Slavonic News and Events

What would it take to fake a sonnet by the French Renaissance poet Louise Labé?

Violetta Vedeneeva — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:22:21 +0000

Timothy Chesters weighs in on the controversy over the authorship of the Oeuvres de Louise Labé Lyonnaise (1555). Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Labé’s lover, forged her poems as a joke. Since then...

Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland

Violetta Vedeneeva — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:17:15 +0000

With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and...

The 18th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Violetta Vedeneeva — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:47:38 +0000

Welcome! The 18th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition will take place in ��, U.K. from Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th April 2026. Please see the Call for Papers . Invited Speakers Laura Dominguez, University of Southampton Ayşe Gürel, Bogazici University Cristóbal Lozano, University of...

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.