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Read more at: MultiLila Project Impact Film Now Live

MultiLila Project Impact Film Now Live

We’re delighted to announce that the RLO impact film focusing on the MultiLila project is now live on the UKRI for Researchers YouTube channel. Watch the film here: https://youtu.be/aeej6iZ7Dkw The film highlights the impact of the MultiLila project and will also be shared via the ESRC YouTube channel, international office...

Read more at: Sophia Khwaja-Clarke Wins 2025 Phoebe Taylor Prize for Spanish Translation

Sophia Khwaja-Clarke Wins 2025 Phoebe Taylor Prize for Spanish Translation

The 2025 Phoebe Taylor Prize for Outstanding Work in Spanish Translation has been awarded to Sophia Khwaja-Clarke for her project on translations of selected poems from Un montón de escritura para nada by award-winning Mexican poet and academic Sara Uribe. Like Phoebe Taylor’s own prize-winning project, Sophia’s work...

Read more at: Call for papers: 53rd Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar, 6-7 January 2026

Call for papers: 53rd Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar, 6-7 January 2026

The call for papers for the 53rd Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar is now open (6-7 January 2026, Trinity Hall, Cambridge). Papers (20 mins plus 10 mins for discussion) may be on any aspect of Romance linguistics, within any theoretical framework, and in any standard Romance language, or in English. The emphasis is on...

Read more at: 'Literary Devotions: Italy, c. 1200–1550' Conference, 19-20 September 2025
Literary Devotions: Italy, c. 1200–1550

'Literary Devotions: Italy, c. 1200–1550' Conference, 19-20 September 2025

Literary Devotions: Italy, c. 1200–1550 Trinity College, Cambridge, 19–20 September 2025 Generously supported by the Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Fund, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, and the Society for Italian Studies. The conference will be livestreamed via Zoom; to register, please click here . In-person...

Read more at: Teenage Diaries Reveal Private Lives Under Stalin’s Shadow
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Teenage Diaries Reveal Private Lives Under Stalin’s Shadow

Love, Fear, and Resistance: Teenage Diaries from Stalin’s Russia Unearthed by Cambridge Researcher What did it mean to be young in one of the most repressive regimes of the 20th century? A groundbreaking new study by Dr Ekaterina Zadirko (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge)...

Read more at: PhD alumnus Javier Moreno-Rivero awarded prestigious international prize for thesis in Translation Studies

PhD alumnus Javier Moreno-Rivero awarded prestigious international prize for thesis in Translation Studies

PhD alumnus Javier Moreno-Rivero awarded prestigious international prize for thesis in Translation Studies Dr Javier Moreno-Rivero, who completed his PhD in Linguistics at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics in 2023 under the supervision of Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett , has been awarded the...

Read more at: DOCUMENTARY PREVIEW SCREENING: FORGOTTEN VOICES: THE THIRD REICH’S ELITE SCHOOLS

DOCUMENTARY PREVIEW SCREENING: FORGOTTEN VOICES: THE THIRD REICH’S ELITE SCHOOLS

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College – 8pm, Friday 11 July 2025 DOCUMENTARY PREVIEW SCREENING: FORGOTTEN VOICES: THE THIRD REICH’S ELITE SCHOOLS What happens when a school system is built to serve a dictatorship? This powerful and unsettling 30-minute documentary uncovers the hidden legacy of the National...

Read more at: 2025 ‘Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Professor’, Prof Luisa Passerini

2025 ‘Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Professor’, Prof Luisa Passerini

Luisa Passerini is Professor Emerita at the European University Institute, Florence. Her research and writing have centred on social change and memory in its oral, written and visual forms, with a particular focus on: African liberation movements; worker, student and women’s movements; migrant mobility to and through...

Read more at: What would it take to fake a sonnet by Louise Labé?

What would it take to fake a sonnet by Louise Labé?

Timothy Chesters weighs in on the authorship controversy over France’s most famous female Renaissance poet, Louise Labé (c.1520-1564).Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Labé’s lover, forged her poems...

Read more at: Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland

Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland

With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and...

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