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Read more at: Dead souls, barge haulers, and onion domes: Quizzing through the Slavic world

Dead souls, barge haulers, and onion domes: Quizzing through the Slavic world

Join us for this exciting event, an interactive virtual event featuring Dr Ksenia Zanon and the Slavonic Section. This event is part of the Cambridge Festival and will be held from 2-3pm Saturday 27 March.


Read more at: CUS presents: Dr Talia Zajac on 'The Patronage of the Rus’-born Duchess Gremislava (Grzymisława) of Kraków and Sandomierz (d. 1258): A Re-Evaluation?'
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CUS presents: Dr Talia Zajac on 'The Patronage of the Rus’-born Duchess Gremislava (Grzymisława) of Kraków and Sandomierz (d. 1258): A Re-Evaluation?'

Cambridge Ukrainian Studies is pleased to announce a talk by Dr Talia Zajac on 'The Patronage of the Rus’-born Duchess Gremislava (Grzymisława) of Kraków and Sandomierz (d. 1258): A Re-Evaluation?'. The talk will be given as part of the Cambridge Byzantine Worlds Seminar on 17 March, from 7.00-8.30 (London). All are...


Read more at: The Anthony Cross Essay Prize in Russian Studies 2021
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The Anthony Cross Essay Prize in Russian Studies 2021

Fitzwilliam College is pleased to announce the annual competition for the Anthony Cross Essay Prize in Russian Studies . It is open to students in Year 12 or the Lower 6th . The prize is intended to encourage students with an interest in history, languages, or literature to consider undertaking university studies in...


Read more at: French Influence on Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature with Damiano Rebecchini and Hilde Hoogenboom.
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French Influence on Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature with Damiano Rebecchini and Hilde Hoogenboom.

Slavonic Studies presents ' French Influence on Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature ' with Damiano Rebecchini and Hilde Hoogenboom . This event will explore how Russian literature in the nineteenth century was shaped by European novels. The two presentations will focus on the bestselling French writers Paul de Kock and...


Read more at: Polish Café - Lent Term
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Polish Café - Lent Term

Speak Polish with native speakers and fellow students at the Polish Café .


Read more at: An Evolution of Joseph Brodsky’s Collaborative (Self)Translation with Natasha Rulyova
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An Evolution of Joseph Brodsky’s Collaborative (Self)Translation with Natasha Rulyova

Slavonic Studies presents a seminar on 'An Evolution of Joseph Brodsky’s Collaborative (Self)Translation: from remote control via combative collaboration towards self-translation and creative writing' with Natasha Rulyova. On 23 February 2021 at 17:30 (GMT) join this free online event. Register via the link below: Zoom...


Read more at: Cambridge Ukrainian Studies presents - Anton Lapov - East-Ukrainian Complex: Donbas Media Art, 1990-2020
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Cambridge Ukrainian Studies presents - Anton Lapov - East-Ukrainian Complex: Donbas Media Art, 1990-2020

Please join us! On 09th February 2021 at 18:00 (GMT) Cambridge Ukrainian Studies launches the 2021 Lent Term Webinar Series with guest speaker Anton Lapov, an artist musician, independent curator and museologist from Luhansk/Kyiv, Ukraine, who will speak about his own oeuvre and about media art produced in Eastern Ukraine...


Read more at: Radek Rochowiak wins first place in Olympiad in Russian as a foreign language.
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Radek Rochowiak wins first place in Olympiad in Russian as a foreign language.

Slavonic Studies would like to congratulate second year student Radek Rochowiak who entered and won first place in the Second International Russian as a Foreign language Online Olympiad (organised by St Petersburg University in collaboration with the Russian Ministry of Education). A great achievement! The Olympiad was...


Read more at: Imagine: Taras Shevchenko, the Serf Who Inspired a Nation
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Imagine: Taras Shevchenko, the Serf Who Inspired a Nation

Dr Rory Finnin of the Slavonic Studies Section invites us to engage in a thought experiment.


Read more at: Gender agreement in heritage languages: Agreement Puzzles in Monolingual Grammar and Beyond
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Gender agreement in heritage languages: Agreement Puzzles in Monolingual Grammar and Beyond

Professor Maria Polinsky will give a talk on her research on heritage Russian (“Heritage” language is a language learned at home, but without input from the social environment, as often occurs in situations with children of immigrants). The goal of this talk is twofold; Professor Polinsky will firstly present and analyse...


 

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