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Read more at: Beyond ‘1944': Cambridge Sheds Light on the Language and Culture of the Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatar Workshop

Beyond ‘1944': Cambridge Sheds Light on the Language and Culture of the Crimean Tatars

This week, on 19 and 20 May, postgraduate students will be learning to speak the language in an innovative workshop on Crimean Tatar culture at the University of Cambridge.

Read more at: Departmental Postgrads to Discuss 'Images of the Other in Medieval and Early Modern Rus' Sources' at 2016 ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention in L'viv
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Departmental Postgrads to Discuss 'Images of the Other in Medieval and Early Modern Rus' Sources' at 2016 ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention in L'viv

From 26-28 June, Cambridge's University Lecturer in Pre-Modern East Slavic Culture, Dr Olenka Pevny, and three PhD students in the Department of Slavonic Studies -- Rosie Finlinson, Nick Mayhew, and Katie Sykes -- will travel to L’viv, Ukraine to participate in the 2016 ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention at the University Centre...

Read more at: Department of Slavonic Studies Ranked Top in UK

Department of Slavonic Studies Ranked Top in UK

The University of Cambridge has been judged the best in the UK for Russian and East European Studies in the 2017 University Subject Tables compiled by The Complete University Guide.

Read more at: Places of Amnesia Conference to Launch on 5 April
Places of Amnesia

Places of Amnesia Conference to Launch on 5 April

The Department of Slavonic Studies is helping sponsor the international conference ‘Places of Amnesia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Forgotten Pasts’. The event will feature over 70 presenters from 20 countries who will explore how societies forget, with particular attention to historico-cultural contexts in Russia and Central Europe.

Read more at: Slavonic Department Part of Research Project That Wins Landmark £4 Million Grant
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Slavonic Department Part of Research Project That Wins Landmark £4 Million Grant

Cambridge Ukrainian Studies is involved in a major new research project to study the benefits of multilingualism to individuals and society as part of the Open World Research Initiative led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Read more at: Prestigious Hugh Cudlipp Award for Student Journalism Goes to Slavonic Studies Undergrad

Prestigious Hugh Cudlipp Award for Student Journalism Goes to Slavonic Studies Undergrad

Francesca Ebel, an undergraduate in the Department of Slavonic Studies (ab initio Russian and Ukrainian), has won the Hugh Cudlipp Student Journalism Award for her reporting on the war in Ukraine.

Read more at: Undergrad Francesca Ebel Wins at Guardian Student Media Awards

Undergrad Francesca Ebel Wins at Guardian Student Media Awards

Francesca Ebel, an undergraduate in the Department of Slavonic Studies (ab initio Russian and Ukrainian), has won the runner-up award for student multimedia journalist of the year at the Guardian Student Media Awards.

Read more at: Call for Applications: Cambridge Postgraduate Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavonic Studies
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Call for Applications: Cambridge Postgraduate Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavonic Studies

Calling all UK-based graduate students and scholars in medieval history and culture : Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, a programme of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, is hosting a workshop entitled The End of the “Khazar Yoke” .

Read more at: Call for Applications: Postgraduate Workshop on ‘NATO, the US and the Crisis in Ukraine’

Call for Applications: Postgraduate Workshop on ‘NATO, the US and the Crisis in Ukraine’

Calling all UK-based graduate students and early career researchers : Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, an academic centre in the Department of Slavonic Studies, is hosting a special workshop entitled 'NATO, the United States and the Crisis in Ukraine’.

Read more at: Sense of Place Departmental Lecture Series - Lent Term 2016
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Sense of Place Departmental Lecture Series - Lent Term 2016

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.

 

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