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Read more at: Celebrating Ukrainian Filmmakers Old and New
Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film

Celebrating Ukrainian Filmmakers Old and New

The journal Art Margins reviews our Fourth Annual Festival of Ukrainian Film and attendant symposium on the cinema of Ihor Savchenko. The article features an interview with director Volodymyr Tykhyi, who remarks that presenting his new work in Cambridge allowed him 'to see [his film project] Goodbye Ukraine! as a cultural...


Read more at: Cambridge Ukrainian Studies: 'A Breakthrough'
Cambridge Breakthrough

Cambridge Ukrainian Studies: 'A Breakthrough'

Ukrainian media covered the interdisciplinary workshop 'Independent Ukraine: Twenty Years On' , which featured presentations by noted international scholars and a keynote address by Oles' Donii, one of the leaders of Ukraine’s student movement in support of independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s.


Read more at: Bringing Ukrainian Film - and Ukrainian Filmmakers - to Britain
Cambridge Ukrainian Studies in the News

Bringing Ukrainian Film - and Ukrainian Filmmakers - to Britain

In November 2011 the newspaper Komsomol'skaia pravda (circulation: 1 million) covered our Fourth Annual Festival of Ukrainian Film, which featured new short films from Ukraine as well as the documentary feature Three Stories of Galicia . Directors Maryna Vroda, Volodymyr Tykhyi, Olha Onyshko, and Sarah Farhat were on hand...


Read more at: Helping to Foster the Development of Contemporary Ukrainian Drama
Royal Court Theatre

Helping to Foster the Development of Contemporary Ukrainian Drama

In autumn 2011, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies collaborated with the Royal Court Theatre and the British Council on the translation of a project involving Ukrainian and Georgian playwrights.


Read more at: Cultivating 'a Genuine Understanding of Ukraine'
Cambridge Vsesvit

Cultivating 'a Genuine Understanding of Ukraine'

In its summer 2011 issue, Vsesvit -- the oldest active literary journal in Ukraine, founded by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Mykola Khvyl'ovyi, and Vasyl' Blakytnyi in 1925 -- hailed the development of Cambridge Ukrainian Studies as 'a significant step toward the cultivation of a genuine understanding of Ukraine as an independent state'.


Read more at: Supporting New Inroads in Ukrainian Higher Education
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Supporting New Inroads in Ukrainian Higher Education

UNIAN , Ukraine's leading media outlet, reported on a joint presentation in London by Fr Borys Gudziak, Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, and Dr Rory Finnin, University Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies, in May 2011. Both Gudziak and Finnin emphasised the critically interconnected future of higher education in...


Read more at: Serhii Plokhii: "The Ghosts of Yalta: Ukraine and the Religious Division of Europe'
Serhii Plokhii at Cambridge

Serhii Plokhii: "The Ghosts of Yalta: Ukraine and the Religious Division of Europe'

A leading expert in Eastern European history will examine whether the seeds of the liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church were sown at the 1945 Yalta conference in a free, public lecture this week. The talk, entitled 'The Ghosts of Yalta: Ukraine and the Religious Division of Europe', will be delivered by...


Read more at: Timothy Snyder: 'History and Memory in the Killing Fields of Hitler and Stalin'
Timothy Snyder at Cambridge

Timothy Snyder: 'History and Memory in the Killing Fields of Hitler and Stalin'

Timothy Snyder, whose widely-acclaimed book Bloodlands offers a synthetic history of Nazi and Soviet mass killings before and during World War II, will examine their legacy in a free, public lecture hosted by the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme this week. The talk, entitled “Mass Killing and Commemoration: Some...


Read more at: Cambridge Hosts Third Annual Festival of Ukrainian Film
Third Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film

Cambridge Hosts Third Annual Festival of Ukrainian Film

This month the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme screened the silent Soviet spy thriller The Diplomatic Pouch and the comedy Love’s Berry , both by acclaimed filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko (1894 – 1956). The sold-out screening at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, held as part of the Third Annual Cambridge Festival of...


Read more at: Cambridge Becomes a Permanent Home for Ukrainian Studies
Cambridge Becomes a Permanent Home for Ukrainian Studies

Cambridge Becomes a Permanent Home for Ukrainian Studies

Thanks to a generous donation , the study of Ukrainian language, literature, and culture is now a permanent part of a Cambridge education. Rory Finnin (Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies, Director of Cambridge Ukrainian Studies), Simon Franklin (Head of the School of Arts and Humanities), and Emma Widdis (Head of the Department...


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Rory Finnin Wins Two ASEEES Book Prizes

21 September 2023

We are delighted to share that Professor Rory Finnin has been awarded two prestigious prizes by the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for his book Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (University of Toronto Press, 2022). These ASEEES prizes follow on from two other awards for Blood of Others announced earlier this year.

Lecture by Professor Michael Moser: Revisiting the History of the Ukrainian Language

9 February 2023

The lecture is a part of the Slavonic Section Series 'Rethinking Slavonic Studies.' Prof Moser will examine the history of the Ukrainian language, looking deep into its medieval roots. Although the Ukrainian language received its name comparatively late it is as deeply rooted in the past as any other Slavonic language...