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About Language & AI: an interview with Linda Gerlach

Interview with Linda Gerlach, PhD student in forensic phonetics at the University of Cambridge Phonetics Laboratory, supervised by Kirsty McDougall

Cambridge academics win British Academy award

Happy to share the exciting news that The Gersum Project , which investigated Scandinavian influence on the English language, has been awarded the 2021 Sir Israel Gollancz Prize. We would particularly like to highlight the support during the trial research phase carried out by MMLL librarian Matthias Ammon.

Cambridge Hispanic and Lusophone Research Seminars

Speaker: Dr Joanna Page, University of Cambridge Title: Expeditions through Time along the Río Paraná: Decolonial Perspectives on Environmental Change Date: Wednesday, 13th October Time: 5pm Venue: Zoom Abstract: Expeditions through Time along the Río Paraná: Decolonial Perspectives on Environmental Change The German...

Dr Jean Khalfa interviews Fanon film-makers

In connection with the display of their video trilogy, Finding Fanon , as part of the Kettle’s yard exhibition, Untitled: Art on the Conditions of Our Time , artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy were in conversation with leading Fanon scholar Dr Jean Khalfa, of the French Section.

TAL Student Wins 2021 LAGB Dissertation Prize

We are proud to share the news that undergraduate TAL student, Ariwan Kai Addy Suhairi, has won one of the prizes for the 2021 LAGB Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics.

Congratulations to Prof Manucha Lisboa

Congratulations to Prof Manucha Lisboa for her contribution in a volume published on the occasion of Tate Britain’s retrospective on Paula Rego (14 June - 24 October 2021): ‘Paula and Her Women: Singing All Alone’ in Elena Crippa (ed.), Paula Rego . London: Tate (2021), 40-45.

Congratulations to Prof Manucha Lisboa for the publication of her monograph in the UK

A second revised edition of Manucha Lisboa’s monograph, Teu Amor Fez de Mim um Lago Triste: Ensaios sobre os Maias , first published in Portugal has been republished in the UK by SPLASH (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies in the Humanities)

Book announcement

The Section is pleased to announce the publication of a fine collection of essays by Emeritus Schröder Professor of German, Roger Paulin: From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture . The book is available with open access at: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1425 .

New publication: Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe: Representation, Contestation, Critique

We are pleased to announce the publication of Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe: Representation, Contestation, Critique .

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About Language & AI: an interview with Linda Gerlach

Cambridge academics win British Academy award

Cambridge Hispanic and Lusophone Research Seminars

Dr Jean Khalfa interviews Fanon film-makers