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Dr Erica Bellia awarded Gulbenkian Early Career Research Fellowship

Warmest congratulations to Dr Erica Bellia , who has been awarded a Gulbenkian Early Career Research Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities at Churchill College. She will begin her early career research fellowship on 1 January 2024. Her project, entitled Anthologising Blackness in Post-Fascist Italy , looks at an unexplored...

MMLL Faculty receives Athena Swan Bronze award

We are delighted to announce that the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics has received the Athena Swan Bronze award in recognition of its commitment to advancing gender equality for all of its staff and students.

The Slavonic Studies Section presents the 'New Work in Slavonic Studies' Lecture Series 2023-24

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...

Cambridge University Freshers' Events

Around the world in August and September, University Alumni Groups will be hosting online and in-person freshers’ events for new undergraduate and postgraduate students starting a course at Cambridge this autumn.

Professor Charles Forsdick writes for British Academy

Professor Forsdick's analysis, 'The revival of language learning is key to a culturally and linguistically rich future,' is featured on The British Academy news.

Rory Finnin Wins Two ASEEES Book Prizes

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.

Dr Edmund Birch Featured on BBC Radio 4

We are pleased to share that Dr Edmund Birch was recently featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme, 'Opening Lines'.

In Memoriam: Dr. Geoffrey Walker (1936 - 2023)

The Spanish & Portuguese Section is sad to share the news of the passing of Dr. Geoffrey Walker, a former colleague who will be missed enormously.

Newnham College Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fellowship

The Newnham College Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fellowship has just gone live for applications on the Newnham College website, with a closing date of 29th September.

Language and AI: Guy Emerson on using AI with language data

Guy Emerson, Executive Director of Cambridge Language Sciences, writes on language and AI.

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

Dr Erica Bellia awarded Gulbenkian Early Career Research Fellowship

MMLL Faculty receives Athena Swan Bronze award