Slavonic Studies

History is a rehearsal of the future: How Russia’s past defines its perspectives and how it still can change

Mikhail Zygar, journalist, writer, and filmmaker.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Dostoevsky, Sechenov and reflexes of the brain: to a stylistic genealogy of Notes from Underground

Dr Aleksei Vdovin (HSE, Moscow).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Plots against Russia: Conspiracy, Sincerity, and Propaganda

Prof Eliot Borenstein (Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Tolstoy, Gender, and the Family

Ani Kokobobo (University of Kansas) and Anna Berman (McGill University).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-18:00

Slavonic Studies

Russia's Libertine Century: Trediakovskii's 'Voyage to the Island of Love' and Cultural Change from Peter I to Catherine II

Igor Fedyukin, National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

The Absolute Faker: The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Con Man in the Land of the Capitalists

Prof Ilya Vinitsky.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

What Is Little Russian Literature?

Assoc. Prof. Robert Romanchuk, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University; Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

The Hughesovka Research Archive: A Donbass Symphony

Dr Victoria Donovan, St Andrews.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Warsaw Rising Museum

Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cambridge-polish-studies-7892179226

Dr Paweł Ukielski.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Monday 21 May 2018, 18:00-20:00

German Society Speaker Events

Bernd Westermeyer: ‘Schule Schloss Salem and Kurt Hahn’s Educational Legacy – Outdated or Model for the 21st Century?’

Bernd Westermeyer.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 17:30-19:00

German Society Speaker Events

Wolfgang Silbermann: 'Challenging Times for German Democracy – and why You should get engaged!'

Wolfgang Silbermann, Head Speechwriter for the President of Germany.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Monday 30 April 2018, 17:30-19:00

German Society Speaker Events

Berndt Hauptkorn: 'The Business of Luxury'

Dr Berndt Hauptkorn, President of CHANEL Europe.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 17:30-19:00

German Society Speaker Events

Martin Roth: »Widerrede!«

Mascha Roth.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Monday 12 February 2018, 17:30-19:00

German Society Speaker Events

Dusky Paradise - Film Screening and Director Q&A

Gregory Kirchhoff, Director.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 20:00-23:00

German Society Speaker Events

Johann Lafer: 'Von Koch zur Marke'

Johann Lafer.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Monday 15 May 2017, 17:30-19:00

German Society Speaker Events

Dr Marcus Wachtmeister (BMW Group): 'Electrification and Data: Challenges to the Automotive Sector'

Dr Marcus Wachtmeister, Head of Government Affairs for BMW Group UK.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Friday 05 May 2017, 18:15-19:15

German Society Speaker Events

Michael Grosse-Brömer: “Zwischen Trump, Brexit und Bundestagswahl: Deutschland und Europa im Wahljahr 2017”

Michael Grosse-Brömer, Chief Whip of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 18:30-19:45

German Society Speaker Events

Dr Martin Roth: ‘Total Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st-Century Museum’

Dr Martin Roth.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 17:30-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Eisenstein's Ivan: Sensory Thinking from Machiavelli to Disney

Coffee and tea available from 16.45

Professor Joan Neuberger (Austin, Texas) .

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

Slavonic Studies

Eisenstein's Ivan: Sensory Thinking from Machiavelli to Disney

Professor Joan Neuberger, Austin, Texas.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Newspapers, Readers and the “Managed Public Sphere” during the Soviet Sixties

Coffee and tea available from 16.45

Dr Simon Huxtable (Loughborough) .

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Slavonic Studies

Making News Soviet: Changing Visions of Soviet Information after Stalin, 1953-1970

Dr Simon Huxtable, Loughborough.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Makeshift Modernity: DIY, Craft and the Virtuous Homemaker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960s

Coffee and tea available from 16.45

Professor Susan Reid (Sheffield) .

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Slavonic Studies

Makeshift Modernity: DIY, Craft and the Virtuous Homemaker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960s

Professor Susan Reid, Sheffield.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Listening Out: Cold War Radio and the Soviet Audience

Coffee and tea available from 16.45

Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (UCL).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 20 January 2015, 17:00-19:00

Slavonic Studies

Listening Out: Cold War Radio and the Soviet Audience

For more details about the Russian and Soviet mass culture seminars CamCREES is running this term, please visit: http://www.camcrees.group.cam.ac.uk/diary.html

Dr Kristin Roth-Ey, UCL.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 20 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

The Construction of Authority in Early Russian Crime Fiction

Coffee and tea available from 16.45

Dr Claire Whitehead (St. Andrews).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

‘“Rivers of Blood”: Illustrating Violence and Virtue in Russia’s Early Modern Empire

Coffee and tea available from 16.45

Professor Valerie Kivelson (Michigan).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

The Persistence of the Eighteenth Century: a Book Presentation of 'The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination'

Coffee and tea available from 16.45

Professor Luba Golburt (UC Berkeley).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Modeling Moscow: Life, Architecture, and the Composite Shot in Soviet Films of the 1930s

Coffee and tea available from 16.45

Professor Anne Nesbet (UC Berkeley).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 17:00-19:00

Slavonic Film and Media Studies

MODELING MOSCOW: LIFE, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE COMPOSITE SHOT IN SOVIET FILMS OF THE 1930S

Professor Anne Nesbet, University of California, Berkeley.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

CamCREES Postgrad Networking Party

Speaker to be confirmed.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Friday 10 October 2014, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Dovzhenko/Manchevski: Silence, Speech, and the Gaze

Coffee and tea available from 4:45pm

Gruia Badescu, Elena Tchougounova-Paulson, Tanya Zaharchenko (Cambridge).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Anthropology in the Russian Language : A Panel Discussion

Coffee and tea available from 4:45pm

Mette High (Edinburgh); Caroline Humphrey, Tatiana Safonova, Istvan Santha, Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Cambridge).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 04 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

'A Poet and Bin Laden', or Islamic Militancy in Central Asia and Afghanistan

Coffee and tea available from 4:45pm

Hamid Ismailov (BBC World's Writer in Residence) .

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Tolstoy, Chekhov, and the Music of Russian Prose

Tea and coffee from 4.45

Rosamund Bartlett (University of Oxford).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Tolstoy's 'About Mushrooms'

Tea and coffee from 4.45

Robin Feuer Miller (Brandeis University/University of Oxford).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Of Men and their Demons: Masculinity in Dostoevskii's Besy

Tea and coffee from 4.45

Connor Doak (University of Bristol).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 29 October 2013, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

CamCREES annual networking party

n/a.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Friday 11 October 2013, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

The riddle of space : the history of Russia's social geography

Coffee and tea are available from 4:45pm

Tony Wood (New Left Review).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Russia : the Mafia State

Coffee and tea are available from 4:45pm

Luke Harding (The Guardian).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

The Political Challenges of an Oil Boom: Resource Curses and Resource Blessings in Post-Soviet Countries

Coffee and tea are available from 4:45pm

Heiko Pleines (Centre for East European Studies, Bremen).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Moskvachylyk: On the Ethics of "Illegality" in Migrant Moscow

Coffee and tea are available from 4:45pm

Madeleine Reeves (University of Manchester).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Ukrainian Studies Lecture Series

'Ukraine's Education Policy under a Foucauldian Gaze'

Olena Fim'yar (Freie Universität Berlin).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Ukraine's Education Policy under a Foucauldian Gaze

Coffee and tea are available from 4:45pm

Olena Fim'yar (Freie Universität Berlin).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Ukrainian, Russian, and Rusyn on the Western Periphery

Tea and coffee available from 16:45

Professor Michael Moser (University of Vienna; Ukrainian Free University, Munich).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Soviet Novel vs Soviet Reality, from Platonov to Aitmatov

Tea and coffee available from 16:45

Hamid Ismailov (Writer, journalist, BBC World Service writer-in-residence).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

The Legacy of Socialism on Ukrainian Political Culture

Tea and coffee available from 16:45

Professor Olga Kutsenko (Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

What Is Russian Orientalism?

Tea and coffee available from 16:45

Professor David Schimmelpenninck (Brock University, Canada).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

The Performing Arts in Revolutionary Russia

Tea and coffee available from 16:45

Paul de Quenoy (American University of Beirut).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History

Tea and coffee available from 16:45

Rachel Polonsky (Cambridge).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Reconsidering the "Third Rome": The Origin of Russian Messianism in the Work of Nikolai Berdiaev

Tea and coffee available from 16:45

Ana Siljak (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

The Volga Boatmen: People and Pictures

Tea and coffee available from 16:45

Guido Hausmann (Universität Freiburg).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Cage in the USSR

Tea and coffee available from 4.45

Bill Quillen (Clare College, Cambridge).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Street Kids Charity Mkurnali: A Microcosm of the Disappearing World of Caucasian Traditional Society

Tea and coffee available from 4.45

Tamara Dragadze (Former Fellow, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Liberalism, Populism, and Nationalism among the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Clergy of Austrian Galicia: The Case of Father Mykhailo Zubryts'kyi (1856-1919)

Tea and coffee available from 4.45

Frank Sysyn (Director of the Peter Jackyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta; Professor of History, University of Alberta).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

Baha'i Awareness Week

Building a Global Civilisation

Arjun Kingdon.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Friday 14 November 2008, 18:30-19:30

Baha'i Awareness Week

Can Science and Religion be Reconciled?

Dr Roger Kingdon.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 20:30-21:30

Baha'i Awareness Week

Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change

Dr Silvia Karlsson.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 20:30-21:30

Baha'i Awareness Week

The Dawn of a New Day

Nabil Wilf.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 20:30-21:30

Baha'i Awareness Week

What is the Baha'i Faith?

Ms Saba Hinrichs.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Monday 10 November 2008, 20:30-21:30

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

Sound and Film Workshop

Amy Chesterton, Kelly Neaves, Chloe Stockford.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University International Development (CUID)

U8 Information Evening

U8 - Global Student Partnership for Development.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 19:00-21:00

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

New Scientist talk by Graham Lawton

Graham Lawton - New Scientist.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 19:00-20:00

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

Recognising Persons by their Iris Patterns: Technology, Anonymity, and the Liberal State [BlueSci / CUSP]

Professor John Daugman (OBE).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 19:00-20:00

CSLB - SPARC joint workshop

Understanding the ageing brain: linking cognitive and neural change across the lifespan

The workshop is free but attendees must register

Prof Lorraine K Tyler, Prof Peter Lansley, Dr Paul Fletcher, Dr Alexa Morcom, Dr Meredith Shafto, Prof Lawrence Whalley, Dr Rebecca Charlton, Dr Tom Barrick, Prof Hugh Markus, Prof Robin Morris, Dr Emmanuel Stamatakis, Prof Zoe Kourtzi, Ms Christina Mouts.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 26 September 2007, 09:45-16:30

Clare Politics

Matthew D'Ancona at Clare Politics

Room changed

Matthew D'Ancona, The Spectator.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Monday 26 February 2007, 20:30-22:00

Clare Politics

Andrew Turnbull at Clare Politics

Note unusual time

Andrew Turnbull.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 22 February 2007, 18:00-19:00

Clare Politics

James Naughtie at Clare Politics

Canceled

James Naughtie.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 15 February 2007, 20:30-22:00

Clare Politics

Fiona Millar at Clare Politics

Please note date change

Fiona Millar.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Monday 05 February 2007, 20:30-22:00

Clare Politics

Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 28 November 2006, 20:30-22:00

Clare Politics

Anthony Seldon

Anthony Seldon, Wellington College.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Sunday 19 November 2006, 20:30-22:00

Clare Politics

Peter Lilley - Why isn't poverty history (after $1 trillion of aid)?

Peter Lilley, MP.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 16 November 2006, 20:30-22:00

Clare Politics

Trevor Phillips

Trevor Phillips, Commission for Racial Equality.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Monday 13 November 2006, 20:30-22:00

Clare Politics

Douglas Hurd

Douglas Hurd.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Tuesday 07 November 2006, 20:30-22:00

Clare Politics

Bob Marshall-Andrews

Bob Marshall Andrews, MP.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 26 October 2006, 20:30-22:00

Clare Politics

Philip Cowley

Philip Cowley, Nottingham University.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Monday 16 October 2006, 20:30-22:00

Clare Politics

Matthew Parris

Matthew Parris, The Times.

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Wednesday 11 October 2006, 20:30-22:00