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Award of PhD on Catalan Studies to James Thomas
17 June 2025

At the Centre for Catalan Studies we are delighted to announce that our postgraduate student James Thomas has been awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled ‘The Anglophone Reception of Catalan Literature: 1780-1900’. Quite exceptionally, the thesis was passed without any corrections demanded by the examiners.

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.

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