Emma Claussen selected as Member of the Institute for Advanced Study
3 October 2025
The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics is delighted to share the news that Dr Emma Claussen, Fellow of Trinity College and Trinity Assistant Professor in French, has been selected as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton for the 2025–26 academic year and will join for the...
Slavonic Studies presents the "Freedom" Speaker Series 2025-26
3 October 2025
We warmly invite you to attend the Slavonic Studies/CamCCEEES joint 2025-26 Speaker Series, which is dedicated to the subject of Freedom The talks will take place in Michaelmas and Lent Terms on Thursdays from 5:30pm in the Knox Shaw Room in Sidney Sussex College 30 October 2025 “Surrogates of Freedom: Authoritarian...
La Noire de… at 60. Reflecting on the life and legacy of an African classic
29 September 2025
Date: 12 - 14 Nov 2025, All day Location: Various locations A landmark of African cinemas turns 60. In 1966, Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de… / Black Girl made history as the first feature-length film by a Black African director. Nearly sixty years later, this three-day film series and international...
Leading Women in Spanish Film and Television
29 September 2025
Date: 29 Oct 2025, 5:30pm Location: Lubbock Theatre, Peterhouse College This lecture will focus on Spanish cinema and television to ask: what happens when we re-focus screen histories through the lens of gender and feminism? Taking the period of Spain’s Transition from dictatorship to democracy over the 1960s and 1970s as...
Anna May Wong: The Art of Reinvention
29 September 2025
From silent cinema to multiple-language talkies, vaudeville to television, and Hollywood to Europe and beyond, Anna May Wong constantly reinvented herself. She learned new languages, trained for different media and curated an ‘authentic’ Chinese wardrobe – even when being routinely typecast in roles and narratives confined...
PhD Grant in Catalan and Iberian Studies
29 September 2025
Fitzwilliam College has announced a new PhD grant to support research in Catalan or Iberian Studies . The Fitzwilliam College Walker Scholarship 2025 will fund a dissertation in this field, offering an exciting opportunity for postgraduate students to pursue advanced research. For full details and eligibility criteria...
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