Events archive
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr David Lewis (University of Exeter)
18 November 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Peripheral Histories and International Relations of the Eurasian Borderlands The Evolution of Greater Eurasia: Geopolitical Imaginaries in Russian Foreign Policy Over the past few years Russian... Read more
Ambassador Andrei Sannikov (Chairman, European Belarus Foundation), Dr Leila Alieva (REES, OSGA)
15 November 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
Panel discussion with Dr Leila Alieva (REES, OSGA) & Ambassador Andrei Sannikov (Chairman, European Belarus Foundation) Ambassador Andrei Sannikov is a career diplomat, who was in 1995 appointed... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Jo Laycock (University of Manchester)
11 November 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room *(NB Last-minute change of venue!)*
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Professor Geoffrey Hosking (UCL-SSEES)
4 November 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Rachel Lin (University of Exeter)
28 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
At the outbreak of revolution in 1917, more than 250,000 Chinese merchants, workers and students were scattered throughout the Russian empire. Some 100,000 had been recruited as wartime labourers and... Read more
Dr Andre Singer (SOAS, CEO Spring Films), Professor Archie Brown (St Antony's)
22 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Screening of Meeting Gorbachev , followed by Q&A with the film's co-director, Dr Andre Singer, and Professor Archie Brown. Meeting Gorbachev is a 2018 biographical documentary film directed by... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (University of Roehampton)
21 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This paper examines the history of the pop music industry in the Soviet bloc, focusing in particular on international Polish-Soviet concert tours organised between the late 1970s and the late 1980s.... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Sarah Badcock (University of Nottingham)
14 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This paper will explore the ways in which studies of ordinary people living in areas outside the metropole can add to our broader understandings of the Russian state, in both late Imperial and... Read more
Dr Maria Popova (McGill)
13 June 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Ghassan Shaker Boardroom
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Andrea Gullotta (Glasgow)
3 June 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
NIssan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Professor Evgeny Dobrenko (Sheffield)
27 May 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Professor Lynne Viola (Toronto), Professor James Harris (Leeds), Professor Stephen Smith (All Souls)
20 May 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Oliver Ready (St Antony's)
13 May 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin (University of Durham)
9 May 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
A political campaign in Russia against the compulsory teaching of state languages of republics started in 2017 and culminated in the adoption of the amendment to the Russian education law in August... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Professor Anna Berman (McGill)
6 May 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre