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Read more at: Graphospheres Symposium, 25–26 April 2024

Graphospheres Symposium, 25–26 April 2024

Graphospheres is a celebration in honour of Simon Franklin, Emeritus Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. The symposium brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to discuss information technologies from the pre-modern to the present.


Read more at: Postgraduate student wins Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France paper prize

Postgraduate student wins Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France paper prize

We are proud to share that Ry Montgomery has just won the ASMCF Postgraduate Paper Prize for their paper, 'Sous les pavés, le Souk: reframing (re)public(an) space in the cinema of Lionel Soukaz’.


Read more at: What’s novel about a novel? Storytelling and travelling knowledge – Shida Bazyar in conversation with Miriam Schwarz & Tara Talwar Windsor

What’s novel about a novel? Storytelling and travelling knowledge – Shida Bazyar in conversation with Miriam Schwarz & Tara Talwar Windsor

Join prize-winning novelist Shida Bazyar in conversation with Miriam Schwarz and Tara Talwar Windsor to discuss how novels take their characters and their readers on journeys across cultural contexts, and how this can make both characters and readers re-assess the things they think they know.


Read more at: Teaching Translation in the Age of AI

Teaching Translation in the Age of AI

We are pleased to share details of our recent cross-Faculty event, 'Teaching translation in the age of AI.'


Read more at: MMLL at the 2024 Cambridge Festival

MMLL at the 2024 Cambridge Festival

We have an exciting line-up of events this year at the Cambridge Festival.


Read more at: MMLL student wins Brian Darling Memorial Essay Prize Competition

MMLL student wins Brian Darling Memorial Essay Prize Competition

We are proud to share that Georgia Goble has won the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) Brian Darling Memorial Essay Prize Competition with her essay on Loridan-Ivens, Ernaux and Levinas.


Read more at: New Work in Slavonic Studies Lecture Series - 'The Russian Poet Who Cannot Be Seen or Heard'

New Work in Slavonic Studies Lecture Series - 'The Russian Poet Who Cannot Be Seen or Heard'

We are delighted to invite you to the final talk in the New Work in Slavonic Studies guest speaker lecture series, 'The Russian Poet Who Cannot Be Seen or Heard' with Stephanie Sandler (Harvard University). This talk will take place on Thursday 14 March at 17:15 in Winstanley Theatre, Trinity College. The performance of...


Read more at: "Stonebreakers" Special Screen Event at Newnham College

"Stonebreakers" Special Screen Event at Newnham College

Newnham College is pleased to announce the Cambridge premiere of the documentary feature “Stonebreakers” (2022), directed by Valerio Ciriaci. The screening will take place at Newnham College, University of Cambridge on Thursday, March 14.


Read more at: Performance of 'Sponsus' at Christ's College Chapel

Performance of 'Sponsus' at Christ's College Chapel

On Sunday 3 March, there will be an abridged performance of 'Sponsus', sung drama written c.1050-1100 and chanted in Occitan and Latin. Dr Mary Franklin-Brown has written a new translation, with scoring, and will be giving an address during the course of the event.


Read more at: German Graduate Research Series - Conduct, Culture, and Critique: Anthropologies of Ethico-Aesthetic Traditions

German Graduate Research Series - Conduct, Culture, and Critique: Anthropologies of Ethico-Aesthetic Traditions

The next event in this term’s German Graduate Research Seminar series, a collaboration with the Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS), will take place on Thursday 7 March at 16:00 in the Edmund Leach Seminar Room in the Department of Social Anthropology.