Events archive
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Fabienne Rachmadiev (University of Amsterdam)
22 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
In this talk I will focus on contemporary art and ecology in the context of Central Asia – a geography that has seen devastating ecological disasters, such as the desiccation of the Aral Sea,... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Ignacio Garcia-Bercero (European Commission)
19 May 2023 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
The global trading system is increasingly being affected by geopolitical tensions. This raises important challenges for the development of European trade policy. The talk will look at the... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Darya Tsymbalyuk (St Antony's)
15 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
In this talk, I present the thinking process behind the manuscript-in-progress, which is focused on testimonies, stories, and memories from the east of Ukraine. In my research about Donetsk and... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Leyla Sayfutdinova (Marie Curie Fellow, Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews)
8 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Baku’s spectacular urban transformations attracted considerable scholarly attention in the last two decades. Discussed in terms of petro-urbanism, these debates often neglect Baku’s long industrial... Read more
Dr Laimonas Briedis (Vancouver)
2 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room
The lecture marks 700 years of the founding of Vilnius. Laimonas Briedis is a writer and scholar of history, literature and the geographical imagination of Lithuania. A native of Vilnius (Lithuania... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Tanya Richardson (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
1 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Beekeeping laws and regulation in Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania require beekeepers to work with Carpathian honeybees in some or all administrative districts. While Carpathian honeybee queens are bred... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr. Diana Galeeva (Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and a Non-Resident Fellow with the Gulf International Forum)
28 April 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
In recent decades Russia has played an increasingly active role in the Middle East as states within the region continue to diversify their relations with major external powers. Yet the role of... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Natalia Mamonova (RURALIS – Institute for Rural and Regional Research, Norway)
24 April 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Ukrainian farmers are now called war heroes as they risk their lives every day in the fields to produce food for their country. But not only farming is their contribution to Ukraine’s survival and... Read more
Ukraine: Resisting Cultural Erasure
Dr Kateryna Dysa (All Souls, Oxford)
10 March 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room
The first music clubs in Kyiv appeared in the 1960s; however, the Soviet authorities quickly stepped back and ordered them to be closed. A new wave of music clubs connected to youth counter-culture... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu (LSE)
6 March 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
The political economy of natural resources is not a new area of study, but the presentation on the Caspian Basin countries is from a less-researched angle. This talk focuses on the characteristics of... Read more
Ukraine: Resisting Cultural Erasure
Olena Chervonik (Trinity College, Oxford)
3 March 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room
An informal photographic community emerged in Kharkiv in the mid-1960s and gradually coalesced into an artistic movement nowadays known as the Kharkiv School of Photography. The School encompasses... Read more
Dr David Roberts (King’s College London, UK), Dr Kristin Smith Diwan (The Arab Gulf States Institute, Washington, USA), Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (Rice University, USA), Dr Ali Bakir (Qatar University, Qatar)
23 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre & ZOOM
The event aims to explore the role of the Gulf states in the international arena within the context of the impact of the Ukraine war (24 February 2023 marks one year of the conflict). The economic... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Olesya Khromeychuk (Director, Ukrainian Institute, London)
20 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Ukrainians did not wake up on 24 February suddenly feeling defiant. Their resistance was built up over centuries of repression, whether Russian imperial or soviet, and decades of shaping their... Read more
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