Talking in Languages 2.0

Languages are fighting back

12 November 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥number of young people studying languages in the UK is falling. Determined to change this, the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ is running an increasing number of events to highlight the life-changing power of languages.

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̽»¨Ö±²¥Crimean Tatar Sürgün: Past and Present

20 May 2014

In this article, originally published on the CRASSH website, Dr Rory Finnin - ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Lecturer and Director of the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme - addresses the banning by Russia of the public commemoration of the deportation of the Tatars in illegally annexed Crimea.

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Pray for Ukraine

A divided Ukraine: Europe’s most dangerous idea

28 March 2014

In this article, originally published on the CRASSH website, Dr Rory Finnin - ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Lecturer and Director of the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme - addresses the notion of a 'divided' Ukraine and the current military escalation by Russia.

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Russia: Up close

18 May 2013

A new book prize aimed at furthering our understanding of the Russian-speaking world will help the West to come to terms with the complexity of post-Soviet Russian culture and overcome media stereotypes, according to a ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge lecturer.

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Renaissance

Piety in the Renaissance Home

14 January 2013

̽»¨Ö±²¥notion of the Renaissance as a ‘secular age’ is to be challenged by three ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge researchers after securing €2.3m funding from the European Research Council.

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Part of the fuselage of the aircraft which crashed near Smolensk in April 2010.

Massacre and metaphor: remembering Katyn

28 September 2012

Swathed in conspiracy and suppressed by the Soviet establishment, the historical truth about the Katyn murders remained obscure for more than half a century. Yet at the same time, the memory of the massacre evolved. A new book shows how this memory defines Eastern Europe even today.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, one of the leading figures in the German Idealist movement.

̽»¨Ö±²¥Impact of Idealism

06 September 2012

German Idealism changed the world and influenced politics, science, art and numerous other fields. ̽»¨Ö±²¥ways in which it shaped the modern world have been the subject of a three-year research project, which reaches its conclusion in Cambridge this week.

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