BASEES 2018 Annual Conference 13 April – 15 April 2018 Fitzwilliam College – Churchill College University of Cambridge United Kingdom 1 Dear conference participants, It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to the BASEES conference. Much has happened since last year’s conference in the “BASEES region” that makes our theme of human rights particularly timely. Taking as our starting point the events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia, our keynote panels will be examining modern interpretations of protest and revolution in East Central Europe in the 1950s and 60s and the prospects for human rights activism in the post- Soviet space today. We are also reviving a conference tradition that I remember from the first conferences I attended, of inviting leading experts to give delegates the opportunity to get up to speed on the events that have unfolded in their particular specialist area across the region in the past year. There is an impressive range of panels on offer, with the major disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences and all the geographic and cultural regions of the Eurasian continent represented, that provide platform for the presentation of our members’ cutting-edge research. On behalf of the BASEES committee, I wish you all a good conference! Professor Judith Pallot President, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies We are most grateful to our sponsors for their generous support. 2 Academic Conference Organiser: Dr Matthias Neumann (University of East Anglia)
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