Events archive
Dr Victoria Donovan (St Andrews)
17 February 2023 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Dahrendorf Room
This presentation draws on interviews and participant observation work conducted with activist communities and heritage practitioners in the Ukrainian East before February 2022, and online interviews... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Danielle Lussier (Grinnell College, USA)
13 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
A key feature contributing to public support for Putin over the past two decades is high levels of trust in him as an individual. This trust has shaped patterns of Russian political participation and... Read more
Kateryna Iakovlenko (Cultural Editor of Suspilne Media)
10 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room
What does art during the war look like? How can we talk about trauma and resistance? Documentary and archival turns, as well as attention to topics of war, loss, and displacement in Ukrainian art... Read more
Professor Roland Dannreuther (University of Westminster), Dr Komiljon Karimov (Westminster International University in Tashkent), Dr Ahliddin Malikov (Westminster International University in Tashkent)
10 February 2023 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Dahrendorf Room
One of the most significant developments in Central Asia has been the ambitious economic and political reform programme promoted by Shavkat Mirziyoyev since his accession to the Presidency in 2016.... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Dave Dalton (Independent Scholar)
6 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Among the key puzzles of Ukraine’s post-communist development have been its poor economic performance and an inability to develop a fully rule-of-law state. The two issues are related, my research... Read more
Olenka S. Dmytryk (Cambridge)
3 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room
At the time when the securitization of ‘traditional’ or ‘spiritual and moral values’ (Østbø 2017) is used by Russia as a justification for military invasion and genocide, it is important to talk... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Diana Kudaibergenova (Cambridge)
30 January 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
In this talk, I argue that unconventional ways of political contention successfully shape the regime, its elites, and its forms of oppression even under the most authoritarian contexts and... Read more
The lives and afterlives of a Ukrainian songwriter: Volodymyr Ivasiuk and the crisis of Soviet order
Dr Zbig Wojnowski (St Antony's)
27 January 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room
This talk explores the life and posthumous commemoration of the pop musician Volodymyr Ivasiuk. Although Ivasiuk promoted his Ukrainian-language music on Soviet radio and television in the 1970s, he... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Eleanor Knott (LSE)
23 January 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
In Moldova, the number of dual citizens has risen exponentially in the last decades. Before annexation, many saw Russia as granting citizenship to – or passportizing – large numbers in Crimea. In... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Olga Tokariuk (RISJ & CEPA)
16 January 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Andrei Soldatov (LSE, co-founder Agentura.Ru website), Irina Borogan (Journalist, co-founder Agentura.Ru website)
2 December 2022 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Andrei Soldatov, Visiting Fellow at LSE, and journalist Irina Borogan will each present in a broad discussion of their research on how the Russian state seeks to control its citizens, historically... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Miriam Dobson (University of Sheffield)
28 November 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
The seminar series this autumn focuses on the history of the USSR’s non-Russian republics and successor states. It explores political reforms, socio-economic transformations, and cultural upheavals... Read more
Sir Laurie Bristow (President, Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
25 November 2022 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Celebrating the life of Elizabeth Teague Event co-convened by the Russian and East European Programme of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies with the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Olga Khomenko (St Antony's)
21 November 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
The seminar series this autumn focuses on the history of the USSR’s non-Russian republics and successor states. It explores political reforms, socio-economic transformations, and cultural upheavals... Read more
Tetyana Malyarenko (Odesa Academy of Law), Tamara Martsenyuk (Kyiv-Mohyla – to participate virtually), Sarah Whitmore (Oxford Brookes) and Bettina Renz (Nottingham), Lenka Bustikova (St Antony's), Yuliya Bidenko (Karazin Kharkiv National University), Volodymyr Paniotto (Kyiv-Mohyla - to participate virtually), Andrew Wilson (UCL SSEES), Tatiana Zhurzhenko (ZOiS, Berlin), Vlad Mykhnenko (Oxford), Denys Nizalov (De Montfort), Roy Allison (St Antony's), Jonathan Holslag (Free University of Brussels), Kateryna Zarembo (New Europe Center, Kyiv – to participate virtually), Viktoriya Sereda (Ukrainian Catholic University - to participate virtually), Olga Tokariuk (Reuters Institute, Oxford)
18 November 2022 - 10:00am to 19 November 2022 - 2:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
To attend, please register with Eventbrite War and the Future of Ukraine 18-19 November 2022 Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College 11-12.45: Panel 1: The War: its features and its course ... Read more