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Through our activities we promote knowledge and discussion of Russia in the broader academic community and with the public at large.
Every year, as part of the Russian Studies Seminar Series, SSEES presents a number of one-off events which provide a forum for profiling the latest research into Russia's culture, history, language, literature, politics, and society, past and present, as well as a mini-series of talks in Russian, 'Культура и общество современной России' ('Culture and society in contemporary Russia').
SSEES is the largest centre for Russian studies in the UK, with over 20 full-time Russian specialists covering language, literature, culture, history, economics and political science. The SSEES Library collection on Russia and the former Soviet Union is one of the major resources in the UK. The Post-Soviet Press Group and Russian Cinema Research Group further contribute to our un-rivalled expertise in Russian Studies.
Please see the schedule below for details on our forthcoming events.
Day/Time: Monday, 17:15 - 19:15
Venue: Masaryk Room, UCL SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
Event Videos
Autumn Term 2020 | |
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| 19 October 2020, 6:00 pm | Deification in Russian Religious Thought and the Limits of the Human With Dr Ruth Coates |
| 23 November 2020, 6:00 pm | "Solovki Gulag literature": Towards a New Understanding of Gulag Literature with Dr Andrea Gullotta |
| 30 November 2020, 6:00 pm | From Borodino to Babel (and Beyond): In the Field of Russian-to-English Literary Translation with Dr Muireann Maguire and Dr Cathy McAteer |
| 1 December 2020, 4:00 pm | with Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan |
| 14 December 2020, 6:00 pm | A Russian Jane Eyre: Gothic Subjectivity and the Woman Question in Tur and Turgenev With Dr Katherine Bowers |
Recent Events
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- Spring Term 2019
15 January 2019, 7-9pm The Collapse of the Soviet Union: How it happened and what followed - Bridget Kendall 4 February 2019, 6.15-8pm
The New Cold War: Where are the real frontline states? - Ed Lucas
- Autumn Term 2018
8 October 2018, 6-8pm
"It's an American story, about an American career": The Transnational Fame of Joseph Brodsky - Alex Harrington, Durham University 12 November 2018, 6-8pm Politics Under the Influence. Vodka and Public Policy in Putin's Russia - Anna L . Bailey 19 November 2018, 6-8pm
The Soviet Emperor's New Clothes: Psychiatry, Dissent and the Art of Diagnosis - Rebecca Reich, University of Cambridge
26 November 2018, 6-8pm Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita: Depicting the Divine - Olga Voronina
- Spring Term 2018
7 February 2018, 6:45pm-9pm, Darwin B40 Lecture Theatre, UCL McMafia: The Reality 16-17 February 2018, 9am-5pm, Room 347, UCL SSEES Workshop: 'Russia's Global Legal Trajectories: International Law in Eurasia Past and Present' 16 February 2018, 6:30pm-8pm, Pushkin House Public forum (with Pushkin House): 'Russia as Maker and Breaker of International Law' 21 February 2018, 4:00pm-6:00 pm, Room 347, UCL SSEES The paradoxes of Eduard Limonov: a Poet of Avant-guard and Leader of National-Bolshevik Party 30 April 2018, 6pm-8pm, Room 433, UCL SSEES Socialist Internationalism and New Histories of International Political Economy: A Roundtable 14 May 2018, 6:00pm-8:00 pm, Room 433, UCL SSEES Pop Music from Stagnation to Perestroika: How Economic Reform Broke East European Cultural Networks 21 May 2018, 6:00pm-8:00 pm, Room 433, UCL SSEES Claire Shaw book talk on 'Deaf in the USSR' - Autumn Term 2017
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