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.
Summer 2024
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
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
Spring 2024
CEREES Book Launch
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Svetlana Payne on Mikhail Osorgin’s The Riven Heart of Moscow
Wednesday 24 January, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
Autumn 2023
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
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
Inaugural CEREES Lecture
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William Blacker, ‘The Many Voices of Ukraine’
Monday 30 October, 2023