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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.


Read more at: Apply Now for MPhil and PhD Study in Cambridge’s Slavonic Department

Apply Now for MPhil and PhD Study in Cambridge’s Slavonic Department

The Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge is currently accepting applications for MPhil and PhD study. The Department offers innovative graduate teaching at the MPhil and PhD levels in the advanced study of Poland, Russia and Ukraine and in comparative studies, with an emphasis on cultural history from the Middle Ages to the present day. Our graduates have a noted record of achievement in scholarship and consistent success in securing posts at Europe's best universities.


Read more at: Bringing Ukraine to the Screen: The Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film
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Bringing Ukraine to the Screen: The Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film

On 6 and 7 November 2015 the Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film once again offers UK audiences a unique opportunity to experience some of the best of Ukrainian cinema. Free and open to the public, the event is organised by Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, an academic centre in the Department of Slavonic Studies at Cambridge.


Read more at: Record Enrollment for Open Classes in Polish
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Record Enrollment for Open Classes in Polish

The innovative course in Polish Studies offered by the Department of Slavonic Studies is among the most popular in the entire Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge. This year the Department’s open classes in the Polish language have also seen record enrollments. These Polish classes are free and open to all members of the University of Cambridge. They are made possible with the kind support of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London.


Read more at: 'A Sense of Place' Public Lecture Series Begins on 15 October
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'A Sense of Place' Public Lecture Series Begins on 15 October

Over the past decade the Department of Slavonic Studies has hosted a regular lecture series exploring a selected theme in Russian and East European Studies: Consumer Culture, National Identity, Display, Resistance. On Thursday 15 October we initiate our newest thematic lecture series: 'A Sense of Place'. Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois) will give the inaugural talk of the series, entitled “The Arctic in the Russian Imagination”, on Thursday 15 October, at the Umney Theatre in Robinson College at 5:30pm. All welcome!