A Cultural History of the Russian Language – talk by Prof Simon Franklin marking the 25th anniversary of CamRuSS

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• Simon Franklin is a professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Clare College.
• Thursday 14 November 2024, 18:30-20:30
• Latimer Room, Old Court Clare College, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TL.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Ksenia Afonina.

Format: in person and online. Tickets: £8 standard / £5 CamRuSS members & concessions; access via Zoom and video recording: £5 standard, free for CamRuSS members & students.

This talk is about a book that is near to completion, on a subject which, rather surprisingly, seems not to exist. There are lots of histories of Russian culture (culture in Russian), but there is no general history of the culture of Russian, no cultural history of the language itself. This history follows the emergence of Russian as a language of culture, and explores the changes in how it has been imagined, debated, disputed and manipulated in response to changing cultural fashions, political circumstances and technological means. The story begins in the late 17th century, before there was any formal notion of what Russian was (no printed grammars, no dictionaries, no courses of study), and it continues down to the present.

This talk is part of the The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society (CamRuSS) series.

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• Latimer Room, Old Court Clare College, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TL
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