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The intellectual vitality of the Department of Slavonic Studies is particularly evident in the fields of Pre-Modern East Slavic culture; Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries; Slavonic Linguistics; Nationalism Studies; Film and Visual Culture; Memory Studies; and Russian Imperial and Soviet History. It is home to a dynamic annual programme of public lectures, research seminars, conferences and exhibitions. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Olga Plociennniczak; so389; rm983. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 135 talks in the archive. KURBAS: 1920s Avant-garde Theatre in Ukraine, The Ninth Annual Cambridge Vsesvit EveningVirlana Tkacz (NYC) and Waldemart Klyuzko (Kyiv). Ramsden Room, St Catherine’s College. Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:30-19:00 History is a rehearsal of the future: How Russia’s past defines its perspectives and how it still can changeMikhail Zygar, journalist, writer, and filmmaker. Tuesday 30 April 2019, 17:00-18:30 Inspiring Social Transformation - From Soviet Decay to a National Health Service for UkraineDr Uliana Suprun (Acting Minister of Health Care of Ukraine). Peterhouse Theatre, Peterhouse College. Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-19:00 Dostoevsky, Sechenov and reflexes of the brain: to a stylistic genealogy of Notes from UndergroundDr Aleksei Vdovin (HSE, Moscow). Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30 Plots against Russia: Conspiracy, Sincerity, and PropagandaProf Eliot Borenstein (Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University). Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-18:30 Tolstoy, Gender, and the FamilyAni Kokobobo (University of Kansas) and Anna Berman (McGill University). Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-18:00 Special event for 100 years since the regaining of Polish independenceSpeaker to be confirmed. Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:00-20:00 Russia's Libertine Century: Trediakovskii's 'Voyage to the Island of Love' and Cultural Change from Peter I to Catherine IIIgor Fedyukin, National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Tuesday 13 November 2018, 17:00-18:30 The Absolute Faker: The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Con Man in the Land of the CapitalistsProf Ilya Vinitsky. Thursday 08 November 2018, 17:00-18:30 Third Annual Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavonic Studies - The Old Slavonic Digenis Akritis: Its Origin, ‘Formulaic Style,’ and Problems of Its EditionThe event is free but online registration is required. Register at www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org by 22 October, 2018 Assoc. Prof. Robert Romanchuk, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University; Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street. Friday 02 November 2018, 11:00-15:00 Third Annual Public Lecture in Medieval & Early Modern Slavonic Studies: A Twelfth-Century Slavonic Ekphrasis of Hippodrome Scenes in the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv?Assoc. Prof. Robert Romanchuk, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University; Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Visiting Asst. Prof. Brad Hostetler, Dept. of Art History, Kenyon College. Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, Room SG2 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT. Wednesday 31 October 2018, 17:00-18:30 What Is Little Russian Literature?Assoc. Prof. Robert Romanchuk, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University; Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Tuesday 30 October 2018, 17:00-18:30 Engaging Multilinguality: Language, Identity and National Cohesion in UkrainePlease register (free) via www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org Speaker to be confirmed. The Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Friday 19 October 2018, 09:00-17:00 Envisioning other Russias: artist talk and conversation with Victoria LomaskoVictoria Lomasko (Artist, Winner of the Kandinsky Prize) . Lecturers' Common Room, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site. Thursday 18 October 2018, 11:00-12:30 The Hughesovka Research Archive: A Donbass SymphonyDr Victoria Donovan, St Andrews. Tuesday 16 October 2018, 17:00-18:30 Warsaw Rising MuseumPlease register at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cambridge-polish-studies-7892179226 Dr Paweł Ukielski. Monday 21 May 2018, 18:00-20:00 The Eight Annual Cambridge Vsesvit Evening: MaklenaPlease sign up for a free ticket at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maklena-the-8th-annual-cambridge-vsesvit-evening-tickets-45800135438 Night Train Theatre Company. The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street. Thursday 10 May 2018, 18:00-20:00 Studying Jews in Ukraine: Conceptual ChallengesProfessor Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto. Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Friday 04 May 2018, 17:30-19:30 The 8th Annual Cambridge Vsesvit Evening: MaklenaSpeaker to be confirmed. The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street. Monday 23 April 2018, 17:30-19:30 Revolution and Literature: Volodymyr Vynnychenko's Responses to the Ukrainian Revolution of 1918-1920Dr Tamara Hundorova, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine. Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 08 March 2018, 17:30-19:00 Brest-Litovsk and the Making of Modern Ukraine and RussiaProf Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University . Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Friday 23 February 2018, 17:30-19:00 Propaganda porcelain: The mirror of the Russian revolution and its consequencesPetr Aven. Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Tuesday 20 February 2018, 17:30-19:00 Poland, Europe, Freedom: A Personal Reflection on the Last 40 YearsProfessor Timothy Garton Ash, European Studies, University of Oxford. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Wednesday 14 February 2018, 18:00-20:00 Polish Britain: Multilingualism and Diaspora CommunityPlease see abstract. William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College. Friday 09 February 2018, 09:15-18:30 Cycles of Revolution in UkraineProf Mikhail Minakov, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 08 February 2018, 17:30-19:00 Before Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: Medieval Rus and a World of DiversityProf Valerie Kivelson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor co-author of Russia’s Empires (2017). William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College. Thursday 01 February 2018, 17:30-19:00 Revolution and the Cult of the LeaderProf Boris Kolonitskii, European University at St Petersburg, St Petersburg Institute of History (Russian Academy of Sciences). Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 25 January 2018, 17:30-19:00 Multiculturalism in Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1795Featuring Norman Davies, Karin Friedrich, Robert Frost, Olenka Pevny, Richard Butterlick-Pawlikowski, and others.. William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College. Thursday 14 December 2017, 10:00-17:30 Ukraine and the Challenges of International Law - Annexation, Aggression, Cyber WarfareFeaturing Kenneth Geers, Emine Dzhaparova, Louise Arimatsu, Thomas Grant, and others.. SG1 and SG2, Alison Richard Building, CRASSH. Monday 04 December 2017, 10:00-17:30 Art for the new society: Russian art in the service of the RevolutionDr Natalia Murray, Cambridge. Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 23 November 2017, 17:30-19:00 The Tenth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian FilmN/A. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Saturday 18 November 2017, 18:30-22:00 The Tenth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian FilmN/A. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Friday 17 November 2017, 18:30-22:00 Feeling Revolution: Cinema and the Emancipation of the Soviet SensesDr Emma Widdis, Cambridge. Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 02 November 2017, 17:30-19:00 Reflections on the Russian RevolutionProfessor Dominic Lieven . Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 26 October 2017, 17:30-19:00 Inventing 'Heterosexuality' Through Ethnographic Knowledge Production: Tradition of Premarital Sleeping Together in Ukraine(XIX-the beginning of XX century), Dr Maria MayerchykMaria Mayerchyk (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Monday 22 May 2017, 17:30-19:00 Two Souls of Revolution, The Seventh Annual Cambridge Vsesvit EveningAdmission is free, but registration is required via www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org Mikhai Tymoshenko and Kyrylo Horishnyi. Wednesday 10 May 2017, 18:00-20:00 Post-Modern Narratives and Pre-Modern Devotion: the Icon of the Three-Handed Mother of God among the Slavs, Dr Elena BoeckDr Elena N. Boeck, Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks. Domus Room, Clare College, Cambridge. Tuesday 09 May 2017, 17:00-18:30 NATO, Eastern Europe, and US PolicyPlease register via http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/michta Andrew Michta (George C. Marshall Centre for International Security Studies). William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Wednesday 03 May 2017, 18:30-20:00 Celebrating (or Not) the Centenary of the Russian RevolutionProfessor Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Sydney). The Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Monday 01 May 2017, 17:00-18:30 Crimea: Centre of Gravity in the Black SeaRegister for tickets at www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org Thomas Grant (TBC), Idil Izmirli, Hakan Kirimli, Eleanor Knott, Sait Ocakli, Sophie Pinkham, Vsevolod Samokhvalov, and Olga Zeveleva. Friday 21 April 2017, 10:00-17:30 Multilingual (Con)figurations: Catalan and Ukrainian in dialogueThis event is free but please confirm your attendance by email Speaker to be confirmed. Wine Room, King's College, Cambridge. Friday 24 March 2017, 09:30-14:00 Feminist and queer in Russia: from art to scholarshipNadia Plungian. RFB 327, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Sidgwick Site. Thursday 16 March 2017, 17:00-18:30 The Uniates and the Invention of Eastern Orthodoxy: Late Byzantine and early Ukrainian Advocates of Church Union in the Crossfire between Rome, Constantinople, and MoscowDr Yury Avvakumov, Assistant Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Monday 13 March 2017, 17:30-19:00 The Cambridge Postgraduate Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavonic Studies Latini—Graeci—RutheniRegister at CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org by Wednesday, 8 March 2017 Dr Yury Avvakumov, Assistant Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. The Bentley Room, The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge. Friday 10 March 2017, 11:00-15:00 Dorota Masłowska: Polish Literary SensationPlease register for a free ticket via http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/maslowska Speaker to be confirmed. William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Friday 03 March 2017, 18:00-20:00 The Fifteenth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainain Studies: Ukraine in TransitionNatalie Jaresko, former Finance Minister of Ukraine. Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Friday 24 February 2017, 17:30-19:00 Poetry’s Role in Leningrad SamizdatMarco Sabbatini, University of Macerata. Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Tuesday 21 February 2017, 17:00-18:30 The Function of the Author in Samizdat Text ProductionValentina Parisi. Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Tuesday 07 February 2017, 17:00-18:30 "Warsaw 44" ("miasto 44"): film screening and post screening discussion with the director, Jan KomasaRegistration via Eventbrite required Jan Komasa. Winstanley Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Thursday 26 January 2017, 18:00-21:00 A Decadent Metaphysics: Fin-de-siècle Anxiety and the Cultural Contexts of Early ModernismJon Stone (Franklin & Marshall College). Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Tuesday 24 January 2017, 17:00-18:30 Meeting with Polish novelist Dorota MasłowskaDorota Masłowska. William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Friday 23 December 2016, 18:00-19:30 Polish Political Thought in the Twentieth Century and TodayAdam Balcer, Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Elżbieta Ciżewska-Martyńska, George Gömöri, Dariusz Karlowicz, Marek Kornat, Jan Kubik, Ewa Ochman, Brian Porter-Szűcs, Aleks Szczerbiak. William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Thursday 08 December 2016, 10:00-17:30 Listening to the enemy: Radio surveillance and punishment in the early Cold WarFriederike Kind-Kovacs (Universität Regensburg). Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:00-18:30 After Brexit: The Future of Poles in the UKKenneth Armstrong (Professor of European Law, University of Cambridge), Aneta Buchert (Polish City Club), Elizabeth Kardynal (Federation of Poles in Great Britain), Jakub Krupa (Polish Press Agency). William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Friday 18 November 2016, 18:30-20:00 The Ninth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian FilmSpeaker to be confirmed. Winstanley Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Saturday 12 November 2016, 18:30-21:00 The Ninth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian FilmStanislav Tsalyk. Winstanley Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Friday 11 November 2016, 18:30-22:00 Leningrad Samizdat Poetry: Music for a Deaf AgeJosie von Zitzewitz (Cambridge). Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Tuesday 08 November 2016, 17:00-18:30 Jewish Life in Poland TodayJonathan Ornstein (Jewish Community Centre of Kraków), Karolina Szykier-Koszucka (Jewish Community of Warsaw), Dawid Wildstein (TVP Info and Gazeta Polska). William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Thursday 27 October 2016, 18:00-20:00 Friends, Enemies, Kin: Constructing Kinship Webs and Situational Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern EuropeChristian Raffensperger (Wittenberg). Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Tuesday 25 October 2016, 17:00-18:30 House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the TsarsDaniel Beer (Royal Holloway). Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Thursday 20 October 2016, 17:00-18:30 Evolution of Ukrainian Media since IndependenceMarta Dyczok (Western University). Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Tuesday 11 October 2016, 17:00-18:30 CamCREES networking partySpeaker to be confirmed. Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Friday 07 October 2016, 17:00-18:00 Sense of Place lecture series: "The Poetry of Gardens: Elegy, Ecology and the Cultural History of Dmitrii Likhachev"Dr Alyson Tapp (University of Cambridge). Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Thursday 12 May 2016, 17:30-19:00 Chekhov in the 21st century: A talk with Sergey GolomazovSergei Golomazov (Russian University of Theatre Arts) . Lecture Block Room 8, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge . Monday 09 May 2016, 13:30-14:30 People Power: Polish Solidarity and the Ukrainian RevolutionKrzysztof Bobiński, Zbigniew Bujak, Paweł Kowal, Andrii Portnov, Marci Shore, Oksana Zabuzhko . William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. Thursday 05 May 2016, 15:00-20:00 'Limits' conference hosted by ‘Approaching the Medieval’ postgraduate reading groupDr Robert Mills (University College London). Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge. Wednesday 04 May 2016, 09:00-17:00 Sense of Place lecture series: "Spatial Icons in Byzantine and Russian Hierotopy"Alexei Lidov (Moscow State University). Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Thursday 28 April 2016, 17:30-19:00 Sense of Place lecture series: "Hagia Sophia: The Space In-between Heaven and Earth", Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford)Prof. Bissera V. Pentcheva (Stanford University). Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Thursday 21 April 2016, 17:30-19:00 Sixth Annual Vsesvit Evening featuring "Odyn v kanoe"Please reserve your tickets via Eventbrite Speaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 20 April 2016, 20:00-22:00 Places of Amnesia: The Inside and the Outside. Can the Human Body be a Place of Amnesia?Free admission Dr Paul Connerton (University of Cambridge). Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge. Wednesday 06 April 2016, 09:00-18:30 Places of Amnesia: Unintentional Revelations. Rescuing the Past, Obliquely.Free admission Professor Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA/University of Pisa). Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge. Tuesday 05 April 2016, 09:00-18:30 Kinoteka: Polish Film Club presents "Seksmisja" (Cambridge Science Festival, "Reproduction on Film: Sex, Secrets and Lies")Please reserve a free ticket via http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/seksmisja Dr Karolina Wigura, Editor, Kultura Liberalna. Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Wednesday 09 March 2016, 19:00-22:00 Sense of Place lecture series: "The City Destroyed, the City Restored: Wilno (Vilnius) in the Mid-Seventeenth Century"David Frick (UC Berkeley). Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Thursday 03 March 2016, 17:30-19:00 Olga Tokarczuk: Writing Polish IdentityPlease reserve a free ticket via http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/tokarczuk Olga Tokarczuk. William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 01 March 2016, 18:00-20:00 The Fourteenth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, 'Media in a Time of Revolution and Information Warfare: Lessons from the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict' delivered by Nataliya Gumenyuk (Hromadske TV)The event is free and open to the public, but online registeration is required https://www.eventbrite.com/e/media-in-a-time-of-revolution-and-information-warfare-the-annual-cambridge-stasiuk-lecture-tickets-21550660606 Nataliya Gumenyuk, Hromadske TV. Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Friday 26 February 2016, 17:00-18:30 A Visit with Poet Dmitry VodennikovDmitry Vodennikov . Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Tuesday 23 February 2016, 17:30-19:00 Sense of Place lecture series: "Ways of seeing: Vladimir Korolenko’s Volga sketches"Jane Costlow, Bates College. Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Thursday 18 February 2016, 17:30-19:00 Stalinist Subjectivity in the Georgian NKVD during the Great TerrorDr Timothy Blauvelt, Country Director in Georgia for American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS) and Associate Professor of Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi; currently an IMRCEES Scholar at Glasgow. Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Thursday 11 February 2016, 17:00-18:30 The 'Primary Chronicle' and the Origin of the Kyivan Rus' StateDr Oleksyi Tolochko (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Wednesday 10 February 2016, 17:30-19:00 Sense of Place lecture series: "Sensing the Great ‘Yellow Space’ of Soviet Central Asia: Depictions of the Kara-Kum Desert in the Early 1930s"Katharine Holt, University of St Andrews . Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Thursday 04 February 2016, 17:30-19:00 Poland and the Future of the EurozoneApologies - at full capacity now Prof Leszek Balcerowicz, College of Europe. Main Lecture Theatre, St John's College, Cambridge. Wednesday 27 January 2016, 18:00-20:00 Poetry and Soviet literary politics in the early 1930s: Mandelstam’s Verses on Russian Poetry (1932)Andrew Kahn, University of Oxford. Coleridge Room, Jesus College, Cambridge . Tuesday 26 January 2016, 17:00-18:30 Odesa in the times of revolution, war and reformsProf Volodymyr Dubovyk, Odessa University. Latimer room, Clare College, Cambridge. Monday 25 January 2016, 17:00-18:30 A poetry reading by Polina BarskovaPolina Barskova, Hampshire College. Old Combination Room, Trinity College, Cambridge. Friday 15 January 2016, 15:00-17:00 Sense of Place lecture series: "Representations of the Besieged Leningrad (1941—44)"Polina Barskova (Hampshire College). Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Thursday 14 January 2016, 17:30-19:00 Are Poles at home in the UK? A Public Forum on ImmigrationSpeaker to be confirmed. McGrath Centre, St Catherine's College. Wednesday 18 November 2015, 18:30-20:00 Sense of Place lecture series: "The Public Graphosphere"Simon Franklin (Cambridge). Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Thursday 12 November 2015, 17:30-19:00 The Eighth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian FilmTickets are free, but online registration is required: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-eighth-annual-cambridge-festival-of-ukrainian-film-tickets-19041602947 Speaker to be confirmed. Winstanley Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Saturday 07 November 2015, 18:30-21:00 The Eighth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian FilmTickets are free, but online registration is required: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-eighth-annual-cambridge-festival-of-ukrainian-film-tickets-19041602947 Speaker to be confirmed. Winstanley Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Friday 06 November 2015, 18:30-21:00 Sense of Place lecture series: “Postwar L'viv, Kaliningrad, Wrocław”Uilleam Blacker (UCL SSEES). Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Thursday 29 October 2015, 17:30-19:00 The Army of General Anders: Legions from a Lost WorldPlease reserve a free ticket via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-m-b-grabowski-symposium-norman-davies-on-anders-army-tickets-18687498812 Professor Norman Davies. William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 27 October 2015, 18:30-20:00 Sense of Place lecture series: "The Arctic in the Russian Imagination"Lilya Kaganovsky (Illinois) . Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Thursday 15 October 2015, 17:30-19:00 Stalin and Myself: On Writing History and Writing MemoirsThe event is free and open to the public, but online registration is required at www.CamCREES.org Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Friday 09 October 2015, 17:30-19:00 Past as Prelude: Polish-Ukrainian Relations for the Twenty-First CenturyVisit www.PolandUkraine.org to register for a free ticket via Eventbrite Prominent Polish and Ukrainian scholars and stakeholders. William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 30 June 2015, 09:00-18:00 Gender, Nationalism and Citizenship in Anti-Authoritarian Protests in Belarus, Russia and UkraineFree admission, but places must be reserved in advance via Eventbrite. Programme: http://www.ceelbas.ac.uk/ceelbas-news/events/workshops/gender-nationalism-citizenship. Saturday 20 June 2015, 09:00-18:00 Life on the Margins: Bruno Schulz and the Hasidic KabbalahProfessor Agata Bielik-Robson (University of Nottingham and Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw). William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 09 June 2015, 18:00-20:00 The Fifth Annual Cambridge Vsesvit ReadingsThe Cambridge Vsesvit Readings are open to the public, but online registration is requested: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-cambridge-vsesvit-readings-tickets-16866198253 Speaker to be confirmed. Thursday 14 May 2015, 18:00-20:00 Adam Zagajewski: An Evening of PoetryPlease register for a free ticket via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adam-zagajewski-an-evening-of-poetry-tickets-16054108270 Adam Zagajewski, Polish poet, novelist and essayist. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. Tuesday 28 April 2015, 18:00-20:00 Between Russia and Germany: Poland and the Shifting European OrderPlease register for free via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/between-russia-and-germany-poland-and-the-shifting-european-order-tickets-15468470612 Edward Lucas, Senior Editor at 'The Economist', and Peter Hitchens, columnist for 'The Mail on Sunday'. William Mong Hall at Sidney Sussex College. Friday 13 March 2015, 18:00-20:00 Eisenstein's Ivan: Sensory Thinking from Machiavelli to DisneyProfessor Joan Neuberger, Austin, Texas. Tuesday 03 March 2015, 17:00-18:30 Imagining the Ukrainian Body: Intersections of Nationalism and Sexuality in Contemporary UkraineDafna Rachok, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv. Lecture Block Room 8, Sidgwick Site. Monday 02 March 2015, 16:00-17:00 The Fog of Memory: From the Great Fatherland War to Russia's Invasion of UkraineEntry is free and open to the public, but online registration is required: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/timothy-snyder-the-fog-of-memory-the-annual-cambridge-stasiuk-lecture-tickets-15304125050 More information: www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale). Friday 27 February 2015, 17:30-19:30 Making News Soviet: Changing Visions of Soviet Information after Stalin, 1953-1970Dr Simon Huxtable, Loughborough. Tuesday 17 February 2015, 17:00-18:30 Makeshift Modernity: DIY, Craft and the Virtuous Homemaker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960sProfessor Susan Reid, Sheffield. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 17:00-18:30 Listening Out: Cold War Radio and the Soviet AudienceFor 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. Tuesday 20 January 2015, 17:00-18:30 Jewish Memory in Contemporary PolandPlease register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jewish-memory-in-contemporary-poland-tickets-15031827601 or www.facebook.com/CambridgePolishStudies Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Program Director at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw and Roma Sendyka, Jagiellonian University, Krakow. William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College. Friday 16 January 2015, 17:00-19:00 Investigating the Family in the post-Soviet ContextAnna Shadrina, a gender researcher and writer based in Minsk, Belarus; research associate at the Centre for Gender Studies, the European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania; visiting scholar at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, Londo. Alison Richard Building, Room SG2, Sidgwick Site. Thursday 15 January 2015, 16:00-17:00 'Holocaust Anxiety in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint' - Brett Ashley KaplanBrett Ashley Kaplan (University of Illinois). CRASSH: The Alison Richard Building. Wednesday 05 June 2013, 17:00-18:00 'Unorthodox Memories: Baptist Accounts of the Soviet Past' - Miriam DobsonMiriam Dobson (University of Sheffield). CRASSH: The Alison Richard Building. Wednesday 22 May 2013, 17:00-18:00 The Third Annual Vsesvit Readings in Celebration of Literary TranslationSpeaker to be confirmed. Thursday 09 May 2013, 19:00-20:00 'Socialist Women on the Gallows. Gender and Capital Punishment in Late Socialism' - Pavel KolarPavel Kolar (European University Institute. CRASSH: The Alison Richard Building. Wednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:00 'Resistance and Gender' - Dr Olesya KhromeychukDr Olesya Khromeychuk (University of Cambridge). Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 02 May 2013, 17:30-19:00 'Resistance and Performance', Dr John FreedmanDr John Freedman (Writer, Translator, Critic, and Scholar of Russian theatre). Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 25 April 2013, 17:30-18:30 'Reconceptualizing "Memorial Langscape"' - Zuzanna DziubanZuzanna Dziuban (University of Konstanz). CRASSH: The Alison Richard Building. Wednesday 24 April 2013, 17:00-18:00 '"World Literature" in the Soviet Union: History and Stories' - Galin TihanovGalin Tihanov. CRASSH: The Alison Richard Building. Wednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00 'Resistance and Rights' - Professor Benjamin NathansProfessor Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania). Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 07 March 2013, 17:30-19:00 'True Believers: Collaboration and Opposition under Totalitarian Regimes' a public lecture by Anne ApplebaumAnne Applebaum. Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Wednesday 06 March 2013, 17:00-18:00 'Making and Remaking History': A symposium on Mykhailo Hrushevsky'Various, including: Robert Frost (University of Aberdeen), Serhii Plokhii (University of Harvard) and Frank Sysyn (University of Toronto). Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Monday 04 March 2013, 14:00-19:00 The Eleventh Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, to be given by Oksana ZabuzhkoOksana Zabuzhko (writer and philosopher). Friday 22 February 2013, 17:00-18:00 'Resistance and Conscience' - Dr Philip BoobbyerDr Philip Boobbyer (University of Kent). Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 21 February 2013, 17:30-19:00 'Resistance and Textuality' Professor Ann KomaromiProfessor Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto). Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 14 February 2013, 17:30-19:00 'Writing as Translation: Finding Jewish Voices in the Polish Language' Piotr PazinskiPiotr Pazinski. CRASSH: The Alison Richard Building. Wednesday 13 February 2013, 17:00-18:00 'Resistance and New Media' - Dr Vlad StrukovDr Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds). Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Tuesday 05 February 2013, 17:30-19:00 'The Stigmatization of dedicated Polish Women Rescuers during the Second World War' : Joanna MichlicJoanna Michlic. CRASSH: The Alison Richard Building. Wednesday 30 January 2013, 17:00-18:00 'Resistance and Nationalism' - Professor David MarplesProfessor David Marples (University of Alberta). Umney Theatre, Robinson College. Thursday 24 January 2013, 17:30-19:00 'The Riddle of Space: The History of Russia's Geography': Tony Wood (New Left Review)Tony Wood (New Left Review). Tuesday 22 January 2013, 17:00-18:00 Second Zdanowich Annual Lecture: ‘Re-thinking the historical canon: the priorities and casualties of mainstream history'Professor Norman Davies, FBA. Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College. Thursday 04 October 2012, 17:00-18:00 Designs of Spring: On the Natural Form of CommunismProfessor Robert Bird, University of Chicago. Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College. Thursday 03 May 2012, 17:30-19:00 Film Screening: 'Justice for Sergei'William F. Browder of Hermitage Capital. Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College. Thursday 15 March 2012, 17:30-20:00 Putin, Russia and the West, with documentary makers Brian Lapping and Norma PercyNorma Percy and Brian Lapping. Thursday 08 March 2012, 17:00-19:00 New Russian Politics and Protests: A Roundtable on the Eve of the Presidential ElectionSir Anthony Brenton (UK Ambassador to Russia, 2004-2008); Alexander Etkind (Cambridge); Rory Finnin (Cambridge); Mikhail Kaluzhsky (Moscow); Susan Larsen (Cambridge); Vlad Strukov (Leeds). Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07. Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-16:00 Performing Memory: Current Trends in Contemporary Russian Documentary Theatre.Mikhail Kaluzhsky. The Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Thursday 01 March 2012, 17:30-19:00 'THE DYING SWAN: SAVING THE RUSSIAN BALLET’Professor Tim Scholl (Oberlin College and Helsinki University). Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College. Thursday 02 February 2012, 17:30-19:00 Russian Theatre and Russian Actors on the British Stage: A Conversation with Declan Donnellan (Artistic Director Cheek by Jowl, and Chekhov International Theatre FestivalDeclan Donnelllan. Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College. Thursday 20 October 2011, 17:30-19:00 When Nabokov writes badly... The question of quality, and laughter in the dark.Professor Eric Naiman University of California, Berkeley. Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge. Thursday 19 May 2011, 17:00-18:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
Other listsEarly Science and Medicine Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field' Physics of Medicine Journal ClubOther talksThe Global Warming Sceptic TALK CANCELLED Targets for drug discovery: from target validation to the clinic Using Inclusive Design to Focus on User Experience (UX) South American Opuntioids Biomolecular Thermodynamics and Calorimetry (ITC) Reframing African Studies through Languages and Translation: Overcoming Barricades to Knowledge and Knowledge Management Single Cell Seminars (October) Autumn Cactus & Succulent Show Sustainability of livestock production: water, welfare and woodland The ‘Easy’ and ‘Hard’ Problems of Consciousness EU LIFE Lecture - "Histone Chaperones Maintain Cell Fates and Antagonize Reprogramming in C. elegans and Human Cells" Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration |