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Our central programme of lectures, panels, and seminars bring people into conversation with leading experts on Eurasia and showcase the latest research on the region.

 

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Autumn 2023

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Inaugural CEREES Lecture

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William Blacker, ‘The Many Voices of Ukraine’

Monday 30 October, 2023

 

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CEREES Book Talk

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Alessandro Inadolo Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali 1955-1968

Monday 20 November, 2023

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CEREES Lecture

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Sergey Zherebkin ‘The Online Ukraine War: Russo-Ukrainian Social Media Debates on Politics and Culture’.

Monday 11 December, 2023

 

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Spring 2024

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CEREES Book Launch

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Svetlana Payne on Mikhail Osorgin’s The Riven Heart of Moscow

Wednesday 24 January, 2024

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CEREES Screening & Book Launch

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Screening and Discussion of Katia Izmailova (Valerii Todorovskii 1994) and launch of A History of Russian Literature on Film by David Gillespie and Marina Korneeva

Monday 29 January, 2024

 

 

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CEREES Lecture

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Natalya Chernyshova ‘Out of the marshes and into the nuclear age:

the politics of modernisation in late Soviet Belarus, 1965-1980′

Monday 26 February, 2024

 

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CEREES Book Launch

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Robert Chandler on Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur

with Edwin Frank (editorial director of The New York Review of Books)

Monday 18 March, 2024

 

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CEREES Book Discussion

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Tamara Popic, Health Reforms in Post-Communist Eastern Europe. 

Discussants: Dr Eleanor Brooks (School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh) and Dr Allan Sikk (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London)

Wednesday 20 March, 2024

 

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CEREES Lecture

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Neringa Klumbytė (Miami University), ‘Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania’ 

Speaking on the topic of her award-winning book, Neringa Klumbytė will examine the of humour in times of repression and war.

Monday 8 April, 2024

 

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Summer 2024

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CEREES Lecture & Archive Talk

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Igor Cașu (National Agency of Archives, State University of Moldova),

‘Soviet Famine in Moldova:

Why was the Soviet famine of 1946-7 the most severe in the Moldavian SSR?

Preliminary conclusions based on Chișinău, Kyiv, and Moscow archives’

Wednesday 8 May, 2024

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CEREES Mini-Series

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CEREES Mini-Series: ‘Contemporary Debates in Post-Socialist Theory and Practice’

Featuring:

Zhivka Barbarianna (Pratt Institute, New York), Raia Apostolova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), and Piro Rexhepi (UCL).

Organisers:

Neda Genova (Warwick) & Maria Chehonadskih (QMUL)

9 May, 16 May, and 23 May, 2024

 

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