What is utopianism? How did it emerge as a way of imagining alternatives to the present? Why do people often look to the past when they imagine an alternative future?

Communist suppression distorted music history in Eastern Europe. Now, Professor Patrick Zuk is being recognised for setting the record straight.

Professor Santiago Fouz Hernández (MLAC) introduced the recently restored version of Bigas Luna’s debut film TATUAJE/TATTOO (1976) at the 72nd San Sebastian Film Festival in the Basque Country last September. The SSIFF is the most prestigious film festival in Spain and among the most important in Europe, alongside Cannes, Venice, London or Berlin.

Tom Wynn has co-edited with Gillian Pink 'L'Écriture est la peinture de la voix', a two-part festschrift in honour of Nicholas Cronk, director of the University of Oxford’s Voltaire Foundation.

On 27 and 28 November, former British diplomat Ian Proud, who served in Thailand, Afghanistan and Russia, held a variety of events for students from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the History Department.

IAS co-director Professor Patrick Zuk (MLAC) has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Romanian National University of Music, Bucharest (NUMB), in recognition of his pioneering contribution to scholarship on music and cultural life in Eastern Europe.

Assistant Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures Hansun Hsiung responds to the recent announcement of this year’s Nobel laureates in physics.

The School of Modern Languages & Cultures at Durham University invites expressions of interest from outstanding candidates who wish to apply for a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship through Durham University.

Kerstin Oloff, an Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies, has published a new monograph entitled 'Ecology of the Zombie'

A volume to which Dr Vika Ivleva contributed the article ‘In-Between the Global and the Local: Silk in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Russia’ has been selected for the short list of the Association of Dress Historians (ADH), Book of the Year (BOTY) Award 2024!

As part of the VII Foundation’s stunning exhibition Monumental, Professor Jonathan Long was invited to speak on a panel exploring photography, nationalism and colonialism.

A new poll has revealed that kebabs have been voted the favourite food of football supporters attending Euro 2024, but how have they become so popular in Germany? Professor Daniel Newman, from our School of Modern Languages and Cultures, has taken a look at the origin of kebabs.