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<\/a><\/p>\nDecolonising post-Soviet collections, archives and artefacts<\/h4>\n
Monday 17 November, 2025<\/p>\n
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CEREES Lecture<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2025\/10\/putin-empire-fall-russia-soviet-imperialism-foreign-policy-illustration-article-1.jpg-300x225.jpeg\")
<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/h4>\nImperial Despotism of Russia: Historical Perspectives<\/span><\/h4>\nFriday 5 December, 2025<\/p>\n
\nSpeaker<\/strong>:<\/div>\nSabine Dullin<\/strong> (Sciences Po, Paris)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cUkraine: Everyday Resilience\u201d by Yan Dobronosov<\/strong><\/p>\nWeds 3 December, 2025<\/p>\n
Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2060 \u2060Colonel Vitalii Hutsuliak<\/strong> \u2014 Military Attach\u00e9, Embassy of Ukraine<\/p>\n\u2060\u00a0Jeremy Hicks<\/strong> \u2014 Professor of Post-Soviet Cultural History and Film at QMUL; Deputy Director, CEREES<\/p>\n\u2060 \u2060Olga Parashchuk<\/strong> \u2014 Director, UABeyond<\/p>\n\u2060 \u2060Mariya Chuhunnikova<\/strong> \u2014 QMUL Ukrainian Society; Director, UABeyond<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
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CEREES Panel<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nBelarus Studies at Times of Revolution and War<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMonday 16 February, 2025<\/p>\n
Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2060 Aleksandra Pomiecko<\/span><\/b> (King\u2019s College London)<\/p>\nPaul Hansbury <\/span><\/b>(author of Belarus in Crisis<\/i>)<\/p>\nNatalya Chernyshova<\/span><\/b> (QMUL)<\/p>\nDarya Lis<\/span><\/b> (QMUL\/BL)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nCEREES Lecture<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nCerberus in the South Caucasus: <\/strong><\/p>\nThe Politics of Producing Knowledge about a Fractured Region<\/strong><\/p>\nThursday 16 April, 2026<\/p>\n
Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2060 Laurence Broers (Chatham House)<\/p>\n
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CEREES & MEI: Panel Discussion<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n“We Know How to Win”: Words of Defiance from Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\nFriday 24 April, 2026<\/p>\n
Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2060 Dmytro Kuleba<\/strong> (Foreign Affairs Minister of Ukraine, 2020-24)<\/p>\nPhilippe Sands\u00a0<\/strong>(International lawyer, broadcaster and writer)<\/p>\nBjorn Berge\u00a0<\/strong>(Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe)<\/p>\nOlesya Khromeychuk\u00a0<\/strong>(Director, Ukrainian Institute London)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/h4>\nImperial Despotism of Russia: Historical Perspectives<\/span><\/h4>\nFriday 5 December, 2025<\/p>\n
\nSpeaker<\/strong>:<\/div>\nSabine Dullin<\/strong> (Sciences Po, Paris)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cUkraine: Everyday Resilience\u201d by Yan Dobronosov<\/strong><\/p>\nWeds 3 December, 2025<\/p>\n
Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2060 \u2060Colonel Vitalii Hutsuliak<\/strong> \u2014 Military Attach\u00e9, Embassy of Ukraine<\/p>\n\u2060\u00a0Jeremy Hicks<\/strong> \u2014 Professor of Post-Soviet Cultural History and Film at QMUL; Deputy Director, CEREES<\/p>\n\u2060 \u2060Olga Parashchuk<\/strong> \u2014 Director, UABeyond<\/p>\n\u2060 \u2060Mariya Chuhunnikova<\/strong> \u2014 QMUL Ukrainian Society; Director, UABeyond<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
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CEREES Panel<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nBelarus Studies at Times of Revolution and War<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMonday 16 February, 2025<\/p>\n
Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2060 Aleksandra Pomiecko<\/span><\/b> (King\u2019s College London)<\/p>\nPaul Hansbury <\/span><\/b>(author of Belarus in Crisis<\/i>)<\/p>\nNatalya Chernyshova<\/span><\/b> (QMUL)<\/p>\nDarya Lis<\/span><\/b> (QMUL\/BL)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nCEREES Lecture<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nCerberus in the South Caucasus: <\/strong><\/p>\nThe Politics of Producing Knowledge about a Fractured Region<\/strong><\/p>\nThursday 16 April, 2026<\/p>\n
Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2060 Laurence Broers (Chatham House)<\/p>\n
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CEREES & MEI: Panel Discussion<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n“We Know How to Win”: Words of Defiance from Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\nFriday 24 April, 2026<\/p>\n
Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\u2060 Dmytro Kuleba<\/strong> (Foreign Affairs Minister of Ukraine, 2020-24)<\/p>\nPhilippe Sands\u00a0<\/strong>(International lawyer, broadcaster and writer)<\/p>\nBjorn Berge\u00a0<\/strong>(Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe)<\/p>\nOlesya Khromeychuk\u00a0<\/strong>(Director, Ukrainian Institute London)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Friday 5 December, 2025<\/p>\n
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CEREES Photo Exhibition<\/h3>\n
\u201cUkraine: Everyday Resilience\u201d by Yan Dobronosov<\/strong><\/p>\n Weds 3 December, 2025<\/p>\n Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u2060 \u2060Colonel Vitalii Hutsuliak<\/strong> \u2014 Military Attach\u00e9, Embassy of Ukraine<\/p>\n \u2060\u00a0Jeremy Hicks<\/strong> \u2014 Professor of Post-Soviet Cultural History and Film at QMUL; Deputy Director, CEREES<\/p>\n \u2060 \u2060Olga Parashchuk<\/strong> \u2014 Director, UABeyond<\/p>\n \u2060 \u2060Mariya Chuhunnikova<\/strong> \u2014 QMUL Ukrainian Society; Director, UABeyond<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Belarus Studies at Times of Revolution and War<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Monday 16 February, 2025<\/p>\n Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u2060 Aleksandra Pomiecko<\/span><\/b> (King\u2019s College London)<\/p>\n Paul Hansbury <\/span><\/b>(author of Belarus in Crisis<\/i>)<\/p>\n Natalya Chernyshova<\/span><\/b> (QMUL)<\/p>\n Darya Lis<\/span><\/b> (QMUL\/BL)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cerberus in the South Caucasus: <\/strong><\/p>\n The Politics of Producing Knowledge about a Fractured Region<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday 16 April, 2026<\/p>\n Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u2060 Laurence Broers (Chatham House)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “We Know How to Win”: Words of Defiance from Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday 24 April, 2026<\/p>\n Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u2060 Dmytro Kuleba<\/strong> (Foreign Affairs Minister of Ukraine, 2020-24)<\/p>\n Philippe Sands\u00a0<\/strong>(International lawyer, broadcaster and writer)<\/p>\n Bjorn Berge\u00a0<\/strong>(Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe)<\/p>\n Olesya Khromeychuk\u00a0<\/strong>(Director, Ukrainian Institute London)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nCEREES Lecture<\/h3>\n
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\nCEREES & MEI: Panel Discussion<\/h3>\n
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