School of European Languages, Culture and Society – Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (SELCS-CMII)
Based in London’s literary quarter in Bloomsbury and surrounded by the greatest concentration of libraries, museums, archives and professional bodies in Europe, the School is a world-leading centre for teaching, research and public engagement at one of the world's top universities.
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Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson announced as BBC New Generation Thinker
Dr Dootson has been recognised as one of 2024’s New Generation Thinkers by the BBC and AHRC after receiving the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Best First Monograph Award.
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Women Walkers in Latin America
Professor Claire Lindsay has been awarded a Research Project Grant of £374, 040 from the Leverhulme Trust for her project Women Walkers in Latin America.
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60 Seconds With... Professor Zoltán Biedermann
Professor Zoltán Biedermann reflects on his extensive research journey so far, as he prepares for his Inaugural Lecture 'The Global Paradox: on the Legacies and Liabilities of Early Modern Worldmaking.
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60 Seconds With... Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen reflects on his extensive research journey so far, as he prepares for his Inaugural Lecture 'Scandimania! Nordic Noir in the UK since 2008'.
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60 Seconds With... Professor Patrick Bray
Professor Patrick Bray reflects on his extensive research journey so far, as he prepares for his Inaugural Lecture On Literary Taste.
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New bursary will support postgraduate Dutch Studies at UCL.
New Dutch Studies Bursary supported by the Anglo-Netherlands Society for postgraduate students.
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60 seconds with... Professor Claire Thomson
Professor Claire Thomson reflects on her research as she prepares for her Inaugural Lecture on Public health films in mid-century Scandinavia.
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Spanish Visual Culture and Beyond
A Symposium in Honour of Professor Jo Evans
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Dr Thibaut Maus de Rolley publishes new book.
Moi, Louis Gaufridy (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023)
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Alia Trabucco Zerán wins British Academy book prize
SELCS PhD graduate wins Global Cultural Understanding 2022 prize for book When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold.
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Dutch Writer in Residence 2023: Simone Atangana Bekono
Netherlands’ most exciting new literary talent, poet and novelist.
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Book release Back to the Shops by Rachel Bowlby
The Highstreet in History and the Future by Rachel Bowlby, professor of Comparative Literature
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