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Read more at: Dr Sura Qadiri awarded CRASSH Early Career Fellowship
Sura Qadiri

Dr Sura Qadiri awarded CRASSH Early Career Fellowship

We are proud to share that Dr Sura Qadiri has been awarded a CRASSH Early Career Fellowship to work on her current book manuscript, Postsecular Poetics: Reading Religion in French and Francophone Literature.


Read more at: Professor Rory Finnin Wins European Studies Book Prize
Laura Shannon Book Prize

Professor Rory Finnin Wins European Studies Book Prize

Professor Rory Finnin has won the 2024 Laura Shannon Prize, one of the leading book prizes in the field of European studies. It is awarded each year to the best book that transcends a focus on any one country, state, or people to stimulate new ways of thinking about contemporary Europe as a whole.


Read more at: Onyeka Igwe: Filmmaker in Residence 2024
Onyeka Igwe

Onyeka Igwe: Filmmaker in Residence 2024

We are pleased to share that Cambridge Film and Screen will be hosting the British-Nigerian moving image artist and researcher Onyeka Igwe as its Filmmaker in Residence for 2024.


Read more at: Ninety Year 12/13 students attend German Study Day

Ninety Year 12/13 students attend German Study Day

On Saturday January 27th, Professor Silke Mentchen joined colleagues from Kings' College London, Bristol University and Leeds University as well as a team of teachers from St Paul's School for Girls for a German Study Day. Year 12 and Year 13 students (approx. 90 students in total) from 19 different schools, including both...


Read more at: February 5: A German Railway Worker Decides, 1933–2022
Esther Dischereit

February 5: A German Railway Worker Decides, 1933–2022

All are warmly invited to the annual collaboration of the Cambridge German Graduate Research Seminar and Section Research Colloquium, who are joining together this Lent term to welcome the distinguished writer Esther Dischereit to Cambridge for a reading and discussion (in English) about her current exhibition on Fritz Kittel


Read more at: Early Modern French Research Seminar dates announced for Lent and Easter Term

Early Modern French Research Seminar dates announced for Lent and Easter Term

We are pleased to share the dates for upcoming Early Modern French Research Seminars during Lent and Easter terms.


Read more at: Cambridge pioneer JB Trend's 'La civilización de España' published in Spain for the first time
J.B. Trend

Cambridge pioneer JB Trend's 'La civilización de España' published in Spain for the first time

Trend helped organise the contingent of almost 4,000 Basque children who were shipped to England in 1937 after the bombing of Guernica.


Read more at: PhD student awarded inaugural prize by MHRA's journal Modern Language Review

PhD student awarded inaugural prize by MHRA's journal Modern Language Review

Congratulations to Kathryn Bryan, PhD student in French, who has just been awarded the inaugural prize by the MHRA's journal, Modern Language Review, for the best article published in 2023.


Read more at: Dr. Lucy Foster wins the 2023 Bridport First Novel award

Dr. Lucy Foster wins the 2023 Bridport First Novel award

The Spanish and Portuguese Section is delighted to share that our colleague and former PhD student, Dr. Lucy Foster, has won the 2023 Bridport First Novel award.


Read more at: Emeritus Fellow Dr Elizabeth Drayson to give talk at the Centre of Islamic Studies

Emeritus Fellow Dr Elizabeth Drayson to give talk at the Centre of Islamic Studies

Her talk entitled, 'Traitor, hero, man of destiny? Sultan Muhammad XI and the fall of the Islamic empire in the west' will be held at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies on 25th January.