Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

A leading expert in Eastern European history will examine whether the seeds of the liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church were sown at the 1945 Yalta conference in a free, public lecture this week. The talk, entitled 'The Ghosts of Yalta: Ukraine and the Religious Division of Europe', will be delivered by...

Timothy Snyder, whose widely-acclaimed book Bloodlands offers a synthetic history of Nazi and Soviet mass killings before and during World War II, will examine their legacy in a free, public lecture hosted by the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme this week. The talk, entitled “Mass Killing and Commemoration: Some...

This month the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme screened the silent Soviet spy thriller The Diplomatic Pouch and the comedy Love’s Berry , both by acclaimed filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko (1894 – 1956). The sold-out screening at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, held as part of the Third Annual Cambridge Festival of...

Thanks to a generous donation , the study of Ukrainian language, literature, and culture is now a permanent part of a Cambridge education. Rory Finnin (Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies, Director of Cambridge Ukrainian Studies), Simon Franklin (Head of the School of Arts and Humanities), and Emma Widdis (Head of the Department...

A €1 million study will shed light on the role of cultural memory in Ukraine, Russia and Poland.

In coordination with the Wren Library, Trinity College, and in partnership with Nigel Lisan Colley and Margaret Siriol Colley , Dr Rory Finnin (Director, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies) mounted an exhibition of the 1933 diaries of Gareth Jones , a Cambridge alumnus who was the only journalist to stake his name and reputation in exposing Stalin's brutal terror-famine of 1932-33 to the world.

In April-May 2009, Michaelhouse Centre was host to a special public exhibition of prints by world poet and artist Taras Shevchenko in celebration of the 195th anniversary of his birth. Hundreds of Cantabridgians viewed superb examples of Shevchenko's landscapes and portraiture as well as a short film celebrating the life...