UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 7th Annual International Postgraduate Conference

Inclusion Exclusion

16-18th February 2006

Senior Academic Advisers

Professor George KOLANKIEWICZ
Director of SSEES, Chair of Sociology of Central Europe, Specialises in the social aspects of transformation in post-Communist societies.
Dr Christopher J GERRY
Lecturer in European Economy, Teaches European Economics.
Research on applied micro-economics based on household survey data. Particular interest in the labour market, wage differentiation, gender inequality, poverty and well-being with special emphasis on the Russian Federation. Also interested in alcohol use, child labour, educational attainment as well as issues of European integration and enlargement.
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~tjmscge/
Professor Geoffrey HOSKING FBA
Professor of Russian History,
Research interests: The history of Russia and the Soviet Union; nation-building and state-building in Russia; the ex-Soviet Union from 1991; society, ideology and literature in the Soviet Union; the history of trust and social solidarity in European societies.
Dr Richard BUTTERWICK
Lecturer in Modern Polish History.
Research interests: The political, intellectual, religious and cultural history of early modern and early nineteenth-century Poland-Lithuania.
Professor Robert PYNSENT
Professor of Czech and Slovak Literature. Convenor: Centre for the Study of Central Europe.
Research Interests: 14th-century Czech literature; Czech Renaissance prose; nationalism in literature; decadence; contemporary Slovak fiction; Czech women's writing.
Professor Martyn RADY
Professor of Central European History, Head of Department
Research interests: Medieval Hungary; history of Central Europe and the Habsburg Monarchy in the 15th and 16th centuries; history of Transylvania; legal history.
http://www.ssees.ac.uk/prospect/rady.htm