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UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is the UK’s largest national centre for research and teaching on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees
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Really looking forward to presenting 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 next Monday at UCL/SSEES! Thanks to @vkulikov.bsky.social for the initiative and to @eglerin.bsky.social & @robertsuits.bsky.social for agreeing to discuss my work. Join us if you happen to be in London

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uclssees.bsky.social UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 4d
What happens if we tell the history of the planetary emergency from the margins? Join us for this event with @kbruisch.bsky.social, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social to find out more.

🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
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Event poster for 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' with an image of the book cover. In-person event.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Tomorrow! Join us for this seminar with Anders Blomqvist to find out how #Sweden responded to the evolving 'Transylvanian Question' from the post–WWI settlement through the late communist period in #Romania.

🗓️ 11 November at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'Transylvania and Sweden: Contested Borders and Human Rights (1918–1995)' with a photo of a Man Riding Horse Sculpture in Romania.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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bloomsburypol.bsky.social
Book talk at @uclssees.bsky.social

📆 Thu 27 Nov 2025, 5:00-7:00pm
📍 Masaryk Room, 16 Taviton Street, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London WC1H 0BW
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Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan by Joanna Lillis
A SSEES Politics and Sociology seminar with journalist and author Joanna Lillis
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November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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What happens if we tell the history of the planetary emergency from the margins? Join us for this event with @kbruisch.bsky.social, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social to find out more.

🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s

@universitypress.cambridge.org
Event poster for 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' with an image of the book cover. In-person event.
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Join us on Monday for this SSEES Cinema Research seminar with Dr Alina Legeyda, who will explore Soviet and post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian films “set in the past but haunted by the present”.

🗓️ 10 November at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
The Representation and Re-Perspectivization of Stalinist Repressions in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film
A SSEES Cinema Research Group seminar with Dr Alina Legeyda, Newcastle University
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November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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We are pleased to invite you to this Politics and Sociology event with author @joannalillis.bsky.social. Please join us to hear about her new book 'Silk Mirage' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social.

🗓️ 27 November at 5pm
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Event poster for 'Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan by Joanna Lillis' with an image of the book cover.
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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🔊 One week until this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Aleksandra Andrejevic! Join us to hear more about war trauma among the 1990s Serbian emigrants to the United Kingdom.

🗓️ 12 November at 6pm
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Event poster for 'A Home Less Friendly: Exploring War Trauma Among the 1990s Serbian Emigrants to the United Kingdom'.
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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@dianakudaibergen.bsky.social’s book What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani?, that will be of interest to our RUTA research communities, will soon be launching at UCL in London. Congratulations! And a recommendation for our members in the UK to join the launch
uclssees.bsky.social UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 6d
Why is Kazakhstani nation-building so unusual? Please join us for the book launch of 'What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani?' (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) by @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social to find out more.

🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
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Event poster for 'What does it mean to be Kazakhstani?' with an image of the book cover.
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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dianakudaibergen.bsky.social
Oh [blushing], come along to my Book Launch as I’m in pain writing the next one 🤣🧿

It will be fun! 🤩
uclssees.bsky.social UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 6d
Why is Kazakhstani nation-building so unusual? Please join us for the book launch of 'What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani?' (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) by @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social to find out more.

🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'What does it mean to be Kazakhstani?' with an image of the book cover.
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Why is Kazakhstani nation-building so unusual? Please join us for the book launch of 'What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani?' (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) by @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social to find out more.

🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'What does it mean to be Kazakhstani?' with an image of the book cover.
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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What does it mean mean to write through war? Please join us for an evening with Ukrainian writer and war reporter Myroslav Laiuk, who will reflect on the challenges of representing violence and suffering.

Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.

🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
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Event poster for 'Writing Through War' with an image of the 'Bakhmut' book cover.
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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One week until this seminar with Anders Blomqvist! Join us to find out how #Sweden responded to the evolving 'Transylvanian Question' from the post–WWI settlement through the late communist period in #Romania.

🗓️ 11 November at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'Transylvania and Sweden: Contested Borders and Human Rights (1918–1995)' with a photo of a Man Riding Horse Sculpture in Romania.
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
uclssees.bsky.social
👏 SSEES student Sara Kapoor was chosen as a Millennium Fellow for 2024-25! Her project, EduBridge, is a solo initiative designed to make adequate literacy and conceptual understanding accessible to students in underprivileged and rural areas of India.

Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
November 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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uclssees.bsky.social UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 18d
We are pleased to invite you to this #PROLang roundtable event, which will examine the results of Romanian Presidential election, their causes and the consequences for politics and society in Romania and the Romanian diasporas.

🗓️ 25 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'Back from the brink or driving headlong into the chasm?' with an image of Romanian flag.
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Can Russia Remain a ‘Global Empire’ after the Post-Communist National Catastrophe?

Join us for this seminar with Prof. Vladimir Pastukhov to find out more. Please note this event will be delivered in Russian.

🗓️ 19 November at 4pm
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Can Russia Remain a ‘Global Empire’ after the Post-Communist National Catastrophe?
A SSEES Culture and Society in Modern Russia seminar with Prof. Vladimir Pastukhov. Please note this event will be delivered in Russian.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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TOMORROW!

Please join us for the Annual Celia Hawkesworth Lecture with
Ruža Fotiadis, who will discuss transport, transformation and living technologies in Southeast Europe.

Book for free: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
uclssees.bsky.social UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 13d
🔊 One week until the Annual Celia Hawkesworth Lecture, co-organised by @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social and the British Scholarship Trust.

This year's speaker, Dr Ruža Fotiadis, will look at donkeys and mules as indispensable draft animals in the Balkans.

🗓️ 4 November at 6pm
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Event poster for 'On Donkey Trails into the Modern Age' with a photo of an old woman with a donkey.
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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dianakudaibergen.bsky.social
The talk by Dr Anton Shekhovtsov at the Politics & Sociology Seminar Series tonight at @uclssees.bsky.social!

Chaired by Prof Andrew Wilson.

Please check out SSEES Politics&Sociology Seminar Series for more updates and many exciting talks this and next term! open and free for all.
October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
uclssees.bsky.social
Please join us for this SSEES Cinema Research seminar with Dr Alina Legeyda, who will explore Soviet and post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian films “set in the past but haunted by the present”.

🗓️ 10 November at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@rachelmorley.bsky.social
The Representation and Re-Perspectivization of Stalinist Repressions in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film
A SSEES Cinema Research Group seminar with Dr Alina Legeyda, Newcastle University
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
uclssees.bsky.social
Please join us for this #PROLang roundtable event, which will examine the results of Romanian Presidential election, their causes and the consequences for politics and society in Romania and the Romanian diasporas.

🗓️ 25 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'Back from the brink or driving headlong into the chasm?' with an image of Romanian flag.
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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themhra.bsky.social
Lovely event in London last week to celebrate the launch of Jewelled Tortoise vol. 11, the first English translation of Finnish novel Mirdja.
Translator & editor pictured here, along with Stefano Evangelista, one of the General Editors of the series. Thanks to @uclssees.bsky.social for hosting!
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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artshumsucl.bsky.social
📚 Meet Riya – BA History, Politics and Economics student at @uclssees.bsky.social

As UCL prepares to visit Mumbai, Bangalore, and New Delhi next week, Riya’s story is a great insight for anyone in India thinking about applying to UCL.

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October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Aleksandra Andrejevic, who will explore war trauma among the 1990s Serbian emigrants to the United Kingdom using creative writing as research.

🗓️ 12 November at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for 'A Home Less Friendly: Exploring War Trauma Among the 1990s Serbian Emigrants to the United Kingdom'.
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Earlier this week, SSEES staff gathered for the unveiling of a portrait of our late colleague, Dr Philippa Hetherington. Philippa was a historian and much-loved colleague, teacher and friend. The portrait now stands as a tribute to her scholarship, warmth, and enduring presence at UCL SSEES.
Colleagues gathered around the portrait of our late colleague Dr Philippa Hetherington on 29 October 2025. The portrait was unveiled by Philippa's husband, Dr Alessandro Iandolo.
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Join us for a building tour at SSEES every Wednesday between 2–5pm! Explore our facilities and learn more about student life with the help of our dedicated student ambassadors.

Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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There's still time to register for today's book launch of 'Population Ageing: Populism, Pronatalism, and the Politics of Care' @uclpress.bsky.social.

Register for free: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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uclssees.bsky.social UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 14d
Please join us on Wednesday for the book launch of 'Global Responses to Population Ageing: Populism, Pronatalism, and the Politics of Care' @uclpress.bsky.social by Dr Anna Shadrina.

🗓️ 29 October at 6.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Event poster for 'Global Responses to Population Ageing: Populism, Pronatalism, and the Politics of Care' with an image of the book cover.
October 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM