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Read more at: Undergrad Jessica Fitch-Bunce Wins Russian-Language Essay Competition

Undergrad Jessica Fitch-Bunce Wins Russian-Language Essay Competition

Jessica Fitch-Bunce, an undergraduate in the Department of Slavonic Studies, has received a first-place award for her Russian-language essay on the topic of ‘Studying in Russia and What It Means for My Career’. The award secures a place for her to study at Novosibirsk University during her Year Abroad. Congratulations, Jessica!


Read more at: Cambridge’s Slavonic Studies Department: Do Not Eliminate the Polish A-Level

Cambridge’s Slavonic Studies Department: Do Not Eliminate the Polish A-Level

The Department of Slavonic Studies wishes to express its serious concern about AQA’s decision to eliminate the Polish language A-level from 2018. Given that AQA is meant to offer ‘qualifications that meet the needs of teachers and students’, this recent announcement is puzzling. Polish is now the second most widely spoken language in the United Kingdom. Student demand for its instruction is growing exponentially across the board. As UK universities like Cambridge work to institutionalise programmes dedicated to the language and culture of Poland, it is particularly troubling to see AQA move in the opposite direction. We call upon AQA and the UK Government to reconsider this decision and to continue to offer the Polish A-level for the benefit of a better British education.


Read more at: 'Eisenstein's Ivan: Sensory Thinking from Machiavelli to Disney', Prof Joan Neuberger, Tues 3 March, 5pm
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'Eisenstein's Ivan: Sensory Thinking from Machiavelli to Disney', Prof Joan Neuberger, Tues 3 March, 5pm

In Ivan the Terrible, Eisenstein tried to use everything he'd been thinking about and living through for the previous twenty years to compose his portrait of the tsar. This paper draws on his writing about Disney to show how some of his most fanciful ideas about things like fish turning into tigers were inscribed in his most serious considerations of human change, violence, power and film making itself.


Read more at: Soviet Film Series Launches on Wed 22 January, 5pm
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Soviet Film Series Launches on Wed 22 January, 5pm

What better way to end Week 1 than by coming to watch an old Soviet Classic? The Cranes Are Flying , directed by Mikhail Kalatozov in 1957 and breathtakingly shot by Sergei Urusevsky, is one of the masterpieces of Post-Stalin 'Thaw' era cinema.


Read more at: Cambridge Polish Studies Premieres ‘Kinoteka’
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Cambridge Polish Studies Premieres ‘Kinoteka’

The Department’s Polish Studies programme launched its Polish Film Club — ‘Kinoteka’


Read more at: Rebecca Reich on ‘Leningrad: Siege and Symphony’

Rebecca Reich on ‘Leningrad: Siege and Symphony’

Rebecca Reich, who has just won a CRASSH Early Career Fellowship for Michaelmas 2015, published a review of Brian Moynahan’s Leningrad: Siege and Symphony in the 26 November edition of the New York Times .


Read more at: “Making News Soviet”: Talk by Dr Simon Huxtable, Tues 17 Feb, 5pm
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“Making News Soviet”: Talk by Dr Simon Huxtable, Tues 17 Feb, 5pm

You are warmly invited to an upcoming Slavonic Dept/CamCREES seminar by Dr Simon Huxtable entitled: ‘Making News Soviet: Changing Visions of Soviet Information after Stalin, 1953-1970′ to be held on Tuesday, 17 February, 5-6:30pm in the Latimer Room at Clare College.


Read more at: Join Us for the 2nd Seminar in the Soviet Mass Culture Series, 3 February, 5pm!
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Join Us for the 2nd Seminar in the Soviet Mass Culture Series, 3 February, 5pm!

You are warmly invited to an upcoming joint Dept. of Slavonic Studies-CamCREES seminar by Prof. Susan E. Reid entitled: 'Makeshift Modernity: DIY, Craft and the Virtuous Homemaker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960s' to be held on Tuesday, 3 February at 5-6:30pm in the Latimer Room at Clare College


Read more at: Russian & Soviet Mass Culture Seminar Series Kicks Off on Tuesday, 20 January
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Russian & Soviet Mass Culture Seminar Series Kicks Off on Tuesday, 20 January

This term the Slavonic Dept. and CamCREES are running a series of seminars spotlighting new research on Russian and Soviet mass culture. Examining a diverse range of cultural phenomena speakers will explore topics including the Russian and Soviet experience of modernity, the shifting relationship between cultural producers and consumers in late socialism, and the sensory dimensions of Soviet culture for 'the masses'.


Read more at: AHRC Doctoral Research Studentships in Russian, Slavonic and East European languages and culture

AHRC Doctoral Research Studentships in Russian, Slavonic and East European languages and culture

The 2015 application window is now open for AHRC studentships awarded through the CEELBAS CDT in Russian, Slavonic and East European languages and culture.


 

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