Modern & Medieval Languages

Department of Slavonic Studies

Upcoming Events


Please note that CamCREES seminars normally take place fortnightly on Tuesdays in the Latimer Room, Clare College, unless otherwise stated.

Seminars begin at 5.00pm. Tea and coffee are available from 4.45pm.


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Recent Events


Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 5pm: CamCREES seminar

Luke Harding (The Guardian)

'Russia: The Mafia State'

Tuesday, 28 February 2012, 5pm: 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, 5pm: 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'

[NB: This event will be held in the Library Court Seminar Room of Jesus College, Cambridge. Please note the special venue, date, and time.]

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

All are welcome.  Please inform incoming graduate students about this event. Drinks and refreshments provided.

 

A list of past events is under construction.