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Summer School in the History of the Book
On 12-18 July 2026, CODEX Centre hosted an international summer school in Cluj. Eight tutors from Budapest, Cluj, Paris, Prague and Vienna, and sixteen students from Cambridge, Cluj, Dublin, Paris, Prague, and Vienna spent a week in Cluj and Alba Iulia studying medieval manuscripts and early modern printed books. The summer school was sponsored…
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PhD Viva at Our Department
On 9 July 2026, Andrei Crișan defended with flying colours his doctoral thesis entitled Reading Wulfstan’s Works in Their Manuscript Context: A Study of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 201. The examination committee included Professors Rareș Moldovan (UBB Cluj, president), Adrian Papahagi (UBB Cluj, PhD supervisor), Winfried Rudolf (Univ. of Göttingen), Gabriele Cocco (Univ.…
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If it’s April, it’s Shakespeare
If it’s April, it’s Shakespeare—at least at DSAS—so we invite you to celebrate him with us, through both drama and sonnets. The first event took place on April 2, at 5:00 PM. The event on April 23 will also begin at 5:00 PM. More details soon. Here are some pictures from the first event,…
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Carmen Oanea
Carmen Oanea este doctorandă în cadrul Școlii Doctorale de Studii Lingvistice și Literare, unde redactează o teză cu titlul „Reading, Recycling, Rejecting Medieval Books During the Reformation in England and in Transylvania”, sub îndrumarea Prof. Adrian Papahagi. Este membră a Centrului CODEX, și a proiectului de cercetare UEFISCDI PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-0465, „Cartea medievală în modernitatea timpurie: cazul…
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Doctoral Experience: Internship at Blickling Hall, Norfolk
In November 2025, the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) awarded our PhD student, Carmen Oanea, an internship at the largest library administered by the National Trust: Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Here is Carmen’s account, published on the CERL blog: My name is Carmen Oanea and I am a PhD student in Book History at the Faculty…
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Facultatea merge la liceu
În 23 februarie 2026, Asist. Mihaela Buzec și Prof. Adrian Papahagi au prezentat oferta de cursuri a Departamentului nostru la Liceul „Onisifor Ghibu” din Cluj. Elevi din clasele a XI-a și a XII-a, îndrumați de doamna profesoară Irina Chircev, au asistat la un curs de tip universitar, în limba engleză, despre Visul unei nopți…