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Read more at: Cambridge Students Produce New Verbatim Play about Revolution and War in Ukraine
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Cambridge Students Produce New Verbatim Play about Revolution and War in Ukraine

An important new verbatim play about (extra)ordinary people living through revolution and war in Ukraine is a featured selection of the 2016 Hotbed Theatre Festival. The Summer before Everything is the work of two students from the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme in the Department of Slavonic Studies.


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: Call for Applications: Introduction to Crimean Tatar Language and Culture Workshop
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Call for Applications: Introduction to Crimean Tatar Language and Culture Workshop

On 19-20 May, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies is hosting a two-day ‘Introduction to Crimean Tatar Language and Culture’ for qualified postgraduate students, which will consist of ten language lessons and lectures in literature and music.


Read more at: 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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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 of th e Ukrainian Catholic University.


Read more at: CUS Part of Research Project That Wins Landmark £4 Million Grant
Protest messages in Russian and Ukrainian, Kyiv (December 2013)

CUS Part of Research Project That Wins Landmark £4 Million Grant

Rory Finnin 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: 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: 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: Bringing Ukraine to the Screen: The Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film
Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film

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.


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