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Read more at: Livia Russell Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Prize Winner 2020
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Livia Russell Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Prize Winner 2020

The Italian Section extends warmest congratulations to former undergraduate Livia Russell who has won the Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Undergraduate Prize 2020 for her Dissertation ‘Contact and intimacy: Mario Giacomelli’s photo-poetic encounters’ . The Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Prize aims to raise the profile...


Read more at: Eleonora Serra (PhD in Italian, 2019), winner of the 2020 Vivien Law Prize for the history of linguistics
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Eleonora Serra (PhD in Italian, 2019), winner of the 2020 Vivien Law Prize for the history of linguistics

Eleonora Serra (PhD in Italian, 2019), winner of the 2020 Vivien Law Prize for the history of linguistics The Italian Section is delighted to congratulate Eleonora Serra (PhD in Italian, 2019) for the award of the 2020 Vivien Law Prize for the best essay on any topic within the history of linguistics by a student within 5...


Read more at: The Robinson College Sykes Prize 2020
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The Robinson College Sykes Prize 2020

The Robinson College Sykes Prize has been launched for 2020. The winning prize is £1000, with runners-up awards of £500 and £250 also available. More information can be found here: https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/college-life/arts-literature-and-theology/sykes-prize-2020 All current students are welcome to enter, hopefully...


Read more at: Elena Sottilotta (PhD candidate, Italian) winner of the 2020 Polly Stewart Award 2020
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Elena Sottilotta (PhD candidate, Italian) winner of the 2020 Polly Stewart Award 2020

We are delighted to congratulate Elena Sottilotta (PhD candidate, Italian) for winning the 2020 Polly Stewart Award, for her research on women folklorists of Italy and Ireland. The award is given by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society to support young scholars in the field (further details at: https://www...


Read more at: Professor Abigail Brundin wins honorable mention for the SRS 2020 Book Prize
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Professor Abigail Brundin wins honorable mention for the SRS 2020 Book Prize

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Abigail Brundin was given an honourable mention for her jointly authored book The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy (Oxford University Press, 2018) by the Society for Renaissance Studies 2020 book prize. The judges received over forty books this year and the standard was extremely...


Read more at: Pembroke College opens post for College Lecturer in Modern & Medieval Languages

Pembroke College opens post for College Lecturer in Modern & Medieval Languages

Pembroke College has just opened applications for the 5 year post of College Lecturer in Modern and Medieval Languages, specializing in Italian.


Read more at: Dr Eleonora Serra awarded Premio Giovanni Nencioni 2020
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Dr Eleonora Serra awarded Premio Giovanni Nencioni 2020

We are delighted to congratulate Eleonora Serra (PhD, Italian) on the award of the 2020 Premio Giovanni Nencioni . This prize is awarded by Italy’s most prestigious cultural academy, the Accademia della Crusca , for the best doctoral thesis in Italian linguistics presented at a University outside Italy. ( https://...


Read more at: Academic Staff Vacancies University Lecturer in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies
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Academic Staff Vacancies University Lecturer in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies

Jobs | Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Academic Staff Vacancies University Lecturer in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies. The Spanish and Portuguese Section of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge, is seeking to appoint a University...


Read more at: Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression
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Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression

We are happy to announce a call for papers for the upcoming conference, "Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression", set for 27 September - 01 October 2021.


Read more at: Karen Pinkus
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Karen Pinkus

We are delighted to announce that Professor Karen Pinkus (Cornell) will be in Cambridge for Easter Term 2019, followed by a second visit in Lent and Easter Terms 2020, as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor . Professor Pinkus will be hosted by MML/Italian and by CRASSH.


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