Languages in Context: Histories and Futures of Modern Language Study in
Britain
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
The University of Glasgow
2 December
Malcolm Pender, Strathclyde
One Hundred Twenty-Five Years of German Studies at British Universities
This presentation will trace in outline the development of German studies in
British universities since the establishment of the Medieval and Modern
Languages Tripos in Cambridge in 1884, and will seek to put forward reasons
for the apparent failure of the subject to secure a firm and lasting foothold in
the university curriculum.
1-2PM
Hetherington Building, Room 317
lunch available from 1PM
Malcolm Pender is Emeritus Professor of German in the Department of Modern
Languages at the University of Strathclyde. He is the co-founder of the Centre
for Swiss Cultural Studies and its publication series, Occasional Papers in Swiss
Studies, and has contributed co-edited volumes on women and education,
visions of utopia, and war and the Swiss. He has published widely on aspects
of German-language literature and politics in both the scholarly and the
current affairs press.
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