Human vs AI Live Translation Slam
Can AI do what humans can do? Or do humans and AI offer different things? As part of EUTOPIA Languages Week, we held a Human vs AI Translation Slam - find out more here....
A Year Abroad in Paris
Who wouldn't fancy Paris for the Year Abroad? Hear from Anaya, who has been spending hers split between a term at the Sorbonne and an internship with a documentary company!
Podcast time?
Susannah Wilson has appeared on Cornell University Press' 1869 podcast, talking about her book A Most Quiet Murder: tinyurl.com/mvp7er7p
Meanwhile Douglas Morrey has featured on the award winning Every Sci-Fi Film Ever talking about Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville: tinyurl.com/34s5y8nk
Attending and presenting at conferences as a PhD candidate
As a PhD candidate, it's very important to present at conferences to get your work recognised and to meet colleagues in your field. It can also be a chance to travel. Read our latest post from PhD candidate, Xiaoyan Tan, who has recently…
Virtual exchange with Kyrgyzstan: My experience
As well as experiences of going physically abroad, there are also plenty of opportunities for SMLC students to have virtual exchanges, for instance our students of Russian who work with students from Kyrgyzstan.
Language Ambassadors making a difference in local schools
Want to make a difference to the next generation of language learners? Hear from Megan, a 1st year Undergraduate and one of our wonderful Language Ambassadors, about her recent experiences of volunteering in local schools!
La hora hispánica – from studying the news to reporting it
Stop the presses! Take a moment to find out about Hispanic Studies' radio news programme which allows students to keep up-to-date with the Hispanic World, whilst also giving them a chance to practice journalism and radio production.
Andrea Klaus tops the download charts for most downloaded book from University of Warwick Press!
Her book 'Stolpersteine: German in 10 minutes a day' has topped the charts for the press' 'most downloaded book' of 2025 with 2,918 downloads!
Read more: publishing.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/uw...
Excellent work from our own @airelleamedro.bsky.social who has guest edited an issue of @francemodern.bsky.social !
Events this week:
11 Feb: Translation Studies welcomes Professor Stephen Henighan on literary translation, 16.00, FAB3.31
12 Feb: Work-in-Progress with Alicja Matuszewska on Rethinking geistiges Elsässertum: Alsatian duality in the physical space post-regional fusion, FAB2.48, 17.00
Montargis, Paris, Valladolid: A Year Abroad Triptych
A Year Abroad doesn't have to just be in one place: hear from our final year student, Katerina, about her experiences across three locations and three very different placements!
JoSTrans 49, Jan 2028, CFP for special issue
Digital Patronage & the Politics of Translation in Algorithmic Culture
Guest-edited by Minlin Yu and Jenny He
www.jostrans.org/about/cfp49
SMLC's Jenny He is guest editing this issue and the CFP is live NOW. Translation Studies folk take note and share
A powerpoint slide with images of the book cover of “Farbe bekennen: Afro-Deutsche Frauen auf den Spuren ihrer Geschichte” and a black-white photograph of May Ayim.
Really enjoyed working with Channel Talent to put on an online A-level German lesson on the Dark Sides of Unification, using “blues in schwarz weiss” by May Ayim to think through some of the links between then and now.
Life as an English Language Assistant in Guyana
"Overall my time in Guyane as an English assistant so far has been nothing short of the best time of my life, and I would definitely recommend going for it to anyone who is thinking about applying": thinking about trying somewhere a bit different for…
#congratulations to Susannah Wilson on her #newbook with @cornelluniversity.bsky.social, A Most Quiet Murder, which launched this afternoon.
👉Link to the publisher's website: tinyurl.com/46yhetf2
👉And read here a short blog by Susannah for the Legal History Miscellany blog: tinyurl.com/4xd69h2x
Exciting events this week:
TOMORROW 28 Jan, Lala Toutonian is giving an online talk for Hispanic Studies
WEDS 29 Jan, Susannah Wilson (French) launches 'A Most Quiet Murder', FAB3.30, 15.00
Also WEDS, Lili Owen Rowlands (Royal Holloway), presents on erotic labour in French cinema, FAB3.30, 16.30
Summer trip to Xi’an, China
by Stephanie Welch Over the summer a group of five students including myself had the privilege of spending four weeks in one of Chinas ancient capitals Xi’an. During our stay we attended Mandarin classes, spent time at the Shaanxi History Museum and visited the cities…
😍Two amazing events happening this week!
TODAY: SMLC Work-in-Progress seminar, 17.00, FAB2.48 - Yanyu Liu on 'Circulation of Crime Fiction in the Landscape of World Literatue'
TOMORROW: author Juhea KIM exploring the anxieties of creative writing & literary translation, OC1.09, 15.00
And we've got even more photos of our fantastic PhD graduates here: www.instagram.com/p/DTxsOWJjNv...
It's graduation day here University of Warwick! Congratulations to all our students who are graduating today!
Check out photos from our drinks reception earlier: www.instagram.com/p/DTu87fzjDw...
Whilst you're there, why not follow us? @smlc_warwick on Insta for the latest SMLC news and gossip!
New Year, New Term... and a new series of exciting research seminars in Hispanic Studies!
We’re delighted to open the term with a talk by Mathew Hilborn alongside our very own Mary Harrod.
21 Jan, 17.00, FAB cinema
Fan of French cinema? SMLC's Douglas Morrey has been on The French Cinema Room podcast discussing the emblematic and Oscar-winning Juliette Binoche.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7o6m...
IPCITI 2025 at Warwick: Young Scholars, Big Conversations
Our second blog of 2026 is a second look at one of the wonderful conferences hosted in SMLC last term. This time, the IPCITI 2025 translation/interpreting conference!
🎉CONGRATULATIONS to Qian Liu on her book 异域之爱：互文性翻译理论视角下的中国近现代爱情小说的译与撰 Exotic Love: Translation & Creation of Romantic Stories in Early 20th-century China from an Intertextual-Translational Perspective (Peking University Press)
👉The book tinyurl.com/3yc3jk8u
👉Qian's research tinyurl.com/mr2ehpec
👏New Year, New Doctor! 🎉Congratulations to Shaoyu Yang, who passed her PhD Viva before Christmas. She is the first graduate of our MA Translation & Cultures to finish a PhD with us, a great achievement.
Learn about Shaoyu's research: tinyurl.com/2umvvmra And our MA programmes: tinyurl.com/mu9xshjx
Warwick–Tongji Postgraduate Symposium 2025: Translation, Discourse, and Global Communication
Our first blog of 2026 sees us catch up with one of the wonderful conferences we hosted last term: the Warwick-Tongji Postgraduate Symposium, focused on Translation, Discourse and Global Communication.
A Grain of Sand
Come for the journey, stay for the photos: our final blog post of 2025 is a stunning pictorial account of Joe Guy's Year Abroad in China. As winter closes in on Warwick, let yourself drift through these breath-taking Chinese landscapes...
It may have been Week 10 but colleagues in German Studies ended the year with a double header: 1. GeFo in. Studio, an informal, roundtable research sharing event. 2. Screening of Pabst’s ‘Die freudlose Gasse’ as part of the #weimar100 project introduced via a paper from our own Dr Ian Roberts
Wednesday 10th December, 6pm, FAB cinema
Weimar 100 event marking the centenary of G. W. Pabst's Die freudlose Gasse (Joyless Streets)! Introductory lecture by Ian Roberts followed by & subtitled screening with refreshments.
Please register: tinyurl.com/y2kdrfpd