New graduate school for arts and humanities

12 February 2010

A graduate school which will bring together many of the support systems that help post-graduate scholars in the arts and humanities get the most out of their time at Cambridge has been established.

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Frontispace of Vaugelas's Remarques sur la langue française (1647)

Le bon usage: using French correctly

01 January 2010

̽»¨Ö±²¥purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is exploring the reasons behind this national preoccupation.

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Creative research on musical performance

01 September 2009

A pioneering research centre studying live musical performance as creative practice launches in the Faculty of Music in October with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

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Socrates was guilty as charged

08 June 2009

One of the most famous trials in history has been misrepresented as a miscarriage of justice, when it was really a legitimate case of democracy in action, a controversial new study claims.

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Two Cambridge academics receive French academic honour

06 May 2009

Drs Emma Wilson and François Penz will today be presented with their medals for the prestigious Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in a ceremony with the French ambassador to the UK M. Maurice Gourdault-Montagne.

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Rethinking eccentricity

01 May 2009

Miranda Gill traces shifting 19th-century perceptions of eccentricity, from its association with the intoxicating lure of modernity and fashion to the murky underworld of circus freaks and half-mad visionaries.

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