Events archive

Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Solidarity and its poetics, or How literature informs Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar political relations

Dr Rory Finnin (Robinson College, Cambridge)
28 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Sex at the border: the 'traffic in women' in Imperial Russia's western borderlands, 1875-1910

Dr Philippa Hetherington (UCL-SSEES)
21 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Lenin's Gulag hospitals: caring for prisoners on the Solovetsky Islands in the 1920s

Professor Dan Healey (St Antony's)
14 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Bare life in the Chernobyl zone: food, health and reproduction in the Soviet nuclear aftermath

Professor Kate Brown (University of Maryland)
7 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Public speaking and political culture in Late Imperial Russia

Professor Stephen Lovell (King's College London)
31 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Dostoevsky, Zoshchenko and the transformation of criminal voices in 1930s Gulag propaganda

Dr Sarah Young (UCL-SSEES)
24 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Equals before the law? Soviet justice, criminal proceedings against Communist Party members, and the legal landscape in the USSR from 1945 to 1953

Dr Juliette Cadiot (EHESS, Paris)
17 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Nicholas II confined: war, nation and revolution, March 1917 - July 1918

Professor Robert Service (St Antony's)
10 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Elliott Lecture - The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul

Svetlana Alexievich - Winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature
30 May 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre - please note change of venue
Svetlana Alexievich is the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Prize was awarded "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." According to the... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Kinopravda for the Putin era: documentary experiments in recent Russian cinema

Dr Susan Larsen (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
23 May 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

How to make a Russian salad: food, art and patriotism on the Russian internet

Dr James Rann (Wadham)
16 May 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Poniatiia: the moral code of Russian gangs

Dr Svetlana Stephenson (London Metropolitan University)
9 May 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Liubimovka 2015: Moscow's festival of contemporary drama

Professor Julie Curtis (Wolfson)
2 May 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Peter Pomerantsev in conversation with Oliver Ready

Peter Pomerantsev (Legatum Institute)
25 April 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Peter Pomerantsev (Legatum Institute), author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia , in conversation with Dr Oliver Ready.
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Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Fathers, sons, and grandsons: generational changes and regime trajectory in Russia

Professor Vladimir Gelman (European University at St Petersburg)
7 March 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre

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