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Matters of Ambivalence or Ambivalence Matters -Evidence from the Global Informality Project

09 December 2015, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm

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UCL SSEES

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Room 433, UCL SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW

 

Talk by Professor Alena Ledeneva, University College London – School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Professor Alena Ledeneva will present insights from the Global Informality Project (in-formality.com) as part of the seminar series ‘Innovation Studies in Europe and beyond’. 

The series is presented jointly by FP7 ANTICORRP, the SSEES Centre for European Politics, Security and Integration (CEPSI) and the Slavonic and East European Review (SEER). It will prepare for the launch of the SEER special issue on innovations in corruption studies edited by Professor Alena Ledeneva in 2017 and showcases research undertaken as part of ANTICORRP, a large-scale research project funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme in which UCL SSEES is a leading partner.

Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She is an internally renowned expert on informal governance in Russia and has published widely on corruption, economic crime, informal practices, and the role of networks and patron client relationship in Russia and beyond. Her books Russia's Economy of Favours (Cambridge University Press, 1998), How Russia Really Works (Cornell University Press, 2006), and Can Russia Modernize? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2013), have become must-read sources in Russian studies and the social sciences. Currently, she is the pillar leader of the multi-partner ANTICORRP research project and works on the Global Encyclopedia of Informality.

The seminar will be followed by an informal discussion over coffee/tea in the Masaryk Senior Common Room.

All students, staff and visitors are welcome. No registration required.

For more information, please contact Dr Philipp Köker (p.koeker@ucl.ac.uk).