Research Centres and Seminar Series

The Centre acts as a focal point for UCL's research on economic transitions.

Culture and Society in Modern Russia events are held in Russian

FRINGE explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.

The interdisciplinary research centre Places, Identities and Memories (PIMs) will study how “space” becomes a “place” and what it means for people’s lives and their futures.

The Platform for Linguistic and Epistemic Justice (PLEJ) is a research centre based at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

Polish studies events at SSEES include one-off conferences and research seminars as well as an annual Polish studies conference and biennial Polish migration conferences.

The SSEES Politics & Sociology Seminar Series brings together people interested in cutting-edge social science research relating to the SSEES region.

SSEES's famous Post-Soviet Press Group (PSPG) provides a weekly opportunity to discuss developments in states of the former Soviet Union.

PROLang represents all interdisciplinary language-based area studies research and interests across all departments at SSEES.

The Research Student Seminar Series gives SSEES PhD students the opportunity to present their work to fellow researchers and the general public in an informal setting.

The Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia seminar series at SSEES explores a vast region of the world from multiple perspectives.

"SSEESing" events are expert discussions hosted by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

SSEES's Cinema Research Group was founded in the autumn of 2002.

Through this seminar series, we promote the study of Balkan politics and societies through an interdisciplinary lens.

Our approach to the region is multi-disciplinary, comprising history, languages and literature, culture, politics and economics.