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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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📢We are thrilled to announce our Graduate Open Evening 2026!

📆28 January 2026, 5:30-7:30pm
📌UCL SSEES Masaryk Common Room, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW

🎓Join us and meet our Admissions Tutors and academic colleagues from across our subject areas!

Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
How is Donald Trump’s second administration reshaping great-power relations and the wider international order?

Please join us on 5 February to hear from the leading analysts of world politics @giuliasciorati.bsky.social, Dr Bobo Lo and @markgaleotti.bsky.social.

➡️ Open to all: buff.ly/EbzmOkz
January 19, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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The Uneven Triangle: The US, China, and Russia in the Era of Trump 2.0
On 5 Feb., I'll be joining Bobo Lo and @giuliasciorati.bsky.social at @uclssees.bsky.social to talk about...well, what the title says! Do join us. (Free, but booking required)
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The Uneven Triangle: The US, China, and Russia in the Era of Trump 2.0
A SSEES Politics and Sociology panel discussion
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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Two days of the intense inspiring discussions at the Global Informality in the Arts conference. And a chance to catch up with friends. it was good and most importantly a team effort! @uclssees.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Discover the stories of Italian Holocaust Survivors returning home after liberation, & the challenges they faced in rebuilding their lives

Join UCL’s Lunch Hour Lecture on 27 January to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day with Dr Anna Koch (UCL SSEES)

Book now: buff.ly/RrGBlpY
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January 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Join us for this keynote with Anne Lajla Utsi, who will explore how cinema has become a powerful tool for narrative sovereignty in the #Sámi community. Through film, Sámi filmmakers are now challenging historical misrepresentation.

🗓️ 28 January at 5pm
📍 UCL Archaeology
➡️ buff.ly/4ENaKZA
January 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM
🎥 Join us for the SSEES Cinema Research Group seminar with Dr Caroline Damiens, who will explore how the depictions of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in #Soviet cinema and television evolved between 1920 and 1980.

🗓️ 26 January at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
January 16, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Brilliant day in London at Pushkin House at the Global Informality Project conference exploring informality in art, creative practices, labour and production organised with @uclssees.bsky.social
Great panels, networking and catching up with CEE peers.
January 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM
🎬 SSEES Film Festival!

Vol 1: "Resistance" will bring a powerful lineup of films that explore courage, resilience and the fight for change. Screenings are free and open to all.

🗓️ 25 Feb - 25 March
📍 UCL Main campus
➡️ Register for free: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
January 14, 2026 at 3:30 PM
🔊 Bracewell Travelling Scholarship 

The Bracewell Travelling Scholarship is funded by a gift from SSEES Emeritus Professor of History Wendy Bracewell, whose research examines South Slav history, and travel writing in eastern Europe.

🗓️ Deadline: 30 April
➡️ Apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
January 14, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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On 5th of February, the Politics&Society Seminar series along with the Postsoviet Press Group at @uclssees.bsky.social are co-organising this event on US, China &Russia with Bobo Lo, Mark Galleoti, Giuilia Scorati, chaired by Dr Aglaya Snetkov.

Please register below:
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
The Uneven Triangle: The US, China, and Russia in the Era of Trump 2.0
A SSEES Politics and Sociology panel discussion
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Tomorrow at the Postsoviet Press Group (at SSEES), we are in conversation with Prof Mark Lipovetsky at Masaryk Room 1-3 pm on contemporary political tricksters. Come along and please share with your students!

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January 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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@uclssees.bsky.social, Prof Alena Ledeneva and Pushkin House are organising a conference on "Global Informality in the Arts" this Thu-Fri. Yours truly is involved & chairing the Friday morning session on Protest Art.

Please come along and register here:

www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit....
Global Informality in the Arts
The Global Informality Project conference will examine informality in artistic media, practices, creative labour, and cultural production.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 4:36 PM
🎥 Film screening!

Join us for the UK premiere of the documentary Duj Džene – Ketten – Two Together (2025), which explores the collaboration between #Roma and non-Roma citizens of a post-industrial small town in #Hungary.

🗓️ 28 January at 6.30pm
📍 UCL Bloomsbury
➡️ Book for free: buff.ly/LZtKpCw
January 13, 2026 at 1:26 PM
🔊 PLEJ Grant!

The award will cover project costs or fieldwork costs up to £500.

Two grants can be awarded this round.

The funds need to be spent by 30 June 2026.

To be eligible you have to be a registered MA / PhD student at UCL.

🗓️ Deadline: 1 Feb
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
January 13, 2026 at 11:52 AM
🔊 Last few tickets left!

Please join us tomorrow to hear more about Jakup Azemi's 'The Making of Modern Kosovo'.

➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Join us next week for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Jakup Azemi and @aidanhehir.bsky.social to hear more about Dr Azemi's book 'The Making of Modern Kosovo' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social.

Chaired by @ericgordy.bsky.social.

🗓️ 14 January at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/hyroD5U
January 13, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Please join us for this keynote with Anne Lajla Utsi, managing director of the International Sámi Film Institute, who will explore how cinema has become a powerful tool for narrative sovereignty in the Sámi community.

🗓️ 28 January at 5pm
📍 UCL Bloomsbury
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
January 12, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social with Prof. Cathie Carmichael, who will examine the Habsburg garrison complex in Trebinje, and discuss the downfall of #Habsburg military power in 1918.

🗓️ 21 January at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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January 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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First ProLang event for 2026! All welcome, especially students. Please repost. Thank you.
Join us for this special event organised by our undergraduate students, who will reflect on the conclusions of the UCL Changemakers project on heritage languages, identities, communities and stereotypes.

🗓️ 20 January at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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@artshumsucl.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Join us for this special event organised by our undergraduate students, who will reflect on the conclusions of the UCL Changemakers project on heritage languages, identities, communities and stereotypes.

🗓️ 20 January at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@artshumsucl.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Ready to take the next step? ✨ Our UCL Arts & Humanities Graduate Open Events continue this January:
14 Jan – LIS MA/PG Dip
14 Jan – Archives & Records Mgmt
15 Jan – Creative Health
27 Jan – Knowledge, Info & Data Science
28 Jan – SSEES (in person)

Register: buff.ly/KRShMq4
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January 8, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Why were characters of dubious moral character, with obvious criminal tendencies, more popular in Soviet culture than heroes? Join us for this seminar with Prof. Mark Lipovetsky to find out more. Please note this talk will be delivered in Russian.

🗓️ 14 January at 4pm
📍 UCL SSEES
buff.ly/X6QBTNO
Trickster in Soviet Culture / Трикстер в советской культуре
A SSEES Culture and Society in Modern Russia seminar with Professor Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University). Please note this event will be delivered in Russian.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Please join us for this Holocaust Memorial Day Lunch Hour Lecture with @annakoch.bsky.social to hear more about the return journeys of Italian Jews who survived the camps in Eastern Europe and travelled across countries devastated by war.

🗓️ 27 January, 1.30pm
📍 Online
www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...
Holocaust Memorial Day Lunch Hour Lecture - A Long Road: Italian Holocaust Survivors’ Journeys Home
Join us for this Lunch Hour Lecture with Anna Koch, DAAD Francis Carsten Lecturer in Modern German History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Join the UCL SSEES Graduate Open Evening to learn about MA/MRes/PhD programmes, funding and careers. Open to all. Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
January 6, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Join us next week for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Jakup Azemi and @aidanhehir.bsky.social to hear more about Dr Azemi's book 'The Making of Modern Kosovo' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social.

Chaired by @ericgordy.bsky.social.

🗓️ 14 January at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/hyroD5U
January 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Jakup Azemi and @aidanhehir.bsky.social to hear more about Dr Azemi's book 'The Making of Modern Kosovo' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social.

Chaired by @ericgordy.bsky.social.

🗓️ 14 January at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM