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2017 Spring Programme 2016-2017 Autumn Programme 2017 Spring Programme 9 January 2017 6-8pm, Elizabeth White (University of the West of England):"Russian Room 433, UCL SSEES Refugee Children and Humanitarianism in Inter-War Europe" 8 February 2017 Aleksandar Levashov: ’In memory of Josef Brodsky’ 4.15-6pm 'Культура и общество современной России' mini- Room 432, UCL SSEES series 'Post-Soviet Rock Music: Politics and Aesthetics' ('Пост- 22 February 2017 советская рок-музыка: политика и эстетика') 4pm-6pm Room 347, UCL SSEES 'Культура и общество современной России' mini- series 6 March 2017 Andy Willimott (Reading): Book Talk 'Living the Revolution: 6-8pm, Urban Communes and Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932' Room 433, UCL SSEES Oxford University Press, 2017 24 April 2017 6-8pm, Geoffrey Hosking (UCL SSEES). 'The Communist who Drayton House B06, UCL, undermined Communism: Alexander Tvardovskii in post- 30 Gordon Street, London, Stalinist Russia.’ WC1H 0AX 8 May 2017 Anatoly Pinsky (EUSPb): 'A Soviet Union: The Personal 6-8pm, Correspondence of Stalin-Era Graduate Students in Love, Room TBC, UCL SSEES 1945-1953' 2016-2017 Autumn Programme 7-8 October 2016 7 Oct: 1-5pm Common Ground, Borders of Bio-politics: Gender, Population and Power in UCL IAS, Wilkins Building Modern Russia South Wing 'Modern Russian History' mini-series 8 Oct: 10-5pm Room 433, UCL SSEES Contemporary Russian writers: A conversation 24 October 2016 with Aleksandr Snegirev, Elena Chizhova and Igor 6-8pm Shaitanov. Room 433, UCL SSEES 'Культура и общество современной России' mini- series 28 October 2016 Dr. William E. Pomeranz: 'The Provisional Government’s 5-7pm Legal Experiment in 1917' Room 432, UCL SSEES Sarah Badcock (University of Nottingham)- 31 October 2016 'Experiencing Siberian exile in late Imperial Russia’ 6-8pm 'Modern Russian History' mini-series Room 433, UCL SSEES “Decommunisation" and the Reshaping of National 1 November 2016 Memory in Ukraine and Beyond 6-8pm Panel Discussion co-organized by the Ukrainian Room 347, UCL SSEES Institute, London and UCL SSEES Special Colloquium mini-series Anna Gorsuch (University of British Columbia)- Sex, 14 November 2016 Race, and Revolution: Cuba in Soviet Imagination and 6-8pm Memory Room 433, UCL SSEES 'Modern Russian History' mini-series Dr Svetlana Stephenson 'Gangs of Russia, From the 30 November 2016 Streets to the Corridors of Power' 4-6pm UCL Gordon Street (25) 'Культура и общество современной России' mini- Maths 500 series Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston). Book talk- 'The Power of 5 December 2016 Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold 6.30-8PM War World' Room 433, UCL SSEES 'Modern Russian History' mini-series 2015-16 Spring Programme 11 January Room 432 - Probing the Heart and Mind of the Viewer: Scientific Studies of Film and Theatre Audiences in the Soviet Union, 1917-1938 Anna Toropova (Cambridge) CO-HOSTED WITH RUSSIAN CINEMA RESEARCH GROUP 25 January Room 432 - ‘His Majesty the Working Class’: Iurii Klepikov and Vitalii Mel’nikov’s Mother’s Got Married, Lenfil’m, and the Aesthetics of ‘Contemporary Life’ in the Soviet Cinema, 1961-1970 Catriona Kelly (Oxford) CO-HOSTED WITH RUSSIAN CINEMA RESEARCH GROUP Thursday 4 February G21 Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Christopher Ingold building, 20 Gordon Street - The Maisky Diaries: Revelations of Stalin’s emissary to London Gabriel Gorodetsky (Quondam Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford) 8 February Room 433 - Cartography and Cultural Revolution: Maps, Modernity and the New Soviet Man Nick Baron (Nottingham) 22 February Room 433 - Between Istanbul and Sevastopol: A Tale of Plunder, Bureaucracy, and Betrayal, 1806-1856 Julia Leikin (UCL SSEES) 7 March Room 433 - Life and Love of the Gerla: In Search of the Female Soviet Hippie Juliane Fürst (Bristol) Thursday 10 March Room 432 & the Masaryk SCR - Self-censorship in modern Russia: Special lecture and poetry reading with Russian poet and critic Tatiana Shcherbina Tatiana Shcherbina 21 March Room 433 - From Censorship to Self-criticism: Debating Socialist Realism at the Moscow Union of Artists (MOSKh) in the 1930's Maria Mileeva (The Courtauld Institute of Art) Tuesday 3 May Masaryk SCR - Inner Eurasia from Khan Mongke to Putin David Christian (Macquarie University Australia) 2015-16 Autumn Programme Modern Russian History Seminars: This is an advanced seminar series supported by the UCL SSEES Centre for Russian Studies and the London School of Economics Wednesday 8 October 2015 6pm - 8pm - 'Stalin’s Team in the Great Purges: Perpetrators and Potential Victims' and launch of her book, On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Sydney and University of Chicago) Monday 19 October 2015 6:30pm - 8pm - Socialism’s Low-Price Guarantee: Late Stalinism and the Retail Economy, 1945-1954 Kristy Ironside (University of Manchester) Monday 26 October 2015 6pm - 8pm - Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet Music and Imperial Competition during the Early Cold War, 1945-1958 Kiril Tomoff (University of California, Riverside) Monday 2 November 2015 6pm - 8pm - The Amerikan Steppe: Influences from Russia and Ukraine on the Great Plains, 1870s-1930's David Moon (University of York) Monday 16 November 2015 6pm - 8pm - Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia Alfred Rieber (CEU) Monday 30 November 2015 6pm - 8pm - Roses in the desert: Environmental change and the image-world of late imperial Central Asia Jennifer Keating (Institute for Historical Research, London) Wednesday 16 December 2015 6pm - 8pm - Taxes and Happiness: How Fiscal Reform Made Taxes Less Burdensome but More Creepy in Russia, Europe, and North America since the Eighteenth Century Yanni Kotsonis (NYU) 2014-15 Spring Programme Modern Russian History Seminars: This is an advanced seminar series supported by the UCL SSEES Centre for Russian Studies and the London School of Economics 2 February 2015, 6pm, UCL SSEES Room 433 - ‘Woe to the Vanquished!’ Siberian Exile as Revolutionary Battleground, 1880-1905 - Daniel Beer (Royal Holloway) 23 February 2015, 6pm, UCL SSEES Room 433 - The Florida and California of the Soviet Union’: Sochi and the Invention of the Soviet Subtropics - Johanna Conterio (Birkbeck) 2 March 2015, 6pm, UCL SSEES Room 347 - Russia’s Wounded During The First World War: Medicine and Politics - Peter Waldron (University of East Anglia) 23 March 2015, 6pm, UCL SSEES Room 433 - There Is Indifference and No Little Apathy’: The Culture and Practices of the Soviet Censorship Agency - Samantha Sherry (University of Oxford) 8 May 2015, 6pm, UCL SSEES Room 433 Yanni Kotsonis (New York University) Autumn Term 2014 6 October 2014, Room 431, SSEES Prof Vsevolod Bagno, Director of Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg will speak IN RUSSIAN on "Англия и русско-английские литературные и культурные связи в собраниях Пушкинского Дома" ('England and Russo-English Literary and Cultural Links in the Collections of Pushkin House'). 6 October 2014 6pm, Room 433, SSEES Modern Russian History Seminar Conservatives or Radicals? 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Miraculous Icons and Bolshevik Power Steve Smith (Oxford) 10 November 2014 6pm, Room 433, SSEES Reinventing Revolutionary Lives: Writing and Reading biography in late socialism Polly Jones (Oxford) 24 November 2014 5:15pm, Room 433, SSEES Listening Out: Cold War Radio and the Soviet Audience Kristin Roth-Ey (SSEES) 1 December 2014, room 433, SSEES Clandestine Emigration and the Trafficked Subject in Late Imperial Russia Philippa Hetherington (Sydney) Spring Term 2014 14 May 2014 - Playing the ‘Great Game’ in the 1920s: Soviet-Indian Cultural Interactions Professor Katerina Clark (Yale) 9 May 2014 - Revisiting Ivan Fedorov's Legacy in Early Modern Europe - An International Conference The 450th Anniversary of Ivan Fedorov's Acts and Epistles (Apostol) and the 440th Anniversary of His Primer (Azbuka) On 9 May 2014, the CRS commemorated the sixteenth-century origins of printing in Russia and Ukraine with a conference at the British Library organized by Sergei Bogatyrev (UCL SSEES) and Katia Rogatchevskaia (British Library). Focusing on the activities of Ivan Fedorov in their international context, 'Revisiting Ivan Fedorov's legacy in early-modern Europe' was supported by SSEES, CEELBAS, UCL European Institute and UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchange. > Watch highlights from the conference on the SSEES YouTube channel 24 March 2014 - Clemency in the boudoir: Theatre and the making of imperial myths in eighteenth-century Russia Alexei Evstratov (Oxford) 3 February 2014 - The Limitations of Autocratic Power: Nicholas I and the Old Believers Tom Marsden (UCL SSEES) 27 January 2014 - Living the Revolution: the urban communes of early Soviet Russia Andy Willimott (UCL SSEES) Spring Term 2013 4 March 2013 - The Orthodox Church in the New Russia: A Force for Political Democratization? 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