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Concert held at Pinter Studio celebrates the history and evolution of the Portuguese guitar
13 June 2025

The concert "A Century of Carlos Paredes" at the Pinter Studio on June 9, 2025, brought together a diverse audience from Queen Mary and the broader community for an evening of Portuguese guitar virtuosity.

Mansur Boase delivers seminar on Anselm Turmeda at the Centre for Catalan Studies
13 June 2025

Mansur Boase (Queens’ College, Cambridge) delivered a seminar at QMUL titled “The Early Story of Fra Anselm Turmeda: A 14th-century Franciscan from Mallorca who converted to Islam and wrote in three languages.”

Prof Leigh Oakes and his co-authors write on linguistic integration in The Conversation
9 June 2025

Keir Starmer says migrants should learn English to integrate. Is he being fair?

Dr Olga Makarova co-edited a new volume in the series Routledge Russian Language Pedagogy and Research
19 May 2025

Content-Based Teaching of Russian as a Foreign Language: Edited By Jason Merrill, Olga Makarova, Svetlana V. Nuss. New volume published in the series Routledge Russian Language Pedagogy and Research.

UNCHAINA: Chinese Feminist Diaspora Stages Their First Exhibition in London, Co-Organised with MLC Academic
12 May 2025

This past March, the BLOC cinema on Queen Mary’s Mile End Campus transformed into a hub of resistance and creativity as it launched a three-day cultural program, UNCHAINA –– the first public exhibition and creative workshop dedicated to the activism of Chinese feminist diaspora in the UK.

Dr Xumeng Xie joined QMUL recruitment trip across China
12 May 2025

Dr Xumeng Xie participated in a cross-faculty China recruitment trip from 11 to 21 April, visiting Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chengdu, and Guangzhou.

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