Events archive
Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick (Sydney)
12 October 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Dahrendorf Room
Professor Malte Rolf (Otto-Friedrich University, Bamberg)
8 October 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Pavilion Room
In 1968 Andrei Sakharov wrote his essay "Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom". In his memorandum – which quickly circulated in samizdat – Sakharov not only pointed... Read more
Dan Healey (St Antony's)
26 June 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Karen Dawisha (Miami University)
19 June 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Pavilion Room
Karen Dawisha is the Walter Havighurst Chair and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She received her Ph.D. at the London School... Read more
Kateřina Lišková (Gender Studies Program, Department of Sociology Office for Population Studies, Czech Republic)
11 June 2015 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Pavilion Room
Centre for Gender, Identity, and Subjectivity (History): Graduate Research Group This is the latest in a series of graduate student seminars in the CGIS. All are welcome. Participants are urged to... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Edmund Griffiths (Oxford)
1 June 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This is an advanced seminar series supported by the Management Committee of Russian and East European Studies and the Harry Shukman Seminar Fund (created in Harry’s memory by Fay and Geoffrey Elliott... Read more
Anya Bernstein (Harvard)
25 May 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Anya Bernstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard. She is currently at work on two projects. The first – which will be the focus of her talk at St Antony’s on May 25... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Hamid Ismailov (BBC)
18 May 2015 - 6:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
International academia is divided on the issue of Islamic radicalisation in Central Asia and Uzbekistan. Some scholars consider it a myth created by the local authoritarian regimes to keep the... Read more
Geoffrey Hosking OBE (UCL SSEES)
11 May 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This is an advanced seminar series supported by the Management Committee of Russian and East European Studies and the Harry Shukman Seminar Fund (created in Harry’s memory by Fay and Geoffrey Elliott... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
John Garrard & Carol Garrard (Arizona)
4 May 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
There is nothing surprising about the rise of religiosity in a nation that for eight decades had been subjected to militant state-enforced atheism. But when Putin cast Russia's takeover of the Crimea... Read more
Leila Alieva (St Antony's)
28 April 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Dahrendorf Room
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Natascha Drubek (Freie Universität Berlin)
27 April 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
In recent years several Russian films were produced which in one way or another have close connections to the Russian Orthodox Church. There is for example the film "The Priest" (2009), which... Read more
Stephen Capus (UCL), Robert Chandler (London), Boris Dralyuk (St Andrew's), Irina Mashinski (New York), Gerald Smith (New College), James Womack (Madrid)
19 March 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
An evening to mark the publication of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF RUSSIAN POETRY, edited by Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. Thursday March 19, 5.30-7 pm in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Nathalie Moine (Centre d'etudes des mondes russe, caucasien, centre-europeen, Paris)
9 March 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This is an advanced seminar series supported by MC REES, the Faculty of History and the Harry Shukman Seminar Fund (created in Harry's memory by Fay and Geoffrey Elliott). All are welcome.
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Daniel Beer (Royal Holloway)
2 March 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This is an advanced seminar series supported by MC REES, the Faculty of History and the Harry Shukman Seminar Fund (created in Harry's memory by Fay and Geoffrey Elliott). All are welcome.