We are excited to launch back into our Departmental Lecture Series, ‘A Sense of Place’, this Thursday and Friday 14-15 January when we will be welcoming scholar and poet Polina Barskova for a double header: not only will she speak to us about visual and textual works created in Leningrad during the siege of 1941-44, but she will also read her poetry the following day.

Future talks in the ‘Sense of Place’ series will transport us to the Kara-Kum Desert in the 1930s with Katharine Holt (4 February); along the banks of the Volga with Jane Costlow (18 February); and finally to 17th century Wilno with David Frick (3 March).

All lectures are open to the public and are held at the Umney Theatre in Robinson College, starting at 5:30pm with half an hour of questions and discussion at 6:30-7pm.

Polina Barskova’s Poetry Reading will take place on Friday, 15 January at 3-5pm in the Old Combination Room at Trinity College, with tea served afterwards.