Please join us for upcoming lectures and events in Slavonic Studies during Lent Term.

18 January 2024, 17:30, Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge

"The Web of Images: Rethinking the Place of Early Modern Ukraine in European Culture." 

Covering preaching, visual arts and intellectual history, this talk is by the eminent Slavic literary and cultural historian and philologist Maria Grazia Bartolini (University of Milan), will address the invention of early modern European culture in Ukraine.

Maria Grazia Bartolini is an Associate Professor of Medieval Slavic Culture at the University of Milan. Her research focuses on the intersection of preaching and visual arts in seventeenth-century Ukraine, and she has published extensively on the religious culture of early modern Ukraine. Bartolini is the author of Piznai samoho sebe (Kyiv, 2017), a monograph on Hryhorii Skovoroda and Christian Neoplatonism which was awarded the 2019 Ivan Franko International Prize.

PLEASE JOIN US for the CamCCEEES networking party, 18 January, 6:45 and 7pm, in the Nihon Room at Pembroke College.

The annual networking party provides a brilliant opportunity to meet others in CamCCEEES fields across the University. This year it will take place in the Nihon Room at Pembroke College between 6:45pm and 7:45pm, after Maria Grazia Bartolini’s lecture, "The Web of Images: Rethinking the Place of Early Modern Ukraine in European Culture," which will run from 5.30-6.30.



 If you are not attending the lecture, please arrive between 6:45 and 7pm.  Please do pass the invitation on to doctoral students, researchers, and lecturers with relevant interests who are new to Cambridge and might not yet be on the CamCCEEES mailing list.

19 January, 11:00-15:00, Cambridge Medieval and Early Modern Workshop led by Maria Batolini

“The Air is Full of Evil Spirits”: 

Demonology, Confessional Polemics, and Crisis of Knowledge in Early Modern Ukraine, presented by Dr. Maria Grazia Bartolini, Associate Professor of Medieval Slavic Culture,  University of Milan 

The 2024 Cambridge Postgraduate Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavonic Studies, presented under the auspices of Cambridge Ukrainian Studies and the Slavonic Studies Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of

Cambridge will take place on Friday, 19 January 2024. 

All interested postgraduate students and scholars in medieval history and culture are welcome to apply by 12 January. To apply, please send a brief CV (one page) and statement of interest (no more than 500 words) to Dr Olenka Pevny,  University of Cambridge,  at ozp20@ cam.ac.uk. 

The seminar will be held from 11.00 to 15.00 in the Oriel Room,  The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP,  

The Slavonic Studies Section of the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Committee for Central and East European and Eurasian Studies (CamCCEEES) invite you to a series of guest speaker talks over the 2023-24 academic year, entitled New Work in Slavonic Studies.

The series aims to address urgent questions for the study of Slavonic cultures as well as Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia more generally in the context of Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine.

Among other subjects, this international and multi-disciplinary series will examine various imperial legacies and postcolonial (or decolonising) frames, with a particular emphasis on Ukrainian perspectives.