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Read more at: MMLL at the 2024 Cambridge Festival

MMLL at the 2024 Cambridge Festival

We have an exciting line-up of events this year at the Cambridge Festival.


Read more at: MMLL student wins Brian Darling Memorial Essay Prize Competition

MMLL student wins Brian Darling Memorial Essay Prize Competition

We are proud to share that Georgia Goble has won the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) Brian Darling Memorial Essay Prize Competition with her essay on Loridan-Ivens, Ernaux and Levinas.


Read more at: New Work in Slavonic Studies Lecture Series - 'The Russian Poet Who Cannot Be Seen or Heard'

New Work in Slavonic Studies Lecture Series - 'The Russian Poet Who Cannot Be Seen or Heard'

We are delighted to invite you to the final talk in the New Work in Slavonic Studies guest speaker lecture series, 'The Russian Poet Who Cannot Be Seen or Heard' with Stephanie Sandler (Harvard University). This talk will take place on Thursday 14 March at 17:15 in Winstanley Theatre, Trinity College. The performance of...


Read more at: "Stonebreakers" Special Screen Event at Newnham College

"Stonebreakers" Special Screen Event at Newnham College

Newnham College is pleased to announce the Cambridge premiere of the documentary feature “Stonebreakers” (2022), directed by Valerio Ciriaci. The screening will take place at Newnham College, University of Cambridge on Thursday, March 14.


Read more at: Performance of 'Sponsus' at Christ's College Chapel

Performance of 'Sponsus' at Christ's College Chapel

On Sunday 3 March, there will be an abridged performance of 'Sponsus', sung drama written c.1050-1100 and chanted in Occitan and Latin. Dr Mary Franklin-Brown has written a new translation, with scoring, and will be giving an address during the course of the event.


Read more at: German Graduate Research Series - Conduct, Culture, and Critique: Anthropologies of Ethico-Aesthetic Traditions

German Graduate Research Series - Conduct, Culture, and Critique: Anthropologies of Ethico-Aesthetic Traditions

The next event in this term’s German Graduate Research Seminar series, a collaboration with the Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS), will take place on Thursday 7 March at 16:00 in the Edmund Leach Seminar Room in the Department of Social Anthropology.


Read more at: Carlos Fonseca awarded the 2024 Anna Seghers Prize for promising young writers
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Carlos Fonseca awarded the 2024 Anna Seghers Prize for promising young writers

The Faculty is delighted to congratulate Dr Fonseca - novelist, critic and Spanish lecturer - on the award for young Latin American writers.


Read more at: German Undergraduate Conference this Friday!

German Undergraduate Conference this Friday!

The Faculty is delighted to welcome German Studies undergraduates and sixth form students of German to the Faculty for the Undergraduate Conference in German Studies 2024


Read more at: CRASSH/CIRN symposium: 'Islands as crossroads: reimagining mobilities in the Mediterranean'

CRASSH/CIRN symposium: 'Islands as crossroads: reimagining mobilities in the Mediterranean'

A symposium convened by the CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Fellow 2023-24, Giovanna Di Matteo. 14 March 2024, 9:00 - 18:00 SG2, Alison Richard Building (7 West Road, Cambridge) Scholarly literature on islands and mobilities is not a recent phenomenon. Indeed, even though islands are often described as remote and isolated, separate...


Read more at: In Memoriam: Natasha Squire (1931-2024)

In Memoriam: Natasha Squire (1931-2024)

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Natasha Squire (1931-2024) at the age of 92. Natasha taught Russian in the Department of Slavonic Studies to generations of students. She was an Emeritus Fellow of Lucy Cavendish, a college which she joined in 1966, and where she served as Senior Tutor, and in many...