12 Mar 2025
CIRN Interdisciplinary Annual Symposium: Labour
We warmly invite you to attend the upcoming CIRN Interdisciplinary Annual Symposium on 'Labour', taking place on Monday 24 March, from 10:45am to 5pm, in Room SG1, Alison Richard Building. 10:45-11am: Welcome 11am-12:30pm Panel 1: Reproduction, Refusal, RevolutionIlaria FavrettoStriking Women: Gender, Union Politics and ProtestMelissa CalaresuW…
20 Feb 2025
Italian Research Seminars Lent Term 2025
We warmly invite you to attend the upcoming Italian Research Seminars in the Lent 2025 Term: 26 February 2025 Federica Coluzzi (Warwick) Beatrice's (Digital) Legacy: Women Writers and the Making of Modern Italy (1860-1920)Room 336, MMLL Faculty, Raised Faculty Building, 5:15pm 6 March 2025 Mila Milani (Warwick)Book DiscussionPublishing Contemporary…
Thursday, 6 March 2025 9:30am - 6:30pm Knox-Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge We are very pleased to invite you to a one-day conference on "Transforming Polish Language Studies: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities".The conference will explore questions pertaining to the Polish language in various aspects, especially in the UK: in primar…
20 Nov 2024
Selwyn Sykes Cambridge Masters Studentship in Italian Studies
Selwyn College have announced that they are offering two studentships for UK MPhil students focusing on Italian studies for entry in October 2025. The Studentships are open to exceptionally well-qualified candidates, of outstanding academic potential, who intend to study at the College for an MPhil with a focus on Italian Studies. Postgraduates of …
17 Oct 2024
Cambridge Polish Studies: Celebrating 10 Years
Friday, November 8, 5.30pm Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge On the ten-year anniversary of the establishment of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge, we invite you to a celebratory event.The event will feature two guest speakers to discuss the current challenges and opportunities for the international de…
1 Oct 2024
The Slavonic Studies Section presents the 'Translation Speaker Series' 2024-2025
In conceptualising this lecture series, we conceived of 'translation' in the broadest of terms. That is, not just as the translation of words or texts from one language into another, but also as the much wider process of moving or conveying cultural material or information from one context or medium into another. Translation thus serves here as a g…
1 Oct 2024
A Series of International Events on 'The Adventures of Pinocchio
We are delighted to announce a series of academic and public engagement initiatives aimed at celebrating the legacy of Carlo Collodi’s literary masterpiece The Adventures of Pinocchio in contemporary culture, co-organized by Murray Edwards College Fellow Elena Sottilotta (Italian section, MMLL Faculty) with Pablo a Marca (Department of Italian Stud…
11 Nov 2023
Book Announcement: 'Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives'
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) was once the largest country in Europe — a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other ethnic and religious groups.Although long since dissolved, the Commonwealth remains a rich resource for mythmaking in its descenda…
1 Aug 2023
Conference July 6-7 2023: 'The Future of Polish Studies'
This interdisciplinary conference The Future of Polish Studies will take place on July 6 and 7, 2023 in Warsaw as a joint initiative of Cambridge Polish Studies and the University of Warsaw.The aim of the event is to bring together leading experts in multiple disciplines to discuss the state of their fields and directions for innovative development…
4 Oct 2022
The Slavonic Studies Section presents 'Rethinking Slavonic Studies' Lecture Series 2022-2023
The series aims to address urgent questions for the study of Slavonic cultures as well as Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia more generally in the context of Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine.Among other subjects, this international and multi-disciplinary series will examine various imperial legacies, marginalised discourses, and postcolonial (or…
26 Feb 2021
Natasha Franklin: In Memoriam
It is with profound sadness that we in the Slavonic Studies Section announce the death of our beloved Natasha Franklin on Thursday 25th February 2021. It is very hard to put into words the loss that we all feel, and which we know is shared by our colleagues and friends, and by the many generations of students who have been nourished and challenged …