European Day of Languages

The 26 September is European Day of Languages, proclaimed by the Council of Europe to highlight the importance of language learning, diversity and the range of languages learned, to increase plurilingualism and intercultural understanding, to promote the rich linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe and to encourage lifelong language learning.

To mark the European Day of Languages (26 September), we are celebrating the multilingualism of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) community through the recent books of HCA researchers published in a language that is not English. The publication of research by members of our community, in journal articles and book chapters among other outlets, in a language that is not English, takes place frequently, but the electronic display on the ground floor of our building features the following books:

  • Silvia Böcking and Felix Böcking, eds., Die Tagebücher der Hildegard von Erffa, 1889–1901: Ein preußisches adliges Frauenleben im späten 19. Jahrhundert (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023)
  • Lucio Bertelli and Mirko Canevaro, Aristotele, La politica, Libro VII–VIII (Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2022)
  • Jill Burke, Cómo ser una mujer del Renacimiento: Mujeres, poder y el Nacimiento del mito de la belleza, translated by Yolanda Fontal Rueda (Barcelona: Critica, 2024)
  • Jill Burke, Jak Być Renesansowa Kobieta: Nieopowiedziana historia piękna i kobiecej kreatywności, translated by Maria Borzobohata-Sawicka (Warsaw: Znak Koncept, 2025)
  • Mirko Canevaro, L’Atene de diritti (Rome: Laterza, 2025)
  • Mirko Canevaro and Cesara Zizza, eds., Aristotele, La Politica: Guida (Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2025)
  • Ana María Cofiño and Alejandro Flores, eds., Incertidumbres y Horizontes: Ensayos sobre COVID-19 en Guatemala (Antigua Guatemala: Ediciones del Pensativo, 2023)
  • Wannes Dupont, Elwin Hofman, and Jonas Roelens, eds., Verzwegen verlangen: Een geschiedenis van homoseksualiteit in België (Antwerp: Uitjeverij Vrijdag, 2017)
  • Benedikt Eckhardt, Romanisierung und Verbrüderung: Das Vereinswesen im römischen Reich (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021)
Book covers in a grid

Another part of our European Day of Languages activity is a roundtable discussion on multilingualism in research, featuring Carlos Soler Montes (LLC), Julius Ruiz (HCA), and Katerina Stergiopoulou (HCA).

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For more information on the European Day of Languages, please visit the link below.

For more information on the school’s activities to mark the European Day of Languages, please contact Professor Robert Mason, School of History, Classics and Archaeology international director and Professor of Twentieth-Century U.S. History, robert.mason@ed.ac.uk

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