Slavonic News and Events

PhD student Juliette Bretan presents BBC Radio 3 programme on Polish tango

Eleanor Stocks — Wed, 14 May 2025 11:13:13 +0000

English PhD student Juliette Bretan recently presented a BBC Radio 3 programme on Polish tango. In the programme, Juliette traces the musical adventure of the tango and its interwar explosion eastwards in colder climes like Warsaw. A rich, unexpected history, encountering some of those who have brought it back to life...

Reconsidering Soviet Studies events for Easter Term 2025

Robert Lee — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:39:52 +0000

All of the events on the term card and listed below as text will be available via Zoom. Content notice: items below discuss themes of famine and war. "The Great Ukrainian Famine: Legacies of Violence in Ukraine and Beyond, 1932-2023" with Karolina Koziura of the European University Institute, Florence Wednesday 21 May, 5...

Transforming Polish Language Studies

Stan — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We are very pleased to invite you to a one-day conference on "Transforming Polish Language Studies: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities".

Former graduate student Stefan Lacny awarded BASEES PGR prize

Jay Richardson — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:32:26 +0000

Stefan Lacny, a former graduate student in the Department of Slavonic Studies at MMLL, has received the annual prize for Best Scholarly Article by a Postgraduate Student from the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies.

Slavonic Studies Translation Speaker Series: 'Translating Postcoloniality in Post-Soviet Literature and Culture’

Eleanor Stocks — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:53:14 +0000

We warmly invite you to attend the Slavonic Studies/CamCCEEES joint 2024-25 Speaker Series, which will focus on translation.

Book publication: The New �� History of Russian Literature

Eleanor Stocks — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:13:28 +0000

The New �� History of Russian Literature (�� University Press) has been edited by Prof Simon Franklin, Dr Rebecca Reich and Prof Emma Widdis.

�� Polish Studies: Celebrating 10 Years

Eleanor Stocks — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:51:19 +0000

On the ten-year anniversary of the establishment of the Polish Studies Programme at the ��, we invite you to a celebratory event.

The Slavonic Studies Section presents the 'Translation Speaker Series' 2024-25

Eleanor Stocks — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:59:46 +0000

We warmly invite you to attend the Slavonic Studies/CamCCEEES joint 2024-25 Speaker Series, which is dedicated to the subject of Translation In conceptualising this lecture series, we conceived of 'translation' in the broadest of terms. That is, not just as the translation of words or texts from one language into another...

Translation Speaker Series: Susanna Witt and Valentyna Savchyn

Jay Richardson — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 08:20:05 +0000

On 17 October at 17:30, our Translation Speaker Series continues with Professor Susanna Witt (Stockholm University, ‘Perspectives on "Pushkinopad" in Ukraine’) and Dr Valentyna Savchyn (Lund University, ‘Manipulated Lexicon: Reshaping the Ukrainian Language through Dictionaries’). The talks will take place in the Knox Shaw...

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

Eleanor Stocks — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:51:05 +0000

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...