Congratulations to Dr Denis Casey for being awarded a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Society for Renaissance Studies (http://www.rensoc.org.uk). Dr Casey’s project proposes to analyse Christopher Nugent’s primer for Queen Elizabeth I, within the contexts of Renaissance second language teaching and mnemonics, and Gaelic grammatical tradition.
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Wallenberg Prize 2011
The Scandinavian Studies Fund Managers agreed to award this year’s prize to two candidates – Moa Höijer (Hughes Hall – Department of ASNC) for her work entitled ‘Perceptions of an Outcast: Loki’s Motivation in Lokasenna’ and to George Walkden (Clare College – Department of Linguistics) for his work entitled, ‘The Correspondence Problem in Syntactic Reconstruction’. […]
Continue ReadingBlunt Prize awarded to Dr Rory Naismith
Congratulations to Dr Rory Naismith on being awarded the Blunt Prize for 2011. Details: http://www.britnumsoc.org/mpandf/Blunt%20prize%20May%202011.shtml
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