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Dr Rachel Morley
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Associate Professor of Russian & Soviet Cinema & Culture. Co-Convenor of SSEES Cinema Research Group. Academic Director of Education. All @uclssees.
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🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks!
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July 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Congratulations to Stefan Lacny on winning the BASEES Prize for Best Scholarly Article for “Creating the Polish Enemy on the Soviet Screen, 1925–1939.” Also to Dr Natalia V. Parker, awarded the BASEES Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Well deserved!👏
July 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I'll be talking about the movement away from/towards regimes of belonging as an everyday security practice tomorrow at #iccees2025. Come say hi if you're around!
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July 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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"It is too easy, more than three years into this terrible war, to call to mind dinner parties, academic conferences, weddings, where memory folds and unfolds to admit a shadow, because someone who was there, and who should still be with us, has been killed."
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Guest, Host, Ghost
A Dinner Party in Kyiv
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July 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”
Women end up doing the academic housework
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April 5, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉
June 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Please join us for this PLEJ centre event with author Irena Brežná to hear more about her latest book 'The Thankless Foreigner' - an incisive novel on immigration and the search for integration and resistance.

🗓️ 11 June at 6.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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May 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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My brother Adam Hájek who is a Czech journalist came back on Wednesday from a ten day trip to Eastern Ukraine. In the podcast below for their paper (Idnes), they speak about what they learned beyond the articles.
I summarize key parts that were new to me - I learned lots.
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June 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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📚 Literatura — UIL’s most popular course — is back!
Dive into the world of Ukrainian literature and culture with this year’s exciting programme.
Enrol by 27 May to take advantage of our early bird discount!
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May 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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New Ukraine Shelf is out! Yuliya Musakovska and Maria Tumarkin joined us in front of a live audience in Lviv to discuss writing war and trauma, and the conversation was superb, don’t miss it! Find on youtube etc here: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
May 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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This Weds at 5:00 @ SSEES, Adelina Stefan, "Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain." All are welcome, register at the link.

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Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain
A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Adelina Stefan
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May 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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If you are around on Tuesday we are having a chat about the protests.
May 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Last week @okhromeychuk.bsky.social & I recorded our first Ukraine Shelf episode in Ukraine! Julia Musakovska & Maria Tumarkin joined us in Lviv to discuss war poetry, silence, the meaning of place, survival & more. Soon on youtube, soundcloud etc! Thanks @dovzhyk.bsky.social for the invitation!
May 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Over the last 22 months, @oksanadudko.bsky.social and I have been plotting this forum in @historyworkshop.org.uk
It offers input on decolonizing Eastern European history and how why we urgently need Eastern Europe when doing postcolonial history.
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Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation On Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice
Abstract. This forum brings together six historians of Eastern Europe who discuss decolonizing approaches. In the aftermath of the Russian genocidal war, t
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May 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Looking for something to listen to this long weekend? Tune into the latest Ukraine Shelf episode—this time on Eastern Ukraine, a region still too often misunderstood. @uilleamblacker.bsky.social and I speak with brilliant authors Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan. Link below.
April 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The Ukraine Shelf Episode 3: Eastern Ukraine with Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan
🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/NjoJ40hapDc

Produced in collaboration with @ukrinstitute.bsky.social, @uclssees.bsky.social, @uclei.bsky.social and @britishacademy.bsky.social.
Ukraine Shelf Episode 3: Eastern Ukraine with Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan
YouTube video by Ukrainian Institute London
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April 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Catch up with our new podcast on the best books on Ukraine! New episode on Ukraine’s east coming soon!
🎙 The Ukraine Shelf - now on YouTube & SoundCloud
A podcast on Ukraine’s history, culture & politics, hosted by Dr Olesya Khromeychuk & Dr Uilleam Blacker.

🎥 Ep 1: Crimea with Elmaz Asan & Rory Finnin
📖 Ep 2: Identity & Culture Under Attack with Dr Sasha Dovzhyk & Eugene Finkel
April 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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“Lilacs Blooming in the Botanical Garden” — a gorgeous painting by Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Sydoruk, 1984, Kyiv. See more paintings of spring by Ukrainian artists in this article: daryazorka.substack.com/p/defiant-sp...
April 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I’ll be speaking at Yale on 23 April and at Harvard on 24 April. If you’re in the area, it’d be lovely to see you in person. If not, the Harvard talk will be live-streamed. Details: www.huri.harvard.edu/event/olesya...
April 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.
Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professorship in Nineteenth-Century European History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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April 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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@uclhjs.bsky.social offers training in a variety of ancient and modern Jewish languages (for both students in our degree programs and continuing education students).

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Overlooking language skills ‘risks limiting the scope and impact of UK research’, new British Academy report finds
A new British Academy report highlights how multilingualism could strengthen the UK’s research, warning that language skills remain undervalued and underused in academia - despite a wealth of linguist...
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April 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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The Curriculum and Assessment review led by @beckyfrancis.bsky.social with IOE academics has published an interim report pinpointing the need for a more inclusive curriculum attuned to social and technological change, with supportive pathways to employment or further study.
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Curriculum and Assessment review led by IOE academics publishes interim findings | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society
The interim report identifies the need for a more inclusive curriculum attuned to social and technological change, and pathways beyond GCSE that support young people to further study and employment.
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April 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Overjoyed & beyond excited to share our new @jldhe.bsky.social Special Issue: Liberating Learning 🎉

Congrats to Martin Compton, Rebecca Lindner & team.

Hope, empathy & joy in #HigherEd Just what we need right now.

#UKHE #LTHEchat #AcademicSky #loveLD

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No. 35 (2025): Special Edition, Liberating Learning | Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
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March 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship)
University of Exeter - Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML369/l...
Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
Recruiting now: Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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March 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM