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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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …