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We are pleased to share with you the Easter Term card of Italian Research Events.The first two events will take place on Thursday 8 May, when we'll have the pleasure of having Gabriella Ghermandi with us. We look forward to seeing you then. 8 May 2025Archives, Resistance, DecolonisationGabriella Ghermandi and Jenni Skinner in ConversationChadwick R…

We are glad to welcome Gabriella Ghermandi, Ethio-Italian writer, performer and musician for two events on Thursday 8 May 2025 both taking place at Selwyn College. Event one: (Content notice: discusses themes of colonialism and racism) Archives, Resistance, Decolonisation - Gabriella Ghermandi and Jenni Skinner in conversationThursday 8 May, 2pm, C…

Dr Elena Sottilotta's book, Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland, has just been published by Princeton University Press.For further details, please visit Princeton University Press website.

We warmly invite you to attend the upcoming CIRN Interdisciplinary Annual Symposium on 'Labour', taking place on Monday 24 March, from 10:45am to 5pm, in Room SG1, Alison Richard Building. 10:45-11am:  Welcome  11am-12:30pm  Panel 1:  Reproduction, Refusal, RevolutionIlaria FavrettoStriking Women: Gender, Union Politics and ProtestMelissa CalaresuW…

We warmly invite you to attend the upcoming Italian Research Seminars in the Lent 2025 Term: 26 February 2025 Federica Coluzzi (Warwick) Beatrice's (Digital) Legacy: Women Writers and the Making of Modern Italy (1860-1920)Room 336, MMLL Faculty, Raised Faculty Building, 5:15pm 6 March 2025 Mila Milani (Warwick)Book DiscussionPublishing Contemporary…

Thursday, 6 March 2025 9:30am - 6:30pm Knox-Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ We are very pleased to invite you to a one-day conference on "Transforming Polish Language Studies: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities".The conference will explore questions pertaining to the Polish language in various aspects, especially in the UK: in primar…

Selwyn College have announced that they are offering two studentships for UK MPhil students focusing on Italian studies for entry in October 2025. The Studentships are open to exceptionally well-qualified candidates, of outstanding academic potential, who intend to study at the College for an MPhil with a focus on Italian Studies. Postgraduates of …

Friday, November 8, 5.30pm Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ On the ten-year anniversary of the establishment of the Polish Studies Programme at the ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ, we invite you to a celebratory event.The event will feature two guest speakers to discuss the current challenges and opportunities for the international de…

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, but also as the much wider process of moving or conveying cultural material or information from one context or medium into another. Translation thus serves here as a g…

We are delighted to announce a series of academic and public engagement initiatives aimed at celebrating the legacy of Carlo Collodi’s literary masterpiece The Adventures of Pinocchio in contemporary culture, co-organized by Murray Edwards College Fellow Elena Sottilotta (Italian section, MMLL Faculty) with Pablo a Marca (Department of Italian Stud…

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) was once the largest country in Europe — a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other ethnic and religious groups.Although long since dissolved, the Commonwealth remains a rich resource for mythmaking in its descenda…

This interdisciplinary conference The Future of Polish Studies will take place on July 6 and 7, 2023 in Warsaw as a joint initiative of ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ Polish Studies and the University of Warsaw.The aim of the event is to bring together leading experts in multiple disciplines to discuss the state of their fields and directions for innovative development…

The series aims to address urgent questions for the study of Slavonic cultures as well as Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia more generally in the context of Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine.Among other subjects, this international and multi-disciplinary series will examine various imperial legacies, marginalised discourses, and postcolonial (or…

It is with profound sadness that we in the Slavonic Studies Section announce the death of our beloved Natasha Franklin on Thursday 25th February 2021. It is very hard to put into words the loss that we all feel, and which we know is shared by our colleagues and friends, and by the many generations of students who have been nourished and challenged …