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Through our activities we promote knowledge and discussion of Russia in the broader academic community and with the public at large.
Every year, as part of the Russian Studies Seminar Series, SSEES presents a number of one-off events which provide a forum for profiling the latest research into Russia's culture, history, language, literature, politics, and society, past and present.
SSEES is the largest centre for Russian studies in the UK, with over 20 full-time Russian specialists covering language, literature, culture, history, economics and political science. The SSEES Library collection on Russia and the former Soviet Union is one of the major resources in the UK. The Post-Soviet Press Group, Russian Cinema Research Group and 'Культура и общество современной России' ('Culture and society in contemporary Russia') further contribute to our un-rivalled expertise in Russian Studies.
Please see the schedule below for details on our forthcoming events.
Day/Time: Monday, 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Currently online / Masaryk Room, UCL SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
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Recent Events
- Spring Term 2023
26 January 2023 Ukraine's Victory in Russia's War: The Role of the United Kingdom
30 January 2023 Two New Books on The War Against Ukraine
3 March 2023 Reading and discussion with Ukrainian writer Kateryna Babkina
13 March 2023 Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity
21 April 2023 Documenting War: a Conversation with Ukrainian writer and war crimes researcher Victoria Amelina
- Autumn Term 2022
31 October 2022 Decolonising Western Coverage of Ukraine
21 November 2022 Conversation with Myroslav Marynovych: The Universe Behind Barbed Wire
- Spring Term 2022
7 March 2022 Dearth, Disorder, and Drunkenness in Imperial Russia with Prof Alison Smith
14 March 2022 Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg with Dr Olga Petri
- Autumn Term 2021
11 October 2021 An Evolution of Joseph Brodsky’s Collaborative (Self)Translation: Dr Natasha Rulyova
1 November 2021 The Social History of Prostitution in the Late Russian Empire: Siobhán Hearne
25 November 2021 Book discussion: A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by his Sister by Olesya Khromeychuk
29 November Dostoevsky, Russia and nationalism in the global era
- Spring Term 2021
24 May 2021, 6:00pm BST Book Talk by Emil Draitser: In the Jaws of the Crocodile
- Autumn Term 2020
19 October 2020, 6:00 pm Deification in Russian Religious Thought and the Limits of the Human
With Dr Ruth Coates
23 November 2020, 6:00 pm "Solovki Gulag literature": Towards a New Understanding of Gulag Literature
with Dr Andrea Gullotta
30 November 2020, 6:00 pm From Borodino to Babel (and Beyond): In the Field of Russian-to-English Literary Translation
with Dr Muireann Maguire and Dr Cathy McAteer
1 December 2020, 4:00 pm with Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
14 December 2020, 6:00 pm A Russian Jane Eyre: Gothic Subjectivity and the Woman Question in Tur and Turgenev
With Dr Katherine Bowers
- Spring Term 2019
15 January 2019, 7-9pm The Collapse of the Soviet Union: How it happened and what followed - Bridget Kendall 4 February 2019, 6.15-8pm
The New Cold War: Where are the real frontline states? - Ed Lucas
- Autumn Term 2018
8 October 2018, 6-8pm
"It's an American story, about an American career": The Transnational Fame of Joseph Brodsky - Alex Harrington, Durham University 12 November 2018, 6-8pm Politics Under the Influence. Vodka and Public Policy in Putin's Russia - Anna L . Bailey 19 November 2018, 6-8pm
The Soviet Emperor's New Clothes: Psychiatry, Dissent and the Art of Diagnosis - Rebecca Reich, University of Cambridge
26 November 2018, 6-8pm Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita: Depicting the Divine - Olga Voronina
- Spring Term 2018
7 February 2018, 6:45pm-9pm, Darwin B40 Lecture Theatre, UCL McMafia: The Reality 16-17 February 2018, 9am-5pm, Room 347, UCL SSEES Workshop: 'Russia's Global Legal Trajectories: International Law in Eurasia Past and Present' 16 February 2018, 6:30pm-8pm, Pushkin House Public forum (with Pushkin House): 'Russia as Maker and Breaker of International Law' 21 February 2018, 4:00pm-6:00 pm, Room 347, UCL SSEES The paradoxes of Eduard Limonov: a Poet of Avant-guard and Leader of National-Bolshevik Party 30 April 2018, 6pm-8pm, Room 433, UCL SSEES Socialist Internationalism and New Histories of International Political Economy: A Roundtable 14 May 2018, 6:00pm-8:00 pm, Room 433, UCL SSEES Pop Music from Stagnation to Perestroika: How Economic Reform Broke East European Cultural Networks 21 May 2018, 6:00pm-8:00 pm, Room 433, UCL SSEES Claire Shaw book talk on 'Deaf in the USSR' - Autumn Term 2017
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