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On the occasion of Jordi Savall’s receipt of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (often described as the “Nobel Prize of Music”), this piece revisits a memorable encounter with the renowned musician at the University of Cambridge. In December 2014, Savall addressed graduate students and faculty in Spanish and Portuguese Studies, offering a lecture as…

Honouring Dr Isabelle McNeill’s legacy, the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and Trinity Hall are establishing a studentship to support a talented MPhil student in Film and Screen Studies.Dr Isabelle McNeill was a brilliant scholar and inspiring teacher. Her work as supervisor, teacher, and researcher was felt across the Fac…

Tuesday, February 24, 6:00pmWilliam Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Sidney Street, CambridgeWe invite you to a discussion with the acclaimed Polish writer Mariusz Szczygieł and translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones about Szczygieł's most recent collection of reportage in English translation, moderated by Cambridge's Professor of Polish Studies, Stanley …

CONFERENCE - Friday 24 AprilTranslating conflict and refuge: language, displacement, and the politics of representation – 24 April 2026 (part hybrid)Register to attend: Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation - CRASSHIn-person registration closes on 16 April 2026, online registration closes on 23 …

The fourth in a series of books on Jean Racine's theatre has just been published, co-edited by Nicholas Hammond, and containing essays by scholars around the world, including those by current and former members of the Faculty, Michael Moriarty, Suzanne Jones, and Carrie Heusinkveld. The book is free to consult online via the Cambridge University po…

The Italian Section and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge announce, with profound sorrow, the passing of Professor Giulio Lepschy, who died in London on Sunday 8 February 2026, at the age of 91. A scholar of unparalleled distinction, Professor Lepschy was a Fellow of the British Academy and …

The University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives (CULA) Communications team will be taking photos in the MMLL Library around midday on Tuesday 17th February.Imagery may be used to promote CULA libraries on social media channels, as well as online and in print. If you do not wish to appear, please make yourself known to the camera person or librar…

The MMLL Library will exceptionally be closing at 4pm on Wednesday 18th February to prepare for a book launch event.At 5pm we will be hosting the latest Cambridge Hispanic & Lusophone Research Seminar, welcoming back our former library colleague and Cambridge PhD graduate Dr Victoria Adams (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leeds) …

Just published: a special issue of Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures guest edited by Mark Chinca and Sean Curran. Entitled Unlikening Translation: Words, Sounds, Events, Things, the collection explores the potential of Walter Benjamin’s famous essay “The Task of the Translator” for understanding the many kinds of linguistic, medial,…

Tiancheng Hu, a PhD student in Computation, Cognition and Language at the University of Cambridge, has contributed as a Section Writer to the International AI Safety Report 2026, a major international publication examining the current state of artificial intelligence systems  .The report is an international effort chaired by Turing Award winner Yos…

We are delighted to announce that the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics has received the Athena Swan Bronze award in recognition of its commitment to advancing gender equality for all of its staff and students. The award is for five years (until July 2028).An Athena Swan award is forward-looking: it represents an ongoing comm…

We warmly invite you to attend the upcoming Italian Research Seminars in the Lent 2026 Term: 26 January 2026Sara Delmedico (Bologna)"We are in the century of female emancipation!”. The representation of violence against women in early twentieth-century Italian press'Raised Faculty Building, Room 336 5pm for 5.15pm 4 February 2026Daragh O’Connell (U…

2 Sep 2025 Cambridge Film and Screen is delighted to announce that we have recently hired two new Assistant Professors.Dr. Julia Keblinska has been appointed as Assistant Professor in Asian Film and Media, and Dr. Stefan Tarnowski has been appointed as Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Film and Screen Studies, a position shared with our…

We are delighted to share that Tobias (Toby) Barnett, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the French Section, has been awarded the Paragraph Prize for Best Article of 2023/24 for his publication ‘Catherine Malabou’s Historical Epistemology’.Published in Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, the article examines Catherine Malabou’s contribution…

We are delighted to welcome seven new colleagues to the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. Their expertise spans linguistics, Italian studies, film, and digital media, enriching our research and teaching community.Amanda Cole (Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics) - studies language variation, change, and attitudes, with a…