Polish News and Events

YA Photo Competition 2025 – Announcement of Winners

The Committee is delighted to share the official results of the YA Photo Competition 2025. Although winners and commended entrants were informed individually, we had not yet announced the results to the wider community — and we are pleased to do so now. The overall winner received a £100 Amazon voucher, and each category...

MLA Scaglione Prize Awarded to Cambridge’s Doyle D. Calhoun

The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics is delighted to announce that Dr Doyle D. Calhoun, University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at Cambridge, has been awarded the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies for his book...

SIS Postgraduate Colloquium 2025 at Cambridge

The Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics is delighted to host the Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquium 2025, titled: Italian Literature and Culture Through a Comparative Lens: Transnational and Transhistorical Networks 5 December 2025 SG2, Alison Richards Building, Sidgwick Site...

Rifiabare: A Literary Geography Workshop

Join us for an inspiring in-person workshop on Sardinian fairy tales on 15 November 2025 . Venue: Murray Edwards College, Long Room, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF Workshop leaders: Maria Luisa Mura and Francesca Nardi ( Ischìre – Collettivo mobile di geografia letteraria ) Organiser: Elena Sottilotta (Murray Edwards...

PhD Student Toby Barnett Wins Paragraph Prize for Best Article of 2023/24

We are delighted to share that Tobias (Toby) Barnett, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the French Section, has been awarded the Paragraph Prize for Best Article of 2023/24 for his publication, ‘Catherine Malabou’s Historical Epistemology’ . Published in Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory , the article examines...

Seven New Colleagues Join MMLL

We are delighted to welcome seven new colleagues to the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. Their expertise spans linguistics, Italian studies, film, and digital media, enriching our research and teaching community. Amanda Cole ( Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics ) Studies language variation...

French Section Events – Michaelmas Term 2025

Michaelmas Term 2025 Dr Chiara Quaranta (University of Edinburgh) Title: The Bright Night of Images: On the Black Screen in French Cinema Time: Monday 20 October, 5:15pm Venue: McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Bene’t Street, Cambridge Description: French cinema seems obsessed with images on the edge of...

The Hospitality of Translation: A Conversation with Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Date: Wednesday, 26 November, 6:00pm Venue: Peterhouse Theatre, University of Cambridge Registration: https://luma.com/ki56uhz7 The French Section and Peterhouse are delighted to host Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor Emeritus of French and Philosophy at Columbia University and Visiting Fellow of Peterhouse, for a...

Escape from Colditz - an exhibition of works by Annette Schröter Papercuts, Collage and Installation

Papercuts, Collage and Installation 25 October 2025 – 9 January 2026 Robert Cripps Gallery, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge We are delighted to announce Escape from Colditz , an exhibition of works by Leipzig-based artist Annette Schröter, co-curated by Professor Silke Mentchen (Magdalene College, University of...

Année haïtienne: Celebrating Haiti at MMLL

This year, the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics (MMLL) and the French Section are celebrating Haiti. Our Année haïtienne pays tribute to the literature, culture, and thought through which the nation of Haiti continues to dream itself into being. Haitian literature emerged with independence in 1804...