º£½ÇÉçÇø

skip to content

Research

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Research News

Read more at: Ioanna Sitaridou leads 'last chance' effort to preserve living relative of ancient Greek
romeyka.png

Ioanna Sitaridou leads 'last chance' effort to preserve living relative of ancient Greek

Romeyka descends from Hellenistic Greek not Medieval Greek, making it a sister, rather than a daughter, of Modern Greek.


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: 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.


Read more at: CRASSH/CIRN symposium: 'Islands as crossroads: reimagining mobilities in the Mediterranean'

CRASSH/CIRN symposium: 'Islands as crossroads: reimagining mobilities in the Mediterranean'

A symposium convened by the CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Fellow 2023-24, Giovanna Di Matteo. 14 March 2024, 9:00 - 18:00 SG2, Alison Richard Building (7 West Road, º£½ÇÉçÇø) Scholarly literature on islands and mobilities is not a recent phenomenon. Indeed, even though islands are often described as remote and isolated, separate...


Read more at: Dr Sura Qadiri awarded CRASSH Early Career Fellowship
Sura Qadiri

Dr Sura Qadiri awarded CRASSH Early Career Fellowship

We are proud to share that Dr Sura Qadiri has been awarded a CRASSH Early Career Fellowship to work on her current book manuscript, Postsecular Poetics: Reading Religion in French and Francophone Literature.


Read more at: Early Modern French Research Seminar dates announced for Lent and Easter Term

Early Modern French Research Seminar dates announced for Lent and Easter Term

We are pleased to share the dates for upcoming Early Modern French Research Seminars during Lent and Easter terms.


Read more at: Professor Emma Gilby awarded Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Professor Emma Gilby awarded Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

We are proud to announce that Professor Emma Gilby has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for her new project, entitled 'Women and the Making of Modern Languages: A New Modernism.'


Read more at: Do the arts, humanities andÌýsocial sciences need their own conception of open research?

Do the arts, humanities andÌýsocial sciences need their own conception of open research?

We are pleased to share that Professor Emma Gilby will be featured on the upcoming Research Culture Seminar at CRASHH. This event is entitled, 'Do the arts, humanities and social sciences need their own conception of open research?'


Read more at: Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence Announces Funding Partnership with Google
CHIA Research Day

Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence Announces Funding Partnership with Google

We are delighted to share that the Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), directed by MMLL's Professor Anna Korhonen, has just announced a funding partnership with Google to facilitate AI research.


Read more at: German Graduate Research Seminar - Michaelmas 2023

German Graduate Research Seminar - Michaelmas 2023

The Section is pleased to announce the schedule for the German Graduate Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2023. This year, we are delighted to host the following speakers: Alex Mentzel (º£½ÇÉçÇø), Triangulating Virtual Scenographies in Franz Kafka’s Der Verschollene and Walter Benjamin’s Schauplatz Thursday, 26th of October, 5...


News

Book publication: The New º£½ÇÉçÇø History of Russian Literature

4 December 2024

The New º£½ÇÉçÇø History of Russian Literature (º£½ÇÉçÇø University Press) has been edited by Prof Simon Franklin, Dr Rebecca Reich and Prof Emma Widdis.

Languages, Power and Cultures (Trinity College) and Langevity (Emmanuel College) programmes open for applications

2 December 2024

Applications are open for the Languages, Power and Cultures Programme at Trinity College, aimed at students in their penultimate school year.

Selwyn Sykes º£½ÇÉçÇø Masters Studentship in Italian Studies

20 November 2024

Selwyn College will offer two studentships for UK MPhil students in Italian Studies for entry in October 2025.

Doyle Calhoun on archives, literature and anticolonial resistance

18 November 2024

Content Notice: This article contains discussions of colonial violence and suicide. Dr Doyle D. Calhoun teaches and works on a range of topics related to African and Caribbean literatures and cinemas; Senegalese literature and cinema in French and Wolof; the archives and afterlives of French slavery; Négritude; and the...