr Jonas Roelen

Jonas Roelens: On forbidden desire

On 12 December 2019 we welcomed Dr Jonas Roelens to the Centre and to Sheffield. Roelens is the 2019 winner of the Flemish PhD-cup, an award for the most public friendly presentation of recent doctoral research. Roelens works on the history of homosexuality in Belgium.
Claudia Southwell and Seb Henry

Student podcast: Lessons from Life Abroad

The third year abroad is often quoted as the highlight of a languages degree. But does this momentous year always live up to its reputation? Claudia Southwell investigates the highs and lows of the year abroad in a weekly podcast: Lessons from Life Abroad.
Akala

Akala visits University of Sheffield

Akala will be giving a Prokhorov Centre Lecture on Friday, 18th October.

Laura Carlsen Lecture

‘Mexico’s Transformation in the Shadow of Trump'

Renowned journalist and human rights activist, Laura Carlsen, delivers a compelling lecture on Mexico’s current political and social dilemmas.

Morgan Sure Scheme

In Search of Marie-Antoinette’s Adopted Black Son

Morgan McArthur, BA in Modern Languages (French/Russian/Spanish), was granted a SURE research award this summer for her project to find out more about the life and early death of Jean Amilcar, a black Senegalese slave boy ‘gifted’ to queen Marie-Antoinette as an adopted son in the late 1780s.