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Christmas markets in HamburgChristmas markets in Hamburg

Christmas markets in Hamburg

Year Abroad student Lewis shares his experience of the Christmas markets in Hamburg

Posted on: 22 December 2021

Semester 1 Summaries: Emily TeagueSemester 1 Summaries: Emily Teague

Semester 1 Summaries: Emily Teague

This year I started my second academic year at university, living in Smithdown as appose to last year when I lived in halls. The freedom of living in a house with all your friends is unmatched- I would highly recommend the area; great bus connections for university and two major supermarkets very close! I study Hispanic Studies and Italian and the two work very well together in my opinion. My favourite module for Italian has to be ITAL256 which is our grammar module, as learning grammar is the most interesting part of language learning for me. As for Hispanic Studies, I am really enjoying HISP218, which is a module focused on studying politics in the Basque Country. Every module you will study at Liverpool is extremely engaging, as they ask for students’ opinions all the time, and mould most of the modules around your interests- it is very flexible which is great!

Posted on: 16 December 2021

Winning the Hispanic Studies PrizeWinning the Hispanic Studies Prize

Winning the Hispanic Studies Prize

I am a 23-year-old second year student who transferred to Hispanic Studies from Biological & Medical Sciences.

Posted on: 1 December 2021

Year Abroad Diary: September in LyonYear Abroad Diary: September in Lyon

Year Abroad Diary: September in Lyon

As I prepared myself to move to Lyon at the end of August 2021, the end of UK summer, I can’t lie I was quite apprehensive. Although I’ve always been an adventurous person who loves travelling, the prospect of actually moving to a new country and leaving behind my friends, family and student life in Liverpool was daunting. However, as cliché as it sounds, within a week of living in Lyon my worries were melted away by the utter beauty, excitement and 30 degrees Celsius weather of the city. Moving to Lyon as the UK summer was fizzling out, I didn’t expect to be sucked into an even hotter, sunnier, French summer!

Posted on: 18 November 2021

3 year Research Funding Awarded to Eve Rosenhaft and Tamara West3 year Research Funding Awarded to Eve Rosenhaft and Tamara West

3 year Research Funding Awarded to Eve Rosenhaft and Tamara West

Eve and Tamara receive funding for three years to develop and expand their study, with a project entitled Romani Migration between Germany and Britain (1880s-1914): Spaces of Informal Business, Media Spectacle, and Racial Policing.

Posted on: 18 November 2021

A look back at Iberian and Latin American Week - Feb 2021A look back at Iberian and Latin American Week - Feb 2021

A look back at Iberian and Latin American Week - Feb 2021

Following this semester’s Peers-Iberian and Latin American Week (#Peers-IBLAW21), let’s look back at February 2021’s week-long events celebrating Iberian and Latin American languages and cultures. As ever, they were wide-ranging and included a variety of activities from the very popular Galician language and culture taster to academic and literary talks and the workshop Un Museo para Mi. We had amazing contributions from our students, Hollie and Laura. Both were active in the Modern Languages Society and went above and beyond in designing and running the Teleparty watch along evening and the Quiz night, which were both tremendous fun.

Posted on: 12 November 2021

The Battle of Algiers: an iconic film whose message of hope still resonates today The Battle of Algiers: an iconic film whose message of hope still resonates today

The Battle of Algiers: an iconic film whose message of hope still resonates today

Dr Maria Flood, lecturer in World Cinema, discusses Gillo Pontecorvo's 1965 production The Battle of Algiers in an article for The Conversation.

Posted on: 21 October 2021

Winning the Jose Oropeza PrizeWinning the Jose Oropeza Prize

Winning the Jose Oropeza Prize

I was thrilled to receive the prestigious Jose Herrera Oropeza Prize in 2019-20 for my PhD thesis, entitled ‘‘The memory that is inherited from all […] in geometric progression.’ The shared geometric visions of Jorge Luis Borges and William Butler Yeats.’ As the title suggests, my research focuses on the Argentinean writer Borges and his interest in the Irish writer Yeats. I am specifically interested in Yeats’s use of geometric imagery in his writing, and the ways in which Borges appropriated this imagery to explore his own interests in geometric systemisations of time, history and memory.

Posted on: 20 October 2021

Winning the German Language PrizeWinning the German Language Prize

Winning the German Language Prize

During my three years at the University of Liverpool, I was awarded three prizes for the best overall performance in German, which were great achievements for me.

Posted on: 20 October 2021