Programme, 2025-26

 

CEREES Panel

Decolonising post-Soviet collections, archives and artefacts

Monday 17 November, 2025

Speakers:
Katya Rogatchevskaia (Lead Curator, East European Collections at the British Library)
Darya Lis (PhD Student QMUL, History), focusing on Belarus
Assiya Issemberdiyeva (PhD Student QMUL, Modern Languages and Cultures), focusing on Central Asia
Oleksandr Teliuk (PhD Student QMUL, Film Studies) focusing on Ukraine

 

CEREES Lecture

Imperial Despotism of Russia: Historical Perspectives

Friday 5 December, 2025

Speaker:
Sabine Dullin (Sciences Po, Paris)

CEREES Photo Exhibition

“Ukraine: Everyday Resilience” by Yan Dobronosov

Weds 3 December, 2025

Speakers:

⁠ ⁠Colonel Vitalii Hutsuliak — Military Attaché, Embassy of Ukraine

⁠ Jeremy Hicks — Professor of Post-Soviet Cultural History and Film at QMUL; Deputy Director, CEREES

⁠ ⁠Olga Parashchuk — Director, UABeyond

⁠ ⁠Mariya Chuhunnikova — QMUL Ukrainian Society; Director, UABeyond

 

 

 

CEREES Panel

Belarus Studies at Times of Revolution and War

Monday 16 February, 2025

Speakers:

⁠ Aleksandra Pomiecko (King’s College London)

Paul Hansbury (author of Belarus in Crisis)

Natalya Chernyshova (QMUL)

Darya Lis (QMUL/BL)

 

CEREES Lecture

Cerberus in the South Caucasus:

The Politics of Producing Knowledge about a Fractured Region

Thursday 16 April, 2026

Speakers:

⁠ Laurence Broers (Chatham House)

 

 

CEREES & MEI: Panel Discussion

“We Know How to Win”: Words of Defiance from Ukraine

Friday 24 April, 2026

Speakers:

⁠ Dmytro Kuleba (Foreign Affairs Minister of Ukraine, 2020-24)

Philippe Sands (International lawyer, broadcaster and writer)

Bjorn Berge (Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe)

Olesya Khromeychuk (Director, Ukrainian Institute London)