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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'.

Casino Royale Cover

Foreign Languages and the James Bond Novels

This vidcast looks at how foreign languages feature in James Bond's fictional universe, specifically in the first Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953)
Roya; Albert Hall

Live at the Proms

Seán Williams, Lecturer in German and European Cultural History, can regularly be heard on BBC Radio 3. This summer, he presented a programme live at the Proms, just before Beethoven's 9th symphony.

Pete Watt

Trapped: the truth behind narco-trafficking in Mexico

A day in the London Immigration Tribunal Chambers can be a matter of life and death. For Dr Pete Watt and the Mexican national he was helping to save, it was no different.
Sheffield Students' Union

University of Sheffield ranked among world’s best for arts and humanities

The University of Sheffield has been ranked among the best universities in the world for teaching and research in the arts and humanities
Audrey Niffenegger

Visit from Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife, gave the third 2018-19 Arts and Humanities Prokhorov Lecture.