03 December 2024
Professor Christine van Ruymbeke will feature as a specialist on the 12th Century Persian Poet Nezami of Ganje.
29 November 2024
Roel Sterckx, Directeur d’Études Invité at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Section Sciences Historiques et philologiques) in Paris, gave a lecture series on the theme “Penser l’agriculture dans la Chine ancienne
18 November 2024
Professor Moretti will deliver lectures as part of the museum's online course The Artist and the Book.
12 November 2024
Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew
16 September 2024
With the support of the Cambridge-DAAD Fund, Professor Barak Kushner (AMES Faculty) and Professor Kerstin von Lingen (University of Vienna) recently co-hosted a day-long workshop: Mapping the end of empire: coming to terms with the Pacific War - Shanghai as a hub of displacement and resettlement.
The full schedule of speakers and topics can be viewed below.
10 September 2024
Prof Laura Moretti has been invited to give a lecture at the University of Pennsylvania's Workshop
30 August 2024
Watch Dr John Nilsson-Wright's recent appearance on Arirang TV's 'Within the Frame' where he discussed Washington's nuclear strategic plan and the response from Pyongyang.
30 August 2024
Peter Han's article on ‘Why North Korea may find the South’s new vision for unification provocative’ is available to read in The Conversation, published on 21 August. The article has also been republished as a commentary by Singapore’s state-owned media CNA on 23 August.
30 August 2024
The Fitzwilliam Museum is currently displaying a collection of ukiyo-e prints, providing an exciting opportunity to take a closer look at these rarely displayed works.
FAMES PhD student Helen Magowan undertook a 3-month internship at the Fitzwilliam museum at the beginning of the year, which has now materialised into the current display in the Shiba Gallery.
30 July 2024
Interview of Dr Brigitte Steger with Manabi no Chizu on studying Japanese Studies (in Japanese) by onjin published
24 July 2024
Last Wednesday (17th July 2024) Professor James Montgomery was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.
10 July 2024
The British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies has awarded their 2024 Book Prize to Aaron Hornkohl for his book, The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew
05 June 2024
Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference
28 May 2024
On 22 May 2024, Min Jin Lee, acclaimed author of the bestselling novel Pachinko, gave a talk as part of the Ra Jong-Yil Lecture Series at the University of Cambridge.
24 May 2024
The Workshop was organised by Richard Samuels and Karl Gustafsson.