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Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway
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We are the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Based in the School of Humanities, we offer research-led degrees in Modern Languages, Comparative Literature & Culture, Liberal Arts.
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The 2025 David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture, entitled 'Dalís', will be delivered on 11 November (online) by Dr. Alicia Kent of @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Free and open to all! Full details here:
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
'Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach' by Salvador Dalí, 1938. Oil on canvas. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT. A painting of a face and a fruit bowl on a beach with hidden figures and visual puzzles set against a rocky backdrop in tones of yellow, brown and orange with blue and red highlights.
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Wishing good luck to those getting their A-Level results tomorrow! If you enter Clearing keep calm and don't worry. We will have places available on courses including Languages, Liberal Arts and Comparative Literature and Culture. Call us from 8am on Thursday! Tel: +44(0)1784 772455
A poster for our Clearing Hotline: Tel. +44(0)1784 772455
August 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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This tree, near our building on campus, is quite the show stopper!
A tree in full white blossom, with a building and a blue sky in the background.
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Spectacular afternoon on campus!
A photo of one of the towers of Royal Holloway’s Founders Building in the . Another photo of the Founders Building against a blue sky. Royal Holloway’s campus in the sun.
March 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Feeling foxy? We love the woodland sculptures on our campus. Watch this space for the others…@royalholloway.bsky.social
A carving of a sitting fox created out of a tree stump. A close up of the fox carving.
February 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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We're looking forward to this upcoming talk, hosted by our Centre for Visual Cultures. All welcome.

Thurs 6 February, 6-7 pm, Windsor 0-02, Royal Holloway (Egham Campus).

Dr Niccola Shearman (Courtauld Institute): 'A black and white world: the German modernist woodcut and the period eye, 1918-24'
A woodcut featuring an image of a man wearing a robe.
January 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Happy St. Nicholas Day to all who celebrate it! And if you're Austrian or Bavarian, good luck dealing with Krampus!
Three greeting cards depicting the Krampus, a devillish creature, who is shown scaring and chaining up children!
December 6, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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A damp but very festive market on our campus today. It’s starting to feel a lot like… the end of term!
A photo of a crowded Christmas market.
December 5, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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We‘re proud to see our students doing amazing outreach for #languages - today participating in a languages panel for the Thames Valley Learning Partnership.
A group of four people sitting and smiling in a school hall.
November 27, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Good luck and *thank you* to everyone braving Storm Bert to come to our Open Day today! 🫡 🙏 This is what our campus *sometimes* looks like (pics from Nov 2022)…
A golden postbox in front of the Founders Building on a frosty day The Founders Building from the rear, with a frozen a lawn behind it. The Founders Building main entrance on a frosty day. The Founders Building and the Founders square in morning sun
November 23, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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Freezing but atmospheric in the South Quad of the Founders Building before this evening’s David Vilaseca memorial lecture.
A brightly lit statue depicting Thomas and Jane Holloway, with the night sky and Founders Building in the background.
November 19, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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The 2024 David Vilaseca Memorial lecture is now underway! Thank you to this year’s speaker Claudia Hopkins.
A lecture theatre with three screens.
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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We are super proud that our one of our colleague James Kent‘s amazing photographs documenting life in Havana, Cuba was shortlisted for the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photo Prize 2024 at the National Portrait Gallery, and is now part of the accompanying exhibition. 1/2 www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhi...
A black and white photograph of a middle-aged woman sitting in her kitchen. A white cat lies on the floor, and white goose is standing on the table in front of her.
November 16, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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The lecture is held annually in memory of our much-missed colleague Professor David Vilaseca (1964-2010). It has covered a wide range of topics, reflecting David's versatility and many interests. www.theguardian.com/books/2010/m...
A portrait photograph of David Vilaseca.
November 15, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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This year's David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Prof Claudia Hopkins (Edinburgh) on 19 November at our Egham campus: 'From ethnographic to camp Orientalism: Gabriel Morcillo Raya'.
Free to attend - booking and further details here: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
Oil painting, 'Dios de la fruta', featuring a nude young man posing with a basket of fruit.
November 15, 2024 at 3:27 PM