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Dr Falco Pfalzgraf was invited to speak at a conference in Trier, Germany
6 November 2025
Dr Falco Pfalzgraf was invited to speak at a conference in Saarbrücken, Germany
4 November 2025
Dr Falco Pfalzgraf was invited to speak on “German at Universities in England in Transition: Decline, Restructuring, and the Question of its Future” at the International Symposium on Teaching and Learning German Worldwide: Dynamic Perspectives and Current Developments in Saarbrücken, Germany, on Wednesday, 29 October 2025. All costs were kindly covered by the Language Council of Saarland.
Joan Fontcuberta gives the 2025 Queen Mary Annual Catalan Lecture
Prof Leigh Oakes delivers keynote address in Vienna, Austria
22 October 2025
Normative language policy: a new framework for assessing linguistic justice in research and practice
New book publication by Dr Falco Pfalzgraf
13 October 2025
Dr Falco Pfalzgraf has published his new edited volume Gender-neutral, Gender-fair, Gender-inclusive. Towards Conceptual Clarity across European Languages with Palgrave Macmillan. The book is part of the “Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality” (series editors Helen Sauntson & Allyson Jule).
Francesca Balchin
3 October 2025
Queen Mary Catalan Bookclub Hosts Author Núria Bendicho and Translator Maruxa Relaño to Discuss Dead Lands
29 September 2025
The Queen Mary Catalan Bookclub met earlier this month, on 16 September, to discuss Dead Lands, the disturbing new bestseller by the young writer, Núria Bendicho.
New Video Essay published by Dr Rachel Randall
16 September 2025
Dr Rachel Randall co-edits a special double issue of Hispanic Research Journal on Reproductive Labor in Latin American Screen Cultures
16 September 2025
Dr Randall awarded Collaboration and Strategic Impact Funding for a project with Nanny Solidarity Network
16 September 2025
Dr Rachel Randall has been awarded QMUL Collaboration and Strategic Impact Funding (CSIF) for a project entitled: 'Care on Demand: The Untold Stories of Domestic and Childcare Workers in the UK Gig Economy' (£17,175.92).
Latest Francosphères issue, edited by Dr Rebekah Vince, goes live online
11 August 2025
QMOPAL53: New paper bringing together experimental semantics and language and law
7 August 2025
We are excited to announce the publication of a recent outstanding MA dissertation in our Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics series.
QMOPAL54: New paper bringing about the tɨ- in Tigrinya
7 August 2025
We are excited to announce the publication of a recent outstanding MA dissertations in our Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics series. The full paper can be found in the Working Papers section.
Dr Rey Conquer publishes a book based on Holocaust Centre North residency
7 August 2025
Dr Bingham contributes chapter to the upcoming book 'The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel'
17 July 2025
Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar presents his research at BAFTSS
11 July 2025
New video essay by Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar
11 July 2025
Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar’s video essay Fading Echoes: Remembering and Forgetting through Videotapes was published in the March 2025 issue of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies.
Prof Köhler presents her research on medicalization of 19th-century spas
8 July 2025
Prof Köhler contributes to the upcoming book 'The German National Imagination from the Early Modern Period to the Present'
Professor Astrid Köhler has a chapter coming out in the book 'The German National Imagination from the Early Modern Period to the Present'.
Dr Xie joins panel on rising Chinese radical feminisms at AAS-in-Asia 2025
8 July 2025
Dr Xumeng Xie took part in a panel discussion at the 2025 AAS-in-Asia Conference (June 1-4), co-organised by the Association for Asian Studies and Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal. The panel focused on the recent rise of jinü (radical feminism) in China and across Asia, spotlighting the transnational nature of feminist resistance under intensifying authoritarian and patriarchal regimes.