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2017-2018
Thursday, 26 October 2017 / 5:30pm
Dominic Lieven (º£½ÇÉçÇø), ‘Reflections on the Russian Revolution’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College
Thursday, 2 November 2017 / 5:30pm
Emma Widdis (º£½ÇÉçÇø), ‘Feeling Revolution’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College
Thursday, 23 November 2017Ìý/ 5:30pm
Natalia Murray (Courtauld Institute of Art), ‘Revolution and Art’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College
Thursday, 25 January 2018 / 5:30pm
Boris Kolonitskii (European University of St Petersburg), 'Revolution and the Cult of the Leader’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College
Thursday, 8 February 2018 / 5:30pm
Mikhail Minakov (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), ‘Cycles of Revolution in Ukraine’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College
Thursday, 23 February 2018 / 5:30pm
Mark von Hagen (Arizona State University), The Sixteenth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, Exploring the legacy of 1918 in Ukraine, with reference to internal dynamics and international implications of today’s events. Umney Theatre, Robinson College
Thursday, 8 March 2018 / 5:30pm
Tamara Hundorova (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), ‘Revolution and Literature’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College
2016-2017
11 October / 5pmÌýLatimerÌýRoom, Clare CollegeÌý
Marta Dyczok (Western University, Canada)
’The Evolution of Ukrainian Media since Independence’
20 October* / 5pmÌýKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College*
Daniel Beer (Royal Holloway)
‘House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars’ Ìý
*Please note the date and venue
25 October / 5pmÌýLatimerÌýRoom, Clare College
Christian Ratffensperger (Wittenberg U)
‘Friends, Enemies, Kin: Constructing Kinship Webs and Situational Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe’
8 November / 5pmÌýLatimerÌýRoom, Clare CollegeÌý
Josie von Zitzewitz (º£½ÇÉçÇø)
‘Poetry Groups and Journals in 1970s Leningrad’
22 November / 5pmÌýLatimerÌýRoom, Clare CollegeÌý
Friederike Kind-Kovacs (Universität Regensburg)
'Clandestine Radio Listening and State Surveillance’
24 January / 5pmÌýLatimerÌýRoom, Clare College
Jon Stone (Franklin and Marshall)
‘Decadence and the fin de siècle’
7 February / 5pmÌýLatimer Room, Clare College
Valentina Parisi (EURIAS)
‘The Function of the Author in Samizdat Text Production’
21 February / 5pmÌýLatimerÌýRoom, Clare College
Marco Sabbatini (University of Macerata)
‘Poetry’s Role in Leningrad Samizdat’
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2014-2015
Over the course of the 2014-15 academic year, CamCREES organised a host of diverse seminars that culminated in a Lent Term series onÌýRussian and Soviet Mass Culture.ÌýOur Michaelmas Term programme explored topics ranging from Moscow architecture to Russian crime fiction. Our Lent Term programme, generously supported by the British Academy, featured presentations on themes from Cold War radio to Soviet DIY culture.
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Professor Anna Berman (McGill), 'Darwin and Mechnikov in Tolstoy's Literary Imagination'
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Professor Joan Neuberger (Austin, Texas), 'Eisenstein's Ivan: Sensory Thinking from Machiavelli to Disney'
Tuesday, 17 February 2015Ìý
Dr Simon Huxtable (Loughborough), 'Newspapers, Readers and the "Managed Public Sphere" during the Soviet Sixties'
Tuesday, 3 February 2015Ìý
Professor Susan Reid (Sheffield), 'Makeshift Modernity: DIY, Craft and the Virtuous º£½ÇÉçÇømaker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960s'
Tuesday, 20 January 2015Ìý
Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (UCL), 'Listening Out: Cold War Radio and the Soviet Audience'
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Dr Claire Whitehead (St. Andrews), 'The Construction of Authority in Early Russian Crime Fiction'
Tuesday, 11 November 2014Ìý
Professor Valerie Kivelson (Michigan), '"Rivers of Blood": Illustrating Violence and Virtue in Russia's Early Modern Empire'
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Professor Luba Golburt (UC Berkeley), 'The Persistence of the Eighteenth Century: a Book Presentation ofÌýThe First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination'
Tuesday, 14 October 2014Ìý
Professor Anne Nesbet (UC Berkeley), 'Modeling Moscow: Life, Architecture, and the Composite Shot in Soviet Films of the 1930s'
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2013-2014
Over the course of the 2013-14 academic year, CamCREES organised a series of seminars and gatherings oriented on the theme ofÌý'New Interdisciplinary Approaches'. Our Michaelmas 2013 programme, generously supported by a grant from CEELBAS, focused on trends old and new in the study of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Our Lent 2014 programme featured a series of informal roundtables on research across languages and disciplines as well as public lectures on Islamic militancy in Central Asia and on the poetry of Taras Shevchenko, whose bicentennial was celebrated in 2013-14.
Tuesday 4 March 2014
Peter Fedynsky (Translator / Journalist) "Translating Shevchenko'sÌýKobzar"Ìý
Tuesday 18 February 2014
Gruia Badescu, Elena Tchougounova-Paulson, Tanya Zaharchenko (º£½ÇÉçÇø) "Dovzhenko / Manchevski: Silence, Speech and the Gaze"ÌýA Panel Discussion on Two Filmmakers across Contexts
Tuesday 4 February 2014
Mette High (Edinburgh); Caroline Humphrey, Tatiana Safonova, Istvan Santha, Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (º£½ÇÉçÇø) "Anthopology in the Russian Language"ÌýA Panel Discussion on the Challenges and Opportunities of Interlingual Translation
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Hamid Ismailov (BBC World's Writer in Residence) "A Poet and Bin Laden, or Islamic Militancy in Central Asia and Afghanistan"
Tuesday 3 December 2013
Rosamund Bartlett (Oxford) "Tolstoy, Chekhov, and the Music of Russian Prose"
Monday, 2 December 2013
"Film, Conflict and Representation: Perspectives from the Balkans" An Evening with Award-Winning Filmmaker Milcho Manchevski
Organised by aÌýÌý(MML/Architecture)
Tuesday 12 November 2013
Robin Feuer Miller (Brandeis/Oxford) "Tolstoy's 'About Mushrooms'"
Tuesday 29 October 2013
Connor Doak (Bristol) "Of Men and Their Demons: Masculinity in Dostoevskii'sÌýBesy"
Tuesday 15 October 2013
Valeria Sobol (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "The Gothic and Colonial Mimicry in Antony Pogorelsky's Monastyrka"
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2012-2013
2 May 2013Ìý/Ìý
'Resistance and Gender'
Dr Olesya Khromeychuk (º£½ÇÉçÇø)
Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies
25 April 2013Ìý/Ìý
Dr John Freedman (Writer, translator, critic and scholar of Russian theatre)Ìý
'Resistance and Performance'
Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies
7 March 2013Ìý/ÌýÌý
'Resistance and Rights'
Professor Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania)
Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies
6 March 2013Ìý/ÌýÌý
'True Believers: Collaboration and Opposition under Totalitarian Regimes'
A public lecture by Anne ApplebaumÌý
21 February 2013Ìý/Ìý
'Resistance and Conscience'
Dr Philip Boobbyer (University of Kent)
Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies
14 February 2013Ìý/ÌýÌý
'Resistance and Textuality'
Dr Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto)
Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies
5 February 2013Ìý/Ìý
'Resistance and New Media'
Dr Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds)
Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies
24 January 2013Ìý/Ìý
Professor David Marples (University of Alberta)
'Resistance and Nationalism'
Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies
22 January 2013 /ÌýLatimer Room, Clare College
'The Riddle of Space: The History of Russia's Social Geography'
A public lecture by Tony Wood (New Left Review)
Thursday, 22 November 2012Ìý/Ìý
Dr Rory Finnin (º£½ÇÉçÇø)
'Resistance and Solidarity'
Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies
Wednesday, 21 November 2012Ìý/Ìý
Professor Amir Weiner (Stanford)
'Getting to Know You: Occupation and Information'
Part of the Lees Knowles Lectures, 'Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework', hosted by Trinity College and co-sponsored by CamCREESÌý
Wednesday, 14 November 2012Ìý/Ìý
Professor Amir Weiner (Stanford)
'Fighting Total War: A View from the Ground'
Part of the Lees Knowles Lectures, 'Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework', hosted by Trinity College and co-sponsored by CamCREESÌý
Tuesday, 13 November 2012Ìý/Ìý
Dr Rebecca Reich (º£½ÇÉçÇø)
'Resistance and Madness'
Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies
Wednesday, 7 November 2012Ìý/Ìý
Professor Amir Weiner (Stanford)
'Envisioning and Preparing for Total War'
Part of the Lees Knowles Lectures, 'Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework', hosted by Trinity College and co-sponsored by CamCREESÌý
Wednesday, 31 October 2012Ìý/Ìý
Professor Amir Weiner (Stanford)
'On the Road to Hell: Sovereignty Reconfigured'
Part of the Lees Knowles Lectures, 'Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework', hosted by Trinity College and co-sponsored by CamCREESÌý
Thursday, 25 October 2012Ìý/Ìý
Dr Polly Jones (Oxford)
'Resistance and Memory'
Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies
Thursday, 11 October 2012Ìý/Ìý
Masha Gessen (Radio Svoboda)
'Resistance and Personality'
Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies
Friday, 5 October 2012Ìý/Ìý
CamCREES Networking Party
All undergraduate and postgraduate students and staff welcome
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2011-2012
Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 5pm: CamCREES seminar
Luke Harding (The Guardian)
'Russia: The Mafia State'
Tuesday, 28 February 2012,Ìý5pm: CamCREES seminar
Heiko Pleines (Centre for East European Studies, Bremen)
'The Political Challenges of an Oil Boom: Resource Curses and Resource Blessings in Post-Soviet Countries'
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 5pm: CamCREES seminar
Madeleine Reeves (University of Manchester)
'Moskvachylyk: On the Ethics of "Illegality" in Migrant Moscow'
Tuesday, 24 January 2012,Ìý5pm: CamCREES seminar
Olena Fim'yar (Freie Universität Berlin)
'Ukraine's Education Policy under a Foucauldian Gaze'
Tuesday 22 November 2011, 5pm: CamCREES seminar
Michael Moser (University of Vienna; Ukrainian Free University, Munich)
'Ukrainian, Russian, and Rusyn on the Western Periphery'
Monday, 14 November 2011, 5:30pm: CamCREES seminar
Boris Uspenskij (Russian State University of the Humanities)
'Europe as Metaphor and Metonymy in Relation to the History of Russia'
Tuesday 8 November 2011, 5pm: CamCREES seminar
Hamid Ismailov (Writer, journalist, BBC World Service writer-in-residence)
'Soviet Novel vs Soviet Reality, from Platonov to Aitmatov'
Tuesday 25 October 2011, 5pm: CamCREES seminar
Olga Kutsenko (Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv)
'The Legacy of Socialism on Ukrainian Political Culture'
Tuesday 11 October 2011, 5pm: CamCREES seminar
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (Brock University, Canada)
'What Is Russian Orientalism?'
Friday 7 October 2011, 5pm: CamCREES Networking Party
Latimer Room, Clare College