CEREES Events
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.
Current Programme
Autumn 2024
CEREES-MEI Panel
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Disinformation and Smearing in British Politics: 100 years since the Zinoviev Letter
Tuesday 29 October, 2024
Speakers:
Dr Gill Bennett (Chief Historian of the Foreign Office from 1995 to 2005)
Prof Ciaran Martin (University of Oxford)
Prof Jean Seaton (University of Westminster)
Dr Robert Saunders (Queen Mary University of London)
CEREES Panel
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Political Prisoners in Russia and the Occupied Territories of Ukraine
Monday 18 November, 2024
Speakers:
Prof Judith Pallott (University of Helsinki)
Sergei Davidis (Memorial)
Yevgeniy Zakharov (director, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group)
Prof. Bill Bowring (Birkbeck), tbc
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CEREES Discussion & Book Launch
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Decolonising the (Post-)Soviet Screen
Monday 2 December, 2024
Speakers:
Assiya Issemberdiyeva (QMUL)
Anisa Sabiri (filmmaker)
Serian Carlyle (UCL SSEES)
Dusan Radunovic (University of Durham)
Spring 2025
CEREES Discussion & Special Issue Launch
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New Directions in Ukrainian Film History
Monday 3 February, 2025
Speakers:
Leonid Machulin (Kharkov)
Jeremy Hicks (QMUL), plus authors
CEREES Panel
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The British Left and Ukraine
Monday 10 February, 2025
Speakers:
Paul Mason (journalist)
Yuliya Yurchenko (Uni of Greenwich)
Christopher Ford (Ukrainian Solidarity Campaign)
CEREES Lecture
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Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine
Monday 10 March, 2025
Speaker:
Bhavna Davé (SOAS)
CEREES Screening
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Screening of Arseny Avraamov’s Symphony of Sirens in Baku
(1922)
Monday 7 April, 2025
Speaker:
Daniel Schwartz (McGill University, Canada)
Past Programmes
CEREES Events,
2023-24
CEREES Discussion with Robert Chandler (CEREES affiliate), Edwin Frank (NYRB), and Maria Chehonadskih (QMUL) in the QMUL Chapel, surrounded by the sgraffito murals of renowned Polish artist and former inmate of the Soviet labour camps, Adam Kossowski. (More on the QMUL chapel murals and Kossowski here).
CEREES Mini-Series collaboration on post-socialist theory and practice
CEREES Lecture by William Blacker (UCL), chaired by Natalya Chernyshova (QMUL), in the Montagu Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of London.
Shape the Conversation
To join our mailing list, participate in our programme of events, or find out how we can support your research, please contact hss-cerees@qmul.ac.uk