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Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Vladimir Sharov's Rehearsals (1986-88; trans. 2018): panel discussion

Dr Auliiki Nahkola (Wolfson), Professor Philip Bullock (Wadham), Dr Oliver Ready (St Antony's) - the novel's translator
30 April 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Oliver Ready (St Antony's) - ' The Rehearsals from a translator's perspective'; Philip Bullock (Wadham) - 'Beginnings, endings, and eternal returns: Sharov's Rehearsals and the legacy of the Soviet... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Cultural responses to the war in Ukraine

Dr Uilleam Blacker (SSEES, UCL)
23 April 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

The influence (and limits) of Russia's strategic narrative during 'information war' in Ukraine

Dr Joanna Szostek (Royal Holloway)
5 March 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Mobilizing under uncertainty: from fleeing to fighting in wartime Abkhazia

Dr Anastasia Shesterinina (University of Sheffield)
26 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Ethnic hierarchy in the Russian labour market

Dr Alexey Bessudnov (Exeter University)
19 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

After 20 years: Russia and the European Convention on Human Rights

Professor Jeffrey Kahn (Southern Methodist University, USA)
12 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

The challenges to growth in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Sergei Guriev (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
6 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
NB This seminar will take place on the Tuesday of Week 4 of the current series (6 February), not the Monday. Sergei M. Guriev is a Russian economist, the chief economist at the European Bank for... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Health and well-being in Russia: new approaches, new challenges

Professor Christopher Gerry (St Antony's)
29 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Disrupted democracy in Ukraine? Protest, performance and contention in the Verkhovna Rada

Dr Sarah Whitmore (Oxford Brookes)
22 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Building autocracy from above and below: emotional engagement and politics after Crimea

Professor Graeme Robertson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
15 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Feeling revolution: cinema and the emancipation of the Soviet senses

Dr Emma Widdis (Trinity College, Cambridge)
27 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

The Russian Revolution in global perspective: the first decade

Professor Steve Smith (All Souls)
20 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Seducing the West: selling Soviet revolution through prison socialism

Max Hodgson (University of Reading)
13 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

The contradiction of the Russian Revolution: Leninism, violence, and identity, 1918-1938

Dr James Ryan (Cardiff University)
6 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Children of revolution: Armageddon experienced?

Professor Catriona Kelly (New College)
30 October 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre

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