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)

Adelaide McGinity-Peebles (University of Exeter)

Irina Schulzki (Apparatus)

 


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

 

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