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Welcome, New and Returning Students in Slavonic Studies!

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Only a week remains until the start of Michaelmas Term. A few quick pointers to help you navigate the madness…

Undergrads: for lecture and seminar times and venues, the new University Timetable is your first point of call.

Postgrads: please refer to the new University Timetable for the core course schedule and the Graduate Studies webpage for other start-of-term announcements.

All students: the Department organises one of the most dynamic programmes of events in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. Bookmark our Events page in order to stay on top of great public lectures, seminars and exhibitions, which are for you above all. If you use Facebook, find and like CamCREES (Cambridge Committee for Russian and Eastern European Studies), which lists our Departmental events and other research related news.

And finally, don’t forget that the Department also offers weekly open language classes in Polish and Ukrainian at various levels. Make the term count!

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Slavonic News

What would it take to fake a sonnet by Louise Labé?

2 July 2025

Timothy Chesters weighs in on the authorship controversy over France’s most famous female Renaissance poet, Louise Labé (c.1520-1564).Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Labé’s lover, forged her poems...

Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland

15 June 2025

With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and...