Russian Studies Seminar Series

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'.

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.

2018 Autumn Programme

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

Recent Events

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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

9 Oct 2017, 6-8pm Room 433	Professor Igor Fedyukin (NRS-HSE Moscow): Russia's Other Enlightenment?: Rakes, Petit-Maitres and Libertines in Eighteenth-Century St Petersburg
11 Oct 2017, 6-8pm Room 433	Women in the Ukrainian Nationalist Underground, Panel Discussion chaired by Dr Uilleam Blacker
6 Nov 2017, 6-8pm, Room 433	Professor Kira Stevens (Colgate University): Everyday law in a Moscow suburb, 1693-1730
7 Nov 2017, 6-8pm, Room 433	Christine Evans (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): Several hours in the Motherland: Vladimir Putin’s "Direct Line" broadcasts in historical perspective
23 Nov 2017, 6:30-9pm, Room 433	Centennial Celebration of Andrei Bely's Petersburg
27 Nov 2017, 6-8pm, Room 433	Professor Christopher Andrew (University of Cambridge): Russian intelligence chiefs from the Bolshevik Revolution to Vladimir Putin. Co-sponsored by the British-Latvian Association.
29 Nov 2017, 4-6pm, Chadwick building G07 Gower Street London WC1E 6BT	Seminar Series in Russian: Доктор Елена Зайцева Современное российское искусство и его политические аспект
4 Dec 2017, 6-8pm, Room 433	Robert Chandler: Censorship - And Eloquent Silences - In Vasily Grossman’s For A Just Cause

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