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French Theatre Club to perform famous texts

Actors from the University of Southampton French Theatre Club will be presenting texts from various authors, poets and playwrights including Olympe de Gouges, La Fontaine, Manouchian and Laclos at 6-7pm today, Monday 31st May, in Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus. Continue reading →

NCEM Young Composers Award

By Christian Drew, Music undergraduate student. The National Centre for Early Music’s Young Composers Award is held each year in York, giving emerging composers an opportunity to engage with early music performance and practices through the lens of contemporary composition. This year entrants were invited to write a lute song, setting a text from a list of poems by Shakespeare or Carol Ann Duffy. Continue reading →

Modern Languages and Linguistics rated 4th best in the UK in Guardian University Guide

Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton has retained its place in the top 5 nationally in the Guardian University Guide for 2017. The department consistently does well in the ratings. To read more about the University’s performance overall in the guide, visit the University blog. Continue reading →

Grab an opportunity to do a free intensive language course

Between 8 and 15 June 2016, Santander Universities are sponsoring free intensive language courses for students at total beginner level in four languages: French, Spanish, German and Mandarin. Places are limited, so act quickly to find out more and book your place. Continue reading →

Modern Languages to host BALEAP PIM on English Medium Instruction

The Department of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton will be hosting this year’s BALEAP Professional Issues Meeting on Saturday 11th June 2016 at Avenue Campus. The event is entitled: EMI in Higher Education: the challenges and the opportunities. This year’s event promises to be a whirlwind tour of Japan, the Sudan, Hungary, France, Spain, Luxembourg, Dubai, Malaysia, Bulgaria and Turkey, not to mention Ireland and the UK. Continue reading →

Modern Languages PhD student wins CALICO Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Modern Languages PhD student and lecturer at Umm AlQura University in Saudi Arabia, Sahar Alzahrani, received the CALICO Outstanding Graduate Student Award at this year’s Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Conference, which took place from 10-14 May 2016 at Michigan State University in the US. This award is presented annually at the conference in recognition of academic and research achievements in the area of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). Continue reading →

Online course off to a good start!

Get Ready for Southampton is a free pre-arrival online course for all prospective University of Southampton international students. It has run every summer for the past five years and draws over 2000 student participants each year. This year’s course has got off to a flying start and there are already almost 500 students based in 74 countries in the course. Continue reading →

A Monday with Mark and Manuel

By Jeremy Hunt, Music Undergraduate Student On Monday 9th May, London-based pianist Mark Knoop and Italian flautist Manuel Zurria performed an exciting, modern programme of works by Laurence Crane, Conlon Nancarrow, Howard Skempton, Beat Furrer, and the University of Southampton’s very own composition lecturer, Matthew Shlomowitz. Continue reading →

Composers in conversation: Blake and Finnissy

By Christain Drew, Music undergraduate student. If Michael Finnissy describes a composer as “UNOFFICIAL New Music, the artisan’s workshop not the sausage-factory, catwalk or gilt-edged securities type of new music”, it’s more than likely that you’re in for a treat. The composer in question is Michael Blake. Continue reading →

Sweet Tooth Tickets

Tickets are now available for Sweet Tooth at Turner Sims, Southampton, 7pm on 29 June 2016. This is our first showcasing of work in progress. Continue reading →

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