Modern Languages taster day at Cambridge on Saturday 11th May 2024
2 May 2024
Modern Languages taster day at Cambridge on Saturday 11th May 2024 (11:00-16:30). This event is geared primarily towards UK-domiciled State School students of colour who are currently in Year 12 (England and Wales), Year 13 (Northern Ireland) and S5 (Scotland). The programme contains a series of talks to provide an insight...
New Publication: Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny
29 April 2024
The third in a series of books devoted to the theatre of Jean Racine, co-edited by Professor Nicholas Hammond, has just been published. Entitled Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny , and devoted to the two plays Bajazet and Mithridate , both first performed in 1672, the book contains essays by a number of people currently in the...
Graphospheres Symposium, 25–26 April 2024
26 April 2024
Graphospheres is a celebration in honour of Simon Franklin, Emeritus Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. The symposium brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to discuss information technologies from the pre-modern to the present.
Trinity Global Humanities Lecture Series
24 April 2024
The Turkish novelist Burhan Sönmez will give the Trinity Global Lectures in the Humanities 2024, titled “Homo Artifex” He is president of PEN International and his novels have been translated into more than forty languages. He has received international prizes, including the EBRD Literature Prize and Vaclav Havel Library...