Slavonic News and Events

Escape from Colditz - an exhibition of works by Annette Schröter Papercuts, Collage and Installation

Violetta Vedeneeva — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:32:19 +0000

Papercuts, Collage and Installation 25 October 2025 – 9 January 2026 Robert Cripps Gallery, Magdalene College, ��Ƶ We are delighted to announce Escape from Colditz , an exhibition of works by Leipzig-based artist Annette Schröter, co-curated by Professor Silke Mentchen (Magdalene College, University of...

Année haïtienne: Celebrating Haiti at MMLL

Violetta Vedeneeva — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:34:44 +0000

This year, the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics (MMLL) and the French Section are celebrating Haiti. Our Année haïtienne pays tribute to the literature, culture, and thought through which the nation of Haiti continues to dream itself into being. Haitian literature emerged with independence in 1804...

Romanian at ��Ƶ: new Lectorate launches Open Courses in language and culture

Violetta Vedeneeva — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:26:12 +0000

The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics (MMLL) is delighted to announce the institution of a Romanian Lectorate at the ��Ƶ. The Lectorate will offer Open Courses in Romanian language and a programme of cultural events open to all members of the University. In October 2025 the...

Masterclass: “Hail Mary: Motherhood on Page and Screen”

Violetta Vedeneeva — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:08:06 +0000

Date: Friday 31 October 2025, 17:00–18:30 Location: Peterhouse, Lubbock Theatre Followed by: Drinks reception Join author and academic Katixa Agirre and members of the Leading Women project team for a masterclass exploring motherhood in contemporary Spanish literature and film. The masterclass follows double-bill...

��Ƶ Film Festival Double-Bill Screening

Violetta Vedeneeva — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:03:39 +0000

Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm ��Ƶ Arts Picturehouse As part of the ��Ƶ Film Festival, there will be a special double screening of: Salve María (Mar Coll, 2024; Catalan/Spanish with English subtitles) Carmen of Carabanchel (Cecilia Bartolomé, 1965; Spanish with English subtitles) The event will be followed by a Q...

Emma Claussen selected as Member of the Institute for Advanced Study

Violetta Vedeneeva — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:55:08 +0000

The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics is delighted to share the news that Dr Emma Claussen, Fellow of Trinity College and Trinity Assistant Professor in French, has been selected as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton for the 2025–26 academic year and will join for the...

Slavonic Studies presents the "Freedom" Speaker Series 2025-26

Marco Viglione — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:33:31 +0000

We warmly invite you to attend the Slavonic Studies/CamCCEEES joint 2025-26 Speaker Series, which is dedicated to the subject of Freedom The talks will take place in Michaelmas and Lent Terms on Thursdays from 5:30pm in the Knox Shaw Room in Sidney Sussex College 30 October 2025 “Surrogates of Freedom: Authoritarian...

La Noire de… at 60. Reflecting on the life and legacy of an African classic

Violetta Vedeneeva — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:14:07 +0000

Date: 12 - 14 Nov 2025, All day Location: Various locations A landmark of African cinemas turns 60. In 1966, Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de… / Black Girl made history as the first feature-length film by a Black African director. Nearly sixty years later, this three-day film series and international...

Leading Women in Spanish Film and Television

Violetta Vedeneeva — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:13:02 +0000

Date: 29 Oct 2025, 5:30pm Location: Lubbock Theatre, Peterhouse College This lecture will focus on Spanish cinema and television to ask: what happens when we re-focus screen histories through the lens of gender and feminism? Taking the period of Spain’s Transition from dictatorship to democracy over the 1960s and 1970s as...

Anna May Wong: The Art of Reinvention

Violetta Vedeneeva — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:11:37 +0000

From silent cinema to multiple-language talkies, vaudeville to television, and Hollywood to Europe and beyond, Anna May Wong constantly reinvented herself. She learned new languages, trained for different media and curated an ‘authentic’ Chinese wardrobe – even when being routinely typecast in roles and narratives confined...