What does your tongue do when you speak? Dr Calbert Graham , Senior Research Associate in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (part of MMLL) convened a workshop about ultrasound tongue imaging. Recent advances in technology mean that ultrasound is an increasingly useful tool for speech research. The two-day gathering...

The Slavonic Studies Section of the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES) invite you to a series of guest speaker talks over the 2022-23 academic year, entitled Rethinking Slavonic Studies The series aims to address urgent questions for the study of Slavonic...

Congratulations to Schröder Professor Sarah Colvin on the publication of her new book, Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners . A nation, in the words of Nelson Mandela, ‘should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones’. Shadowland tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful...

The French Section is delighted to announce that Professor Emma Wilson has been elected as Fellow of the British Academy . Emma Wilson researches contemporary visual culture, modern French literature and gender. She has written on contemporary women filmmakers in France, along with the uses of cinema to respond to loss and...